[Xurinos]

I cannot help but think that these examples share a different commonality -- that they are war simulations where the winners in these examples were the ones who did not overextend and instead fortified or played a better numbers game. This is not marginal advantage; it is fortification and resource consolidation. I forget the word for it... where you are trying to reduce your opponent's resources before yours... but that resource management skill is what makes good players good. Viewed that way, what is really going on is much less mystical.

[smallblacksun]

Yeah. His examples didn't really show anything other than that experienced players make fewer mistakes.

[carbocation]

The word is attrition, by the way.

[Xurinos]

That's it! War of attrition. Point for you.