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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4831124" data-attributes="member: 19675">Consequences aren't necessarily bad, you know.Doing the unexpected- possibly even tactically unsound- may disrupt your enemy's plan.In a game of Chess, I once sacrificed a Queen and a Bishop to advance a Pawn.The player was so distracted by these seemingly insane moves that I was able to advance that Pawn to fork his Queen and King with it...which also opened up a lane to have another Pawn advanced to his last row and become a new Queen.A better player would have noticed the danger and passed up the attack on the Queen to take the Pawn, and probably kicked my butt when my gamble failed.In the RW, there was a naval battle in WW2 in which a sizeable Japanese fleet built around one of their huge battleships encountered a small American fleet of destroyers and frigatesOne of the small ships broke off and actually attacked the much more powerful Japanese fleet by itself, and inflicted damage...allowing the rest of the American fleet to gather itself and essentially give the Japanese a nasty poke in the eye with a sharp stick.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4831124, member: 19675"] Consequences aren't necessarily bad, you know. Doing the unexpected- possibly even tactically unsound- may disrupt your enemy's plan. In a game of Chess, I once sacrificed a Queen and a Bishop to advance a Pawn. The player was so distracted by these seemingly insane moves that I was able to advance that Pawn to [I]fork his Queen and King[/I] with it...which also opened up a lane to have another Pawn advanced to his last row and become a new Queen. A better player would have noticed the danger and passed up the attack on the Queen to take the Pawn, and probably kicked my butt when my gamble failed. In the RW, there was a naval battle in WW2 in which a sizeable Japanese fleet built around one of their huge battleships encountered a small American fleet of destroyers and frigates One of the small ships broke off and actually attacked the much more powerful Japanese fleet by itself, and inflicted damage...allowing the rest of the American fleet to gather itself and essentially give the Japanese a nasty poke in the eye with a sharp stick. [/QUOTE]

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