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XG 'Book' Moves - authoritative?
Posted By: Albert Steg In Response To: XG 'Book' Moves - authoritative? (Bill Patterson)
Date: Friday, 13 October 2017, at 1:44 a.m.
Albert. You are doing a lot of work that you would not need to do.Opening Ceremony has all the information that you are doing on your own . . . .
I don't currently feel like the work I am doing is incommensurate with the amount of ground I'm covering. I'd say going through each of the 15 * 1 * 21 = 315 positions in my "Countering 66" complex took me 3-4 hours, including getting a ++ evaluation of all 315 positions (except the trivial ones), harvesting screenshots of my 65 'problem' positions (which also include maybe a dozen fairly obvious plays I include in order to illustrate salient aspects of the situation), dropping them into my database and writing a 1-3 sentence comment for each. Once I set the dice and click '++' I use any lag time to consider the position, make my choice, and, for longer ones, start entering the position in the database. Writing the comment makes me articulate the concepts I'm forming, which is a pretty widely acknowledged aid to learning. And then I have a 65-problem quiz-set I can wheel out on an airplane to review with. Like OC, I can track the problems I get wrong most often.
I'm in a unique position because I'm a Filemaker developer and I can build this tool for myself -- I'm not trying to suggest Opening Ceremony isn't an awesome utility and a real gift to the BG community and totally worth the $. I'm curious though -- how much time would people estimate it takes to study a 315-position 'complex like this using Opening Ceremony? Would you cover all that ground in a quick hour in a way that really stays with you? Two hours? I'm always curious to hear how other people go about using various tools and strategies for really acquiring and incorporating backgammon knowledge.
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