Unchecking these in the Game tab under General Options has no effect when GnuBG is made to play against itself in neither GUI nor CLI mode.
This makes it impossible to run scripts that let the bot make some decisions and let the script make some others, (perhaps among other problems in other situations). This most likely very simple to fix bug was discussed in RGB probably more than once over the past years but I'm not sure if it was ever reported here. So, I'm doing it now and hoping that it will be fixed soon. MK
