The idea is that by staying in base you don't die, while your opponent (which is still pretty bad) roams around and dies. This highlights the importance of gra

The idea is that by staying in base you don't die, while your opponent (which is still pretty bad) roams around and dies. This highlights the importance of gradual adversarial training: if the opponent was perfect, there would simply be no way to win, and hence no signal on how to gradually improve to eventually find the optimal strategy. Also shows a weakness in most training algorithms today that don't have, for example, the capability to watch their opponent closely and try to mimic it's actions in case he's better than you. Humans do this so quickly you can see Dendi already tried replicating the AI's strategy after 1 loss.