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Cameron Miles wrote on Sat, Mar 28, 2015 10:24 PM UTC:
Thank you for the reply. It's clear now that the problem will be a lot more difficult to resolve than I had thought, because there are many different things contributing to it.

If you don't mind, could you briefly describe the method that the ratings script used to award one player the win for a certain game (in which a "won"/"lost" command was implemented), and the other the loss? Because it seems, at least intuitively, that if a given procedure consistently produces the wrong result [out of two], then there ought to be some trivial means of creating a procedure that produces the correct result with just as much consistency.

I obviously haven't verified this for all such logs, but of the ones I have checked, it seems that for ANY log displaying the color of the winning side instead of the winning player's name, the corresponding game was recorded as a win for the wrong player, with the sole exception of Alice Chess games.