beat the other nations in their own games may nto be a bad idea. since china lost wars in last century and let the foreigners invaded the country, our 4 inventions seemed to have benefited others more than benefited ourselves in such wars. so what's wrong to knwo more about your enemies and beat them? or should we stay isolated?
the key is to learn or to know about your enemies, but not to copy them and lose yourself. but that has nothing to do with linguistic language studies.