Computer Go – Miscellaneous Tools

• Don Dailey has developed an autotester for computer go.

  This allows two Computer Go programs to play against each other automatically. It is written in ruby, and works on Linux (and possibly also on Windows).

  This program requires that each program speaks GTP 2.0 via stdin and stdout, and obeys Chinese type rules. The games must be played out so that no dead stones remain, because scoring is automatically done by the autotester. You set up a simple registry file which specifies each program and it plays multiple round robin tournaments between them all. The results are stored in a "pgn" file. The tester can be stopped and restarted, and continues where it left off.