Experimental Results by McRandom Executor: Ingo Althoefer, March 2010 Self-play Results of Pure Monte-Carlo for Pass-Step-Race-6 Pairing Number Score of MC(k) MC(k)-MC(2k) of games 1-2 100,000 39.3 % 2-4 100,000 38.2 % 3-6 100,000 37.4 % 4-8 100,000 37.4 % 5-10 100,000 37.0 % 6-12 999,999 36.9 % 7-14 999,999 36.7 % <--- 8-16 999,999 36.8 % 9-18 200,000 36.9 % 10-20 999,999 37.0 % 11-22 100,000 37.2 % 12-24 100,000 37.5 % 13-26 100,000 37.6 % 14-28 100,000 38.0 % Bottom of basin at or near to 7-14.