Re: the Kh1 thing, one interesting thing that I noticed was that I suggested Kh1, and it immediately went over very poorly, with both other advisors and player A all saying it seemed like a terrible move to them. But I didn’t really feel like I could back down from it, in the absence of a specific tactical refutation—an actual honest advisor wouldn’t be convinced by the two dishonest advisors saying their move was terrible, nor would they put much weight on player A’s judgment. So I stuck to my guns on it, and eventually it became kind of a meme.
I don’t think it made a huge difference, since I think player A already had almost no trust in me by that point. But it’s sort of an interesting phenomenon where as a dishonest player, you can’t ever really back down from a suggested bad move that’s only bad on positional grounds. What kind of honest advisor would be “convinceable” by players they know to be dishonest?
An honest advisor might say “I still think my recommendation was good, but if you’re not willing to do that, then X would be an acceptable alternative.”
(I was one of the two dishonest advisors)
Re: the Kh1 thing, one interesting thing that I noticed was that I suggested Kh1, and it immediately went over very poorly, with both other advisors and player A all saying it seemed like a terrible move to them. But I didn’t really feel like I could back down from it, in the absence of a specific tactical refutation—an actual honest advisor wouldn’t be convinced by the two dishonest advisors saying their move was terrible, nor would they put much weight on player A’s judgment. So I stuck to my guns on it, and eventually it became kind of a meme.
I don’t think it made a huge difference, since I think player A already had almost no trust in me by that point. But it’s sort of an interesting phenomenon where as a dishonest player, you can’t ever really back down from a suggested bad move that’s only bad on positional grounds. What kind of honest advisor would be “convinceable” by players they know to be dishonest?
An honest advisor might say “I still think my recommendation was good, but if you’re not willing to do that, then X would be an acceptable alternative.”