Re: [gnugo-devel] Tiny boards

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Gunnar wrote:
> John wrote:
> [...]
>
> > And if GnuGo is to allow non-square boards, then 1x2 offers some
> > opportunities for fun play and testing of ko rule implementations...
>
> Non-square boards would require a fair bit of infrastructural
> upgrades. It's much, much easier now than it was before we changed to
> 1D board representation, but still some work. I don't feel it's worth
> the trouble at this time but if someone does it would probably get
> accepted.

As a side note, Quarry supports non-square boards internally, though
you will never find them in the interface.  However, I don't see the
need to support non-square boards in GNU Go now, since the present GTP
doesn't have any means of setting them.

Paul