AI decision wrong

[shinuito]

@Animiral

the game may also end after three one-sided passes with an overwhelming advantage.

I suppose @Uberdude suggested this, but more so in a satirical way:

OGS invents new Go variant!

OGS has, perhaps unwittingly, invented a new Go variant “Can you afford to pass 3 times? Go” or “- - - Go”*, and we are all playing it. If you are ahead and past move 120, rather than playing moves to try to win, you can take a gamble and pass: if your opponent doesn’t have a ko threat type move big enough to drop your lead below a KataGo estimate of 99% after you pass following the ko threat, they follow up on the threat and you pass again, then you win. But be warned, if you are still winning …

I guess it’s not just dame skipping that might be the problem, but just trying to effectively force a resignation from the opponent once they fall behind enough. I mean they’re not forced to resign but it’s a similar effect where the game is forcibly ended. Hard to say that would generally be enjoyable as a gameplay feature.

I’m not even sure what the best implementation of this kind of suggestion would be. If you wanted it to be only in endgame, you need to define endgame (some move number, some move point value?). If you want the other extreme of only being available after dame, it probably is a bit too late to combat actual stalling. Someone might lose a group, be 20+ points behind, and then start playing along the first line to troll and drag out the game - it might take half an hour to reach the dame stage.