Decouple the displayed opponent name from the small pool of durable robot
accounts: the disguised auto-match robot now gets a freshly composed name each
game, stamped on a new game_players.display_name seat snapshot. The snapshot
also captures humans' names, freezing what an opponent sees for the life of a
game (a later rename no longer rewrites past games); readers fall back to the
account's current name for pre-migration rows.
Names come from a wide composed corpus (internal/robot/namevariety.go): Western
locales (EN/DE/ES/IT/FR/PT), native Japanese/Chinese names, a gender-agreed
Russian pool, and human-style handles. Routing keeps Pick's spirit -- a Russian
game draws Cyrillic + <=20% Latin and never a CJK script; an English game the
full corpus -- via robot.PickNamed.
Loosen account.ValidateDisplayName (and the UI mirror) to admit a trailing run
of up to five digits, so "Player2007"-style handles are valid for humans too
and the disguised robot stays indistinguishable.
Migration 00007 adds game_players.display_name (additive, NOT NULL DEFAULT '');
jet regenerated. Docs (ARCHITECTURE 7, FUNCTIONAL + _ru, PLAN, README) updated.
Quick auto-match no longer waits on a separate screen: Enqueue opens a real game seating the caller with an empty opponent seat (new game status 'open') and the player enters it at once. A second human searching the same variant+rule joins that open game; otherwise a background reaper seats a robot after a 90s + random 0-90s wait, pushing a new in-app opponent_joined event that fills the opponent card and re-enables resign and chat in place.
Matchmaking state is now the open games in the database (the in-memory pool, lobby.poll and lobby.cancel are gone), serialised by a per-bucket advisory lock. While a game is open the starter may move on their turn, but resign, chat and nudge are refused; the lobby and opponent card show "searching for opponent".
Schema edited in the baseline (no prod data): 'open' status, nullable game_players.account_id for the empty seat, and a games.open_deadline_at stamp; jet code regenerated.
Ilia Denisov