Marco Scheurer wrote:
Shouldn't the GTP protocol include setup commands such as those found in SGF to add black or white stones to the board, clear points, AB, AW, AE (PL is probably redundant)? It would help to create a position and ask the engine to generate a move from there.
won't the `play' command work? i often setup positions this way when debugging gnu go.
Also, the current GTP spec on laodsgf is not explicit about this: are all setup nodes and properties allowed and taken into account when replaying the game record?
currently there seem to be no description of `loadsgf' in the latest specification draft, but i think that gtp shouldn't interfere with sgf. i mean, it shouldn't specify how to load an sgf file since sgf specification already describes that and i can see no point in changing its policy. i think that engines should load sgf files the same way, no matter asked by `loadsgf', through command line or by any other means.
Paul Pogonyshev