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"Perfect Play Means Winning"

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Minimax promises the best outcome achievable against best resistance — and that outcome may be a loss.

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Facing Pebbles' poisoned three, perfect play loses exactly as the arithmetic dictates; perfection there means nothing better existed.

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The reverse error matters more: the minimax move is the best guarantee, not the best exploit of a weak opponent.

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