sim_distill

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Distill exact search into the play scorer: fit rate multipliers for named transition groups so play's rankings agree with exact minimax, on positions sampled by random self-play and labeled by search. This is TACTICAL calibration — the counterpart of sim_calibrate, which learns rates from an event log. The division of labor is deliberate (petri-pilot experiments/ode-minimax): structure carries the tactic, and no fitting of an unmodified net's rates can express what its final state cannot separate — declare the structural prior as transitions in the model (e.g. forced-reply copies of the plays, catalyzed by the opponent's pattern) and distill the magnitudes it introduced. Zero agreement improvement is a finding about the structure, not a failed fit. Read agreementBefore/agreementAfter, not the loss: the hinge loss can overstate failure while every argmax is right.