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MAX and MIN

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State

In a zero-sum game one number scores the whole outcome: one player — MAX — tries to raise it, and the other — MIN — tries to lower it.

Show

A win worth plus one for the first player is worth minus one to the second; their interests are exact opposites.

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The names label roles, not people — whoever moves at a fork controls that fork's choice.