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After 1944, economists learned about Johnny von Neumann’s two-person zero-sum game theory and Nash’s non-cooperative game solution. The present discussion links the Nash analysis back to much earlier 1838 Cournot duopoly theory. And it links the von Neumann breakthrough to earlier and independent perceptions of how randomization provides existent minimax solution to a two-person zero-sum game.