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  • My name's Mr. Take-Blitz-Cubes

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 6 13:13:03 2022
    I'm getting badly dinged when on the receiving end of blitz cubes, regularly making 0.4 errors. Despite the title of this post, I've made lots of horrendous passes too.
    Any cure? The rest of my game doesn't seem too bad, and I often have sub 4 games.
    Is it covered in the new Dirk Schiemann book that created such a stir.

    Paul

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  • From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Mar 7 08:32:00 2022
    On 3/6/2022 4:13 PM, [email protected] wrote:
    I'm getting badly dinged when on the receiving end of blitz cubes, regularly making 0.4 errors. Despite the title of this post, I've made lots of horrendous passes too.
    Any cure? The rest of my game doesn't seem too bad, and I often have sub 4 games.
    Is it covered in the new Dirk Schiemann book that created such a stir.

    I've only skimmed his book, but as the title promises, it's more
    about theory than about practice. It's not going to help you
    directly with blitz cubes, although it will provide you with some
    theoretical tools that may help you extract the most out of bot
    rollout info (which may help you indirectly).

    My recommended starting point is usually Kit Woolsey. For example
    he has a useful article on bkgm.com about blitzes.

    https://bkgm.com/articles/GOL/May00/blitz.htm

    If you can get a hold of his Encyclopedia of Backgammon volume 1,
    then that is also very useful, but it's very hard to find a copy
    for sale. (There might be other books as well that I'm not aware
    of, but most of them don't address blitzes as systematically as
    Woolsey does.)

    Other than that, my recommendation is to amass a bunch of positions
    where you have made errors, and study them as a group, to figure out
    what you're missing.

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    Tim Chow

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  • From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 7 08:48:02 2022
    On 3/7/2022 8:32 AM, I wrote:

    Other than that, my recommendation is to amass a bunch of positions
    where you have made errors, and study them as a group, to figure out
    what you're missing.

    Oh, and if you want to get a jump start on the process, you can search
    Google Groups for blitz cube positions to study. This isn't as
    effective as collecting mistakes from your own games, but it's faster
    and will get you started.

    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.backgammon/search?q=subject%3Ablitz%20subject%3Acube

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    Tim Chow

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Tim Chow on Mon Mar 7 07:25:11 2022
    On Monday, March 7, 2022 at 1:48:04 PM UTC, Tim Chow wrote:
    On 3/7/2022 8:32 AM, I wrote:

    Other than that, my recommendation is to amass a bunch of positions
    where you have made errors, and study them as a group, to figure out
    what you're missing.
    Oh, and if you want to get a jump start on the process, you can search
    Google Groups for blitz cube positions to study. This isn't as
    effective as collecting mistakes from your own games, but it's faster
    and will get you started.

    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.backgammon/search?q=subject%3Ablitz%20subject%3Acube

    Thanks so maybe I would serve the backgammon community better if I gave my posts sensible names rather than,
    for example: "I made the same mistake five minutes ago that I made in a German restaurant forty years ago. Will I ever learn?"

    That hardly informs the reader as to the topic.

    Paul

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