This repo contains tools for letting bots play the game of Gomori.
cargo build --release
target/release/judge target/release/random_bot target/release/greedy_bot --player-1-nick "RandomBot" --player-2-nick "GreedyBot" -n 1000
See the --help text of the judge for more options.
The protocol that the bots use to play consists of JSON requests and responses via standard input/output, with the judge being the client and the bots being the servers. For instance, the judge will send the bot a JSON message on its stdin asking it to choose up to five cards to play, and the bots will reply via stdout with a JSON message of its own.
If you use the Rust, Python or C# helper packages, the protocol and game logic is already implemented for you. See their READMEs for more information.
To see what the messages look like, you can run the judge with --log-level trace.
Messages are newline-delimited, i.e. the JSON must be in a compact format with no newlines, and followed by a newline.
For an example for how the data could look in code (in this case, in Rust), see protocol_types.rs.
The --stop-on-first-illegal-move option of the judge is useful for debugging.