In the real world, the effect might be moderated because people who are healthy enough to do damage (this doesn’t need to be very healthy) aren’t likely to know when they’re going to die.
Perhaps; but few people seriously believe that they’re going to live to be 150 years old; and as long as there is /some/ maximum length to a PD tourney, the reasoning from the last-possible-move would still seem to apply.
In the real world, the effect might be moderated because people who are healthy enough to do damage (this doesn’t need to be very healthy) aren’t likely to know when they’re going to die.
Perhaps; but few people seriously believe that they’re going to live to be 150 years old; and as long as there is /some/ maximum length to a PD tourney, the reasoning from the last-possible-move would still seem to apply.