yup, the game’s a draw. any even-sized board can be drawn trivially by either player. Either player can mirror the other player’s moves or make any other move if they can’t. Changing the board size to 9x9 should fix this since there’s an extra spot in the middle. It gives an advantage to player 1 since they get an extra turn, but the advantage is lost in round 2 where the other player goes first, and whoever gets the most points in total across both rounds wins.
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