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#player1 BK Barry Keith
#player2 JJB John J. Bulten
>BK: IMPW H7 WIMP +22 22
#note 1:00 [24:00]
>JJB: AEFIRSW I8 FAIR +22 22
#note 3:35 [21:25] Upset that farmwise* is no good, JJB neglects to cash the S (waifs 34, better evaluated by 9.2) or to fish (paw or wap 16).
>BK: ?AEIINN G1 ANIlINE +64 86
#note 1:29 [22:31] Biennia is equal; asinine plays for 71. BK's showiest play is inanimate 62.
>JJB: AEILOSW H1 WO +32 54
#note 1:33 [19:52] JJB writes and scratches off loanwise*, accumulating a nice phonies list; he fishes correctly this time, given the easier choices.
>BK: TTTU 5C TUTT. +10 96
#note 0:50 [21:41] One of those plays that broadcasts how bad a cold draw can be.
>JJB: AEIILST 12C LAITIES +74 128
#note 0:32 [19:20]
>BK: DIOO F10 OO.ID +12 108
#note 1:52 [19:49] BK may want to use an S, which he does later, or to have more lines open, but c3 was worth 4 more. Opioid also dumps the same letters satisfactorily for 11.
>JJB: EGHOORR E10 GH. +27 155
#note 2:08 [17:12] Horror! JJB gambles again on points over rack imbalance. Hog f1 26 seems the best of both worlds (7.4 diff), while rougher 24 is the turnover play. Keep seeking the parallels.
>BK: AQT 6B QAT +36 144
#note 0:40 [19:09]
>JJB: DEOORRT D4 O..RODE +22 177
#note 1:20 [15:52] This pretty play probably has psychological value worth the 3.3 diff evaluated in favor of roo f1 18.
>BK: DRU 8A DUR. +15 159
#note 1:10 [17:59] Best use up the triple, all things being equal.
>JJB: GNNRRST H12 .RGS +15 192
#note 3:02 [12:50] JJB considers trade (leave of RST is worth 13.6); trig 12 (NNRS .8); ergs 15 (NNRT -6.5); engs 15 (NRRT -7.1); and grist or grits 13 (NNR -4.3). For some reason, such as immediate points, he undervalues both duplicate removal and the S, where both could be achieved easily with ring 13 (NRST 12.7, or 17.2 better than actual).
>BK: AE F5 .AE +15 174
#note 0:57 [17:02] BK artfully dumps vowels from a bingo rack while maintaining time advantage.
>JJB: AEENNRT 4G .ANNERET +66 258
#note 1:20 [11:30] Lantern: issue.
>BK: AEENNRS 15A RENNASE. +84 258
#note 0:29 [16:33] BK is also ready, and JJB holds for not having seen the word recently. (Ensnare also played.) There is an ominous pause as the tie score is announced.
>JJB: EEHIPYY N2 PI.HY +42 300
#note 2:10 [9:20] JJB finds a play worth releasing the hold for.
>BK: AOZ O6 AZO +41 299
#note 1:20 [15:13] BK has drawn some power of his own.
>JJB: ?AEEEXY 5J AXE +42 342
#note 0:56 [8:24] JJB has made another strong draw, but must watch his clock and the endgame if he doesn't bingo. He also totally neglects ex j9 58 (12.7 better).
>BK: MU 6I UM +21 320
#note 2:03 [13:10] Notes indicate BK held onto these tiles reticently before finalizing the decision.
>JJB: ?EELVVY N8 LEV +16 358
#note 3:23 [5:01] For game purposes, JJB would rather have seen gyve 19 (10.5 better), or have chosen levy 20 or vex 13.
>BK: GLU M1 LUG. +20 340
#note 0:29 [12:41]
>JJB: ?DEFJVY O1 JoE +35 393
#note 3:14 [1:47] JJB can find no better choice than to use up his power and enter a heavily racked endgame. The hook permits defy 32 (16.8 better) and jivy 42 (much better for the actual goals sought), and emptying the bag may or may not be acceptable for these points.
>BK: CES J8 SEC +35 375
#note 0:53 [11:48] BK's effective parallelism keeps him within winning possibility. If facing an empty bag, he may have had enough to win.
>JJB: BDFKOVY 13B KOB +26 419
#note 1:19 [0:28] Under time pressure JJB has tracked BK's rack as bocci, which would hook under kob k10 30, so JJB suddenly moves the tiles to 13b. The best continuation seems to be kob 30, cob 26, fly 18, ilex 11+12, which calculates as 1 point net to BK, but 26 better than 13b. Other plays lose; doby and body 30 lose to colobi.
>BK: BCILO F1 COL +22 397
#note ~5:18 [~6:30] On BK's clock, JJB tracks correctly and is shocked to discover he has handed BK the winning hook he thought he had prevented. BK sees levo, and tries arrangements, but lobic* looks more like a word to him than the winning play, cibol 25+28 (27 net to BK counting JJB's previous play). With kob 26, caw 22, and JJB's kye 20, the best play is only ibex 13+20 with a net of 9 to BK.
>JJB: DFVY B13 .Y. +20 439
#note 0:17 [0:11] JJB succeeds in finding the best continuation and is relieved to have avoided the falling knife he himself dropped.
>BK: BI 14H .IB +12 409
>BK: (DFV) +20 429
#note ~0:32 [5:58] BK scores 1 less than the best out, ibex. BK had kept even throughout and even tied with a bingo rack one letter away from JJB's, but his last win opportunity relied on an obscure 5 that didn't seem reasonable enough. Points improvable based on tiles played: JJB 26, BK 30. Points improvable based on values: JJB 103.1. |
