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How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?

Posted By: Dave Ranson
Date: Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:10 p.m.

In Response To: How can you tell if you're playing a bot online? (Phil Simborg)

I noticed (and reported) several traits with some of the online bots; bots I haven't seen now for 4-6 months. Whether they have been replaced or not I don't know, but at my stakes $5/10 pp I haven't seen any.

They would never chat at all.

They never joined waiting tables; they would sit and wait all day for punters to come to them.

They would never accept any adjustment of the game stakes/limits even if it a tiny amount.

They would decline a single game resignation if your checkers were not in your home board, even if you were mathematically certain to save the gammon.

They play at the same speed/rhythm regardless of how difficult the move was.

They seemed to bear off incredibly slowly, even in no contact positions.

When playing two checkers from the same point, they would always move the smaller dice number first. This was a particularly useful marker to me because you would have to right-click the mouse every time to achieve that.

They would never undo a move; in fact some of the bots were later programmed to undo some moves, but it was so obvious as the moves they elected to undo were either forced moves or extremely clear moves.

Dave

Messages In This Thread

• How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
  Max Urban -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 11:07 a.m.
  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
    misja -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 11:09 a.m.
  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
    Stick -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 12:49 p.m.
    • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
      Frank_N_Stein -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 6:26 p.m.
      • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
        Dan Pelton -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:23 p.m.
        • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
          Frank_N_Stein -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:41 p.m.
          • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
            W Womack -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:57 p.m.
            • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
              Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 1:34 a.m.
              • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 6:01 a.m.
                • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                  Joe Russell -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 10:24 a.m.
                  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                    Max Urban -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 1:01 p.m.
                    • Turing test
                      rod -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 1:55 p.m.
                      • Turing test
                        Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 4:20 p.m.
                        • Turing test
                          Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 5:06 p.m.
                          • Turing test
                            Frank_N_Stein -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 6:28 p.m.
                          • Turing test
                            Dave -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 7:27 p.m.
                            • Turing test
                              Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 8:01 p.m.
                      • Turing test
                        Matt Ryder -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 6:06 a.m.
                        • Turing test
                          pierrez -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:07 a.m.
                          • Turing test
                            Matt Ryder -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 4:42 p.m.
                            • Are you sure you weren't talking to MCG? *NM*
                              Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 3 December 2009, at 5:24 p.m.
                              • Are you sure you weren't talking to MCG?
                                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 3 December 2009, at 7:47 p.m.
                        • Turing test - easy to tell
                          rod -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 5:53 p.m.
                        • Very human indeed!
                          Joe Russell -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 11:44 p.m.
                  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
                    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 10:36 p.m.
  • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
    Phil Simborg -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 8:10 p.m.
    • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
      Dave Ranson -- Monday, 30 November 2009, at 10:10 p.m.
      • How can you tell if you're playing a bot online?
        Gregg Cattanach -- Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 2:39 p.m.
  • Here's one way
    neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 4:54 a.m.
    • Here's one way
      Frank Berger -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:17 p.m.
      • Here's one way
        neilkaz -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:28 p.m.
    • Here's one way
      Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 8:59 p.m.
      • Here's one way
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 10:19 p.m.
        • Here's one way
          Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 2 December 2009, at 10:29 p.m.