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Quotes about strategy

The point remains: the criticism by strategy-purists of games that involve some degree of chance is not wholly valid, not only because random tests can improve other aspects of the game, such as fidelity of simulation, but also because if chance is used sufficiently frequently, and with sufficient care, strategic elements will still dominate outcomes. Thus, strategy and not luck will remain the most important factor in play.

– Greg Costikyan
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Strategy, tactics and actions should be derived from players’ goals and enable them to focus on how they operate within the system to win, not the restrictions defined by the rules. When players must, or are forced to, focus on the logic and structure of the rules they can lose interest in a game regardless of its other merits.

– Russ Williams
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

– Winston Churchill
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Games in which all players pursue the same strategy result in a win by the player who makes the fewest mistakes—or, if none, by the player who has the player-order advantage. This is dull.

– Greg Costikyan
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Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

– Max Euwe
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