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How to improve your game

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Wednesday, 29 July 2009, at 12:57 p.m.

In Response To: How to improve your game (phil Simborg)

Everyone learns differently. So decide what works best for you.

I gave a lecture for beginners at Novi about how to learn backgammon. The above is similar to what I said, which was: "find a method of learning which is fun for you." BG is a voluntary activity and if you're not having fun you won't be doing it for long.

A couple other tidbits from that lecture:

1) Be honest with yourself.

2) "If you didn't do it, you didn't know it." (This is related to #1.)

3) Erase any thoughts related to luck from your mind. Thinking about luck is a crutch that eats into your concentration. Even most good players stumble here.

As far as technique, I've found "play from here" as Stick calls it, ("hand rollouts" a not so accurate but rather historic term) works well for me. Best if done (repeatedly, of course) on a bot so you can go through each play afterward, finding (and hopefully correcting) your errors.

As far as what type of game to practice, I think you shouldn't worry about frequency so much but rather pick a kind of game where you are weak and/or under-confident and practice, practice, practice.

Clearly you're already on the right track. An old axiom "well begun is half done."

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