Just jotting something down before I forget it.
In some games like Foosball you need a repertoire of attack moves and passes which you can pull out at will. Whenever you play against an unknown opponent you have to pull out the moves one by one to probe their defenses, seeing how adaptable they are and whether they are set in a particular pattern of defense which makes them vulnerable or resistant to certain attacks. Previously I was an advocate of just taking your "best" move and repeatedly using it against the opponent.
Most people look at games as an interaction with the game environment, as a problem to be solved : for example in chess, they might go only so far as looking at the pieces on the board and see it as a problem to be solved, how shall I destroy this formation and this defense. In foosball they might go, oh, this man and this man is blocking these areas and how shall I get past that, but really the CORRECT way to think about it is to go beyond that and directly interact with the intelligence behind the game environment, knowing that the actions of the opponent are not factors you merely react to, but something that you can predict and eventually influence.
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