From: Phillip E. Pournelle <pepourne@n...>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:28:32 -0500
Subject: Games to plan ahead by.
The best players in Vector based games do plan ahead and are quite flexible within the game setting. The best player I ever saw was quite able to set up, adjust courses and speed and dance outside his opponent's effective ranges and firing arcs and cut them down. Watching him play was like watching a murderous ballet... Barishnakof with a knife... He didn't have a college degree (not neccessarily an indication of intelligence), but was quite able to plan ahead and adjust to his opponent's strategies. To those collectible card players out there, I apologize. Actually I probably did lose in the few collectable card games I have played, because I didn't know how to plan ahead in them. But I will follow Jon's advice in regards to players who cannot plan ahead... and not play with them, the whining when they lose spoils the game... Phil