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Chess, Cheating, Psychology, Analogy

Posted By: AdamStocks
Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2014, at 7:29 p.m.

In Response To: Chess, Cheating, Psychology, Analogy (Jeremy Bagai)

I think the author meant to imply that an even game garners more 'effort' to save making errors, because players would weigh (relatively) the size of a potential error against the net score (zero, on a knife edge) and perceive it to be more serious ('infinitely' bad, so to speak) than it would be against a net score of +/-0.5 (only 'finitely' bad, so to speak).

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• Chess, Cheating, Psychology, Analogy
  Jeremy Bagai -- Tuesday, 17 June 2014, at 7:06 p.m.
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    AdamStocks -- Tuesday, 17 June 2014, at 7:29 p.m.
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      Jeremy Bagai -- Tuesday, 17 June 2014, at 8:39 p.m.
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      Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 17 June 2014, at 9:17 p.m.
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        Steve Mellen -- Wednesday, 18 June 2014, at 2:23 a.m.
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          AdamStocks -- Wednesday, 18 June 2014, at 2:42 a.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 17 June 2014, at 10:43 p.m.
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      AdamStocks -- Wednesday, 18 June 2014, at 2:36 a.m.
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        Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 18 June 2014, at 3:33 a.m.
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          Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 18 June 2014, at 3:48 a.m.
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          Havard Raddum -- Wednesday, 18 June 2014, at 7:30 a.m.
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            Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 18 June 2014, at 1:28 p.m.
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