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<blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 3162346" data-attributes="member: 424">Yes but not for the reasons stated.&nbsp; Any sport or game favors those who are intimately familiar with the rules and tropes of that game and new players or dabblers are at a disadvantage because of unfamiliarity.Take Magic the Gathering.&nbsp; I can give a tournament level deck that wins most of the time to a new player and even after some familiarity with the rules (the new player), I can win against that player most of the time when I am playing a inferior deck that I just cogged together.&nbsp; It is not about the random luck of the card draws.&nbsp; It is about the level of knowledge about the rules and the decision making dependencies based on that level of knowledge.So, no....randomness isn't the issue.&nbsp; It is the knowledge base of the player in question.&nbsp; An 'expert' can play in such a way to minimize the impact of random outcomes while a person without that breadth of knowledge is at the mercy of such random outcomes</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BlackMoria, post: 3162346, member: 424"] Yes but not for the reasons stated. Any sport or game favors those who are intimately familiar with the rules and tropes of that game and new players or dabblers are at a disadvantage because of unfamiliarity. Take Magic the Gathering. I can give a tournament level deck that wins most of the time to a new player and even after some familiarity with the rules (the new player), I can win against that player most of the time when I am playing a inferior deck that I just cogged together. It is not about the random luck of the card draws. It is about the level of knowledge about the rules and the decision making dependencies based on that level of knowledge. So, no....randomness isn't the issue. It is the knowledge base of the player in question. An 'expert' can play in such a way to minimize the impact of random outcomes while a person without that breadth of knowledge is at the mercy of such random outcomes [/QUOTE]

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