[gnugo-devel] gnugo network

[Peter]

Hi,
	I like to use the Sente Goban client on my Mac OS X laptop so I can 
play Go where ever I am.  However, it is not a very fast computer and 
even at lower than the recommended level, the gnugo takes a little bit 
to move sometimes.  I have, however, several desktops that have nothing 
to do and are significantly faster.  I would like to run gnugo in some 
kind of "--network" mode but I haven't been able to find that such a 
thing exists.  This would also be useful if later experimental 
additions to gnugo increased its complexity to the point where it was 
only playable on a cluster, in which case some sort of server 
functionality might naturally feed into this.

	I'm not talking about a the gnugoclient that allows gnugo to connect 
to servers on the internet, I'm talking about a mode that would allow 
my Goban client to connect directly to my other computer running the 
gnugo engine.

	I'm wondering if there is plans for such a feature or if it already 
exists?  If any go clients would support such a thing or would require 
a gnugo proxy on the local machine (essentially a second copy of gnugo 
running in some simple pipe functionality with the remote gnugo 
engine), if any of this would be a good idea to add(which I could 
probably do), or if I should just write a couple of programs or scripts 
to make my Goban think it was playing with a local gnuengine and 
accomplish this functionality myself.

	Anyway, I would appreciate feedback...  I could probably do this all 
with ssh and some weird shell command which begs the question why am I 
writing this email but anyway.
                                                        - Peter