"Best" Strategies

Abstract

On occasion some of us here have considered the possibility of picking out special strategies, called "best" strategies, which have the special feature that, in addition to being optimum in the usual sense, they take advantage of the mistakes of one's opponent. I show here that such best strategies always exist, in the case of finite games, and I raise some questions regarding the nature of the set of all best strategies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 25, 1950
Accession Number
ADA801497

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  • J. C. Mckinsey

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  • RAND Corporation

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