Re: [gnugo-devel] Decide dead stone

[Marco Scheurer]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:44 PM, Amour Tan wrote:

> I am the author of TanGo Go client for server play.
>
> I have an idea of using GNU Go to decide and remove dead stone upon
> completion of the game.  The requirement is fairly simple, upon feeding
> a GTP or SGF file to GNU Go, I need a list of dead stone on the
> goban from GNU Go.
>
> I have some questions
>
> 1. Is the option "--decide-position" the correct parameter on the 
> command
> line?  The output seems to be quite verbose and I have to use SGF 
> format
> instead of GTP protocol.
>
> 2. What is the equivalent GTP command?  Is there?

Hi,

What I use in Goban (a client for Mac OS X) is the GTP command 
"final_status_list dead 2". However, I am not so sure it is a good idea 
to rely on GNU Go to score server games. It can be slow and it's not 
perfect.

Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland    http://www.sente.ch