[computer-go] GTP3 should be UGI

[Chrilly]

In chess UCI has widely replaced xboard. I think UCI is better than xboard.

Chrilly
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Shriver" <jshriver at gmail.com>
To: "computer-go" <computer-go at computer-go.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] GTP3 should be UGI


> Sounds good, but the xboard protocol is also very nice.
> Though a UGI sounds like a good step.
>
> -Josh
>
> On 4/11/07, Chrilly <c.donninger at wavenet.at> wrote:
>> I am implementing currently for the Suzie-GUI GTP-2. I think this 
>> protocoll
>> has a number of shortcomings.
>> a) There is only a very strange way to setup an arbitrary position.
>> b) A state must be maintained between moves.
>> c) There is no way to get a main-variaton and the score of a move (Not 
>> yet
>> invented in most Go-programms, but a must have for search based 
>> programms).
>>
>> UCI is the "Universal Chess Interface" originally developed by Stefan
>> Meyer-Kahlen and Rudolf Huber (see attached specification). It has become
>> the defacto standard in chess. This interface is in my opinion much 
>> better
>> than GTP.
>> I think GTP-3 should be modelled as close as possible to UCI. The
>> move-format has to be changed and the parameters "komi" and "boardsize" 
>> have
>> to be added.
>> The format to setup a position has also be changed slightly. An adaption 
>> can
>> be found in SuzieFen.txt.
>>
>> There is no need for a handicap command, because this is just a special 
>> case
>> of setting up an arbitrary position.
>>
>> Chrilly
>>
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