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42P 22E 33?
Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier In Response To: 42P 22E 33? (poseidon)
Date: Friday, 4 September 2009, at 3:14 p.m.
Given my weak memory, I search for books that help memory strength. I found some on the net, and I am thinking of buying them, but I am not sure if they can really help.
It depends. Different things can work for different people.
Mnemonics can work well for lists and other things. I haven't found them so useful for things other than lists and people's names. And yes, I can remember chess games from five years ago, even though I no longer play chess, but have struggled to remember a person's name whom I met fifteen seconds ago. But people are a bit different, so different things might work for you. In particular I usually adhere to the "7 +/- 2" principle and try not to remember more items than I absolutely have to, at least in the short-term--condense whenever possible.
In particular I find the openings easy to remember because the positions are all so similar. So it helps that this is a third roll position. And, I really didn't like being flagged with a .05 error after 61P-22E-33, and I noticed the similarity between that and 42P-22E-33 when it was posted. Of course they're very different positions but it's hard for me to forget either.
P.S. How many reference positions does one need to remember, regarding cude decision?
I have no idea. A lot? A few? It's been said that one can become a chess GM knowing only 300 positions as long as they are the right ones.
I do it because I enjoy it and it is easy for me since I have a kind of emotional tie to matches I play. And as stated above the openings are particularly not that difficult since they haven't started to diverge yet.
Is it possible to remember specific numbers for all those positions (equity, wins/doubles/backgammon percentages)?
Sure, for at least a few of them. It's relatively easy to figure out where you stand %age wise in a low-wastage race. That comprises a class of some hundreds of positions. But you could say it involves memorizing only one position. If you know a few basic rules (where the beaver point is, where the take point is, how much a pip is worth) you can interpolate between races of any length or deficit.
Similar with holding games...if you can remember certain racing deficits, where the spares are, etc., you can interpolate. Can you do it with prime vs. prime games? It's much more difficult since the positions are much more different but in principle I think you can.
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