It was my attempt to rephrase the "massive difference" posts by WalterL and TheAncientGreek, above
Then or was completely wrong. I was drawing a distinction between he kind of outlook you might have if you know you are in a winning position, and the kind you might take if you don't know what position you are going to be in,
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