Full Idea
Successful game strategies avoid unnecessary conflict, are provoked by an uncalled for defection, forgive after a provocation, and behave clearly so the other player can adapt.
Gist of Idea
Good strategies avoid conflict, respond to hostility, forgive, and are clear
Source
Robert Axelrod (The Evolution of Co-Operation [1984], 1)
Book Reference
Axelrod,Robert: 'The Evolution of Co-Operation' [Penguin 1990], p.20
A Reaction
[compressed] Exactly what you would expect from a nice but successful school teacher. The strategies for success in these games is the same as the rules for educating a person into cooperative behaviour. TIT FOR TAT does all these.