Nice job on the AI! I can still do much better much quicker by hand using the left-down-right-down-left-... strategy. Obviously an alpha-beta search should be

Nice job on the AI! I can still do much better much quicker by hand using the left-down-right-down-left-... strategy. Obviously an alpha-beta search should be able to do better than that naive strategy, but it needs a little more domain knowledge.