Computer bots playing chess

@JLee2027 said in #23:

You never read what I wrote, responded to it, or took it seriously. It is you who have confirmation bias.

you on the other hand only reply selectively to the posts that you have any kind of answer to.

so, you are obviously not a software developer, but i am sure there is someone who knows about this kind of stuff whom you trust. a friend, or a relative. someone who doesn't have a horse in this race. if possible someone who knows about open source software, but pretty much any developer will do.

tell them about your conspiracy theory. tell them that you think that a project that has 400 contributors and 2k+ forks (see https://github.com/lichess-org/lila for these stats) – tell them that you think that such a project has published code, but also different, secret code that runs on the server for about 100k players concurrently at almost any time. and that it's being kept secret. ask them whether they think that such a thing is plausible or even possible.

and again, it does need different, secret code, for pairing you secretly with bots. the bots themselves of course could easily be secret code, because that would not be shared.

@SimonBirch said in #10:

Bots= the chess gods , playing with you and you're rating.
Build you up, knock you down.
Hidden world
xxx
He got every reaction possible once, so i thumbs down(ed) his post to make him feel happy :)

It would not only need secret code to arrange to pair him with bots when his rating goes up, it would also need some way to keep the rating of the bots lower than it would be if they always played at full strength. So they would have to detect when they are playing him, and play at full strength and not do so when playing other players. Clearly the bot-gods are just out to get him!

Okay, let's end this once and for all, THERE ARE NO BOTS WHICH COME ON THE PAIRING POOL TO PLAY WITH YOU. END OF TOPIC. END OF DISCUSSION. OP MISUNDERSTOOD.

SORRY FOR THE caps.

@IncontenentiaButtux I saw the reply you just deleted man. Once again you forgot to acknowledge that the guy was playing 24 other dudes at the same time. I don't believe for a second that you only played him with 60% of your strength, or that you could've won but decided to spare him. I don't understand why you told me to stop lying to myself, because that's exactly what I told you in my other reply.

If you're gonna get embarrassed and delete your replies, that's how you know it's time to quit lying man; everybody here sees through those lies. You only used 60% of your power? This isn't an anime my dude. How do you even measure that?

I deleted because I am done if y'all think its so simple it's completely useless to have these conversations, stop harrasing me because you're so f*cking sure of yourself

If you're inclined to check how matches are made, seems like all the work is done here:

https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/tree/master/modules/pool/src/main

If there was a conspiracy hiding in plain site, it'd be baked into this code somehow.

@keithframnes said in #38:

If you're inclined to check how matches are made, seems like all the work is done here:

github.com/lichess-org/lila/tree/master/modules/pool/src/main

If there was a conspiracy hiding in plain site, it'd be baked into this code somehow.

But then you would have to read scala :( Trying to hold a rational discussion with an internet troll is less painful.
I did try reading it some, and matchmaking.scala had some readable content. There most interesting part is that people with a ragesit score that is similar get better odds of being matched together. Also, if I read it right, according to playban/main/ragesit.scala it only counts as ragesitting if you are behind by at least 4 points in std chess.

@ProgrammerAngrim said in #39:

But then you would have to read scala

Scala is indeed very painful to read :-)