Rules support for bots

[inbae]

Setting up a bot on OGS has been a quite satisfactory experience compared to other sites… Except for that only Chinese rules with positional superko is supported. I have read the previous thread regarding this issue:

Having bots play in Japanese rules?

Question - is there a way to potentially run a bot supporting Japanese rules on OGS? Before too long I expect to have some versions of KataGo (currently running as kata-bot on this server) that experimentally support Japanese rules… or at least something close enough that in all but highly rare and exceptional cases it will match Japanese rules. (So, no superko, scoring based on territory+captures, bent-4-in-the-corner is dead even if there are ko threats in a seki elsewhere, etc). Of course, i…

I know there will be some complications, but considering KataGo has no problem with Japanese rules (including removing dead stones) on KGS, I really would like to have my bot play in Japanese rules, even if it is unranked only.