Thanks a lot for your help - I think your suggestions are exactly what I needed.
Steve On Thu, 5 May 2005, Evan Daniel wrote: > On 5/3/05, Steve Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > I am trying to set up an IRC bot where the channel can play against GnuGo, > > using roughly the following format: > > > > Player1> !bot start > > Bot> Starting GnuGo... > > Bot> <Outputs board> > > <Players discuss move> > > Player2>!bot move d4 > > Bot> <Outputs board after GnuGo has responded> > > > > etc. etc. > > > > To do this, I need to know how to send data to and receive data from > > GnuGo. I've tried using pipes (I'm using linux), and I can type my moves > > in on the console, and GnuGo can pipe my moves out into a file, but I > > cannot pipe moves into GnuGo. > > > > My understanding is that my IRC Bot will have to implement (at least part > > of) GTP. If so, can you point me to a webpage or similar which explains > > (a) how to connect to GnuGo with GTP, and (b) gives more details on GTP's > > list of commands. > > > > Thanks, > > Speaking GTP over pipes would be the normal way to do this. The > easiest way is probably to launch a GNU Go process as 'gnugo --mode > gtp', send GTP commands to stdin, recieve answers from stdout. > > The basic commands you'll want are probably play, genmove, undo, > boardsize, komi, clear_board, and showboard. > > The easiest way to learn more is probably to look at one of the > programs that ships with GNU Go and speaks GTP; I would recommend > twogtp-a or twogtp.pike (in interface/gtp_examples) as a good starting > point. > > Hope this helps, > > Evan > -- Steve Kroon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Statistics Stellenbosch University South Africa (084) 458-8062 "Never before have I felt so good about losing. Go is great." -Tristen Taylor _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel
