I like your professor’s analogy…and your comment is actually really funny timing because that makes it the fourth time this week I’ve been told not to think so much. XD

As for the perfect logic of vingativas, etc. though, I actually didn’t mean at all the player’s own mental logic in the game. The idea I was trying to get across was that once they *did* the vingativa or tesouro, and successfully, to me it would’ve been executed so well that it seemed like that would’ve been the only “logical” response, as if it couldn’t have been any other way (like what you said actually, a natural response!). Obviously it could’ve been tons of other ways, but I meant that was just the impression I got when seeing moves like that demonstrated elegantly and well. They just…fit, into the sequence, right into the opening the other player gave. I hope that’s a bit clearer!

reading about the “perfect logic”.. i have to point out that these attempts to do vingativas and tesouras are sometimes just natural responses.. but when someone starts a game out consciously thinking “i’m going to do a vingativa in this game”, most of the time it comes out wrong,.. unnatural and out of this “perfect logic” you speak of..

this leaves the game lacking flow.. very un-zen..

my professor always described it as a “monkey-mind”.. grabbing from branch to branch.. from thought to thought.. when you should just let go..