Taking advantage of scenario knowledge

[K K Rossokolski]

Short answer Pat..NO
First point...there is a finite, not huge, number of scenarios......now probably a lot less than before as I understand many of the old Talonsoft scens cannot be played on newer OS. I for example can open the map, org and scn files of my Talonsoft disks, but I get an error message when I try to actually play a scen on my XP.
This means that many experienced Blitzers have prior experience of a given scn, especially the "balanced" ones. Unavoidable. But, sometime in the next 2-300 years, Guberman and I will have played them all. Think of the prior knowledge we will build up!!
Second....sounds like a good excuse to avoid a beating. Study of the map might well suggest likely reinforcement routes. Along the valley road rather than through the mountain swamp usually makes sense to me, and if I'm wrong I pay the price in ladder points.
Third...I think a majority of our scens are historically based, therefore knowledge of reinf routes is in the public domain. Should we only play hypotheticals?
Fourth...Chess, which has, I believe, less than 100 possible openings, has the total of legal positions estimated to be up to 10 to the 50th power. And that is starting with 32 pieces on a 64 square board! How many in a division size game, 100x100 map, 35 turns?

I think this bloke was what down our way we call a 'whinger'. Someone in a losing situation trying to avoid it by seeking sympathy. Try it in our Navy...you might get offered a miniature throwaway violin, perhaps with the suggestion you throw it over the side without remembering to let go, or you might get lucky, ask a nice, kind man like me for sympathy, and be gently advised in a pleasant, kindly way where to find it............

In the dictionary, between sh*t and syphilis!