Re: [Bug-gnubg] search technical documentation

[Øystein Johansen]

LeeRoy wrote:
> I will programming an backgammon AI and I would like test it against gnubg.
> Do you know where I can find an technical documentation whose help me to 
> connect a program with gnubg?

I think I would have just compiled the essential files from gnubg as a 
library. As a final benchmark I would have made a head-to-head test 
cubeless money game with no lookahead. Should be quite simple to code.

Of course you can use the external player interface as well. The I would 
have a GNU Backgammon session running as a master and connected my own 
AI as a slave. This connection uses raw TCP sockets.

A last option could be to use the Python interface. I'm not sure how I 
would have done exactly this connection ... I have to think ....

I'm not sure what technique you will use for your AI, but if you're 
using neural nets, I will strongly suggest that you also find a simpler 
and faster way to benchmark you AI. A head-to-head session will take 
several hundred thousand games to play to find the best AI when they're 
close. (That takes a long time.) I have successfully used a database of 
positions and the corresponding best move as a benchmark for my neural 
nets. (It's the same database as Joseph used with his training, big 
thanks to him.)

-Øystein

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