Gunnar Farnebäck wrote:
In order to get some testing of GTP implementations, and to some extent because it's interesting in itself, I have started a Random Go Challenge. For current standings and information about how to
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/random_go_challenge.html
a very nice idea, though probably not a good benchmark for Go programs. The simple algorithm MaxAvgLib which tries to maximize the average number of liberties outperforms all other programs.
I am wondering if you plan to make the source for your server available. It might be interesting to extend it for games between programs or even as a server for computer Go tournaments.
For easier connection I extended the tool gtpserver, which is part of GoGui (only in the development CVS so far) for doing outgoing connections, you can run it like this:
gtpserver -remote sellafield.lysator.liu.se -port 9697 \ -user name_and_password \ "gnugo --quiet --mode gtp --chinese-rules"
also, there is a new tool gtpadapter, which can do protocol translation for programs that use GTP version 1 and emulate the free handicap commands with play commands (this is not 100% compliant to the standard, but works well)
- Markus