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Sun Tzu's five rules for recognizing situations of that are races without a course..
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This article explains how to recognize the challenge in an open situations of finding the best way to utilize a given opportunity. The open situation puts us in a contest where the best methods for winning the contest are uncertain because they depend upon the as-yet-unknown potential of the ground. We are forced to choose among alternative routes with clear probability of choosing the wrong such path.