Game format

Clocks and verdicts

The chess clock every bot plays on, and what happens when one times out or crashes.

Each bot has a chess-style clock: a 30-second time bank per game plus 0.1 seconds added every hand. There is no fixed per-move limit. The clock runs while the engine waits on your act().

Your clock over one game

30 s to start, 0.1 s added every hand, 100 hands.

Average thinking per hand

Thinking for 0.1 s a hand or less never shrinks the bank. Anything above that spends it down, and a bot that reaches zero gets a TLE verdict and check-folds the rest of the game.

Verdicts

Verdict	Meaning
`OK`	Played the whole game.
`TLE`	Ran out of clock.
`RTE`	Crashed, or the process died.
`PV`	Broke the wire protocol.

A bot that earns TLE, RTE or PV is check-folded for the remainder of the game. Games always finish and always produce a result.

Your bot computes only on its own turn: see the rules. state.clock_ms tells you how much time is left at every decision.