[Computer-go] Scoring Bug on KGS

[Petr Baudis]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:18:25PM +0200, Francois van Niekerk wrote:
> My program already supports the "final_status_list" command; so what
> I'd expect to happen is my program to insist that all stones are alive
> and play continues until all dead stones are removed. Unfortunately
> this is not what happens. After 2 passes, the opponent can mark *any*
> stones as dead and this is accepted. This is obviously not fair to my
> program. It is trivial to cheat by marking all the program's stones as
> dead.

This is a misfeature of the "free" game mode. In ranked games, this does
not happen, unfortunately in free games the human can override the
program. You can try asking wms for the reasons, I have already heard
many complaints about this.

(On the other hand, looking at games where my program lost by points
instead of resigning - as it always should if losing - has helped me
find quite a few bugs.)

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis