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Opening book/bgonline differences

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 1 August 2011, at 1:11 a.m.

In Response To: Opening book/bgonline differences (David Rockwell)

I've found both groupings helpful. One reason that grouping by opening roll makes sense is that over the board, what you see is your opponent making a move. The only relevant part of the opening book is now the set of responses to that move, so it's useful if you have that set of responses grouped together in your mind. Also, the opening move already sets the character of the game to some extent, and thus your replies will have a common theme—fitting into the current character of the game.

On the other hand, for some rolls like 43 or 32 or 63, where there are a lot of tricky decisions, I find it useful to group them together in order to analyze why it should be played one way in certain situations and another way in other situations.

Messages In This Thread

• Opening book/bgonline differences
  Higonefive -- Sunday, 31 July 2011, at 1:42 p.m.
  • Opening book/bgonline differences
    jdg -- Sunday, 31 July 2011, at 2:01 p.m.
  • Opening book/bgonline differences
    David Rockwell -- Sunday, 31 July 2011, at 2:34 p.m.
    • Opening book/bgonline differences
      Timothy Chow -- Monday, 1 August 2011, at 1:11 a.m.
  • Opening book/bgonline differences
    Bob Koca -- Sunday, 31 July 2011, at 6:07 p.m.
    • Opening book/bgonline differences
      Higonefive -- Monday, 1 August 2011, at 9:27 a.m.