Tenek comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 17, chapter 86 - Less Wrong
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He admits freely that Moody would have kicked his ass in a real fight, so I'm not sure how much actual superiority was established there.
He gets the mechanism wrong though. In a real fight, Moody kills him or at the very least takes his toys away if he's needed alive. There wouldn't be any time-turned copies of him in the first place.
Stable time loops are sort of a problem for what-if scenarios - it's sufficiently hard to make up one, coming up with alternates isn't always possible.