> 01010101010101010101010101010101 > 00000000000000001111111111111111 > 11111111111111110000000000000000
IMHO they are exactly the same and should be as such. At the start of every simulation (before a 0 or 1 is reported) , the situation is (should be) exactly the same. So there is no difference with flipping a coin repeatedly. If it occurs more often than expected by coincidence, there is som hidden state in the playout board code (such as a over- active result hash/cacheing, or heuristics with memory) YMMV, AvK _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/