3B6-windows-run-gtp2ogs-js-beta.md

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0) COMMON : INTRODUCTION

1) COMMON : MESSAGE OGS MODERATORS

2) COMMON : GENERATE THE APIKEY

3A) FOR LINUX

• 3A1) Download and install nodejs and npm
• 3A2) Install gtp2ogs.js with npm
• 3A3) Recommended : Upgrade gtp2ogs.js from old branch to “devel” branch (latest)
• 3A4) Optional : Edit the gtp2ogs.js file
• 3A5) Run gtp2ogs.js (beta)
• 3A6) Run gtp2ogs.js (official)

3B) FOR WINDOWS

• 3B1a) Preparations
• 3B1b) Download and install nodejs
• 3B2) Install gtp2ogs.js
• 3B3) Recommended : Upgrade gtp2ogs from old branch to devel (latest) branch
• 3B4) Optional : Edit the gtp2ogs.js file (for example show winrate on OGS)
• 3B5) Run gtp2ogs.js (beta)
• 3B6) Run gtp2ogs.js (official)

3B6) Run gtp2ogs.js (official)

Last changes needed to be able to play on official OGS :

• Login to your official OGS user account and go to your official OGS bot profile page, then click “generate apikey”(and give a name to your engine) as we saw earlier for beta server, for example, i login with this account and i go at my bot profile page here
• Remove --beta gtp2ogs argument
• Replace your beta.ogs bot username with your official ogs username, for example i replace this --username meta--金毛测试-20b with that --username meta-金毛测试-20b
• Replace your beta.ogs apikey with the official for example for me this --apikey 53e4288597ab04c591dffikz4se8u6v1y2z8tty7 becomes now that apikey in the official OGS --apikey 1169f6espjogrdjirdgdrjgdrgdrigrdg958s4f8esg1 (this is not the real apikey so dont bother trying them)

You can also add more arguments like the --greeting and --farewell and other arguments, as we saw earlier

Write a bot description in your user profile (repeating your answer 1000 times, or ignoring people works too…), as for me i even screenshoted game settings in many languages, here

Note : you can have many OGS bots if you want, for example i also have this bot too, but i use --hidden and --rejectnew when i play with it (if you want to do selfplay, have different strengths, etc…), here

For example for my bot :

Now connect to the official ogs using gtp2ogs, and feel free to use a more advanced command

for example, i personally use something close to that (this is a false apikey btw so dont bother trying it)

note : in that example some commands like --maxactivegames , --maxtotalgames , --komi exist only on the devel branch, so i cant stress enough the importance of upgrading to devel if you didnt already do it

pushd C:\Program Files\nodejs && node.exe C:\Users\hello2\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\gtp2ogs\gtp2ogs.js --apikey 1169f6espjogrdjirdgdrjgdrgdrigrdg958s4f8esg1 --username meta-金毛测试-20b --maxtotalgames 1 --maxactivegames 1 --komi 7.5 --boardsize 19 --debug --noclock --persist --minrank 6k --unrankedonly --maxhandicap 0 --timecontrol fischer,byoyomi --speed live --minmaintime 60 --maxmaintime 600 --minperiodtime 60 --maxperiodtime 180 --maxperiods 3 --greeting "hi, the first move can be LONG (2-3 minutes) but after that the bot plays fast, this bot uses the level 1 strength mode capped at 2000 simulations per move 400M tree size, to play against humans mostly, if you want to play with stronger settings please message bot admin metaphysician splurgist :) https://online-go.com/user/view/479173 and ask him to play against the stronger bot (https://online-go.com/player/596107), this bot it cannot give handicap BUT i can play special first stones in the same area to give the bot a disadvantage see : https://online-go.com/demo/view/360464, this bot uses the original phoenixgo engine provided by tencent https://github.com/Tencent/PhoenixGo 20 blocks version , not leela zero,this bot plays on windows 10 on a personal machine (no cloud), have fun :)" --farewell "thank you for the game, hope you enjoyed and/or learned :) there is victory in defeat :)" -- C:\Users\hello2\Downloads\PhoenixGo-win-x64-gpu-with-cuda-v1\bin\mcts_main.exe --gtp --config_path C:\Users\hello2\Downloads\PhoenixGo-win-x64-gpu-with-cuda-v1\etc\mcts_1gpu_notensorrt.conf

Once connected, challenges work the same as earlier, you can challenge bots, humans, or just let your bot open online until people accept

Interesting to know : the --hidden argument : if you dont use it your ai is visible by anyone in the computers list, for example :

As a final example i’ll show a game that i played on the official OGS with gtp2ogs :

First connect to gtp2ogs official server, then the rest the same as what we saw in beta server (see screenshots below)

You can press Ctrl+C to stop the engine

This is for example a game my ai played on the real OGS (on my ubuntu machine though but it’s the same), here

Note : you can have many OGS bots if you want, for example i also have this bot too , but i use --hidden and --rejectnew when i play with it (if you want to do selfplay, have different strengths, etc…) :

Edit : i messed up a bit in the bot greeting, wrote “i’m on ubuntu” while i was on windows 10, but not gonna remake the screenshots lol

Thats it ! You now have a bot on OGS ! have fun :)

Credit for making this tutorial go to the most splurgist ogs player ever, aka : https://online-go.com/user/view/479173

but anyways cya ^^