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Learning
Mark Ferrante wrote:
> I am seriously thinking about purchasing the Tutor version of
> Jellyfish and would like to hear from anyone who has it as to how it
> has helped your game. It sounds great and certainly is something that
> I need as with the number of games I am losing, I must be making some
> unwise moves... :)
If you want to improve your level of play definitely get it. I have
had it for about a year and my game has improved a lot.
What I do is play lots of games against it. I select the options for
it to comment on both moves and cube decisions. That way when I make
an inferior move I get feedback immediately. Then I study the
suggested better move and try to see why it is better.
Lately I have used another method. That is to play out a given type
of position (e.g. a typical mutual holding game) over and over. This
way you can learn quickly to handle a whole class of similar
positions. Once you get that down you can continue to differentiate
within the class.
Another tactic is to try to predict where JF will move (or cube)
while it is analyzing. Then notice if it makes the move you predicted.
These are the ways that I use JF Tutor. I would be interested to hear
how others use it.
Long live the artistry of Jellyfish!!
--
Stephen Hubbard
thehub@mindspring.com
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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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