[Nimitz14]

I don't think you understood his point. A player doesn't need to have seen a strategy before to react correctly to it. Sometimes a player will pull something completely unexpected out of a hat and lose, because the other guy reacted correctly thanks to his game experience. If you watch any high GM player stream half the time his reaction to what his (worse) opponent is doing is "WTF is this?" as he then proceeds to crush it. Alphastar cannot do that.

[jplayer01]

I do understand his point. There are just as many examples of people being so overwhelmed by the new strategy that they don't know how to respond to it and lose. And then learn how to deal with it in later matches. Also, downvoting me for disagreeing is a dick move.

[TaupeRanger]

And yet, in Go, the AI adapted to any "weird strategy" and won regardless. The fact that AlphaStar can't is an obvious weakness.

[empath75]

I would say it’s a weakness but I think it’s shared by most players. A ‘weird’ go strategy isn’t going to involve new kinds of pieces on the board or someone developing a win condition at a place on the board you can’t see.

You can lose a Starcraft game easily if someone is doing something novel and you don’t happen to scout the right place on the board soon enough.