Strategy games are unsolvable puzzles: masters approximate with an in-head engine
BraydonDymm · x · 2026-10-31
BraydonDymm's thread argues strategy games are puzzles too hard to solve in practice; mastery means approximating optimal play with an engine in your head. Chess endgames have teachable solutions, but the full game tree exceeds Shannon's 10^120 lower bound, so grandmasters rely on heuristics. Time pressure likewise turns Tetris from calculation into pattern matching — a spectrum of bounded rationality.
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