I suggest you explicitly ping Rebecca Lambert and Ben Greenwood. Rebecca is etothepi on livejournal. Ben is contactable thru scrabbleclub.com, I think. Ben has formal experience with this kind of teaching, and Rebecca has been doing newbie puzzles in her blog for non-tourney players and might have good input.
-John On 9/26/07, Walker Willingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm getting ready to teach a Scrabble strategy & resources class (4 > lessons, one per week, starting next Tuesday) thru my local Parks & > Rec district. I'll be using Quackle and a projector to have the class > look at game situations. I'll certainly create some for this, but > I've just started using Quackle and it does take some time to set up > game situations. > > Since the gcg files are transferable, I would love to receive some > game situation files (saved at the decision point would be great, but > complete or partial games with a suggestion of "look at Player X's nth > move" would be fine). > > Send to walker at bainbridge dot net. > > I anticipate enthusiastic but not tourney experienced players, so I'd > like to provide examples that teach more basic stuff, with the best > examples erring on the side of using better known words, especially > the longer words. I won't be even looking at end game decisions until > the last class. > > Some lessons I'd like to teach are > 1)hot spots sometimes disguise themselves, eg sometimes the TWS is not > at all the hottest spot. > > 2)trading is sometimes the best option > > 3)trading is sometimes not best, even though a quick look might > suggest it. (an obscure vowel dump would be OK for this) > > 4)basic rack management examples - both points winning over leave & > leave winning over points > > 5)hook awareness examples (both seeing what's there, & deciding > whether to create a hook for your own use or just play the letter. > > Which brings up a non-Quackle Scrabble question - where are some new > post TWL2 valuations of leave letters? I should imagine not greatly > changed but for Q and to a lesser degree Z due to QI & ZA. > > 5)board leave examples (probably in 3rd lesson) > **Ahead and should probably close > **Behind or relatively even early and should probably open > **Can't close effectively so open a second hot spot (or hotter if you > are close to a potential hi scoring play that you don't want blocked) > > Generally speaking I'd prefer examples where most tourney players > would agree which choice is better, but maybe without being TOO much > of a slam dunk, but anything you find interesting would be welcome, if > possible with explanation in the email of what the situation is. > > Thank you in advance for anything you might be able to send my way. > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
