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Time to pay me that $1,000 Frank!

Posted By: MK
Date: Monday, 27 July 2026, at 5:59 a.m.

Frank claims that BGBuzzt rolls random dice and offers a measly $1,000 to anyone who can show that he lies about it.

Frank also claims that crippled version of BGBuzzt terminates about one in six games randomly. See:

https://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?read=220522

which states: "if a game is interrupted and after which move it is interrupted is simply decided by a random".

By the same moral principle, Frank should offer and pay $1,000 to anyone who can show that he lies about this also.

I say he lies about it. Since I can't have access to his source code, all I can offer as proof is to require him to publish the specific section of his code (unless it's patented:)) and post a sufficient number of sequential (i.e. not cherry-picked) examples of it terminating games non-randomly.

Come on, "pants on fire", pay up!

MK

PS: Why should it matter how BGBuzzt decides to terminate games and what kind of a person would go to such lengths in weird ways to copy-protect his $23 garbage bg bot can be subjects of separate discussions...