I'm working on the ranking system and the tournament system at the
moment ...

A few things from your post :

- making MLA (or nacre) as a permanent online player needs you to
convert your engine to a .NET assembly. This assembly needs to
comply with a specific interface. At the moment, the interface is
too complex to be used by someone else than me, because it includes
benchmarking, returning the 3 top lines and a conversion between the
move data structure used by the server and the move data structure
of my engine lol. Therefore i would need to simplify the API spec so
that you would "only" have to convert nacre as a .NET assembly ...
you would also need me to copy your compiled assembly (.dll) to my
server and integrate it with the engine calling system in my web
services :) If you want to provide such a .NET assembly, i can work
on the spec ... But only my tech problems with MLA are solved. An
alternative is to define the spec of an engine web service you would
have to comply with. In such a case, you will need to host the
engine on some web site and expose the required web service ... this
would be OS independant ...

- about the games database : this will be made available to the
public for free (on request).
- about the MLA opening book : i'm not sure it'll be available... ;)

david

--- In abalone_prog@yahoogroups.com, "Peer Sommerlund"
<peer.d.sommerlund@...> wrote:
>
> --- In abalone_prog@yahoogroups.com, "mogwaifrance" <david.malek@>
> wrote:
> >
> > The server has moved to http://moggames.net
> >
> > Yes you can enter broadside moves, but move entry ergonomy has
> > changed drastically. You click on one marble, release the mouse
> > button, move you mouse to the other marbles to move and then you
> > move the mouse to the target. Let me know if you encounter any
> > difficulty.
>
> :-) I noticed the broadside guestures, see also my post on
> http://148009.aceboard.net/148009-512-5872-0-enter-move.htm
>
>
>
> > I'm mostly missing a tournament systam, a player ranking system,
> > together with news channel.
>
> I suppose this is just a matter of time.
> Here are a couple of liks (which I'm sure you already know)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_tournament
> http://remi.coulom.free.fr/Bayesian-Elo/
>
>
>
> > I'm also trying to make MLA as a permanent player, but i'm still
> > having some tech problems with this.
>
> Will you publish the interface or will you perhaps implement abnet?
>
>
>
> > Once I get enough abalone games in the server database, i'll
work on
> > building an opening book for MLA...
>
> Will it be public available? I can understand if the answer is "no"
> since you have put quite a lot of work into building the server.
>