Re: [gnugo-devel] gnugo

[aquarius]

Hi,

Gunnar Farnebäck wrote:
> The kgsGtp documentation says [...]
> Later in the documentation about playing ranked games it also says
> this:
>
> 7 If the engine and the human disagree on the status of living and
>   dead stones at the end of the game, one of two things will happen:
>   If the game uses non-Japanese rules and the engine supports the
>   kgs-genmove_cleanup command, then the engine will recommend that the
>   human press "undo", after which the engine will get
>   kgs-genmove_cleanup commands until it passes. If the game uses
>   Japanese rules or the engine does not support kgs-genmove_cleanup,
>   then the engine will simply refuse to score the game unless the
>   human agrees.

This section seems to be pretty ambiguous about
the responsibilities of the engine and kgsGtp.

> Since the game was played with Japanese rules I think it's pretty safe
> to say that there is a bug in kgsGtp.

If William Shubert agrees to this thinking (and I think he will for
cheat-safety reasons and for keeping the engine simple) he should
perhaps put section 7 more clearly:

"... then _kgsGtp_ will recommend ..."
and
"... then _kgsGtp_ will simply refuse to
score the game unless the human agrees
_to_the_score_given_by_the_engine."

No offense meant;
in the hope this will be useful
   aquarius