Re: [gnugo-devel] endgame tuning

[Heikki Levanto]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:59:11AM -0800, address@hidden wrote:
> Allowing an optional parameter which can be discarded by the
> engine doesn't seem to me to much complicate the protocol.
> 
> It seems plausible that exactly the same considerations that make the
> random seed useful for gg_genmove would apply to other engines. [...] It
> is true that two programs would not interpret the random seed the same
> way. However it might still be a useful feature in the protocol.

I second this opinion. Adding the extra argument should not harm anything,
and can be useful for us, and for others developing different engines. 

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Heikki Levanto  LSD - Levanto Software Development   <address@hidden>