Effect of Knowledge about the Opponent Playing the Blotto game involves reasoning about the
strategy of your opponent. Thus, it would be reasonable to assume that knowledge of the opponent
in the game would affect the way a player plays the game. Previous experimental studies have not
been able to capture such effects. This has primarily been due to the difficulty in obtaining game data
where all players know, or are friends of, their opponents. Deploying the game on an online social
network provides access to the friend relationships of the players. We observe that the distribution