[Kde-games-devel] kigo

[Tadeusz Andrzej Kadłubowski]

On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:59 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> Inge Wallin wrote:
>> Gnugo is around 10 kyu if I remember correctly.  This strength is  
>> reached by a
>> player after approximately a year if you play regularly.
>>
>> However, you can make gnugo weaker by using the --level option is  
>> I remember
>> correctly.  Perhaps kigo could make a nice interface for that so  
>> the user can
>> select "easy", "medium" and "dabbling" (there is no real "hard"  
>> setting for
>> gnugo :-) ).
>
> IMHO if you play enough to need a tougher opponent, you are probably
> able to find such opponents online and don't need to be playing  
> against
> a computer ;-).

There are some programs that translate different popular go protocols  
to GTP that kigo uses to talk with GNU go. Hence my feature wishes:

a) allow players to configure GTP engine other than GNU go.
b) make kigo a client for GTP-talking servers, that is communicate  
via TCP, not only via streams with forked GNU go engine.

Whee, I am able to play GNU go on level 1 toughness with only 2  
stones of handicap. I'm getting better.

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tadeusz andrzej kadłubowski