Re: [Bug-gnubg] Re: The importance of METs

[Jim Segrave]

On Sun 31 Aug 2003 (05:37 +0200), address@hidden wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, [ISO-8859-1] ?ystein Johansen wrote:
> 
> > >Anyways my question is: is there a way to have player 1 and player 2 use
> > >different MET's  if set to computer  player? I guess you  can figure out
> > >why I want to do that.
> >
> > This can be done with an external player.
> > You can set up a master to use one met and then connect another gnubg 
> > session
> > trough an external player using another met. I have not tried this, but it
> > should work in theory.
> 
> Aha! Can you  recommend a place where I should look  for info/docs to do
> this?

Assuming you've got a gnubg with socket support (I think Nardy's
builds have this, but I'm not sure).

Start a copy of gnubg, you may as well use the nogui version. This
will be the master.
Enter the command

   external 127.0.0.1:4000

where 127.0.0.1 means the local host, use port 4000

Start another copy of gnubg.
Go to Settings->Players. At the bottom, click external and fill in
127.0.0.1:4000

Start a match/session whatever and watch it play. 

I believe, from looking at the code, that the master server will be
playing using the Evaluation settings for cube and chequer play, not
the player 0 settings.


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Jim Segrave           address@hidden