[gnugo-devel] program based on gnugo

[Bernard Helmstetter]

Hi,

I am trying to write a program using some parts of gnugo. To begin with,
it will probably be some kind of monte carlo go. 

Do you have ideas as to how I should try and incorporate my move
generation code in gnugo ? What I've done now is patching main.c so that
it accepts an option --mcgo, and interface.c, modifying the function
gnugo_genmove :

int
gnugo_genmove(Position *pos, int *i, int *j, int color, int move_number)
{
  position_to_globals(pos);
  movenum = move_number;        /* Another global */
  /* PATCH */
  switch (engine) {
  case ORIGINAL_ENGINE:
    return genmove(i, j, color);
  case MONTECARLO_ENGINE:
    return montecarlo_genmove(i, j, color);
  }
}

I also added my object file in engine/Makefile and a #include in
gnugo.h.

It seems to work quite well. Is it a "normal" way to do it ?

Regards,

Bernard Helmstetter