I realize there are some legitimate reasons to have your bot play out
the games on cgos until the bitter end. Here I would like to present
one reason why you may want to have your bot resign instead. I live
in the Philippines. My ping from my computers here is usualy about
.3-.4 seconds. I do often put some bots on cgos from here, tend to be
rated around 1600-1700. Because of the long ping & the tromp-taylor
rules, my bots often lose won games on time. Playing from my computer
here, I typically set a buffer around 45 seconds when the bot assumes
the game is a won game & almost immediately plays filler moves.
Nevertheless, with this buffer or even a larger buffer, the bot often
captures massive groups, and at 2 moves per second (all network lag),
the bot can't fill the whole board again & again, and if my bot passes
& yours doesn't, that's also slow to fill the board. The end result
is that in your records, you may be testing your bot's new features
and want to have an accurate elo rating to know whether it is working.
If your bot is playing my bot, and your bot doesn't resign lost
games, you won't have an accurate rating of its new features. Sorry
for the inconvenience. This is happening today quite a lot vs.
challenger. Some other days it's a different bot. Just something to
keep in mind.
Peter
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