[gnugo-devel] Multiplayer go

[Chris]

I'm interested in developing multiplayer go.  The reason is kids. 
There's no point in the grief of telling a third or fourth player they 
can get in when the lessons of influence and territory aren't lost at 
all with more players.

I noticed that Panda has two nice aspects of their GUI that give me hope 
about multiplayer go:

1) dynamic board size.  No confinement to 9^2, 13^2 or 19^2 board 
choices. If I think 38^2 is necessary, it looks like no problem here.

2) human vs. human play.  Obviously, multiplayer go is only for human 
players at this point in time.

I know gnu-go is about human versus computer play but I was hoping that 
maybe the project knows where I could get started.  Many of the go 
GUIs--like Panda--seem to be closed source.  That's very disappointing 
considering the mission of gnu projects.

I want to start my quest within the context of existing open source work 
so I can give it back to the community.  Without computer AI involved, 
it might just be about expanding existing open source go GUI programs. 
At best, it already exists.

Thank you for your time and consideration.  Peace.--Chris