[Updated on 4/10] Experimental Tournament
Published by Kai Sun at Apr 1, 2020
Hello, all Gomocup fans!
Based on the information collected in the past few weeks, the detailed rules for the experimental tournament are as follows.
* The experimental tournament will be a double round-robin tournament where each AI faces every other AI once as the first player and once as the second player.
* Time per match will be 90 min. There is no additional time limitation per move.
* We will make sure each AI will play with at most one opponent at every moment.
* Pondering is allowed.
* Since there is no limitation on AI size, please send your submission by email ([email protected]) with a link to your AI for this experimental tournament.
* Please note that in Swap2, only exactly five stones in a row win (http://www.vcpr.cz/en/help-and-rules/gomoku-rules/).
* To deal with the opening stage of Swap2, we introduce an extra command "SWAP2BOARD" to the current Gomocup protocol, which is sent once or twice to the AI between command "START" and command "BOARD". Specifically, it has three cases, and we show examples for each of them.
Case 1. The manager asks for the first three stones.
The manager sends:
SWAP2BOARD
DONE
The AI answers:
7,7 8,7 9,9
Case 2. The manager sends the coordinates of the first three stones and asks for the choice of options.
The manager sends:
SWAP2BOARD
7,7
8,7
9,9
DONE
The AI answers:
SWAP - if the AI decides to swap (option 1)
8,8 - output the coordinate of the 4th move if the AI decides to stay with its color (option 2)
8,8 8,6 - output the coordinates of the 4th and 5th stones if the AI decides to put two stones and let the opponent choose the color (option 3)
Case 3. The manager sends the coordinates of the first five stones and asks for the choice of options.
The manager sends:
SWAP2BOARD
7,7
8,7
9,9
8,8
8,6
DONE
The AI answers:
SWAP - if the AI decides to swap (option 1)
6,8 - output the coordinate of the 6th move if the AI decides to stay with its color (option 2)
After the opening stage, the stones on the board will be treated as an opening for a traditional Gomocup Standard match, and the manager will communicate with the AI using the classical Gomocup protocol in the rest of the match. For example, following the above example in Case 3, assuming the AI chooses option 2, the manager will send the following messages to the other AI:
BOARD
7,7,1
8,7,2
9,9,1
8,8,2
8,6,1
6,8,2
DONE
As another example, following Case 2's example, assuming the AI chooses option 1, the manager will send the following messages to the other AI:
BOARD
7,7,2
8,7,1
9,9,2
DONE
* We provide participants with a special client that can (1) communicate with your AI based on the extended protocol and (2) send/receive moves via Gomocup's server. The client is available here.