> Not quite as complex as Go, but there are still 4,531,985,219,092 game positions in total, so not trivial for a laptop to learn how to play well with zero hum

> Not quite as complex as Go, but there are still 4,531,985,219,092 game positions in total, so not trivial for a laptop to learn how to play well with zero human input. That's a small enough state space that it is indeed trivial to brute force it on a laptop. Putting aside that though, it would be interesting to compare vs a standard alpha-beta pruning minimax algorithm running at various depth levels.