Solution

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The dual is
For positive payoffs and an optimal solution , strong duality gives . Normalizing gives Player I's optimal row strategy . Its expected payoff against every column is at least . Thus the primal represents Player II's minimization of worst loss and the dual represents Player I's maximization of guaranteed gain.

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