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Nactation: Clarity a problem for some readers, brevity an illusion for most readers
Posted By: Stick In Response To: Nactation: Clarity a problem for some readers, brevity an illusion for most readers (Jim Stutz)
Date: Friday, 18 June 2010, at 6:15 a.m.
Nactation is a tool that saves me personally more than a couple of keystrokes. It saves me thousands upon hundreds of thousands I'd guess as I have to name files, write articles, update certain web sites, and have casual email conversations or real time online convos with other opening phase of the game whores. I can't argue that it might be better for your average Joe player to not have to use or understand nactation, but basically, they don't. It even saves me time when trying to describe positions verbally to certain players, like David Rockwell or MCG.
Nack makes a point in all his posts to include a key. Maybe you (that's the general public Joe Schmoe 'you', not you personally) don't want to spend the time reading it and understanding it. It's your choice. For the most part though like when I post one of my many many posts you see the Subject line, 54S-21H-31? for example and think what? You don't need to know what it means, there's a diagram right there in front of you. Look at the position, figure out what you'd play, ignore the nactation.
The basic symbols are just that, basic, and if you won't even spend the time to be familiar with R, D, S, $, H, and X well then you're just lazy lol.
The bottom line for me personally is I'm going to do what saves me a lot of time because it's my site, more specifically, it's the site that I run for free, and I can only put so much into it.
Stick
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