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Abstract and Intro

Related Works

Methods

Results

Discussion and Conclusions and Acknowledgements

Additional Information and Declarations and References

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The author declares that there are no competing interests.

Hiroki Takizawa conceived and designed the research, implemented and performed the computational experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and tables, authored drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The source code of modified Edax is available at GitHub (https://github.com/eukaryo/edax-reversi-AVX-v446mod2), and Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10030906).

The raw outputs of analyses are available at figshare (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24420619).

The source code for analyses are available at GitHub (https://github.com/eukaryo/reversi-scripts).

Funding

The author did not receive any academic funding for this study.

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