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XG 'Book' Moves - authoritative?
Posted By: scotty In Response To: XG 'Book' Moves - authoritative? (Albert Steg)
Date: Friday, 13 October 2017, at 3:39 a.m.
Albert said, "I'm always curious to hear how other people go about using various tools and strategies for really acquiring and incorporating backgammon knowledge."
You are definitely going about it in a positive way. I believe it greatly facilitates long term learning if one organizes the data. It is not enough to look at at it. Of course, you already know that. A person can read a million articles, but it is not until there has been significant personal investigation and deliberation of one article that true understanding of the material begins to take place.
I will share something that I learned over the years while playing traditional dance music. It takes about a month of continuing study of the same material for long term learning to take place on a broad scale. By returning to it daily for at least 15 minutes or more, you send a message to your brain that this is important and it enters some sort of easily accessible memory storage. One month is the magic number for most people. Any less, and your memory of the material will be reduced to a few key points with most of the detail lost.
One must also return to and review the material several times to cement it into the head during the following months/years, until such time as a sufficient amount of it is easily recalled.
This sort of understanding of the workings of memory is well known to serious musicians who play traditional music. We don't have music notation in front of us on music stands. All of it is in our heads and our hearts, and we have to know how to get it out when we need it. Simply said, for most people, it takes a month to learn a tune to get to a point where we feel comfortable with it in public.
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