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Study method: self-made quizzes from actual matches
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: Study method: self-made quizzes from actual matches (Jason Lee)
Date: Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 4:16 a.m.
This is the kind of "deliberate practice" that leads to improvement far more than just playing matches or looking at errors randomly.
No one can tell someone else what the best way of learning is for them--it has to be something that resonates for you, and if this does, do it. You will learn much just copying the positions. The real question is this: is there a more efficient way to learn that would work better for you? Something that takes less time but helps you truly understand the position in a way that will be useful to you over the board.
First, rather than just put a bunch of random positions together, after you collect them group them into the types of errors. Put all of your hit/no hit errors in one group; all of your double errors where you should have played on for the gammon together; etc. etc., and study those as a group. You are more likely to see patterns, develop rules of thumb, see exactly what the hole is in your game that is causing you to make this same type of error over and over. Second, if you get one stack that is particularly large, for example, blitzing errors, then that's a flag that maybe you should do some research on blitzing. Rather than try to figure it out for yourself, maybe there's a great article out there, or a chapter of a book, or a teacher or mentor that can save you a few hundred hours of study and point you right to the key factor you have been missing.
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