Are repetitions allowed? If not, then choosing 6 is not a checkmate. If yes, your strategy is the best strategy. Following explanation assumes that repetitions are not allowed.
If I go first, my turn will come in every odd turn. So for me to win, possible turns are 9,7..and so on but it is not possible to win in 7 turns, because no 7 numbers will add up to 50 (even if you take 7 largest numbers i.e. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4 they sum up to 49). Hence only possible chance for the first player to win is in the 9th turn of the game. In 9 turns, all the numbers from 1 to 10 has been chosen except one number. And that number must be 5 if 9 numbers should sum up to 50. Hence the first player can never win this game, if the second player choses 5 in any of his turns. This is also evident from your answer. Since the first player has already chosen 6 in his first turn, when the second player choses 5 in any of his turns, the first player can't complement it to make 11, since 6 is already chosen.
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