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Personally, I think that, while playing a game, evaluating past positions with a computer gives you a huge advantage. Being suggested a move always means asking "why", and often leads to a change of strategic objectives that often have impact in the endgame, much later. Often Zebra suggests a certain move several times during a game played on the board, and if players knew that would certainly have changed their point of view. Even looking only at past opponent's moves, IMHO, gives a lot of hints on how to play. When playing on IYT I discussed a lot if it can be considered "cheating" just evaluating with a -passive- board instead of pure brain thinking on the position!
I never played this variation, but I feel that it would be much too strategic. The presence of the edged some how perturbates strategy with tactic elements. Even reversi 10x10 has got IMHO a too long midgame due to the long time needed to reach edges and corners' perturbation and, hence, the endgame...
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