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.
