I hate to break it to you, but this guy wasn't taking advantage of bad artificial intelligence. He was taking advantage of bad human intelligence. If you really suck at chess, and your opponent, game after game, consistently takes your King within 10 moves, you can't rightly criticize him for having an unimaginative strategy. He could very well have imaginative strategies, but just doesn't need to use them against you. There are a multitude of plays at your disposal to counter the offensive strategies you mentioned. You, not your opponent, are responsible for the unrealistic nature of your game. If a college offensive coordinator could have success running only 3 or 4 plays in a game, he would. But usually this isn't effective. The defense would adjust and shut down the offense. You didn't hold up your end of the bargain. A true "sim game" isn't when players punt on 4th down or mix up their playcalls simply to be nice to their opponent, but instead when players do these things because it's actually to their advantage to do so. The former is only a "sim game" on the surface. In reality, it's sacrificed the most important element of the game; competition.
That said, even when I play against someone who can't stop my first set of plays, I'll still mix it up. But I'll do so for my own benefit, not for his. It's not smart to become dependent on strategies that only work against weaker opponents.
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It sounds like he WAS reading your defense. Your defense was screaming to him, "Run the same play over and over because I don't know how to stop it!"
I know I probably sound heartless, but once you accept that your opponents don't owe you anything (other than not cheating), you'll have a lot more fun with this game online. It will probably make you a better player too. Because people don't think very clearly when they are angry. Intead of thinking, "How dare this *sshole run the same plays over and over," you should be calmly thinking, "What adjustments do I need to make to stop this?"