Musashi notes that although most schools have secret and ancient strategies, most forms are derivative of other martial arts.

If you're going to have a secret strategy, keep it secret.

Its own secret strategy, he soon suspected, was better than his.

"There is no magic or secret strategy or giant masterplan," he said.

Here's where one of the problems arises: anyone can walk up and watch as a user plans their "secret" strategy.

He gave interviews upon subsistence farming, backless bathing suits, and the secret strategy of the Ethiopian army.

But Van Gundy, perhaps trying to hide a secret strategy, said absolutely not - there would be no switch.

What secret strategies have yet to be unveiled?

"Running a full-page ad is not exactly a secret strategy," Ms. Lewis said.

Or does his calm smile mask some secret strategy, a grand, clear vision of how the European pieces will fall into place, perhaps to Soviet advantage?