[computer-go] November KGS online results

[House, Jason J.]

> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:20 -0500, House, Jason J. wrote:
> > I believe there's an alternate to option #3.  Force the bot to play
> > only one game at a time and respawn.  If leaving by timeout doesn't
> > cause an exit from kgsGtp, it does at least cause a call to
> > kgs-game_over which can cause the bot to exit. 
> 
> Bot does not exit from KGS, it just leaves game and starts waiting
for
> another. So next thing seen in the log file is start of the next
game.


For some reason, I thought there was a parameter in the kgsGtp
configuration file that would allow the bot to play one game and then
exit.  That's not there.

It seems that kgs-game_over is intended to be the solution to detecting
a clean opportunity to disconnect.  If the opponent leaves (or doesn't
show up) for 5 minutes, it'll call kgs-game_over before waiting around
for another game.  In a tournament, if the bot always exits when it
receives that command (and then gets respawned by whatever is calling
kgsGtp), then the bot will reconnect back in its tournament game.