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One of my biggest problems is overlooking a good candidate move. Kit
already wrote an article about it. The biggest errors come from not looking
at the right candidate at all. What can I do against these occasional
lacks of concentration?
Here is the whopper from one of my latest matches:
24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| O O O O | | |
| O O O O | | |
| O O O | | |
| O O | | |
| O | | |
| | | | X rolls 2-1
X | | | |
X | | | |
XX | X | | |
XX | X X X | | |
XX | X O X X | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
I didn't want to get hit or leave a shot. I tried to clear the 4, but that
didn't work.
4/2*/1 ... blot.
4/2*, 4/3 ... blot
3/1/off ... safe!
The whole process took 2 sec at most. I just never looked at playing the
ace first. His last roll was 6-6, which made a nice escape from my 2
point. That roll gave me a big disappointment, probably affecting my
concentration on this 2-1 move.
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Sam Pottle writes:
It's very easy to overlook plays after a big swing. You may be emotional,
and the nature of the position is likely to have changed. Whenever you or
your opponent has just rolled a joker or anti-joker, slow down. Take a deep
breath and a few extra seconds to look at the position that's in front of
you now, instead of the position you had for the last few turns.
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Richard Munitz writes:
This is a big problem for me too. I describe this as a blind spot. I find
that this problem is most often not due to a lack of concentration, but
rather a preconception of what you are hoping to accomplish. You have a
blot you are hoping to safety and you can and so you do when meanwhile you
could make a point. Get those goals out of yourhead before you consider
your legal moves. Easier said than done, I know.
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Learning
- Advancing beyond intermediate (James Eibisch, July 1998)
- Beginners' mistakes (Alan Webb+, Nov 1999)
- Best way for a beginner to learn (Koyunbaba+, July 2007)
- Committing to memory (RobertFontaine+, Feb 2011)
- Getting better than "awful" (Morph+, May 2004)
- How to excel in backgammon (Max Levenstein+, Aug 2011)
- How to improve (N Merrigan, Jan 2007)
- How to improve (Albert Steg, Feb 1996)
- How to improve cube handling (RealNick+, Jan 2011)
- How to learn and improve (Hristov, Aug 2005)
- Lowering your error rate (Stick Rice+, Apr 2009)
- Maintaining your game (Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Apr 2005)
- Matchqiz and Jellyfish (Gilles Baudrillard, May 1997)
- Missing candidate plays (Klaus Evers+, Apr 2009)
- Most efficient way to learn (Stick+, May 2007)
- Practice and preparation (Ian Shaw+, Mar 2004)
- Practice/study plan (Marcus Brooks+, Nov 1995)
- Reference positions (Chuck Bower, July 1999)
- Study Methodology (Phil Simborg, Dec 2012)
- Study method (Jason Lee+, Jan 2012)
- Study plan (Tenland+, Nov 2012)
- Taking your game up a level (CW+, Aug 2002)
- Taking your game up a level (Ron Karr, Aug 1996)
- The backgammon cake (Daniel Murphy, Nov 1997)
- The best way to learn (Chuck Bower+, Oct 2003)
- Three steps to better play (David Montgomery, July 1998)
- Using Jellyfish tutor (Stephen Hubbard, Sept 1997)
- What more can I do? (Alison Wylie+, Apr 2000)
- Zen in the art of backgammon (Robban+, Aug 2009)
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