[computer-go] Sho-Dan-level at 9x9

[Don Dailey]

This is exactly how Cilkchess used to compete.   Your ran a gui locally
on
your laptop which connected to the program (running in a different part
of
the world) via stdin and stdout - via an ssh connection.

That's what I've always loved about unix - everything is a nice
abstraction.
You normally don't think too much about which machine something is
running
on, where it is, how it's connected etc.   

This abstraction has caused funny things to happen.  I get an email
saying
that I have a job on the printer - I'm in Virginia, the printer is in 
Massachusetts, I just forgot that my shell is remote - it looks and acts
identical to a local shell.   

Even though Windows has greatly matured over the years, you still feel
like your are being controlled more - like you are being confined to
a little box.    Nowadays you can do some of these things in Windows
if you get the right tools - but it's not so transparent.

- Don


On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 08:42 +0100, Chrilly wrote:
> Why does Slu-Go not play remote? E.g the only thing I transported to
> London 
> for playing against GM Adams was a notebook. The Hydra-Cluster would
> have 
> been a little bit difficult to transport. Even in Abu-Dhabi the
> operating is 
> remote. The Hydra-Sheikh sits in his palace and the Cluster is in
> another 
> part of the town.
> Its for the chess-engine completly transparent. The engine
> writes/reads to 
> stdout/stdin. If the GUI is on the same PC, the communication is
> directly 
> done. When playing remote SSH (Secure Shell) is started and the rest
> goes as 
> before.