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Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Wednesday, 13 April 2011, at 9:27 p.m.

In Response To: Some bot content (Stick)

Our difference in philosophy may come down to the question of how close two positions have to be in order for one to be "useful" for understanding the other. I don't think that they have to be similar in all the relevant details. There is a vast space of possible backgammon positions; how do we master them? Rules and calculation take us only so far; we have to learn specific positions. Your approach, roughly speaking, seems to be to expose yourself to vast numbers of positions and let your brain somehow make sense of them and generalize in some way that you yourself don't totally understand. We all do that to some extent, but another approach is to make a conscious effort to memorize certain positions. The consciously memorized positions don't have to be exactly the same as a new position to be useful, just as your unconsciously half-memorized positions don't have to be exactly the same as a new position to be useful. Just because conscious memorization isn't a big part of your learning style doesn't mean that it can't be useful component of someone else's learning style.

Having said all that, I was relying on XGR+ and if Neil's rollout is correct then XGR+ was far off. If this position is not on the D/ND borderline then I don't think it's that useful a reference position after all.

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