[Cgos-developers] player names, results

[Christian N. <chr...@mo...>]

Hi all,

first of all, thank you for the work you have been doing with CGOS. The 
last time I looked at computer go was in 2000, and the difference this 
is making is incredible.

I started running a test program (owari) on CGOS recently, and like 
others, I locally persist the games as SGF. Googling around, it seems 
that others also would quite like to know who they are playing against. 
I seems Don looked at the problem - I found an old post on the GTP 
mailing list about reporting opponent names.

I checked out the CGOS client source code, and got to this:

    set mvlist [lassign $s ignore gid boardsize komi timeLeft white black]

    set msg [eCmd $inout "boardsize $boardsize"]
    set msg [eCmd $inout "clear_board"]
    set msg [eCmd $inout "komi $komi"]

Unfortunately, I've never used TCL, but I'd quite like to add:

    set msg [eCmd $inout "cgos-white_name $white"]
    set msg [eCmd $inout "cgos-black_name $black"]

In the gameover section it's temping to add:

    set msg [eCmd $inout "cgos-game_over $res $err"]

But, you guys must have thought all this through. Is this a good way of 
doing it? Any reason why you would not do something like that in the 
release package?

Thanks!

Christian