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09 Nov 2023, 04:23
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Aggressive, traditional: Your opponent understands both the traditional and nontraditional openings, but you have more experience with Game X
Defensive, nontraditional: Your opponent has more experience with Game X but understands only the traditional openings.
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Strategy guide for Game X: In the board game Game X, the traditional openings—strategic sequences of moves at the beginning of games—are most advantageous against opponents who understand both the traditional and the nontraditional openings, and also against those who do not understand any of the openings very well. However, nontraditional openings are most advantageous against opponents who understand only the traditional openings. Aggressive openings, whether traditional or nontraditional, generally favor a player who uses them against an opponent less experienced with Game X, whereas defensive openings, whether traditional or nontraditional, tend to reduce an opponent's advantage when used by a player less experienced with Game X.
Select for Aggressive, traditional the scenario in which the information above most strongly suggests that an aggressive, traditional opening would be most advantageous for you to use, and select for Defensive, nontraditional the scenario in which the above information most strongly suggests that a defensive, nontraditional opening would be most advantageous for you to use. Make only two selections, one in each column.
Select for Aggressive, traditional the scenario in which the information above most strongly suggests that an aggressive, traditional opening would be most advantageous for you to use, and select for Defensive, nontraditional the scenario in which the above information most strongly suggests that a defensive, nontraditional opening would be most advantageous for you to use. Make only two selections, one in each column.
| Aggressive, traditional | Defensive, nontraditional | |
| You and your opponent understand the same openings for Game X. | ||
| Your opponent has more experience with Game X but understands only the traditional openings. | ||
| Your opponent understands both the traditional and nontraditional openings, but you have more experience with Game X | ||
| You and your opponent have the same amount of experience with Game X. | ||
| Your opponent understands both the traditional and nontraditional openings, and has more experience with Game X. |
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Aggressive, traditional: Your opponent understands both the traditional and nontraditional openings, but you have more experience with Game X
Defensive, nontraditional: Your opponent has more experience with Game X but understands only the traditional openings.
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04 Aug 2024, 12:30
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This question was very difficult for me because I got bogged down by the details upon my initial reading. I thought writing a chart about the different kinds of openings would help, but here is how I approached the question again.
Go straight to the question below the scenario. We're looking for what would be opening would most advantageous for us-- whether it be aggressive traditional or defensive nontraditional.
Aggressive Traditional
Scanning the scenario, it says 'Aggressive openings, whether traditional or nontraditional, generally favor a player who uses them against an opponent less experienced with Game X'. All of the choices but one have the opponent as either the same experience level or more experience with game X. Eliminate those and the reminaing choice is 'Your opponent understands both the traditional and nontraditional openings, but you have more experience with Game X'.
Defensive Nontraditional
In the last sentence it says 'defensive openings, whether traditional or nontraditional, tend to reduce an opponent's advantage when used by a player less experienced with Game X'. So we want a choice that puts us either at the same level or at a lower level than our opponent. All 4 choices but the one we chose above remain.
Next we'll look to eliminate based on the 'Nontraditional' part. In the scenario, it says 'nontraditional openings are most advantageous against opponents who understand only the traditional openings'. Only one supports this line-- 'Your opponent has more experience with Game X but understands only the traditional openings.'
Go straight to the question below the scenario. We're looking for what would be opening would most advantageous for us-- whether it be aggressive traditional or defensive nontraditional.
Aggressive Traditional
Scanning the scenario, it says 'Aggressive openings, whether traditional or nontraditional, generally favor a player who uses them against an opponent less experienced with Game X'. All of the choices but one have the opponent as either the same experience level or more experience with game X. Eliminate those and the reminaing choice is 'Your opponent understands both the traditional and nontraditional openings, but you have more experience with Game X'.
Defensive Nontraditional
In the last sentence it says 'defensive openings, whether traditional or nontraditional, tend to reduce an opponent's advantage when used by a player less experienced with Game X'. So we want a choice that puts us either at the same level or at a lower level than our opponent. All 4 choices but the one we chose above remain.
Next we'll look to eliminate based on the 'Nontraditional' part. In the scenario, it says 'nontraditional openings are most advantageous against opponents who understand only the traditional openings'. Only one supports this line-- 'Your opponent has more experience with Game X but understands only the traditional openings.'
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12 Nov 2023, 20:42
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I'm having a hard time understanding why the answer for Defensive Non-Traditional is "Your opponent has more experience with Game X but understand only the traditional openings" instead of "Your opponent understands both the traditional and Non-Traditional openings, and has more experience with Game X"
My logic says that defensive openings are for people that are less experienced than the opponent, which is what both arguments state, but can't find why we are opting for option b.
My logic says that defensive openings are for people that are less experienced than the opponent, which is what both arguments state, but can't find why we are opting for option b.
