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Mochy, Phil and Falafel in Brooklyn - Quickie Lesson
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: Mochy, Phil and Falafel in Brooklyn - Quickie Lesson (Stick)
Date: Wednesday, 11 January 2017, at 1:51 p.m.
Thanks for doing this Stick. I have copied the link to all my friends and students who were in the chouette that night.
When there is time I would rather do my chou position videos WITH STICK, as more than anyone else in the world I have worked with, Stick gets to the point and explains it well very quickly and succinctly. Many other great players will, of course, get the plays right, but by the time they finish thinking about it and giving the explanation, I've lost half my audience.
I particularly enjoyed Stick's discussion of the pay-now-pay-later position, and of course, out of a rare act of kindness, Stick failed to remind the viewers that both Mochy and I got this wrong over the board.
Would Mochy get it right if presented as a test problem, when it's not at the end of a long tournament weekend after flying from Japan and doing a boot camp and having the additional stress of rooming with me and being in a room will 11 people screaming out what they would do while cheering on the National Championship Football game and playing loud disco music that we were all dancing to while playing and while finishing off a bottle of very fine scotch? I would bet anything he would get it right. Me, I don't know....in a test I have more time to think about it and am probably less likely to get it right....thinking hurts my game and helps Mochy's.
But Stick did say that these PNPL positions can often result in huge blunders, and just a slight change in the position can change the play.
Mochy and I went over every one of these positions late at night, back at the hotel, before I did the video, and he was laughing when he saw some of his own blunders. I told him I absolutely would not mention the ones he got wrong in the video, and he insisted that I do tell the world...he is not at all embarrassed to admit that he makes blunders, but he also says when he is playing in a chouette for small stakes with highly inferior players (I added the last part, because in this case it was true as I was the only one in the game that would be considered an Open player), that he takes and gives all kinds of cubes he would never do in a serious game or tournament, and he is not about to give the kind of time to a checker decision he would in a serious game. If you have ever played in large chouettes, you understand time pressure.
Again, thanks Stick, for the additional insights. You are always my first call to do videos like this with me. It was 3AM in New York when I did the video and I should have called you first.
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