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*** Which is to say Thrawn figured out the real target was Bilbringi and planned accordingly. But he ''wasn't'' counting on the [[Neutral No Longer|Smugglers' Alliance]] to join the war and, assuming that the Republic was striking at Tangrene, plan their ''own'' attack on Bilbringi which just happened to coincide with the Republic's offensive and helped turn certain defeat into a crushing victory. A case of a cunning plan being defeated by a cunning-er plan [[Spanner in the Works|but rescued by a]] ''[[Gambit Pileup|botched]]'' [[Gambit Pileup|plan]].
*** Which could still have turned out to be an Imperial victory if {{spoiler|Rukh didn't kill Thrawn}}.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': [[The Chessmaster|Sauron]] out-gambits everyone else ([[The Starscream|Saruman]] and [[Regent for Life|Denethor]] most notably), only to be out-gambitted himself by Gandalf via [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]].
** Though it should be noted that Sauron was ultimately right - ''no-one'' has the willpower to destroy [[Artifact of Doom|the One Ring]]. It's the interference of fate, in other words of [[God|Eru Ilúvatar]] that ultimately results in Sauron's fall.
*** [[The Plan]] against [[God]](s) may be futile as [[Power Level|power levels]] don't work very well when dealing with infinity. If dealing with an omni-intelligent god, It'd be irrelevant, as [[Carl Sagan]] once noted: 'a Googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number One'.
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