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#player1 Dave_Koenig Dave Koenig
#player2 Chris_Lipe Chris Lipe
>Dave_Koenig: AACEGHP 8H APACHE +34 34
>Chris_Lipe: ?EILLNY H8 .LpINELY +83 83
#note Optimal bingo from Chris.
>Dave_Koenig: DGIJNRS 12D DJIN. +26 60
>Chris_Lipe: EEOUU J4 EUOU.E +8 91
>Dave_Koenig: CDGLORS 4H CL.G +10 70
#note I spent a long time thinking here, because my choice is very unobvious#. I don't have anything very high scoring, and pretty much all of my plays that score in the 20s break up the rack more than I would like. After some thought, I decided that it was right to fish off some consonants to leave myself the best bingo shot possible. By setting up the CLEGS hook to the double word score, I tried to assure myself a good backup scoring play if I should happen to pull a heavy tile that stopped me from bingoing. Quackle is not crazy about CLEG, but it definitely agrees with my strategy of playing a low scoring fish here. Its favorite play is GILD F11, because the CORS leave is stronger than the DORS one. It likes that even more than playing GELD 4I for 2 more points because keeping the E open increases my bingo chances even more.
>Chris_Lipe: EIT I11 TIE +23 114
>Dave_Koenig: DENORST N8 SNORTED +84 154
#note RODENTS is considerably worse because of ERODENTS#.
>Chris_Lipe: EIK O13 EIK +26 140
>Dave_Koenig: ABLORST 15A SORTABL. +92 246
#note I have many other bingos here, but I'm glad that I remembered this one, which is by far the highest scoring.
>Chris_Lipe: AW M12 AW +24 164
>Dave_Koenig: BDFINRV L10 FIB +26 272
#note Before his play, I was looking to dump more consonants, perhaps with FORBID or BOVID on row 6, but I thought he might have been setting up a spot for QAT in two directions. Even if not, the L12 spot is one of the higher scoring ones on the board, so it is worth taking out.
>Chris_Lipe: ERTU H1 TRU.E +21 185
>Dave_Koenig: ADGNPRV 5D GRAV. +18 290
#note Perhaps PARVO B11 to take out column A and the Z spot at 14B, but there is also value to taking out the row 6 lane. (TRUCE takes D and S.)
>Chris_Lipe: EX 6E EX +52 237
>Dave_Koenig: ADEMNPZ 14B ZA +46 336
>Chris_Lipe: QTU F10 QU.T +33 270
#note He clearly had no A or I on his rack, as QUIT or QUAT# would have played quite nicely at 4C and also set up a useful S hook on column B. In fact, he would see only one I and no A's for the rest of the game, while getting bombarded with O's.
>Dave_Koenig: DEGMNPR K8 .REM +31 367
#note I'm still struggling with a lot of consonants here, but this scores enough more than the alternatives to be worth it.
>Chris_Lipe: MOOS L1 MOOS +34 304
>Dave_Koenig: ?DGINPW 2K P.WND +22 389
>Chris_Lipe: OY 13C YO +25 329
>Dave_Koenig: ?AADGIO O1 A.AGIO +30 419
#note I was glad to see after the game that I did not miss any bingos to the T or R.
>Chris_Lipe: EV 6M EV. +14 343
>Dave_Koenig: ?ADHINR 1A HANDwRI. +89 508
#note Ha, Quackle outdoes me once again. I was quite happy with my bingo, which scored enough to outdistance any bingos from him. Also, I had mistracked his O for an E and thought he had FEISTIER on row 2. But I had an even better bingo of HANDGRIP D1, which would have simultaneously taken out the top two rows and row 7 where FINITES or NIFTIES could have played. In a closer game, that could have made a big difference. Moreover, I'm sure that Nigel Richards would have played HANDGRIP. I'll have to work harder.
>Chris_Lipe: EFIIOST 9C FEIS +25 368
>Dave_Koenig: N B1 .N +4 512
>Dave_Koenig: (IOT) +6 518
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