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Answer to Bob, Timothy, David, Smcrtorchs and Chuck
Posted By: Tenland In Response To: my plan for improving, does it look good? (Tenland)
Date: Tuesday, 20 November 2012, at 2:50 a.m.
Thanks for your feedback. I'm sorry my reply is a 500 page novel :)
I have seen and used your page before, Timothy, excellent stuff, thanks a lot!
Some of you argued that my time could be spent on more important things than the third rolls. While that may hold true, I will explain why I chose to study them:
The advice that I should be focusing on underlying concepts and the main areas of weakness of my game, seems good. The thing is, I don't really see an obvious pattern. Since I have read some good books, I know many of the basic concepts, but when I make errors, I think it's often because I got their order of importance (in the given position) wrong.
Using the example Timothy used, I might think "hmm I can leave my bar point anchor... it will only leave 11 shots and I have a racing lead and his board should be improving.. then again, it's pretty close and i have some time to roll doubles... hmm". Then I do what I think is most supported by my reasoning. And then it turns out I should have done the other thing :@ The example is a bit misleading, because I often play holding and racing games decently, but in more complex games, that's often what happens. So I think I often realize much of what's good with one play and what's good with the other, but what I get wrong is the weight to assign to each of those good characteristics.
I feel that I can learn a lot about how important different objectives and priorities are by studying opening play. For instance, when I was a super newbie, that's how I learned that 13/6 is not a good way to play your opening 43, despite the shots you leave. :)
When I see how the correct play changes with the position, I feel that I improve my understanding of priorities, and can use it as a point of reference when I need to choose between plays which all have some merit.
An added bonus is obviously that third rolls for me to play come up in 50 % of games played, so even though some are trivial, just learning them mechanically by heart should cut a couple of tenths off my error rate.
If there is a better way to improve my ranking of priorities quickly, I would gladly adopt it. Is there?
When I look att cube reference positions, I also try to figure out why I would get a certain result (similarly to what Woolsey does in writing in the encyclopedia), but the same thing goes for those decisions: I need to develop a feel for how important one thing is compared to another.
I haven't read Woolseys tournament book. I do understand the very most fundamental match play theory, but I'm sure my tournament play could benefit from the book. However, I want to start off by focusing on developing a feel for what's right for money - even if I know that lost gammons would count 0.65 instead of 0.5 with the cube on 2 and that my basic takepoint at the score is 22 %, I can't use that information if I can't even say if it's a take for money. At least that's how I thought when I came up with my plan.
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