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Study method: self-made quizzes from actual matches

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Friday, 20 January 2012, at 1:54 a.m.

In Response To: Study method: self-made quizzes from actual matches (Stick)

Stick: Your idea is for the most part good but I don't like how you're going to overload yourself with information. The key to learning is to be able to swallow bits of information at a time and internalize them for later use. If you smack off all these blunders over a certain threshold it's too much information.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I've never had any kind of cogent study plan, and I feel like a good place to start is with errors I've made.

Starting now play at least one serious match a day of a decent length. In that match you will for sure make a few blunders, depending on what you define the size of that error to be. Take these positions, try to understand them, analyze them, roll them out if need be and place them in a separate folder. This folder should never have more than a dozen-ish positions in it at one time. You will want to set up variants of certain positions, roll them out. Things you still don't understand you can play out until you see for example why it's a take, where is your counterplay coming from.

Once you have fully understood the position you can then move it out of that folder and make room for another. Repeat the process.

I colored the bit that I'm going to take issue with. The real problem with your method for me lies in the fact that I'm still not strong enough to be able to confidently and accurately understand a position given tons of time and access to a bot. I'm not saying this to try to weasel out of trying your idea. I'm saying that it has limited applicability for a person of my playing strength.

I do like your idea, and I may try to implement it alongside what I'm doing now. I certainly can do both.

One of the reasons why I do want something on paper is that I take a bus to work, and I'm always looking for something useful to do on the bus. There's a gajillion books I want to read and I'm never going to get to them all, so why not just mix in a little backgammon?

JLee

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• Study method: self-made quizzes from actual matches
  Jason Lee -- Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 1:32 a.m.
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    RobertFontaine -- Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 1:36 a.m.
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      mtuhtan -- Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 8:35 a.m.
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    Ken Larsen -- Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 1:41 a.m.
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    Phil Simborg -- Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 4:16 a.m.
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    Stick -- Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 9:01 a.m.
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      Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 12:08 p.m.
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      Jason Lee -- Friday, 20 January 2012, at 1:54 a.m.
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        Stick -- Friday, 20 January 2012, at 9:03 a.m.
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          Jason Lee -- Sunday, 22 January 2012, at 4:12 p.m.
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