EXPERIMENT 7:

This is not really a cube strategy experiment but was done to better isolate the
value of cube ownership at the very beginning of the game.

In this experiment, the cube value is set to 2 owned by the bot as soon as can be
done and the bot auto-plays the rest of the game at 2-ply.

After 20,000 cubeful games, bot won 40,610 (54.92%) and mutant won 33,338
(45.08%) points, resulting in 7,272 less points, i.e. -0.3636 ppg, for the mutant.

Results for number of games were very similarly 10,939 (54.70%) won by the bot
and 9,061 (45.31%) won by the mutant, (with a 9.38% difference).

I didn't quite know what to expect from this experiment but I sure wouldn't have
guessed that it would be this significant. I hope I will be able to verify my results
against others in gamblegammon forums, to make sure it's not a bug in my script.

You may download the related files, especially the game and session logs, if you
want to tabulate more detailed stats in order to do more extensive analyses.