Strategic move¶
A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff.
Core Idea¶
Strategic move is treated here as the recurring crossdomainmodelsstructuresrepresentations identity summarized by this source-grounded definition: A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff. A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff. Strategic moves can either be unconditional moves or response rules.
Scope of Application¶
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Documented setting. A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff.
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Documented setting. Warnings and assurances are merely statements of a player's interest, rather than an actual commitment from the player.
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Documented setting. The term was coined by Thomas Schelling in his 1960 book, The Strategy of Conflict, and has gained wide currency in political science and industrial organization.
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Documented setting. Strategic moves can either be unconditional moves or response rules.
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Documented setting. The key characteristics of a strategic move are that it involves a commitment from the player, meaning the player can only restrict their own choices and that the commitment has to.
Clarity¶
A clear use of Strategic move names the carrier, the operative relation, and the conditions under which the source treats the identity as present. The minimal definition is A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff.
Manages Complexity¶
Strategic move compresses multiple crossdomainmodelsstructuresrepresentations details into a stable diagnostic relation. The source shows both the central mechanism—the term was coined by Thomas Schelling in his 1960 book, The Strategy of Conflict, and has gained wide currency in political science and industrial organization.—and the practical consequence—strategic moves can either be unconditional moves or response rules.
Abstract Reasoning¶
- Type the carrier. Identify the crossdomainmodelsstructuresrepresentations entities to which the claim applies.
- State the relation. Use the source-grounded identity: A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff.
- Check operation and conditions. The key characteristics of a strategic move are that it involves a commitment from the player, meaning the player can only restrict their own choices and that the commitment has to.
Knowledge Transfer¶
Within the home domain. Knowledge about Strategic move transfers literally when a new case preserves the same carrier type, relation, and recognition test. A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff. Warnings and assurances are merely statements of a player's interest, rather than an actual commitment from the player. Beyond the home domain. No canonical parent is asserted for Strategic move.
Neighborhood in Abstraction Space¶
Strategic move sits in a moderately populated region (47th percentile for distinctiveness): it has near-neighbors but no dense thicket of look-alikes.
Family — Political & Strategic Game Models (11 abstractions)
Nearest neighbors
- Bayes Correlated Equilibrium — 0.90
- Prisoner's dilemma — 0.89
- Peace war game — 0.86
- Exploratory thought — 0.86
- Computability logic — 0.86
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