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Try it before you knock it -- I bet that if you're the kind of person posting on Less Wrong, if you have someone who explains the rules well, and if you're really spending all your mental energy focusing on figuring the game out, you'll stand a good chance of winning a lot of games on the first go. That's my experience so far.
That said, it might be even more fun playing against other people who are all new.
I strongly agree with this. In general, most people don't work to optimise their strategy, and a newbie who's used to thinking about long-term or meta-strategies is highly likely to win or come very close on their first attempt.
Probably not. People don't enjoy being thrashed and the situation can become socially awkward. Leveling the playing field somewhat by having players with existing competence makes things more challenging and is less likely to provoke people into just having sour grapes and refusing to play that game again.