ahahah, now i know why you hid the bigger fields. The ai has no clue what its doing some times xD
On the second screen i matched every ai move and it proceeded to destroy me for 80 moves. For a moment i thought maybe its the famous "dev took over the game" moment, but the it switched from snowballing to attack and it all fell as i was able to snowball myself. The dynamoc is very weird. Its hard to lose the initiative, but once you lose it, you're done as threats always need to be responded to. The hexagonal tic-tak-toe video taked about it. You can be responding to threats untill you have enough pieces on the inside to start sending threats of your own. The tactic does not have room for dynamic responses.