Replay drill

The playmat's guide, replay-drill: Use when the player asks for a drill, a puzzle, practice, or to replay their losses or mistakes from reviewed games.

Practise on your own past mistakes. After a review, the assistant takes a decision you got wrong, puts the board back at that moment without saying what the answer was, and asks: “It’s your turn. What’s your play?”

Answer in words, or play the turn on the board. The assistant checks your line on its merits first, then compares it with the better line from the review. If you found it, it says so; if your line is different but just as good, it says that too; if you missed it, it plays the better line on a branch so you can watch it, and gives you the principle behind it.

It needs a reviewed game open on the playmat. If the game hasn’t been reviewed yet, it offers to review it first.

Example prompts

Give me a drill based on the mistakes from this game.

Give me a sequencing drill from this game.

Give me another one.