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BQ = "Beginner's Question"
Posted By: Smcrtorchs In Response To: BQ = "Beginner's Question" (leobueno)
Date: Thursday, 4 October 2012, at 9:28 a.m.
I am not sure your questions r always bq. They definitely give me a hard time, but it takes a non b to make this statement worth something :)
I think that learning in backgammon is very slow not only because the number of positions that can arise is huge or because backgammon has many many strategies and tactics. Other things should be taken into account:
1) when u learn how to play a move correctly and alter your style, new positions that u do not know will arise. So if u measure your progress with PR u cannot really see that you are getting better as correcting a mistake will only give u chance to make new mistakes that you never had the chance to do before :)
2) When u learn in a position that u should hit for example instead of priming, even if u understand all the factors that affect this position from timing to boards strength and from threats to roll numbers and from cube to how every of the 30 checkers affects the other 29 u still have not understood how the hitting option would compare to other options if they were available. Also you did not understood how specific tactics of the hitting strategy would fare against different type of positions.
When u meet these different types of positions u might have forgotten the original position where u learned the advantages of hitting. Moreover what u learned from the original position might be replaced in your mind by what you learn now. You can keep the 2 things you learned separately and not mix them, but only if you clearly see what separates them and then again you should be able to understand where those two intercross. But as u might have forgotten the previous position and as you cannot compare these 2 positions directly you fail to create a proper framework in your mind that would give the right perspective and place to those two things that you learned . Backgammon is chaotic in that sense and when u learn something new you should really have the correct framework to place it in. Otherwise you might also be learning something wrong along with that something correct. So the more you learn about backgammon the better your framework can become to accept new knowledge. But by the time that you have a really good framework you will have less things to learn anyways and it will be even harder to improve.
Sure u can do many things to help your learning, but u can only make it faster and not fast.
So smile & continue your struggle :)
Sometimes I wonder if the whole world is a big donkey land
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