Anti-escaping and Anti-stalling features

[trohde]

@anoek

if you have someone who is just playing useless moves at the end of a game

@Conrad_Melville

There are three kinds of stalling in the technical sense of a reportable violation: (1) repeated, consecutive resumptions (pass, pass, resume, pass, pass, resume); (2) repeated infilling of one’s own territory; and (3) self-atari moves for no purpose.

I agree that all of these are bad.

But shouldn’t filling neutral points be excluded from this feature?

These are NOT “useless moves”—yes, some neutral points are plain Dame, but others are Teire and can thus force the opponent to play inside their territory (—> -1 pt).

I was taught that at the end of a game all neutral points should be filled, and I’ve not yet been convinced that I was taught to play useless moves.

Now, some of my opponents are (IMNVHO) sloppy and pass instead, repeatedly, while I go on and fill those neutral points, and BAM, there comes this:

(I stole your screenshot, @anoek, forgive me )