First Turn Advantage

[Szei]

Nice to know you're looking out for this kind of thing. Oh and sorry about reposting essentially the same topic as Normak, I didn't recognize the acronym =/

As for Normak's suggestion, it is true that in many turn based games there are penalties for the first player like not drawing a card on the first turn so starting with less wits could make sense. However, games like Chess don't give the opening player a penalty so it's not necessarily required.

Probably best to just wait and see how the game evolves at the top level and then take action at that point if necessary.