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#player1 Mina Mina
#player2 Jason_Keller Jason Keller
>Mina: EGHIISU -GIIU +0 0
#note A kitchen-table player friend recently inquired, when do you exchange? Until this year, I had only made the decision to exchange based on intuition. But now, Cesar (I have to spell his name without the accent or else Quackle deletes this entire comment when it saves the .gcg file) taught me that you should exchange unless you can score half of what you normally score and keep a good leave. So let's look at this opening rack then. Quackle favors opening with HUI for 12 keeping EGIS. I don't consider EGIS a good leave, only an okay leave. So I changed GIIU, which according to Quackle is the next best play.
>Jason_Keller: GOW 8G WOG +14 14
>Mina: AEHINRS J2 HERNIAS +78 78
#note By far the best choice. SHERWANI is fun to learn.
>Jason_Keller: BMO 9F MOB +18 32
>Mina: GLLMOPW 10C GLOM +25 103
#note From this sim, I learn that I like the W more than I should. After 3I M(E)LLOW, the next best plays are 10D PLOW or GLOW. To borrow some Cesarian phraseology, I lost 7.7 equity points here.
>Jason_Keller: ?CDELOV 4G oVE.COLD +84 116
>Mina: ADLNPSW 5D PAWN +19 122
#note Not terrible, but I completely overlooked the best play, which is PWN in the same spot, to keep a vowel in the leave. -2
>Jason_Keller: EENP K1 PEN.E +29 145
#note This is the type of play that I never seem to see, and which I need to learn to find: the sneaky multi-overlap that scores far more points than you'd think it might.
>Mina: ADEELRS 3A DEALERS +71 193
#note Oh my goodness, a couple of disconnected nines were available: didn't know PREDELLAS, but PEDALLERS was within my reach. I also missed the highest scoring eight, RELA(P)SED. "When you see a bingo, try to find a better bingo" as they say.
>Jason_Keller: AAD A1 DA.A +21 166
>Mina: GIKNTTU 6B KNIT +24 217
#note Quackle is so inscrutable. Its favorite play is 1K (P)UTTI, which scores only as much as my play (24) and keeps a MUCH worse leave (GKN as compared to GTU), and yet it assigns PUTTI a valuation of 23.0 and KNIT a valuation of 15.0. I cannot fathom the reason for such alleged superiority. What on earth could that mean?!!!
>Jason_Keller: BEN 3I B..NE +33 199
#note Again, a play is placed where I wouldn't even have thought to look, because it's so jammed up.
>Mina: CGIOTUU -GIOTUU +0 217
#note I panicked and exchanged six here, even though I had an inkling that no expert would do such a thing with this rack. Lesson is to slow down and look. 1K (P)ICOT for 30 sims best even though it keeps GUU, because hey, 30 (when you're already 18 points ahead), and 7A GOUT for 20 is next best: these were within my capabilities to find and choose. Equity loss of 11.1
>Jason_Keller: ALTY 1K .ATLY +33 232
>Mina: CEEERRZ C10 .EEZER +32 249
#note Sims best.
>Jason_Keller: AJTU 15A JU.AT +39 271
>Mina: ?CFGIIR N4 .IF +15 264
#note Only seventh best. 11B R(E)IF for 26 keeping CGI? sims best (that's the kind of play I can't seem to see, the kind where the spot is tucked away), followed closely by 5M FIG for 16 keeping CIR?, which I should have been able to see but is also a non-obvious spot because it doesn't cover any premium tiles.
>Jason_Keller: FIOTTU M6 OUTFIT +19 290
>Mina: ?CGIORV 10L V.G +11 275
#note 11J VIC(T)OR keeping G? seems best. It just would never occur to me to play off so many good tiles while holding a blank. My modus operandi when holding a blank is to fish off only a couple of worst tiles. Still, the second-best-simming play keeps the same leave that I did (CIOR?) and scores three more points than I did: 12B V(E)G. I guess I just didn't want to block that nice lane. I forgot about the back hook -A on VIG, to my great detriment.
>Jason_Keller: AEQRU O8 QUARE +53 343
#note And that's why you don't forget your hooks. Or maybe I could institute a new mental algorithm where I purposely think about a word's hooks before I hit the clock.
>Mina: ?CIOORS 12G COORIeS +78 353
#note The best bingo here is (D)ISCOLOR for 89, and I admit I didn't even look up there!!! After that, I didn't know ISOChOR (83) or OCtROIS (82), but 78 is not bad. It puts me back in the game.
>Jason_Keller: HIU 13G HUI +27 370
>Mina: AEIOSTY H11 Y..SE +24 377
#note Oh sweet god. Championship Player likes 7A SOYA for 31 leaving EIT, which is lovely but which I would never have considered. I guess NY is hard to see?! That's a hard play to find! 7C ASEITY for 37 is extremely clever. Also, I foolishly thought he didn't have any big X spot that I needed to block, because I forgot that the word XED exists.
>Jason_Keller: DIINRX B2 X.D +43 413
>Mina: AIOT 14E ITA. +16 393
>Jason_Keller: IINR 11B R.IN +14 427
>Mina: O 13C .O +11 404
>Mina: (I) +2 406
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