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#player1 Rafi Rafi
#player2 Alec Alec
>Rafi: AILMNST -L +0 0
#note Rafi provided his racks!
>Alec: ?AEEITY 8F AYE +12 12
#note Quackle prefers AIYEE at either 8D, 8E, or 8H. But Rafi just exchanged 1, so I am inclined to play shorter and avoid giving back DWS/2*2's.
>Rafi: AEIMNST 7E INMATES +77 77
#note H8 ETAMINES is 83. Rafi saw it but chose the more defensive option.
>Alec: ?EGIRST K4 GrI.TERS +82 94
#note K4 GoRSIEST is best; I didn't bother to iterate the blank. GrISTERS opens only three distinct floaters instead of four, while GoRSIEST weakens 6J and puts the S in row 10, rather than row 11 which has a DWS. #tacticssmall
>Rafi: AILPUWZ 6J P.LAW +34 111
#note The race to the S begins.
>Alec: ABCORRV M3 VOC.B +30 124
#note This protects the S-hook on PILAW; but my best plays that somewhat block it (8K TAROC, N3 VROW) are 12 points back.
>Rafi: CIOOUVZ L11 OUZO +28 139
#note Another high-scoring S-hook. The race continues!
>Alec: AEFORRT 13I FRO.E +42 166
#note This time I have viable blocking plays such as M13 ARF, but FROZE is still best.
>Rafi: ?CDIMRV 14K D.MIC +27 166
#note Rafi wins the race but correctly chooses to partially block OUZO-S.
>Alec: AEINORT O7 ANORETI. +83 249
#note Blocking PILAW-S but setting up ANORETIC-S. The race continues!
>Rafi: ?NRUUUV -NUUUV +0 166
>Alec: AEFLLRY 15H FLEA +25 274
#note Trying to block row 15 without opening anything on row 14 that didn't already play on row 12. But 15G FLARE fulfils this requirement while scoring three more points. Apparently 15F RALLYE is best, but I would still play FLARE. M3 VOCABLY is awesome, and it doesn't take any hooks, unlike VOCABLE. #findingsmall
>Rafi: ?EHIILR 4D HIRELIn. +74 240
>Alec: EKLNRUY H1 KEL.Y +36 310
>Rafi: EGINPVW N9 PEW +23 263
>Alec: EINRRUX 3C REX +34 344
>Rafi: ADGINUV 6C VUG +10 273
#note 9D GUV blocks row 10.
>Alec: BIJNNRU 9C JINN +22 366
#note Blocking row 10 and column C. This opens column D, but it's a marginal lane, and a play down from the J can be used to exhaust the bottom left quadrant. But I had not considered...
>Rafi: AADINOU B7 AUDIO +21 294
#note ...JINN takes a D. Although a play from the J would block column B as well.
>Alec: BDEORTU A1 OUTBRED +92 458
#note I told Rafi that I doubted I would have found B9 DOUBTER. But he was confident.
>Rafi: AGHINNS 1D SHAN.ING +67 361
#note Rafi won the race to the real S as well, but it took seven turns after PILAW for him to draw it. And he didn't use it for ANORETICS, because he had a bingo.
>Alec: AAEOSTT 10B .OTA +17 475
#note Best, and one of two plays (the other is IOTAS) that Q-stick Rafi.
>Rafi: DQ - +0 361
#note Rafi hopes for me to play off the E, so that he can play N14 ID and block ANORETICS (if he plays ID while I have the E, I can play 15M ED followed by EDS/ANORETICS).
>Alec: AEST J6 ..A +7 482
>Rafi: DQ - +0 361
>Alec: EST J6 ...T +8 490
>Rafi: DQ - +0 361
>Alec: ES O7 ........S +33 523
>Rafi: DQ F1 .D +7 368
>Alec: E C9 ..E +12 535
>Alec: (Q) +20 555
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