[Computer-go] Running automated bot matches?

[Petri Pitkanen]

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/ id your source for GTP related stuff.
Contains both Perl and Python script for running loads of games. I do wonder
how you plan to make it fast though :)

Petri


2011/1/11 Joona Kiiski <joona.kiiski at gmail.com>

> Hi everyone,
>
> During the last week I've been examining sources of different open source
> go-engines (fuego, pachi, orego).
> Now I'd like to start making some simple modifications to some of them (not
> yet decided which one) and
> see how it goes (likely my 50 first tries will fail miserably, but it's
> okay).
>
> In computer chess programming, it's nowadays a widely accepted fact that
> only reasonable way to test changes is to run a huge number of test games
> between original and modified version. I assume that same applies also for
> go-programming.
>
> So, let us have open-source program X and slightly modified version it X'.
> What is the easiest way to run say 1000 super-fast games between them? I
> hope there already exists some scripts or programs to do this.
>
> My OS is Linux if it matters.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
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