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Von Neumann's 1928 Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele proved that a two-person zero-sum game has a saddle point: a pair of strategies where one player's smallest guaranteed gain equals the other's smallest guaranteed loss, so neither can do better by changing alone. At such a point the payoff function is a lowest value along one player's choices and a highest value along the other's, the shape that gives the point its name. The referent is an equilibrium of an abstract payoff function, proven and computed, not a dip in the ground or a joint in the hand.[1]
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