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How to avoid oversights in checker play?
Posted By: John O'Hagan In Response To: How to avoid oversights in checker play? (Mislav Radica)
Date: Tuesday, 8 April 2008, at 4:09 p.m.
I think the best way to avoid these checker play oversights involves playing as much as you can against Snowie or GNU. The key is to learn from those positions where the bot's suggested play is one you hadn't even considered. The eval's usually right but not always so a RO is definitely recommended. If the RO confirms the bot's eval, you've made a checker play oversight. There really are two types of checker play oversights: Ones where you would have made the right play if you had seen it and others where you wouldn't have.
If you missed seeing an obviously better play, try to figure out why you didn't see it. Maybe you incorrectly thought the play you chose was sort of automatic? Or maybe you misevaluated the priorities of the position? If you wouldn't have made the correct play even if you had seen it, try to figure out why your evaluation of the play is so far off base. Are you playing too big when a safe play is called for (or vice-versa)? Or maybe you have the wrong gameplan altogether?
The more you can get these wrong concepts out of your head the better your chances of finding the right play the next time a similar position comes up. Learn from your mistakes!
OTOH, you don't have an infinite amount of time and energy so don't waste it stewing over a play where 5 candidates are all within .01 or so of each other(say a random ace or deuce to be played in the bearin phase of a long race). You're never going to be able to figure it out exactly and the equity loss is tiny so don't be penny-wise and pound-foolish. Just go with your first instinct and save your time and energy for decisions where more equity is at stake.
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