After eliminating strategies that are never best responses, you can iterate: among the survivors, some were only best responses to now-deleted opponent strategies, so they too can be cut. Apply the best-response filter repeatedly and the feasible region shrinks toward a small box — the same analytical move that later powers Nash equilibrium reasoning. This works even in continuous games like the partnership model, where naive strategy listing is impossible.
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