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Are all premature actions necessarily bad?

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 9:35 p.m.

In Response To: Are all premature actions necessarily bad? (Rich Munitz)

I have no problem with this, but it points out the umpteenth reason for clocks.

If you play with clocks, then your opponent has to make a conscious decision whether or not they should be spending time on such a play. That two minutes is charged to them... it doesn't just come out of the ether. Time management is an important skill now -- you have to prioritize what you're going to spend time on. For example, maybe you have one of those gammon-saving plays where you're looking for the best two-roll parlays, and the equity difference is miniscule. In a clocked match, it's just not worth spending two minutes grinding out that calculation. Just guess. Yes, sometimes it's going to make a difference, but it's far more likely that the two minutes you waste is going to cause you to speed up more meaningful decisions later.

In another time-saving approach, I've seen Kit Woolsey sometimes faced with a checker play that's futile, knowing he's going to have to drop a cube in the next roll, not even bother to get that far, just resigning the game by resetting the checkers.

JLee

Messages In This Thread

• Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
  Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 9:26 p.m.
  • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
    Jason Lee -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 9:35 p.m.
    • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
      Marv Porten -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 11:41 p.m.
      • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 11:47 p.m.
        • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
          Seth -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 11:49 p.m.
          • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
            Matt Cohn-Geier -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 11:51 p.m.
  • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
    Steve Mellen -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 9:37 p.m.
    • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
      Rich Munitz -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 10:26 p.m.
  • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
    Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 9:52 p.m.
  • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
    Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 9 December 2009, at 10:36 p.m.
    • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
      Steve Mellen -- Thursday, 10 December 2009, at 12:08 a.m.
  • What does your wife have to say about this subject?
    neilkaz -- Thursday, 10 December 2009, at 12:45 a.m.
    • What does your wife have to say about this subject?
      Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 10 December 2009, at 6:49 a.m.
  • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
    Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 10 December 2009, at 12:50 a.m.
    • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
      Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 10 December 2009, at 3:03 a.m.
  • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
    Phil Simborg -- Thursday, 10 December 2009, at 1:32 a.m.
  • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
    Matt Ryder -- Thursday, 10 December 2009, at 4:38 a.m.
    • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
      Havard Raddum -- Thursday, 10 December 2009, at 8:25 a.m.
      • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
        Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 10 December 2009, at 2:23 p.m.
        • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
          Havard Raddum -- Friday, 11 December 2009, at 9:29 p.m.
          • Are all premature actions necessarily bad?
            Rich Munitz -- Friday, 11 December 2009, at 10:19 p.m.