Better UI: Choose color, komi, handicap, start new game, etc.

[maxpumperla]

[maxpumperla]

@jokkebk We're making heavy use of your awesome jgoban lib here, but our demo is still underwhelming. Would you be interested in helping us, thereby testing your UI by seeing it in action?

[jokkebk]

Haha, thanks for the compliments, and wonderful to see you're using jGoBoard!

I'm unfortunately a bit pressed on time currently, so cannot offer much help with the AI project, but let me know if you'd need some features on jGoBoard side of things (i.e. things that the library could provide, not front-end things like the ones listed :). My friend is currently doing a simple go server so we're looking at things like implementing scoring etc. there.

[ddugovic]

I'm curious (now that this engine has a GTP front end) whether it would make sense to somehow utilize NNGS as a web server.

[maxpumperla]

Sure, definitely something we have to look into. I have no experience with NNGS, but would be very interested in this topic. @ddugovic have you done some work with NNGS? Maybe this calls for another issue, this was intended to be front-end only.

[maxpumperla]

@jokkebk It was worth a shot, wouldn't you say? :) I'll reach out to you if there's something that'd be cool to add. And w.r.t. the Go server, the "scoring" is what it's all about, so we could potentially work on that together.

[ddugovic]

@maxpumperla I managed to install nngs and connect! I look forward to testing it, although I can't find the IGS/NNGS help pages.

[maxpumperla]

@ddugovic That's pretty cool! Can you somehow share your knowledge / document what and how you did that? Could be very valuable for a lot of people.

[ddugovic]

Yes, I'm working on it... I have updated the README file although I'm trying to obtain help files for the server so after I log in I can verify the installation...

[ddugovic]

It looks like my nngs installation is successful and I can connect with either telnet or clients like Jago.

[soma-six]

I potentially have a beautiful solution....
Demo: http://sabaki.yichuanshen.de/web/view/
GTP: https://github.com/yishn/Sabaki/wiki/Engines

[rocketinventor]

@ddugovic NNGS hasn't been updated in a long time. If Betago's back end can handle these options, then they should be handled on the front end and it should be trivial to add them. If it can't handle them already, then another server won't help, it will only complicate things.

[rocketinventor]

Right now, there is no need for Komi, because there is no score-keeping going on (that I know of). Does anybody know of a library (python or js) that can keep track of score?