[computer-go] KGS tournament problem

[Edward de Grijs]

>From: Aloril <aloril at iki.fi>
>
>My program crashed in first game against IdiotBot because there was a
>super-ko bug in tactical UCT. It submitted illegal move K12 to server.
>However I have wrapped kgsGtp inside loop that will try again so it was
>connected OK when second game started.
>

Thanks, that looks like a very good idea, to write a work around these kind
of problems in the form of a script. If kgsGtp does crash it will get 
started
again.
Two items worth mentioning:
1) I noticed that in case of a crash my go program keeps on running, so it
    is necessary to kill it as well (after a crash).
2) In the case of "RESIGN": When restarting, kgsGtp tries to settle the
    last game which ended in an error, but in the case of "RESIGN", the
    error will pop up again and again, until there is no playing time left.
    A 60 second sleep after a crash as proposed by aloril is probably the
    best thing to do here.

Edward.

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