Dkf - Diskonnect and Konane for Fuego
Martin Müller and Ryan Hayward
May 9, 2014

Dkf is an implementation of the games Diskonnect and Konane, which uses the Fuego framework. It includes a computer player based on Monte Carlo Tree Search.

How to build dkf:
1. download a copy of Fuego revision 1917 into a directory of your choice

Example:
cd ~/Projects
svn checkout -r1917 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/fuego/code/trunk dkf

2. copy the file dkf0.02.patch into the same directory
Example:
cd ~/Projects/dkf
wget http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/dkf/dkf0.02.patch

3. apply the patch
Example:
patch -p0 < dkf0.02.patch

4. setup the build for Fuego
Example (this creates separate directories for debug and optimized builds):
./setup-build.sh

4b. Check for errors in the setup. If something fails, then most likely you either do not have the boost libraries, or you have not compiled the parts of boost that require compilation.

5. Compile debug version of dkf:
cd build/dbg
make

6. run dkf:
cd fuegomain
./fuego

7. All set to play or analyze! See list of commands below.

List of commands:
s, showboard	show the current board
p, play <move>  play a move, Example: p e2-e4
u, undo    take back the most recent (human or computer) move
c, clearboard   back to the initial position
g, genmove      generate a computer move
boardsize <width height> set the size of the rectangular board
	Examples: boardsize 5 5, boardsize 6 4
	Default 8 8, maximum 19 19
timelimit <limit>  set the time limit in seconds per move. Default 10. 
	Example: timelimit 200
konane <0|1>   change the game from diskonnect to konane. Default 0
	Examples: konane 1 (play konane), konane 0 (play diskonnect)
komi <value> set a komi. Use a non-integer komi to prevent draws
	Examples: komi 0.5, komi 2, komi -1.5
reg_genmove 	generate a computer move but do not play it
rg  		play a complete game using random moves
quit  		quit the program

Known bugs:
sometimes segfaults after the quit command

Limitations, future work:
set memory, number of threads to use
save and load game records and setup positions