Not to belittle your results, but for the better balance: please note that ones born in the center or separated died first, and born in the corners survivide till the end. I do not think Orange could be really pretending for the win at any moment, and do not think taking lower left corner was kind of mistake. Killing Yellow and trying to connect the weakest group would just bring a lot of another problems - and would make blues leadership even bigger.
I think initial position should be rebalanced, e.g. we can place 5 stones randomly and let players choose which 3 to keep.
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