[somenameforme]

Interesting! I just played it again and can definitely see what you mean. But it keeps running into the same issue. It ends up giving itself lost positions early on which it's not really capable of defending. I was about to ask why you didn't go the other way (strong at first then gradually handicapping) but on the other hand I've never had anywhere near this much fun playing a bot, and maybe this is part of the reason why?

Well another obvious factor is that it plays in an extremely human-like fashion. I'm a relatively strong player and have been the reason for plenty of (C) labels but I would never, in a million years, think I was playing a bot here. Anyhow, awesome job.