Actually, I am an avid chess player and I never hear unlearning bad habits discussed. Actually a more common thing for the Masters to say is similiar to Perl's TMTOWTDI... it's something like, "the positional rules are generally good advice, but actually it's the exceptions that are most important."

Personally, I think it's pretty much a law of nature. Not only the organisms with the highest populations survive, and survival techniques that would fail in most places, are ideal in others. I have a hard time seeing how this would fail to be true in all complex systems.
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In reply to Re: (Ovid) Re(3): A question of efficiency by Aighearach
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