Go Text Protocol
"The Go Text Protocol, GTP, is a text based protocol for communication with computer go programs. It is a modern alternative to the Go Modem Protocol, GMP, and may potentially replace this for use in Go tournaments in the future. It is also intended, through the use of auxiliary programs, to make it easier for go programmers to connect to go servers on the internet and do automatic regression testing."
See http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/ for more information.
The current (February 2009) version is number 2.
Clients supporting GTP
- SenteGoban
- Drago
- gGo
- glGo
http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/glgo/
- GoGui
http://gogui.sourceforge.net The _BEST_ tool for analyzing go program internals.
- kgsGtp is a GTP bridge to KGS, allowing GTP engines to play on KGS. You can download it at
http://www.gokgs.com/download.xhtml
- Quarry
http://home.gna.org/quarry/
- Shades of Go?
http://www.mesisto.de
- SmartGo
http://www.smartgo.com/en/gtp.htm
- See also the Go client page, most go clients support GTP
Engines (go-playing programs) supporting GTP
- Aya
- Crazy Stone
http://remi.coulom.free.fr/CrazyStone/
- GNU Go
- HouseBot
- INDIGO
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~bouzy/INDIGO.html
- SimpleGo
- see also the go playing programs page, most go playing programs support GTP. (unfortunately not all)
An easy way to start learning about GTP is to run one of these engines without a client. e.g. bring up a shell/command prompt and type
gnugo --mode gtp
to bring up a list of GTP commands type
help
to view the Go board type
showboard
to make a first move type (for example)
play black q16
to make the engine move type
genmove white