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SLY'S INSIGHTS: Response to Giants Survey
Posted By: Timothy Chow In Response To: SLY'S INSIGHTS: Response to Giants Survey (Phil Simborg)
Date: Thursday, 12 January 2012, at 7:37 p.m.
Sly's comments are excellent. One thing I'd push back on, though, is that I have doubts as to whether you (that's a collective "you") really follow Sly's "first and foremost" recommendation as much as he would want you to. For example, in Stick's analysis of the three "how do you stack up" positions, very few variant positions were presented and none were rolled out (at least, no rollouts of variant positions were displayed).
If I (that's me personally) were accepting money for analyzing a position or teaching a student, I think I would on average do full rollouts of half a dozen variants of any given position of interest and do truncated rollouts of about a dozen more. This is for a "regular" position like the ones in this quiz; for an important reference position, I would double or triple those numbers. This amount of data is a minimum requirement for analyzing a position. Purely verbal commentary is important, but it's only a small part of the story. A Giant's verbal commentary may be accurate, but still fail to teach the student effectively because the Giant will unwittingly take some things for granted that the student doesn't know. These gaps in the explanation will not be uncovered unless the teacher explores a broad "neighborhood" of the position with the student.
"Why" doesn't just mean verbal commentary. "Why" means lots and lots of data, carefully explored in an interactive manner so that one appreciates all the different features of the position, not just qualitatively but quantitatively.
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