Re: Have you ever seen anything like this?

[Philippe Michel]

On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 05:31:02PM -0600, Murat K wrote:

> [...] Could this
> kind of bizarre games have been happening in rollouts for all those
> years without anyone noticing? And if so, what would the implication
> of that would be??

I suppose they do happen, but very rarely. With the cube in play they 
will often be stopped at some point by a double/pass and in the case of 
a cubeless game the result is always between -3 and +3 points, in one 
trial among many.

A rollout of a position like the one you shown would probably be suspect 
since every game would start with wild, poorly evaluated positions, but 
a rollout starting from a relatively normal position should be fine even 
if one or a few trials are unusually long.