Stratego Friendly Match VS KEINELIMITS #8 

Hey bud, I can tell you are familiar with Keinelimits because you took some crazy risks that paid off early on but bit you bad later on. As always I have some feedback to share that should help you in future games: 1) don’t reveal valuable information for cheap pieces. I am referring specifically to your general reveal. On that side of the board, your major and colonel were revealed. Most good players will want information first before they reveal big pieces of their own and since Keinelimits had a good number of scouts left, it was likely the piece defending the revealed colonel was garbage and it was easy info for Keinelimits to gain. This move also was not a good choice because regardless the colonel had a lane to escape so there was no real benefit to revealing your general when you had no shot of getting that colonel. 2) losing the general to the Marshall. I understand to some extent why you hit the known colonel with the general because you were trying to gain info of Marshall position by taking colonel with general. While I am for getting information in most cases, there was again no gain to this move and I will explain why. When it comes to defending a piece, a general would not be able to properly defend colonel because it is only 1 rank up and since the spy was off the board, Marshall can defend colonel because it’s 2 ranks above. It only made sense the piece defending the colonel was Marshall. Plus, with the lead you had, he was not going to keep bluffing you because at that point, he needed to get pieces back. He wasn’t going to keep bluffing you especially because you made some astounding calls in this game. These were key events in the game that I think shaped the outcome. The rest of my feedback are tricks specific to certain segments of the game: 1:10 mark: this bluff with lieutenant would work better if that was major moving up vs lieutenant. You want to give the impression a weak piece is moving up, which you did, but you moved an actual weak piece which he called. Try this trick with a piece that is a rank above and you will see more players will hit that piece because they will automatically assume it is weak in most cases. 9:45 mark: that lieutenant never moved. That major was known. Regardless if you remembered major or not, there was no need to sacrifice Lieutenant here. Proceed with trapping major with colonel and unknown Marshall. You would want him to hit lieutenant with Marshall but there was a chance if you just focused on trapping he may have moved his major over to which your Marshall could take. There was a chance that lieutenant could have been saved and sacrificing it was unnecessary. 18:44 mark: trapped major. This is a trick to pay attention to. So Keinelimits had a setup where lots of bomb locations were probable in back 2 rows. He had corner bombs it appeared and then a piece to the left of your major that may have been a bomb. I knew the piece to the left of your major was immediately a bomb and it was because Keinelimits immediately moved his Marshall parallel your major. If he kept the Marshall in front of the piece in G10 for several moves, it’s because he doesn’t want you to hit it because it may be a movable piece or potentially the flag if it was open. But because he immediately moved his Marshall, that G10 piece was 100% a bomb. What you should have done in retrospect was hit I10 instead. He wanted you to hit G10, he created misdirection, which means you do the opposite of what he wanted which is hit I10 instead. Funny enough I10 was a movable piece afterall which he revealed at 20:25 segment. Just some things to keep in mind. Keep up the good work as always