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Re: the alleged first piece move advantage... Remember, this is immediately followed by two moves from the other side. Those pieces can be moved through another corridor, and one of the pieces could easily be a green/white nine as well. The defense? The first player must have opened with a ranger, and then must correctly guess which of the two pieces to attack on his second turn. Unlikely. So the second player has a pretty clear shot at getting his big gun accross the mid line too, and better yet, his actions are more camouflaged. Furthermore, look at the first player's second turn. He's looking at two opposing pieces within ranger striking distance, with more to come. At some point, perhaps immediately, he's got to move that piece forward to safety. Unless he's completely bluffing (granted, not an unlikely prospect when facing a LarryBoy or a Steve), player one has completely tipped his hand. Player two can simply punch the piece into oblivion if he's got one handy. If a punch isn't immediately available, and he's got some pieces opposite the nine, he can move away anything important before it can get hurt, but leave any 5s and 6s there as bait. If player one takes said bait, player two's in good shape, as the nine is now "used up". Player two can half-step anything next to it forward and play past it, heaping insults on it as he goes by. Advice from the current spatula-wielder: the main theme here is the other guy has problems too. As you play, grasshopper, walk in your opponent's shoes. Outguessing a good player is difficult. Rather, with each move create more problems for him, and make him outguess you. And having said that, I will likely not hold the spatula for long...
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