Developing Warriors in Kali

Video Transcript

"We've talked about the basic strategies and the way that you win the game. Developing your warriors is, perhaps, the most fundamental aspect of the game. It's like developing your pawn structure in a game of chess. When you move to the center, you want to get your warrior out of the way as we discussed in the earlier segment. When we put a warrior here, he protects this square, this square, this square, that square, that square. So, in the developing of your warriors you want to be sure that you're looking at how they are protected. What the combinations are going to be that allow your warriors to be safe. You also want to be in a position to figure out how you're going to attack your opponent. So, let's say that you've got your situation going like this. Obviously, you've got. The basic formula is the same as chess. Once attacked, once defended. Twice attach, twice defended. So let's say that you want to figure out if it's safe to attach this warrior, here. You've got once attacked, once defended, twice attacked, twice defended, so you'll come out even. The only reason that you would want an attack there is because you wanted to trade down to make it easier to get your prince out. You may decide that you would like to one, one, two, two, and then you either have to move this away to retreat or you have to bring in a defender. And when you bring in a defender, you make an attack. So in the development of your warriors, you've got warriors in position to go back and defend this guy. So, now he can attack here, but you can attack there, defend. Now he has a choice of whether to attack or to defend. I mean to run away or to defend. So let's say that he does that. Now he's drawing on all twenty of his warriors from the home point. So, if I attack here, he defends easily from the home board. If I want to attack him, I need to move a piece out, but then it's too late, i get attached again. Now, if I want to try to attack him back by moving a piece out here. He doesn't even care if I attack because, now, he can move his prince and win the game and the game is over. So the strategy of developing your warriors is crucial. You want to make sure that you have the combinations figured out and counting the number of times attacked and the number of times defended so that you know where you're going to end up in the battle. And, you want to be in the position to bring in reinforcements immediately if you get into any kind of trouble. So, the development of your warriors is one of the basic elements of the game and the more you practice the better you will learn how to develop your warriors in the game of Kali."