EXPERIMENT 8:

This is not really a cube strategy experiment but was done to check whether the
value of cube ownership results of the previous experiment were accurate.

In this experiment, the cube value is set to 2 this time owned by the mutant as
soon as can be done and the bot auto-plays the rest of the game at 2-ply. Since
I had the scripts, I didn't mind running it and the results are almost exactly the
previous one.

After 20,000 cubeful games, bot won 33,058 (44.73%) and mutant won 40,848
(55.27%) points, resulting in 7,7790 more points, i.e. 0.3538 ppg, for the mutant.

Results for number of games were very similarly 9,074 (45.37%) won by the bot
and 10,926 (54.63%) won by the mutant, (with a 8.93% difference).

Apparently the value of starting the game while owning the cube is significant.
I have no idea how useful it is to know this in relation to other positions in the
game but hopefully readers can derive something meaningful from it.

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.