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I surf the entire web for months, I read everything I can find about backgammon, I rarely find the time to play, this study requires all my time. I keep reading about Analysis and Equity and I invest a lot of money to buy the most expensive analysis program on the market.
I begin to analyse my games, at first I only check the summary on bottom, but why does this stupid program rate me Beginner most of the time? I cant be a beginner anymore, Ive played for several years live and online, this must be wrong!
I look deeper into the analysis and I find almost the entire list of my moves all marked in yellow and red which indicates errors and blunders. I review the moves marked as real bad blunders and I realize, this stupid program is not stupid at all, I am the stupid one here, and I am nothing but an arrogant idiot. How could I think I had mastered the game while I play such an amount of real dumb blunders?
I review my opponents skills, and I find out, most of my wins were not the result of my good play, but I won only because my opponents played even worse or I had a lot of luck while most of my losses were a direct result of my bad play against much better opponents.
I begin a mixture of playing and analysing, after every game or match I play I run an analysis and I review it move by move, even though I now spend much more time analysing than playing. I replay tricky positions to figure out why my move was such a blunder; I notice specific types of errors I keep repeating, I try to memorize and avoid them in future.
There still is this impression of manipulated dice when I play online, but the more analysis results I review, the clearer it becomes, it doesnt require any manipulations, my bad play plus the always present luck factor is more than enough to explain the outcome of my games and matches. I just wish I had a little bit more luck.
by Thomas Griffi (in online backgammon better known as Piranha)
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