Life In 19x19

Well, that's what I addressed in the last point. Collect samples, have the bot play them out, compare actual results with the estimates.

By now it is well understood that the winrates calculated by today's top bots are not actually win rates of anything known. For instance, if at a certain point in a game White is said to have a winrate of 60%, that does not mean that if we play out the game 10,000 times under certain known ...

Thanks for the link. Takemiya - Cho game is in now, and while the result is not a surprise, the game is quite interesting. I would love to see pro commentary on that. Where did white go wrong? I simply have no idea, all the moves look very natural.

Does anyone know the exact schedule for these games? Are whether they can be watched live somewhere?

I'm going to have to think about the first one one. Part of the main fun in mafia, I find, is the discussion about who is to be lynched (/which move is to be played). I am willing to use this if there is support, although I would still prefer if the mafia got to discuss, instead of taking turns ...

Would you consider alternating turns, rengo-style, for both teams? I'm sure it would make the game a lot faster and less tedious. Players will actually get to play moves rather than voting for everything.

It allows some sharp sacrificial tactics by black (play suicide move on white turn, get voted ...