Interesting thought: Instead of placing checkers on the most obvious response, Mochy places checkers on a seemingly weak response, and then works his way through better responses. This makes total sense. Instead of "achoring" his mind on the obvious favorite, he anchors on a weak response and in working his way to better responses, he may discover the obvious play was wrong. If he'd gone for obvious first, he probably wouldn't have even considered alternatives seriously. This is a very Edward de Bono way of doing things.