Post originally by Shannon Appelcline at 2004-08-11 11:29:49
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<i>If you do understand the deeper strategy, the gameplay is so complicated and hard to predict that your chances of winning are essentially random among those players who know what they are doing. </i>

From my plays of the game, I don't believe that.

It implies that strategy is a simple monotonic affair: you either know it or don't. I haven't seen any evidence of that in the game, and would expect that players can play at lots of different levels of expertise, just like most other games in the world.

Shannon