Experimental Results by McRandom Executor: Ingo Althoefer, March 2010 Self-play Results of Pure Monte-Carlo for Pass-Step-Race-5 Pairing Number Score of MC(k) MC(k)-MC(2k) of games 1-2 100,000 39.3 % 2-4 100,000 38.8 % 3-6 100,000 38.5 % 4-8 100,000 38.4 % 5-10 100,000 38.4 % <--- 6-12 100,000 38.4 % 7-14 100,000 38.5 % 8-16 100,000 38.8 % 9-18 100,000 38.9 % Bottom of basin around 5-10.