Setting up a bot

[iam3o5am]

Hello all,
I'm interested in eventually setting up my own go-playing program bot on the online go servers. Two questions: Which servers provide for this possibility, and can anyone point me in the direction of where the information is online on how to do that for each? I am aware that KGS does (not sure how to go about it though), but I am wondering if the others allow for it as well (pandanet, and the rest). Thanks for any info that can get me going!

[Gohst]

Generally, your bot has to implement the GTP protocol (http://senseis.xmp.net/?GTP). Once you're at the link, click on the link on that page for "kgsGTP" to see the KGS-specific details, for instance.

[Update] Searching on this forum for "bot" or "GTP" could also be profitable. Here's a thread that gives links to open-source (or maybe not) go engines that implement GTP, so you may be able to find some code that will get you started:

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=10665&hilit=gtp+bot

Finally, here is a list of links from the KGS Computer Go room. There may be something useful here:

Discuss & test computer Go

http://www.michna.com/kgsbot.htm
Download bot client from: http://www.gokgs.com/download.jsp
http://www.computer-go.info/
http://senseis.xmp.net/?KGSbots
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp
http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/list ... mputer-go/
http://cgos.boardspace.net/

[iam3o5am]

Thanks Gohst - very helpful info! It seems KGS is the place for bots - does anyone know if any other server allows for them?