Status Updates From The Doomed City

The Great Strategist had become great precisely because he had realized [...] that it is not the one who knows how to play according to all the rules who wins; the one who wins is the one who is able to abandon all rules [...] to impose his own rules[...] and [...] abandon them too [...] sometimes it can be far more useful to leave it as a pawn-let it stand on the edge of the abyss as an ex. to the other pawns (p.138