From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <57b557bb0908311625t18c442d4y5897b5e5a7c581b9@mail.gmail.com> References: <57b557bb0908311625t18c442d4y5897b5e5a7c581b9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:25:53 -0400 Message-ID: From: Akshat Kumar To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] 9 Games of Go Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5db3fa84-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > It might be worth the effort to implement Go Text Protocol > (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/), just in case you're having > trouble finding people to play with. No, I'm going for world domination. Starting with the local Go group. The fileserver is meant for Plan 9 communications, and is left open to serve any interface that provides a two-player turn-based game. This includes Go, Chess, Checkers, and whatever else. After the rudimentary interface is provided by an application (i.e., a board or an automated engine), the only thing required to make it networked is to decide on a format and use it to read/write on files served by the fs (and handle gid permissions, if one wants). To this effect, I've added *no* Go primitives or specifications to the filesystem, and don't intend to do so in the future. I never found it interesting to play with random people on the internet, anyway. This is at least a dreidel roll away from being the roll of dice. > Anyway, nice work. Thanks, ak