Re: [gnugo-devel] gnugo (cheat on KGS)

[Tom Schumm]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 02:27 am, Johanna Tuominen wrote:
> marked. There is a possibility to cheat by asking undo. It's hard to

I agree that this must be a bug in the KGS gtp client - it's not supposed to 
allow this under Japanese rules.  Switching to one of the other rule-sets 
that use area scoring would defeat this method of cheating.  The KGSgtp docs 
recommend not using Japanese scoring anyway.

I've written a little proxy program in python that sits between the KGS client 
and gnugo for my bot that may be helpful for diagnosing problems like this.  
The KGSgtp client used to have a bug where handicap games sometimes couldn't 
be resumed if the bot was black and I used my proxy to implement a workaround 
until it was fixed.  It needs to be cleaned up a bit, but I think others 
could make use of it, so I'll make a public release sometime tonight or this 
weekend.

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Tom Schumm
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