analysis. Your opponent will not allow you to win. So strategy draws the situation into your favor by deceiving your opponent into thinking he can win where he cannot. You give him an apparently favorable situation when, in fact, you have set a trap to defeat him.
Deception has many aspects. It can be small scale or large scale. It can be obvious or unseen. Sometimes the most obvious deception is the best. Imagine an opponent who rushes into the fight without any apparent plan or apprehension. He appears to be nothing but a wild bull on a rampage. Immediately you think, What a fool, I can effortlessly defeat him. He has no skill or strategy. I can outsmart him easily.
But maybe you have already fallen victim to his strategy. Perhaps making you think that he has no strategy is his strategy. While you plot how to defeat him, he will overwhelm and immobilize you. His strategy is to make you overconfident. While you are thinking, he is fighting.
This is the ultimate strategy; one that is not apparent until the fight is over.
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