Experimental Results by McRandom Executor: Ingo Althoefer, March 2010 Self-play Results of Pure Monte-Carlo for Double-Step-Race-18 Pairing Number Score of MC(k) MC(k) vs. MC(2k) of games 1-2 100,000 39.9 % 2-4 100,000 37.8 % 3-6 100,000 37.2 % 10-20 100,000 35.1 % 11-22 100,000 34.8 % 12-24 100,000 34.7 % 13-26 100,000 34.6 % 14-28 100,000 34.6 % 15-30 100,000 34.6 % 16-32 100,000 34.9 % 18-36 100,000 34.9 % 30-60 100,000 38.2 % Bottom of basin at or near to 14-28.