> 
> It has to run without an UI in Linux, reading from stdin and writing
> results to stdout. That's still unsupported. In last year's contest the
> program was run once for every move in the game, see
> 	http://www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/task.html
> 
>   /bert

Seems to be the pretty much the rules this year too.  The UI the judges will use is the
Linux command line.  It doesn't seem to say you can't pop up a window, just that they won't
use it.  You do run the program once per move.

cheers

bruce