Claus Reinke wrote:
- the only thing that guarantees termination of random playouts (with or
without dfyoe) is the positional superko rule: no whole-board repetitions
allowed. Waiting for this to kick in without taking other measures is not
an option: it takes too long and the results don't tell us much about the
value of the initial position.
While this may be true, I don't think anyone uses the superko rule in the playouts. It would slow them down too much and there would probably not be much
benefit beyond the theoretical.
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