OT:About GO

[swami]

Hi

I've been hearing that the other board game called GO is going to be interesting with many more engines to come,I wonder if anyone has any links to
GO freeware GUI
GO freeware Engines

for a start.



Especially,If you know what I'm talking about regarding ability to make them play in matches! because I don't know know what I'm talking about ,so excuse me and I probably don't know anything about GO except that I've read quite a few about it in wikipedia!

I wanna be an expert just by watching engines play or I just wanna collect freewares

Regards.

[WinPooh]

http://senseis.xmp.net/?ComputerGo

[swami]

http://senseis.xmp.net/?ComputerGo

Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for the link,Can you tell me which is the best and popular GUI?and do all engines that are available for free work in that GUI?

What's the protocol for GO called? as in winboard/UCI for chess.

Thanks

[WinPooh]

As far as I know, there are no so many Go engines as chess ones. Most of them use Go Text Protocol (GTP), very popular is GNU Go - maybe it is the reference implementation of GTP.

As for GUIs, you can try Drago, Multigo, Jago (all are free). I don't know whether they support engine-engine matches.

For GUI providing engine-engine capabilities, you can ask Igor Korshunov (author of chess engine WildCat) - he had written one.

[Rémi Coulom]

As far as I know, there are no so many Go engines as chess ones. Most of them use Go Text Protocol (GTP), very popular is GNU Go - maybe it is the reference implementation of GTP.

The reference for GTP is there:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/

As for GUIs, you can try Drago, Multigo, Jago (all are free). I don't know whether they support engine-engine matches.

By far the best GUI for engine development is gogui, by Markus Enzenberger:
http://gogui.sourceforge.net/

For GUI providing engine-engine capabilities, you can ask Igor Korshunov (author of chess engine WildCat) - he had written one.

gogui can play engine-engine games, but it does not have more advanced tournament management functions.

A very cool system that we have in the computer-go community, if you wish to test your program against others, is the Computer Go Server (CGOS), made by Don Dailey:
http://cgos.boardspace.net/
If your engine supports GTP, you can connect it to the server, and it will be automatically paired against the others. You can also play automatically against humans on KGS. You can play on other Go servers too, but KGS is the most popular for programmers, with computer Go tournaments organized every month (check the Computer-Go room):
http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/index.html

Rémi

[swami]

Thanks for the links,Remi.

Looks like computer GO is in preliminary stage of development and is far from being popular since there are few GO engines that support some kind of protocol to play in GOGUI.

Regards.