[computer-go] GTP and handicap

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Andrés Domínguez wrote:
> 2006/9/7, Don Dailey <drdailey at cox.net>:
> > 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.
> 
> Me too.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I disagree. I think compact is bad (and of course is not GTP's style).
> One rule, one command with the argument. Ex.
> 
> scoring_rule japanese
>                   chinese
> 
> ko_rule simple
>            positional_superko
>            situational_superko
> 
> suicide_rule allowed
>                   not_allowed
> 
> komi_rule fixed
>                free

Second this proposal.  Don's way can be implemented as a custom extension
if you often need to specify rules from command line.

Paul