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>where you can only affect your probabilities of win or loss so much through tile selection and counterplay.
But that's not true at all, since you can try to go for bigger wins for yourself and bigger losses for your opponents, too, through those tiles and tile combinations that give bonus points. And you can try to hit certain players alone through the discards, or try to share the point loss, or minimize the point loss for someone. Of course, you need to have skill to guess what the hands of the other players are.