army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 March 2012 03:39:51PM *  1 point [-]

the opponents take turns in making mistakes

This is true if you only count as mistakes moves which turn a winning position into a losing position, as gRR said elsethread. (I think I picked up this meaning from Chessmaster 10's automatic analyses, and was implicitly assuming it when reading the Tartakower quote.)