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So a battleship would've been able to pick off opponents at ease while they struggled to cause any damage.

And you'll argue a minute point to death until your opponent concedes defeat meanwhile the larger issue has gotten lost many turns of the screw back.

So the robot is effectively playing rock every time and then changing his play to beat his opponent, which is pretty blatant cheating.

If a protoss player builds a pylon in their opponent's mineral line with great timing, they can trap their opponent's workers between the minerals and the pylon.

Congratulations, you have turned a sizable part of the silent majority into an opponent.

I think this is for the same reason that all minimax algos assume optimal play by the opponent: if you assume optimal and they play less than so, it can only work in your favor.

Reading more about this match and Magnus in general, I learned of a measure termed "Nettlesomeness" which has been used to measure which players do the most to make their opponents to make mistakes.

Leveraging the political sensitivity of this important issue to attack an opponent is pretty low.

I know that I -- a committed Democrat -- will cheerfully send money to any opponent in a primary and even an odious Republican in a general election running against her.