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#player1 Maboob_Khan Maboob Khan
#player2 Lipey Lipey
>Maboob_Khan: AEG 8F AGE +8 8
#note Aah, Round One of Nationals. A weeklong celebration of the beautiful game, and thus comes the first of several hundred racks, each puzzles to solve, choices to make, a test of my wits against the opponent and the tile bag. Welcome to Buffalo, 2018.
>Lipey: BEHMRST E5 BERM +23 23
#note How quickly it becomes clear that I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground.
>Maboob_Khan: IIII -IIII +0 8
>Lipey: DHINSTZ 6B HIZ.N +27 50
#note DIT is a fun thought but not here, not without having a Z play set in your leave, for sure. DITZ should be it here.
>Maboob_Khan: ACDEILR 9H RADICLE +64 72
>Lipey: ?DDLSTT -DDLT +0 50
>Maboob_Khan: EOO D4 OO.E +32 104
>Lipey: ?AENSTV O4 VAiNEST +100 150
>Maboob_Khan: KO N6 KO +33 137
>Lipey: DEIILNN L7 IN.LINED +74 224
>Maboob_Khan: DEU K11 DUE +18 155
>Lipey: EGILORU K3 GUIRO +14 238
#note On sim, Q likes F2 GLUON and that seems right. The advantage of GUIRO is it starts to exhaust space more effectively. It's not an immediate thing but 4-5 turns from now the board is worse for bingos than after GLUON (or something like GOLDIER on the bottom). Whether this is the right tactic at this point of this game is another question, however.
>Maboob_Khan: AERSSTY 10C STAYERS +73 228
#note Still have a tempo lead on an awkward board, things are fine, as long as he doesn't hit some miracle bango.
>Lipey: BELNORU 3B UNBORE +34 272
>Maboob_Khan: HTU 11E HUT +29 257
>Lipey: ?DLORTT M13 LOT +15 287
#note Don't want to play L column here because if he does hit a miracle on say row 12, I want to have a change at hitting on or developing the top.
>Maboob_Khan: AJM J2 JAM +35 292
>Lipey: ?ADPRTV L1 PRAD +36 323
#note Still have tempo lead.
>Maboob_Khan: FOO 1L .OOF +27 319
>Lipey: ?EEFLTV 3I V...L +26 349
>Maboob_Khan: AGP 12D GAP +26 345
#note We'll almost certainly be bingoless from here and I can ride the blank home safely.
>Lipey: ?EEFTWX 2A EX +36 385
#note Quite happy to see the spider here.
>Maboob_Khan: AY 2N YA +25 370
>Lipey: ?EFINTW 10L .IF. +30 415
>Maboob_Khan: ACIISTW 15M .IC +15 385
>Lipey: ?EINQTW 13C QI +25 440
#note Right play is to not play the Q right away -- NEWT 2E -- and then keep 9B and 13C for QI plays (threatening 9B QIs which needs to be blocked)
>Maboob_Khan: AEISTW 14A WAIST +31 416
>Lipey: ?ENTW G1 TW.ENs +25 465
>Lipey: (E) +2 467
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