Breaking Bad Backgammon Habits

by Phil Simborg
19 February 2010

Phil Simborg

The other day, one of my students sent me a match he had played on line and asked me to go over his mistakes and discuss them with him.

After looking at about 7 games I asked him if he had noticed any kind of pattern in his errors so far, and he said "yes." It turns out that several of his early play mistakes were his failure to split his back checkers early in the game. It seems he has a strong aversion to being blitzed, and he has a tendency to keep those back checkers together far too long. When you fail to split when you should, you end up getting stuck on your opponent's 1 point far too much and it's hard to win games that way.
 

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Subject: Re: Breaking Bad Backgammon Habits

From: schmucki   

Date: 24 Feb 2010 04:06 EST

you are right! a very easy way to make less of the same mistakes.

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Subject: Re: Breaking Bad Backgammon Habits

From: PhilSimborg   

Date: 24 Feb 2010 17:00 EST

I will be happy to share William, but it's in a long article I published previously on another site. So send me an email and I'll send you the article with the list. psimborg@sbcglobal.net.

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