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#player1 Zach_Ansell Zach Ansell
#player2 Stefan_Kac Stefan Kac
>Zach_Ansell: OOLNY 8H LOONY +24 24
>Stefan_Kac: AEURRXY 9G RAX +38 38
#note WGPO Laguna Woods, CA
4 June, 2022
Game 4
I spent an extra ninety seconds trying to talk myself into R(O)UX and couldn't. It does sim a point ahead of RAX.
>Zach_Ansell: IIIIII -IIIII +0 24
>Stefan_Kac: EUMMRTY L8 .UMMY +30 68
>Zach_Ansell: AEINQRS -Q +0 24
>Stefan_Kac: EEEO?RT K10 OE +16 84
#note Missed both EcTO(M)ERE and TElO(M)ERE, not for lack of trying. After opp's exch 1 it's best to hold back anyway. But OE at 10I is the next-level find here as it is sneakily much more defensive.
>Zach_Ansell: AEIGNRS 7C REGINAS +75 99
>Stefan_Kac: AEE?NRT E5 RE.ENTAl +82 166
>Zach_Ansell: IIHL J11 HILI +17 116
>Stefan_Kac: AEODGLW D3 GLOW.D +38 204
#note Prob would have tried GAL(l)OWED#...
>Zach_Ansell: BN F6 B.N +29 145
>Stefan_Kac: AEIDJRR 12B JAR. +20 224
#note This is where everything starts to go wrong. With many nearly equivalent options, I was dead set on unduplicating and against opening the top right, e.g. with 3B JA(G)ER. The top-simmer here, M12 AJI, just feels dunderheaded and I'm not sure I even considered it. What I *really* wanted was JAR(L) at 13G for the same score, but couldn't quite find the gumption. That's gotta be better though, since opp's counterplay in the h column gives me first crack at the resulting floater, and because of all the unseen OOs for J underlaps. Per opp, my play blocked a bingo...but playing it in the other spot also blocks...and it was easy to foresee pretty much exactly the chain of events that this play set off.
>Zach_Ansell: OBG 13A GOB +29 174
>Stefan_Kac: EIDDKPR M11 PERK +36 260
#note Good luck and GODSPEED#. Not too scared of n column bingos that give back huge reparallels, and sure, I could easily draw an ess myself...but the long term loss of board control sucks. A YEPS bingo *right now* is actually totally fine...later not so much, as we shall see. I'm totally willing to make plays like this, and this again blocked a bingo, per opp, but it's not great to be *forced* into it. How much equity should I be willing to sacrifice here for board control? I feel like 12I KEPI types of plays have been sure losers for me in the past.
>Zach_Ansell: IT 14A IT +27 201
>Stefan_Kac: IIOUDDN A13 ..D +15 275
#note Now have to play chess, which I suck at. D11 D(R)OID looks like the play here.
>Zach_Ansell: EV 3B VE. +14 215
>Stefan_Kac: IIOUDNT H7 ...TION +8 283
#note Now melting down, right on schedule. 10B DUI(T) is a pretty basic find.
>Zach_Ansell: AE?CNST 15A .ANCiEST +100 315
>Stefan_Kac: EIIUCDZ K5 ZEI. +26 309
#note I was so into chasing the Q I didn't consider DI(T)Z. And DIZE(N) is better in this and every other way. Other than that...
>Zach_Ansell: AVW L4 VAW +34 349
>Stefan_Kac: IOUCHDQ 10B QUO.H +45 354
>Zach_Ansell: AF 14F FA +28 377
>Stefan_Kac: AIUCDDP B1 PA.ID +20 377
#note Four-ply sim strongly prefers exchanging over any play on the board, including this. Didn't even think of that option. But I'm probably cooked here regardless.
>Zach_Ansell: EIILSTT N6 ELITIST +79 456
#note ggz
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