[elindauer]

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Help is not enough. Nothing can undo positional disadvantage.

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Tommy: having the initiative causes you to win more
Eric: if you think this, why do you play so passively out of position?
Tommy: because having position causes you to win more


I hope you see that this is not an answer. Just because he has the advantage of position doesn't mean that you have to grant him some of your (perceived) advantages too.

You suggest that playing passively only grants him his position edge, but this contradicts your earlier statement that having the initiative is a fundamental advantage. If you play POOP, then you are conceding him both his positional advantage and the initiative advantage you claim exists. Oddly, that initiative advantage probably does exist when you play that way.


By the way, I find the it hilarious that it was you and not a detractor who founded the acronym POOP. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

-Eric