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An AI beat Stratego's most decorated player 15 to 1 with 4 draws, and the paper backs it. The "few thousand dollars" is the final training run, not the whole project.

Ars Technica (Oct 1, 2026), reporting the Ataraxos team's paper. Recorded 3 October 2026. Our ruling means: we tried to break it and could not.

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