Hi, IIRC, this is only the case for unrated games. In rated 19x19 games, and maybe in tournament games as well, kgs-genmove_cleanup is used.
Rémi On 31 janv. 2011, at 20:18, Francois van Niekerk wrote: > Hi All > > My program is now playing 9x9 games on KGS (see "oakfoam" in the > Computer Go room) and I have noticed a possible problem: > > My program assumes Tromp/Taylor rules, ie: any stones left after 2 > passes are alive. I have set kgsGtp for Chinese rules which should be > identical in scoring once all dead stones are removed. The > documentation says the following: > > "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 kgsGtp will recommend > that the human press "undo", after which play will continue but the engine > will get kgs-genmove_cleanup commands (in place of genmove > commands). In all other cases, kgsGtp will simply refuse to finish the game > unless the human agrees to the dead stones that the engine listed in its > response to the final_status_list command." > > My program already supports the "final_status_list" command; so what > I'd expect to happen is my program to insist that all stones are alive > and play continues until all dead stones are removed. Unfortunately > this is not what happens. After 2 passes, the opponent can mark *any* > stones as dead and this is accepted. This is obviously not fair to my > program. It is trivial to cheat by marking all the program's stones as > dead. > > I have also tried adding the "kgs-genmove_cleanup" command, but it > doesn't seem to ever get called. Is there a way to stop fix this from > happening? Is this a known bug? Does the same happen with ranked bot > games? > -- > Francois van Niekerk > Email: [email protected] | Twitter: @francoisvn > Cell: +2784 0350 214 | Website: http://leafcloud.com > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
