Proposal: New users choose beginner/intermediate/advanced and drop ranked game restrictions

People can play with random bots here too

They are indeed shockingly bad even when they don’t play in their own eyespace. It’s usually lucky if they survive with any groups, assuming you’re actively you trying to capture the stones. Probably if you focus on one stone/group at a time it can get some living area, or if you handicap yourself in other ways.

Losing should be difficult unless you keep self ataring, running the opponent out of legal moves and filling eyes so they have to capture you etc.

I still wonder if there aren’t tiers of skill even at the random bot level, though you have to set up some ground rules about passing resigning etc.

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