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my plan for improving, does it look good?

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Monday, 19 November 2012, at 6:06 p.m.

In Response To: my plan for improving, does it look good? (Tenland)

Generally this looks good except that I don't think that learning all the third-roll positions is an efficient use of your time at this stage.

Just about everyone's cube error rate is higher than their checkerplay error rate. That doesn't necessarily mean that you should spend most of your time on the cube. If you look at XG's "Detail" tab you'll see that most of your equity is lost on checkerplay errors. However, your stated plan includes both cube and checker study so it looks fine.

If you're not already aware of it, I have posted GNU rollouts for many of Robertie's 501 positions at my website.

One further suggestion is that in addition to generating lots of errors for study and going over them all, you should look for patterns of errors. Try to articulate explicitly what kinds of errors you seem to be making. For example, "I break anchor too readily (or too reluctantly)" or "I keep cashing when I'm too good" or "I see a good move and make it without checking to see if there's a better move." This will help you focus and make steady progress. Otherwise there's a danger that you will be overwhelmed by too much data, and will forget what you've temporarily learned by the time it comes up in a game again.

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