Six weeks is pretty quick! Can I ask what editor you use (always curious), and what other languages you have a background in?

these days I mostly use vscode / cursor, although I still really like vim and use it for languages that I know really well (mostly python these days) and quick edits.

I spent much of my professional career at Jane Street Capital, which means that I spent a long time just writing OCaml and some bash (and a tiny bit of C). I'm very comfortable with Python, and over the last year I've gotten pretty comfortable with frontend javascript. And now golang!

I could probably write semi-reasonable java, ruby, or perl if you gave me a few days to brush up on them. And it'd take me a while before I was happy putting C on the internet. Not sure otherwise.

You ain't the only one who's removed the rate limits lol. Some of these queens are clearing a whole board in like 3s, must've written something to keep a piece selected. This is turning into a race to the godliest piece hackathon.

The rate limits aren't that aggressive and have a decent amount of burst, you can get about 10 moves done in 1 second before you hit them and start getting throttled[1]. And of course you can run multiple clients (I account for this too, but I'm not that aggressive because I don't want to punish many people NAT'd behind a single IP)

[1] down to something like 3/sec?

I figured the multiple people per ip would be an issue, was wondering if that might be at play here. I thought you said it was already at 3-4/s and I doubted it based on some of what I'm seeing. 10/s tracks a little better.

As to what you should change, I can't say. It's in the wild now lol.

Yea seems the rate limit should be stricter, I made a quick script to do 1 move (capture) every 150ms, doesn't seem to get throttled.

I like how generals.io did it where they explicitly made a bot only server/version.