RE: [gnugo-devel] nando_3_17.6

[Arend Bayer]

Nando wrote:

> Arend wrote:
>
> > I vote for making it default, although maybe not immediately. The
> > only case where I see the need to disable it is for tournament games.
> > (In particular, I think it would be nice to allow resignation of NNGS
> > games -- if only to see whether it is working well.)
>
> Yup, making it default should be conditioned on the proof that it works
> correctly on NNGS. I don't know which interfacing software Gunnar is using
> to connect it. If it needs modifications to handle it, I can try
> to patch it, as soon as I know what is to be patched of course.

As Gunnar hasn't answered this yet, I'll answer for him :-) He is using
gnugoclient, which is linked from the GTP wep page
(http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp).

It's written in pike, and should be easy enough to adjust.

> > Maybe it would be cleaner not to disable resign_allowed in the
> > playing modes that don't support it, but instead simply ignore the
> > negative move value in the interface code.
>
> I chose the line of the least amount of changes and the work is still
> not finished, as there are changes to be made in other playing modes.
> I'll look into implementing it the way you suggest.

Well, do what you think to be clearer, that was only a suggestion.

> > (At the moment, we will mostly save the endgame, which usually
> > doesn't take very long anyway.)
>
> Indeed, but that's just what I was humbly looking for in the first
> place, e.g. prevent GG from playing out a 100% meaningless yose.

Yep.

Arend