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#player1 SB Susan Bertoni
#player2 JJB John J. Bulten
>SB: BRR 8G BRR +10 10
#note ~1:00 [~24:00] At the lower table after a round robin quad, both players are merely trying to save face and conclude the marathon of 24+ games in 3 days. A couple surprises still await.
>JJB: CEMOOOU G7 O.OE +8 8
#note ~1:00 [~24:00] Moue 9d 12, umbo g6 12, moo 9e 11, coombe g4 16, or trade to CE rate up to 3.0 better than this showoff setup.
>SB: DHIN F10 HIND +29 39
#note ~1:00 [~23:00]
>JJB: CIMOORU 12B MORO.IC +28 36
#note ~2:00 [~22:00] Only 2.6 behind muonic.
>SB: BGL C10 GL.B +14 53
#note ~1:00 [~22:00]
>JJB: AADEINU 7I ADIEU +11 47
#note ~2:00 [~20:00] The leave difference between this (AN) and maud 18 (AEIN) is negligible enough that the points gap becomes a 5.6 static difference. Another showoff word.
>SB: CINR L4 NIC.R +16 69
#note ~1:00 [~21:00]
>JJB: AFIMNNO H12 .OIF +27 74
#note ~1:06 [18:54] Straightforward play, but fon 9i 20 is much more recherche and well-balanced (1.5 diff).
>SB: ALNV 5I ANV.L +16 85
#note ~1:00 [~20:00]
>JJB: AAMNNTX 14G M.NX +29 103
#note 1:34 [17:20] JJB sees taxman but misses its 4d placement worth 5.5 more.
>SB: AF J12 FA. +13 98
#note ~0:12 [19:48] Behind fa 9i 19.
>JJB: AAENRST E10 TA. +16 119
#note 1:01 [16:19] JJB's internal soundtrack switches from "I'm the taxman" to "Beyond Antares" but it doesn't help him find santera 68 (28.2 ahead).
>SB: DEEJW K9 JEWED +40 138
#note 0:25 [19:23] SB begins to pull away first.
>JJB: AEGINRS 4C SERINGA +72 191
#note 1:20 [14:49]
>SB: AIV 3B VIA +18 156
#note 1:33 [17:50]
>JJB: DEIKOSU 14A UKE +22 213
#note 1:04 [13:45] Quadruple K at souk l12 42, 14.0 ahead.
>SB: Q -4 +0 156
#note 3:51 [13:59]
>JJB: DEHIOSY L10 HOY +46 259
#note 0:24 [13:21] This impressive parallel is 1.5 behind an even more impressive one, hide 15a 58 (sidhe/hides are 61).
>SB: EENORST N6 ESTRONE +68 224
#note 2:10 [13:59] Only bingo.
>JJB: DEEEIPS - +0 259
#note 0:26 [12:55] JJB was not told about this particular risk of playing Collins: challenging a perfectly good American word because of the bete noire that it's Collins only. No, that phenomenon is the word eaus# instead. He judges that his lead and prospects are sufficient to sustain a challenge (barely so) and stops the clock after 0:25 (restarting after the lost turn cost 1 more second). Best static evaluation is deep o12 32 (also 32.0 ahead of passing).
>SB: PQUU F2 QU.PU +38 262
#note 0:53 [10:56] SB is surprised this word goes down! Now she leads.
>JJB: DEEEIPS O1 SEEPED +39 298
#note 0:22 [12:33] JJB chooses seeped 39, counting on bag goodies; that is 2.9 behind deep 32. Side 15a 40 is also competitive.
>SB: ?AAISTT 1H SATIATe. +74 336
#note 2:50 [8:06] SB holds a big lead but JJB holds the case blank and calculation time.
>JJB: ?AIOTYZ O12 sIZY +46 344
#note 7:48 [4:45] In a long think it's clear that sizy, mazy, fozy are best and give an immediate lead of 8, but winning is not guaranteed. JJB does most of the analysis with fozy, but then realizes that ait 2i is a unique out and can be blocked by wet 19. Mazy has no outs and can lose. He sees that sizy allows total 12 and oaty 8 for a guaranteed lead of 16, and he is confident that SB's play minus her leave will not top 16, so sizy goes down (net of 42 as per actual play). It seems that fozy/dozy has a net of 49, however, after get 15, tiz 24, we 18, awe 8+4. So the overboard analysis was correct but incomplete; apparently fozy wins too, with 7 more points with best play.
>SB: EGLLTW 2M EW. +22 358
#note 3:49 [4:17] SB considers lez 24, omitted by JJB, but she sees that total 12 defeats it, and concedes the best play.
>JJB: AOT 15L OAT. +8 352
#note 0:31 [4:14] Winning with a word that had just scored for Eric Harshbarger in the previous game.
>JJB: (GLLT) +10 362
#note After both players start slow, JJB pulls ahead significantly but SB double-bingos and takes a strong lead that, after JJB's errors, can only be beaten by sufficient correct endgame analysis. Points improvable based on tiles played: SB 6, JJB 7. Points improvable based on values: JJB 103.8.
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