[computer-go] GTP and handicap

[Don Dailey]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:01 +0200, Rémi Coulom wrote:
> By the way, GTP needs a way to specify the rules of the game.

Yes, I agree with this.   There should be a very clean way to specify
the rules of the game in a very concise and unambiguous way.   

It could be coded up in a string, where each character of the string has
some meaning, such as whether suicide is allowed, which version of KO is
used, scoring system used, etc.   Then it could be expressed very
conveniently in a short string.   

What are the major differences?   I don't have a problem with komi being
expresses separately.   

  Here is a little try:   J = Japanses scoring
                          C = Chinese
 
                          0 = simple KO
                          1 = positional super ko
                          2 = situation super ko

                          S = suicide allowed 
                          N = No suicide

So you could have  "C1N" as the rules cgos uses.   Strict tromp/talor is
C1S", etc.

I'm sure this doesn't consider all the possibilities, but it at least
gets you close.   

I don't like the idea of having a different nomenclature for each kind
of rule-set, such as "Ing", "Australian",  "Tromp/taylor" etc.

- Don