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#player1 Magrathean Magrathean
#player2 Evan_Berofsky Evan Berofsky
>Magrathean: CDEETUZ 8G ZED +26 26
>Evan_Berofsky: ADEIR 9E IRADE +27 27
>Magrathean: ACETTUX 10F EX +34 60
#note yikes! I have no idea how I missed EXACT. ugh.
>Evan_Berofsky: DIILO 8B IDOLI... +25 52
#note jeez!
>Magrathean: ACITTUW 7B TAW +18 78
#note right spot, but WAIT is better at the same spot just because it doesn't set up that lane. with a bad rack, you don't want to enhance volatility...
>Evan_Berofsky: ?AKMRSU A1 MARKUpS +108 160
#note I guess this is the worst-case scenario here, but WAIT would've avoided it.
>Magrathean: BCIMOTU 4A .OMBU +26 104
>Evan_Berofsky: IJNOS C7 ..JOINS +46 206
>Magrathean: ACEIITV 12B I.ACTIVE +84 188
#note I get my own stroke of good fortune.
>Evan_Berofsky: AEEEGLT 13I LEGATEE +71 277
>Magrathean: AFGHOUW 5E HOWF +36 224
#note I could play HAW here to block up the bottom-right, and I considered it, but it really doesn't help me much with winning this game, and the sim sort of reflects it.
>Evan_Berofsky: AAB 12L BAA +22 299
>Magrathean: AGGNTTU N8 GUTT.. +9 233
#note a really frustrating move that I must've spent five or six minutes on. unfortunately, there really wasn't very much good to do here. Quackle suggests GUT or TUG at 11I, which seem a bit defeatist. I chose GUTTAE because it opens things up, and a parallel play on column O creates a very nice new lane. interestingly, quackle seems to say that guttae is less volatile of a move relative to GUT or TUG, maybe because the board wouldn't necessarily have much to offer to him without the new spot I'm offering.
>Evan_Berofsky: DOOR O5 ORDO +24 323
>Magrathean: AEGNPQR 11B Q. +22 255
>Evan_Berofsky: OPR 11K POR. +20 343
>Magrathean: AEGNNPR H1 GANE. +30 285
#note I should've recognized that PEAN was significantly better than GANEF. It leaves lanes at completely different quadrants of the boards that are tricky to block. It even scores more. evan's response illustrates why this is such a bad move.
>Evan_Berofsky: CILV 2F CL.VI +18 361
#note I basically hurried the end of the game by playing GANEF when I didn't need to, without giving myself particularly good lanes anyway.
>Magrathean: INNOPRY 1J PINYON +40 325
>Evan_Berofsky: EEY 2M EYE +29 390
>Magrathean: EHILRRU F5 .H +13 338
#note quackle preliminary indicates a few wins, but after looking through some endgames it appears that quackle is simply neglecting to block in the preendgame player. that's not to say that my play is right, but I was at least trying for something - drawing an S or both blanks would give me SLURRIER, which happens not to be good but which I felt was worth a try. But playing the H at M3 offers an actual try, drawing for SURLIER, which should still never work. Another try is LEU at O12 and hope that evan doesn't realize that D hook bingos are dangerous. my play is not terrible from a spread perspective, and could've won me the game with a different draw and a slightly more liberal dictionary.
>Evan_Berofsky: AENNSST 3J ANTS +25 415
>Magrathean: EFILRRU 14F FURL +18 356
>Evan_Berofsky: ?ENS 15F aNES +25 440
>Evan_Berofsky: (EIR) +6 446
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