Harold Buck wrote:
"RPM1" wrote:
I highly doubt that player A will agree to take a dive with the
understanding
that someone else will allow player A to win later.

Then you don't understand probability and the phrase "the long run."

A chess tournament isn't `the long run'. It's not much more than ten
games and many are shorter.


Dave.

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