Strategy

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• Chess

  • Opening == First BagOut of the Piece
  • Middlegame
  • Endgame == Closing the Piece
  • Transpose
    • In chess, a transposition is a sequence of moves that leads to a position reachable by a different, usually more standard, move orde

• Sitrep (Situation Report)

  • a concise, periodic, and structured update used to communicate the status of an ongoing operation, incident, or project.

• Quotes about Strategy

  • "adopt a strategy to achieve "
  • long-term approach
  • the ultimate view
  • the big picture

• Marka (Flagging) is a Tactic, Markum (Flag) is a Tool.

• ApogeeFill

• StartWithApogee

• Hierarchy(Strategy > Plan > Taktik > Aktion > SubAktion > Element)

• Alias: "Approach"

  • Ecological Approach
  • What is your approach

• Defensive Strategy

  • "Defend"
  • Using a particular defensive formation

• Offensive Strategy

  • "Attack"

• "How do you want to fill this"

• "How do you want to work the piece"

• "How are you working this piece, where's the open land?"

• Examples of Strategy

  • Dump and chase
  • Each planter takes a side
    • Bounce
  • Plant as fast as possible
  • To make as much money as possible in the shortest amount of time
  • Plant before it snows
  • Plant out the rest of trees in overflow
    • Taktik == OpenEnded Piece
    • PerimeterFill

• Plan

  • Logistics
  • Adjusted based on progress
  • When and Who?
  • Plan is the clock
  • Plans tell team members what the strategies and taktiks being used and when to use them
  • Plan includes resources (budget), the number of trees left at the cache

• Strategy

  • Leadership (Executives)
  • Proactive
  • Rigid once set
    • Usually set in the morning and doesn't change throughout the day
    • Set at the beginning of the Piece, usually when standing at the cache or looking at a map
  • Why and What?

• Tactic

  • Operations
  • Reactive
  • Highly adaptable
  • How?

• ((Strategy + Tactic - Plan) = Uncoordinated Action). You know what you want to do and how to do it, but nobody knows who is doing it or when it starts.

  • Cattle Plant where a group arrives at the cache, when the rest of the planters are too far into the land to communicate with.

• ((Strategy + Plan - Tactic) = Rigid Inflexibility). You have a goal and a schedule, but you don't know how to actually execute the maneuvers on the ground.

  • A Team of Rookies who don't know what Bouncing is.

• ((Tactic + Plan - Strategy) = Busy Work). You are doing lots of things efficiently and on schedule, but you have no idea why or if it's actually helping you win.

  • Competing against another planter who is at a different cache, you don't know their current number. Kappas use this to uncertainty as motivation to play planters off each other.