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2015-12-05

Whenever the board turns into two opposite corners, and I have played in bottom middle and center, Menace stops playing for some reason (aka I get a free move).

Joe
on /blog/19

2015-12-14

@Joe: There may be a mistake in the source code somewhere. I will look into it.

Matthew
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