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Teaching young dogs new nactation tricks

Posted By: Matt Ryder
Date: Friday, 4 February 2011, at 9:42 p.m.

In Response To: Teaching young dogs new nactation tricks (Nack Ballard)

Just to clarify: I'm not at all suggesting that newcomers should only learn nactation and never study traditional notation!

I'm just saying that contrary to the well-worn (yet empirically unverified) belief that nactation is somehow damaging for newcomers, I actually think that a rank beginner would gain more initially from a guided tour through early nactation symbols (with illustrations of the benefits of each action principle) than a lecture on traditional notation.

The reason for this is that traditional notation is merely descriptive of moves. On its own, it doesn't encapsulate or illustrate backgammon principles as nactation does.

Matt

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