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Stoplight chart for match cube actions?

Posted By: Phil Simborg
Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 1:44 p.m.

In Response To: Stoplight chart for match cube actions? (Timothy Chow)

This is an excellent tool. I have been using a similar tool taught to me by Perry Gartner. Whether it's a checker play or cube decision, I ask just how sure are you on a scale of 1-10. If it's a 9 or 10 my work is done, and I make the play. If it's less than 9, I put some more time into the decision. If it's still 7 or 8, and it's a cube decision, I double, or if I am on the other side, I take. And if it's less than 7 after giving it more thought, I give it even more thought. And if it's still less than 7, I use the "Simborg Selection Process."

If the next person I see has light or no hair, I make play or decision A, and otherwise, I make play or decision B.

Don't laugh...statistically, when I use the Simborg Selection Process I get the right play more than when I try to make decisions through reasoning.

Messages In This Thread

• Stoplight chart for match cube actions?
  Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 3:51 a.m.
  • Stoplight chart for match cube actions?
    Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 4:29 a.m.
  • Stoplight chart for match cube actions?
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 4:32 a.m.
  • Stoplight chart for match cube actions?
    Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 4:42 a.m.
  • Stoplight chart for match cube actions?
    Christian Munk-Christensen -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 6:48 a.m.
  • Stoplight chart for match cube actions?
    Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 12:48 p.m.
  • Stoplight chart for match cube actions?
    Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at 1:44 p.m.