Re: [computer-go] I know we disagree,but I choose to do nothing about it.

[drd@xxxxxxx]

> I thought, I still think, that it is you who advocates mandating it. You
> don't propose mandating it by requiring programs to respond in some way
> to the "kgs-genmove_cleanup" command;  you advocate effectively
> mandating it by changing the rules of the tournaments so that programs
> that don't respond appropriately to it will lose most of their games as
> a consequence.
>
> And I am not happy about this.  Or maybe I still don't understand.

Nick,

Yes, no matter how you slice it,  I advocate mandating the protocol, even if 
it's implied by the server and not required by the go program.

But I'm not married to either viewpoint.   If you think it's cleaner to 
REQUIRE the commands,  then I will concede to your judgement.   There are 
some good arguments for both points of view.

In this case, you can't say that a program was unfairly punished because it 
failed to respond to the commands.     Someone might claim unfairness because 
it responded stupidly, but that is like claiming unfairness because my 
program played a bad move.

Don






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