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Two questions for strong players - why and how?

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Saturday, 23 June 2012, at 9:00 p.m.

In Response To: Two questions for strong players - why and how? (DaveT)

David Montgomery's three steps to better play:

Here's how you get better:
1) Identify your mistakes
2) Understand your mistakes
3) Quit making those mistakes
Repeat as necessary.

More nuggets of learning inspiration here

Also, this week I finally got around to reading Michael Konik's The Man with the $100,000 Breasts. Courtesy of the famous backgammon player "JoBo." Brian Zembic's $100,000, that is, not my reading about them. Anyway, from the chapter on Bob Hamman:

"If we estimate something has a ten percent chance of occurring and the real chance is twenty percent, it's not going to kill us. It's when we're just plain wrong that hurts."

Which is just to say that as important as correcting small, recurring errors are, time spent correcting bad thinking that leads to huge mistakes should be time well spent.

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