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When to break anchor?
Posted By: Timothy Chow In Response To: When to break anchor? (Stick)
Date: Tuesday, 30 June 2015, at 1:39 a.m.
Stick wrote:
Why limit yourself to just your matches?
I've found that a major component of improving my play is to identify plays that I "should" have gotten right but somehow got wrong anyway.
The crassest examples of this are blunders where I fail to notice that I can hit. Obviously, the only meaningful sources of blunders of this type are my own matches. The only way I can detect what kind of psychological blindspot is causing these errors is to make them, collect them, and analyze them.
Now of course that's not the kind of error that Dmitriy is talking about, but a similar principle applies. To properly focus my energies, I need to know what areas need most work. I have a vague idea of what areas I need to work on, but vague ideas are no match for hard data. Collecting my own errors and looking at the statistics is the surest way to figure out what my weaknesses are.
Combing other sources for tough problems has merits, and I do pull problems from BGO and other sources into my database from time to time. But the only way to detect where my "frontier" is—positions that I have some understanding of but for some reason are not solidly nailed down to the point where they're second nature—is to collect errors from my own play.
By the way, in case this was part of your question, finding other sources of positions wouldn't have sped up the two-year timeframe I was talking about. Generating errors is the easy part. It's classifying the positions, varying them, scheduling batch rollouts, and filing them in a way that allows me to retrieve them easily, that takes most of the time and effort.
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