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Thursday, October 19, 2006

ANALOGY FOR SHAPING THE BATTLESPACE

Consider that you intend to play a game of chess with another person and you intend to win. Then, in addition to being able to move the pieces, you can change the shape of the board itself before you even sit down to play. And perhaps the other person has never played a game of chess before, so you rewrite some of the rules of the game. Then you play a game.

That's shaping the battlespace.

¶ 9:45 AM

Comments:

Good discussion in these posts - very helpful for someone from outside the US. Thanks.

# posted by

Matt : Thursday, 19 October, 2006

You're welcome, Matt. Thanks for stopping by !

# posted by

mark : Thursday, 19 October, 2006

Now consider that your opponent is actually many opponents using your apparent opponent as a proxy; who, while remaining invisible, imports rule sets from other games they know better than you and use the board in ways you never imagined. That's a battle space shaped by 5GW.

# posted by

Anonymous : Thursday, 19 October, 2006

Yes, that would be a potential trendline when the concept is distributed

# posted by

mark : Friday, 20 October, 2006

or alternatively it's the same good old game of chess and your are playing your spouse and she whoops your a$$ again.

Barnabus

# posted by

Anonymous : Friday, 20 October, 2006

To build on RevG, a 5GW, chess effectors could also infiltrate the schools and universities and game clubs to discourage good chess learning, or alternatively promote go, bridge or sheepshead instead of chess. When it comes time to play chess for real, nobody is any good, or they don’t want to play at all.

# posted by

Anonymous : Sunday, 22 October, 2006

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