Yes, may not be perfect, but significant improvement would be only triggering if the passes don’t change expected score by more than half point in Chinese rules.
I suppose different people have different value judgements on new features like this, that can help deal with problem behaviour in some cases (helping deal with genuine stallers), but introduce their own problem behaviours in others (stopping non-stallers from finishing their games and playing a game of skill to the end). What ratios are people happy with between the two situations? I tend to follow Blackstone’s Formulation “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suff…
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