es to improve tournament strength. Again, most failed, but a few had worthwhile results. Foremost among these is SBLE-PUCT, which has additional benefits beyond those detailed in <a href="#search">Search</a> during tournament play when parallelism is high. With a large number of search tree nodes being evaluated per second (NPS), AZ-PUCT can grow too stubborn for two reasons. The first is that it places immense trust in its trained policy and may never explore certain tactical lines far enough to discover v