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#player1 TB Tim Bottorff
#player2 JJB John J. Bulten
>TB: JKQXZ -JKQXZ +0 0
#note ~0:50 [~24:10] The swiss portion begins. TB's actual rack unknown.
>JJB: ?ACFNOS 8D FAlCONS +80 80
#note 0:30 [24:30] Until TB exchanges, JJB tries to remember 8s (folacins, factions, nonfacts). Once the path is cleared, falcons goes down immediately rather than confabs. (Flacons does not come to the conscious, but it would in a pinch, and besides JJB would prefer gerfalcons/gyrfalcons to go down.)
>TB: EINX J4 NIXE. +28 28
#note ~2:35 [21:45] Based on partial rack, the static value is just .6 higher for six/xis 26.
>JJB: AABLOOV E7 L.VABO +22 102
#note 1:07 [23:23] With TB's tile indications, JJB has no intention to play lavabo i1 30 or 9a 25 and create nonuple risk; he does not consider f8 18; he spends serious time on the weak abo/oba i4 20; and he finally accepts the poor AO and prefers lavabo e7 18 to e5, due to pluralization risk. However, overlapping and doubling V is worth many more points, up to 13.5 diff for i1. Second-best is aboon i4 26 with ALV and that is also safer than any lavabo.
>TB: AY F10 YA +30 58
#note 0:50 [20:55]
>JJB: AEOOOOT I5 AEO. +19 121
#note 0:37 [22:46] JJB is pleased that aeon i5 scores so much, but it is still a hair short (1.2 behind trading to ET). It is strange to find so many O retentions in his plays, as it does not accord with any bingo theory.
>TB: DE K4 ED +16 74
#note 3:00 [17:55] TB is confident that short plays will get to the bingo; this one looks fine.
>JJB: KOOOTUV D10 KOTO +35 156
#note 0:25 [22:21] Easy save.
>TB: RU H8 .UR +3 77
#note 1:42 [16:13] TB might prefer rued k2 5.
>JJB: GIOTUVY L2 VUG +22 178
#note 1:22 [20:59] Further straightforward balancing. He does not think at this time to keep GY for gyrfalcons.
>TB: AU 2L .AU +12 89
#note 0:37 [15:36] Vowels are almost in line now.
>JJB: EILOTWY H1 TOWEL +32 210
#note 0:55 [20:04] Whatever mental note was made about remembering kotow (or gyrfalcons for that matter), it should have been written originally, as a reminder for when it comes up; row 14 contains many of the best plays, starting with yowie 38 (10.8 diff). JJB finds the best column H play but there is missed opportunity.
>TB: IN 7C NI. +9 98
#note 1:43 [13:53] This appears to be a successful duplicate clearer and potential setup.
>JJB: CDDFGIY N1 F.DGY +13 223
#note 3:39 [16:25] JJB leads by 112 so slowly gravitates to a good leave here rather than taking points with fug 3k 27 (8.1 diff). This time he had seen that he could fish for gyrfalcons 54, but TB blocks it just as JJB thinks about it. He plays and confirms fudgy slowly, liking fidge 20 but not seeing its leave as good enough (it's only -.2).
>TB: EEINRST 1A INTERES. +77 175
#note 1:06 [12:47] The moment arrives, but opponent has walked into several high scorers while the fishing occurred and so the lead to overcome is still significant.
>JJB: BCDGHIR M5 BIRCH +24 247
#note 1:26 [14:59] JJB compares bridge 20 and birch 24, and recalls that CH has a high synergy (+5.6) and DG has a low one (-3.1), but still doesn't put together that bridge is 4.7 better.
>TB: DOW 2F WO.D +31 206
#note 1:26 [11:21] TB is ready to join in with strong premium plays now.
>JJB: ?DGIJTZ C13 JIG +40 287
#note 1:23 [13:36] Meanwhile JZ? all come together and have good rack synergy too. The nonuple line is safe enough now.
>TB: AEPR 15A PA.ER +27 233
#note 3:09 [8:12]
>JJB: ?ADNPTZ B6 ZAP +38 325
#note 0:30 [13:06]
>TB: IQS F13 QIS +23 256
#note 1:32 [6:40] The play of necessity.
>JJB: ?ADLNTT 7H T..D +9 334
#note 3:52 [9:14] JJB patiently works out the best place to dump 2 consonants. Quackle gives .2 more to aft 1m 20, but JJB would prefer a very strong bingo rack (+34.9 over +24.1).
>TB: EEMMR O5 EMMER +35 291
#note 0:22 [6:18] TB is keeping up strong plays but greatly needs the bingo.
>JJB: ?AILLNT 4A TeNAILL. +66 400
#note 2:28 [6:46] JJB finds anthill 69 but again it's the wrong time to tempt a nonuple, and he works until row 4 yields (it also holds allanite/flatline).
>TB: AEHINRS 3A AHI +22 313
#note 5:26.2 [0:51.8] TB has lots of outs in two to pick from and he rightly takes his time. His best find is ahi 22, leading to out/ute 21, erns/eh 13+6, net of 20. Just as he works from the row 3 potential, the best out overall can be guessed to come from the Z potential: izar 21 (first), out/ute 21, hens 3b 26+6, net of 32.
>JJB: EEIOTU 13F .UIET +16 416
#note 5:27 [1:19] Meanwhile JJB is having his own embarrassment. For several minutes during TB's turn and afterwards, he tries time and again to find what tile he has failed to track, because every time he counts the Us on the board and his rack there appear to be 3 of them, and his usual double-check fails too. He sheepishly admits twice he is still working on verifying TB's rack, minutes into his turn, and eventually writes down every suspect letter he sees to find the right opponent rack (ENRS). Finally, he can consider what play to make, but somehow in his distraction concludes that 1) column A is not worth it, when actually it is by 3, and 2) quiet will not add to TB's points, when actually it will by 10 (quite will not). This kind of fog is strange to behold or diagnose. Instead of out/ute 21, erns 13+6, net of 2, we get quiet 16, erns 23+4, net of -11. This serious error is only one point worse than TB's complex endgame inaccuracy, but much more humiliating.
>TB: ENRS K10 ERNS +23 336
#note 0:25.7 [0:26.1] TB is bemused but ready and thankful for the extras.
>TB: (EO) +4 340
#note For the first half, JJB accumulates a lead of 125 on mostly easy premium plays in a mad race at rack balancing, while TB is relegated to exchanging and fishing that makes the bingo not worth the while. In the second half he recovers 49 of those points with fitting competitive and accurate play, but even JJB's blunders score strongly, due to middling-tile synergy. Known points available: TB 14, JJB 16. Overall points available: TB 14.6+, JJB 54.5.
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