KGS can already put the information you want in the game record as comments.
The five minute delay is in the KGS client, when the used sets reconnect=true. The client waits 5 minutes before reconnecting. I set reconnect=false, and run the client in a loop in a script. Then when there is a disconnection, the kgs client exits immediately and the script restarts it immediately. David > -----Original Message----- > From: computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go- > boun...@dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Nick Wedd > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:48 AM > To: computer-go@dvandva.org > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] An unusual seki > > On 19/08/2012 18:04, Erik van der Werf wrote: > > I saw Nick's email, but booting is not the same as banning. An actual > > ban is an implicit acknowledgement of a flaw in the kgs scoring > > protocol. Just thought it might be interesting to hear some details > > (especially if and how it was fixed). > > > > Anyway, all this seems rather strange. Bots only need one resumption. > > After that all remaining stones are assumed to be alive by rule, so > > there's no need to query the bot again for anything. The game can > > simply end without any need for an admin to act. One could make this a > > bit more flexible by increasing the max number of resumptions, but the > > principle remains the same; there really shouldn't be a need for an > > admin to get involved to get a game to end. > > I don't have access to exactly what happened. It isn't preserved in the > SGF record. And with regard to the recent thread on a possible > replacement for SGF, this is the new feature that I would most value: a > way of preserving in the game record what claims of status the two > players have made. > > A (slightly) better way for KGS to have dealt with this problem would > have been for the admin to have kicked the misbehaving bot, rather than > booting it. A "kick" is instantaneous: a kicked user can reconnect > immediately, though in my experience it usually takes bots exactly five > minutes, a delay that may be intrinsic to the kgsGtp client. A booted > user, however, cannot reconnect until the duration of the boot, as > specified by the admin, has expired. The minimum duration, as applied > in this case, is one hour. > > However, the admin involved in this incident was a plain, or "silver- > star", admin. He had the power to boot, but not to kick. Only a > "senior" or "gold-star" admin can administer a kick. The reasons for > this distinction are lost in the mists of KGS history. > > Nick > > > > > > > > Erik > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Michael Williams > > <michaelwilliam...@gmail.com <mailto:michaelwilliam...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > > See original email from Nick: > > > > "Yesterday, a KGS game between Blubbel 3d and AyaBot4 2k, SGF file > > below, ended with an unusual kind of seki. AyaBot4 marked its > > opponent's stones in the seki as dead, and was eventually booted > > by an admin for mis-marking stones (as a way of getting the game > > to end). As all eleven AyaBots use the same IP address, they all > > got booted - and an hour later, all simultaneously tried to log in > > again." > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Erik van der Werf > > <erikvanderw...@gmail.com <mailto:erikvanderw...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Hiroshi Yamashita > > <y...@bd.mbn.or.jp <mailto:y...@bd.mbn.or.jp>> wrote: > > >> > > >> I understood why I and bots were banned for a while. > > > > > > > > > Oh, interesting, did this lead to a kgs ban? Why exactly was > that? > > > > > > Erik > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Computer-go mailing list > > > Computer-go@dvandva.org <mailto:Computer-go@dvandva.org> > > > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > _______________________________________________ > > Computer-go mailing list > > Computer-go@dvandva.org <mailto:Computer-go@dvandva.org> > > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Computer-go mailing list > > Computer-go@dvandva.org > > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > > > > -- > Nick Wedd > n...@maproom.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@dvandva.org > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
