On 3/6/2022 4:13 PM, peps...@gmail.com 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

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

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