Thread: Is having the initiative a fundamental advantage?
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Old 12-05-2005, 02:46 AM
Tommy Angelo Tommy Angelo is offline
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Default Re: Is having the initiative a fundamental advantage?
"Wouldn't [taking the initiative] help negate your positional disadvantage?"

Help is not enough. Nothing can undo positional disadvantage. Checkraising can't. Taking the initiative can't. That's because positional disadvantage is just there. It doesn't change. And someone always has it. When I choose to play POOP (passively out of position), I'm merely conceding to the other guy exactly what he has coming, positionally, and nothing more.



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