> While many players do lie in the game, the best players do so very infrequently because it destroys the trust they’ve built with other players… Just to be cl

> While many players do lie in the game, the best players do so very infrequently because it destroys the trust they’ve built with other players… Just to be clear, “lie” here means “outright lie”. From your linked article: > I asked Goff about any major falsehoods or betrayals that helped him in his victories. He paused to think, then said in his soft-spoken way: “Well, there may have been a few deceptive omissions on my part but, no, I didn’t tell a single outright lie the entire tournament.” I think the average person would still consider a “deceptive omission” to be a “lie”.