GTP - Revision history

Selinger: /* Backends */ Added KataHex

2024-10-24T16:14:19Z

‎Backends: Added KataHex

Selinger: Replaced Six and Wolve by KataHex

2024-10-24T16:13:55Z

Replaced Six and Wolve by KataHex

Selinger: /* Board handling */ Added boardsize command for non-rhombic boards

2022-03-25T00:23:35Z

‎Board handling: Added boardsize command for non-rhombic boards

Selinger: /* Protocol specification */ Minor copy-editing

2020-03-03T02:39:34Z

‎Protocol specification: Minor copy-editing

Selinger: /* Example session */ Removed diagnostic (stderr) output from example session

2020-03-03T02:36:24Z

‎Example session: Removed diagnostic (stderr) output from example session

Selinger: /* Protocol specification */ First draft of protocol spec

2020-03-03T02:35:02Z

‎Protocol specification: First draft of protocol spec

Selinger: Added Category:Computer Hex

2020-03-01T18:08:41Z

Added Category:Computer Hex

Selinger: /* Example session */ Added example session

2020-03-01T17:45:28Z

‎Example session: Added example session

Selinger: Created a page for GTP

2020-03-01T17:37:16Z

Created a page for GTP

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Hex GTP (or simply GTP) is a text-based interface for interacting with Hex software. A typical use is to separate front-end software, which provides graphical display of game boards, from back-end software, which implements a Hex strategy engine. The use of a standardized protocol in principle permits any strategy engine, such as [[Six]], [[MoHex]], or [[Wolve]], to be plugged into any graphical front-end, such as [[HexGui]].

Moreover, GTP can also be used by humans to interact with a strategy engine directly, i.e., without the use of a graphical front-end.

== History ==

Hex GTP is based on the Go Text Protocol (GTP), which was originally developed for Go as part of the [https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo_19.html GNU Go] software.

== Software supporting GTP ==

=== Frontends ===

* [[HexGui]]
* Todo: add more

=== Backends ===

* [[Six]]
* [[MoHex]]
* [[Wolve]]
* Todo: add more

== Protocol specification ==

Not yet written.

== Example session ==

Not yet written.

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−	Hex GTP (or simply GTP) is a text-based interface for interacting with Hex software. A typical use is to separate front-end software, which provides graphical display of game boards, from back-end software, which implements a Hex strategy engine. The use of a standardized protocol in principle permits any strategy engine, such as ~~[[Six]],~~ [[MoHex]], or [[~~Wolve~~]], to be plugged into any graphical front-end, such as [[HexGui]].	+	Hex GTP (or simply GTP) is a text-based interface for interacting with Hex software. A typical use is to separate front-end software, which provides graphical display of game boards, from back-end software, which implements a Hex strategy engine. The use of a standardized protocol in principle permits any strategy engine, such as [[MoHex]] or [[KataHex]], to be plugged into any graphical front-end, such as [[HexGui]].

	Moreover, GTP can also be used by humans to interact with a strategy engine directly, i.e., without the use of a graphical front-end.		Moreover, GTP can also be used by humans to interact with a strategy engine directly, i.e., without the use of a graphical front-end.

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 | boardsize ''n''
 | Set the board size to ''n'' × ''n'' and clear the board.
 |-
 | clear_board

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 == Protocol specification ==
-The protocol follows a client-server model. It uses textual commands and responses expressed in the ASCII character set. Commands are sent by the client to the server, and responses are sent by the server to the client. When the server is a local process, it reads commands on its standard input stream, sends machine readable responses on its standard output stream, and may also send optional diagonstic and progress information on its standard error stream.
+The protocol follows a client-server model. It uses textual commands and responses expressed in the ASCII character set. Commands are sent by the client to the server, and responses are sent by the server to the client. When the server is a local process, it reads commands from its standard input stream, writes machine readable responses to its standard output stream, and may also write optional diagonstic and progress information to its standard error stream.
 === Command format ===

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	genmove black		genmove black
−	~~f6707 info: Winning SC.~~
	= b6		= b6

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	quit		quit
	=		=
		+
		+	[[Category:Computer Hex]]

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 * [[MoHex]]
 * [[Wolve]]
-* Todo: add more
+* [[KataHex]]
 == Protocol specification ==

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	== Example session ==		== Example session ==

−	~~Not yet written~~.	+	boardsize 7 7
		+	=
		+
		+	showboard
		+	=
		+
		+	dcf37c659c5632f9
		+	a b c d e f g
		+	1\. . . . . . .\1
		+	2\. . . . . . .\2
		+	3\. . . . . . .\3
		+	4\. . . . . . .\4
		+	5\. . . . . . .\5
		+	6\. . . . . . .\6
		+	7\. . . . . . .\7
		+	a b c d e f g
		+
		+	play black c3
		+	=
		+
		+	showboard
		+	=
		+
		+	63d78dc21cfe93dc
		+	a b c d e f g
		+	1\. . . . . . .\1
		+	2\. . . . . . .\2
		+	3\. . B . . . .\3
		+	4\. . . . . . .\4
		+	5\. . . . . . .\5
		+	6\. . . . . . .\6
		+	7\. . . . . . .\7
		+	a b c d e f g
		+
		+	play white d5
		+	=
		+
		+	showboard
		+	=
		+
		+	7edf0d0dfa16e804
		+	a b c d e f g
		+	1\. . . . . . .\1
		+	2\. . . . . . .\2
		+	3\. . B . . . .\3
		+	4\. . . . . . .\4
		+	5\. . . W . . .\5
		+	6\. . . . . . .\6
		+	7\. . . . . . .\7
		+	a b c d e f g
		+
		+	genmove black
		+	f6707 info: Winning SC.
		+	= b6
		+
		+	showboard
		+	=
		+
		+	b3d2f7b4917a6c30
		+	a b c d e f g
		+	1\. . . . . . .\1
		+	2\. . . . . . .\2
		+	3\. . B . . . .\3
		+	4\. . . . . . .\4
		+	5\. . . W . . .\5
		+	6\. B . . . . .\6
		+	7\. . . . . . .\7
		+	a b c d e f g
		+
		+	undo
		+	=
		+
		+	showboard
		+	=
		+
		+	7edf0d0dfa16e804
		+	a b c d e f g
		+	1\. . . . . . .\1
		+	2\. . . . . . .\2
		+	3\. . B . . . .\3
		+	4\. . . . . . .\4
		+	5\. . . W . . .\5
		+	6\. . . . . . .\6
		+	7\. . . . . . .\7
		+	a b c d e f g
		+
		+	quit
		+	=