Thirty-Six Stratagems
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CORE DEFINITION
A collection of 36 strategic stratagems from ancient Chinese military science, divided into six sets: - Winning Stratagems, Enemy Dealing Stratagems, Attacking Stratagems, Chaos Stratagems, Combined Stratagems, and Defeat Stratagems. Examples include: Crossing the Sea by Deceiving the Sky, Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao, Kill with a Borrowed Knife, Wait at Ease for the Exhausted Enemy, Make a Feint to the East while Attacking in the West, and Retreat is the Best Option.
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A library of strategic thinking patterns. Each stratagem is an abstraction of a strategy pattern for a specific situation. When facing a game situation, one can retrieve and match the appropriate strategy pattern rather than thinking from scratch.
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Summarizes military strategies into thirty-six categories (six sets: Winning, Enemy Dealing, Attacking, Chaos, Combined, and Defeat), providing a situational strategy menu.
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