jlt
February 10, 2025, 8:11am
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After my opponent timed out in a correspondence game, I looked at his history and saw that he has 25 consecutive timeouts, about half of which were annulled and the other were rated normally:
Did the algorithm change recently? It seems that only games in which he was ahead were annulled.
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BHydden
February 10, 2025, 8:14am
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Yeah that was implemented somewhat recently. I didn’t like the idea but it got through
The latest update on Prod also brought what is hopefully a resolution to the longstanding issue of “hey my win got annulled due to my opponent’s mass-timeout-annul”.
The change is that from now on when a person’s games are being assessed for annulment due to mass-timeout, we check the likely result using the AI.
If it is likely that the person was going to lose that game anyhow, before they timed out, then the result is _not_annulled.
Games timeout as part of a mass-timeout are only annulled …
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I’ve forgotten the exact details, but it is more along the lines of “games that the escaper was definitely losing are not annulled”.
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jlt
February 10, 2025, 8:28am
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Oh that was 8 months ago… Thanks, I seem to have forgotten that 109-message discussion (!)
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