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XG rating and
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: XG rating and (Brad LaPratt)
Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2015, at 1:11 a.m.
I read Neil's remarks and suggestions, and they are right on. I will add the following:
1. Most of the players here who respond and are answering and posting play extremely well, so how they play is not relevant to you;
2. Until you get to very low PR's, it is difficult to generalize about errors...some people are worse giving the cube, some people are very good at some checker plays and worse than others.
3. A lot depends on how long a match you play and if you are playing money games or not.
4. Xg's player profile results, looking under "detail" gives you a lot of insight into the type of cube errors you are making. I don't know anywhere to find out what kind of checker play errors you are making other than going through them, and as Neil suggested, catagorizing them.
5. Simply playing XG and studying errors is good practice, but is NOT at all an efficient way to learn or improve. You will learn much better by studying each type of game and each part of the game, either from a book, articles, or a mentor or teacher, and then practicing against XG over and over doing that type position. I spent 2 hours on the plan the other day playing out 3 different back game positions over and over...each were similar in that they were 2-3 back games with various stages of timing, and given the difference in timing and the rolls they played differently. But learning why I played differently when I did helped me understand how to play and defend 2-3 back games far better than if I just randomly played XG and occasionally came across a 2-3 back game. Do the same with early game play, bearing in, bearing off, playing holding games, blitzes, etc. etc., one by one, and that is a way you will really learn something and store it in your memory in a way you will retrieve it.
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