Eric's final layer on the torus lesson: humans see center tiles and aim there, so the center-perceived seat pays an attention tax — and a strong player arbitrages the gap between how the board looks and how it routes. The bots, running true-graph BFS, have neither the bias nor the ability to exploit it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015RCWSTnb1KYTPyL4GmhGnF