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Cube action?
Posted By: Stick In Response To: Cube action? (pontiac)
Date: Friday, 9 January 2009, at 10:57 p.m.
I know you asked for uberfish Neil's advice but you'll have to settle for mine for the moment.
1) after bootcamp, what should be read ?
You didn't mention what books you have already read. The #1 book every backgammon player should absorb in my opinion is Magriel's Backgammon. After that I think Walter's Bootcamp is an excellent choice. From there it gets rather murky, there are many directions you can go and almost any run of the mill well known book will help you.
) do you believe read too many books to become world class, or how many of them are must be read?
With so much information freely available to you online, from backgammon forums and articles to GNU, I would bet you don't have to read any books. Playing against the bots can help your game immensely even if you don't know what you're learning or that you're learning, you're learning. I'd still recommend reading as many books as possible, I still read poker books any time I get my hands on them but they bore the living shit out of me.
3) and how a book should read? just read turn page, or play the position sometimes, how should i read the book to learn and dont forget again?
You can't sift through a book like it's the Sunday newspaper and expect to digest everything. My personal preference is to read it straight through, slowly, marking any problems or pages where I'm in disagreement with the author. After having finished the book in its entirety, I go back and skip around to the problems I've earmarked. I check them against a bot and figure out where my thinking was flawed or perform rollouts if I'm still not convinced.
After that, I'll be sure to read it again, more in depth, sometime in the future. The future could be the very next day if I feel like it or 3 months from now. Now that I already have the basis of the book & the information presented in it I'll be able to take in the finer details on the second read through and also solidify that which I may have learned the first time around.
is 501 worth of reading?
In short, yes. Because a book has many problems in it that are wrong according to today's bots doesn't make it not worth reading. It may even add something to it because now when you disagree with the author's choice you know there's a real chance of you being correct. It's important to understand why the author thought what he thought and if he's wrong, figure out why, if you're wrong, the same goes. Almost any backgammon book is worth reading...almost.
Stick
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