The 4 stages of soft skills
The four stages of practice: not understanding, understanding, predicting, predicting RIGHT/breaking the rules.
In the first stage you don't understand shit.
In the second stage, you understand the nature of the moves and the reasoning behind them, but you could never have predicted them. At least the most complex ones.
During the third stage, you can understand the reasoning behind the moves but
also predict next possible moves correctly. It means you have developed your intuition and that you'd be able to hold out on your own. Your progress through this stage scales to the degree you "predict" correctly.
And the fourth and last stage, you can consistently predict the correct outcomes and often come to the situation where the outcome you chose wasn't the one your "practice partner" chose. Not necessarily because you were wrong, but because they were the ones to commit the mistake. At this stage you're at the cutting-edge of your skill. It might mean that you're already an expert, or it might mean that everyone else is simply worse than you. Either way, you can no longer learn much by breaking down other people's works. You're on your own.