Re: [gnugo-devel] bug?

[Marco Scheurer]

On Jan 22, 2005, at 16:13PM, Gunnar Farnebäck wrote:

> David wrote:
> > I've noticed that two instances of GNU Go have to be playing with the
> > same command line parameters or the game fails.
>
> Sounds strange
>
> > For example, I set Sen:te Goban to use its internal 3.4 framework, and
> > add a gtp player which uses 3.6 with the arguments --mode gtp --level
> > 10 --quiet --nofusekidb --nojosekidb.
> >
> > It's as though the games are not re-entrant, because they both use the
> > same external game trees (?).
>
> I have no idea what's up with this but there is no such thing as
> external game trees. The GNU Go binary is completely standalone with
> no external references except a few standard system libraries.
> Computations are done entirely in memory.

That's right. Even Goban's default GNU Go player is a standalone gtp 
player, and there is no way one instance could interact with the other 
except indirectly through the gtp protocol and Goban acting as a 
referee. In particular, there is no reason to use the same arguments on 
both instances.

Are you certain that the arguments were correctly set the first time?

marco

Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland   http://www.sente.ch