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For sure. There's just no getting around that.
I've been thinking about the assertion in that sentence and I'm not sure that's true unless the system is solvable, in which case the optimum decision at any point in the decision tree is already known, so human and computer can follow that branch with equal facility. I would tend to say solved games make for bad game experiences, but that's probably only true for the people who are aware of the solution and capable of applying it to the game. Lots of people still like checkers after all.
On the other hand, you have the example of Go, in which humans still kill computers. It's inevitable that computers are going to surpass human Go players, but the equipment isn't there yet. So, do you think that it's possible for a human to match a script of unlimited processing power (for the sake of argument) in an unsolved formatted-text PvP system? I would tend to think it isn't.
--matt
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