Server ending game by its own decision

[Animiral]

@Uberdude

No, because you might need to fill 4 dames to make the move inside work. Quoting yourself:

@Animiral

Nice catch, I really failed to consider teire moves.
So the anti-stalling opens up the possibility to skimp on teire by passing prematurely.

You almost make it look like I contradicted myself. I owe a clarification.

In that thread, I initially wrote:

@Animiral

If you think there is a weakness left to exploit, you should be able to do it with one move. If you cannot do it with 3 moves, you are just stalling.

The statement behind this rigid stance is that OGS offers the “end game” button only if the opponent is actually stalling, not if they are playing in good faith.
In reality, finishing endgame is playing in good faith, yet there are situations where one can elicit the offer from OGS.
Since I had not thought of this initially and it was a nice catch by @frolag, I have acknowledged that, as I should.

That is the extent of what I said.

Let’s say that I am hopelessly behind, with only dame and teire left. My only chance is that my opponent watches as I fill in more than 3 dame and then blunders on aji. But they start passing. In this situation I could

• politely ask them to finish the board with me,
• play a ko threat to force them out of the pass sequence,
• just admit that the player who just mopped the floor with me probably sees what I see and will not let it happen,
• not assume that they will push that button just because they can, when I am not really stalling,
• if they do it, talk it out afterwards to see if they have maybe misunderstood the feature,
• not get hung up on it forever and move on to the next game.

I think that is fair enough after all.