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Flashback by Jeremy Bagai

Posted By: Max Stockslager
Date: Sunday, 3 August 2025, at 12:19 p.m.

In Response To: Flashback by Jeremy Bagai (Stick)

I used spaced repetition as my primary backgammon study approach for a couple years (averaged ~100 cards a day from when I started playing until I gave it up earlier this year) and I highly recommend it. I used a custom Anki deck with ~10K cards I had accumulated myself. I had made cards for all the problems in about a dozen books I had scanned, reference positions + variants I had set up, blunders I had made (+ variants), formulas, match equities, takepoints, gammon values, counting shots, pip count clusters, snippets from articles I wanted to remember, etc -- I had a pretty low bar for what I created cards for.

I gave it up earlier this year, partly because I don't have as much backgammon time anymore, but also because about half the deck was blunders that I had accumulated over the years, and I found that focusing too most of my play/study on my blunders without getting the positive feedback from correctly making obvious/boring moves was shifting my calibration toward making too many "creative" plays over the board. i.e., I know this position is in the deck because I blundered previously, so the first instinct/obvious play is probably not right. So if I were to start again I would not include every blunder I make. But for stuff like reference positions I still think spaced repetition is a great tool.

Messages In This Thread

• Flashback by Jeremy Bagai
  Stick -- Sunday, 3 August 2025, at 3:53 a.m.
  • Flashback by Jeremy Bagai
    Max Stockslager -- Sunday, 3 August 2025, at 12:19 p.m.