[computer-go] Automated play with a GTP engine at the Computer Olympiad

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

Rémi wrote:
> Also, it seems that GMP is a protocol designed to work on old-style 
> serial ports. I expect there will be no serial ports on the computers 
> provided in Turin. Is there a way to make it work over a network ? I am 
> not particularly motivated to buy usb serial ports just to do the 
> testing this week-end.

There's nothing in the protocol to stop programs from talking GMP over
e.g. TCP or a pipe, it's just a matter of persuading the programs to
direct their communication through a channel they can agree on. This
may or may not be difficult in practice but I wouldn't go out of my
way to please the few programs, if any, that don't talk GTP and have
GMP hardwired to a serial port.

/Gunnar