[Meta] Stronger players win by making fewer blunders, not by gradual outplay

Chess grandmaster Ben Finegold makes an excellent point about how stronger players defeats weaker ones. The idea holds water beyond chess.

It's not (generally) that the stronger player gradually accrues advantage until it becomes overwhelming. Instead, the situation is much more binary: the weaker player does okay right up until they make a blunder for the strong player to exploit. Suddenly, a close game becomes one-sided.

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