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#player1 JB Julia Bogle
#player2 JJB John J. Bulten
>JB: JNNOPST 8G JOT +20 20
#note 0:28 [24:32] JB is rewarded for her patience this tournament with an easy opening decision.
>JJB: ?BBDEEO 9F BOnEBED +77 77
#note 2:25 [22:35] JJB has been getting recognizability level for rare 7s and so he is happily able to spot bonebed 77 and berobed 70. The latter word will have a fateful effect on the next day of play!
>JB: DENNPRS 8K PENDS +35 55
#note 0:33 [23:59] JB continues suavely with the third optimal play in a row, with spirits yet undamped.
>JJB: AALNOOT 10E OAT +21 98
#note ~3:35 [~19:00] (tolan 10g 33 +4.2) JJB noodles with the tiles and has the right idea and a good leave, but should note from the extreme fertility of the board that a 5-tile overlap is not impossible: this would allow him to persevere to find tolan 33, well within his ability to claim.
>JB: DFGLLNR -DFGLLNR +0 55
#note 0:03 [23:56] (pelf k8 18 +12.1) JB characteristically has her vowelless rack ready to trade, and can rightly complain that drawing five consonants to two is a bit unfair. Quackle counsels playing pelf 18, as the remaining 5 combine well even if another 2 are drawn; second place is to trade keeping DR +2.9.
>JJB: AGLLNOY 11G ALLOY +27 125
#note ~2:04 [16:56] (daylong n8 40 +11.4) JJB intuits that a long word is in the works somewhere, but doesn't assemble daylong 40. Row 11 also accommodates onlay for 36, and some other improvements; GN is an unnecessary magnet.
>JB: CEIIORS D10 COIR +18 73
#note 0:19 [23:37] (recision m1 72 +46.2) Now speedy style displays a weakness, as it commends the first good bingo leave with suitable score without checking whether there are better triples (locie 24 with IRS) or hooks (bonebeds with recoins/orceins 35). Most notably, shortly after committing to this play, JB looks at her scoresheet and ruefully realizes she has missed recision 72.
>JJB: DEGINNQ 12C Q. +11 136
#note 1:18 [15:38] The remaining rack has such synergy (+24.0) that dumping the Q for 11 is best, and trading the Q for 0 is second best! Using up the synergy now would only score the bare 24 for grinned at best, so is far behind.
>JB: EEEIORS -EEIO +0 73
#note 0:06 [23:31] (soiree 12g 38 +21.5) The board continues to yield fruitfully, as another 5-tile overlap is available. It's not hard to spot soiree in this rack and to commit to take the time to consider playing it: adding qi for 34 is nice, but adding jotas and four others for 38 is even nicer. JB has resolved, though, to claim the quick +16.8 value of a trade to ERS, and she sees no better option in her first six seconds (note: EIRS is +18.0).
>JJB: ADEGINN H11 .ADEN +21 157
#note 2:33 [13:05] (girned 13b 42 +17.2) JJB has learned via Zyzzyva to avoid the temptation of laned*, but he has not learned to avoid the temptation of holding ING when it can be cashed cheaply. Any holders of the letter I should see standout plays like girned/qi 42. Ruing the fact that deaning goes nowhere (it plays through KLMVW), he puts down the simple continuation.
>JB: EHMRRSZ 12J HERM +28 101
#note 0:20 [23:11] JB again draws all consonants against the odds. Her play is best, tying with rez 31 in the same spot, and with good play of the Z she can still hope to recover the lead.
>JJB: GGIINOV 13B GI.O +32 189
#note 1:29 [11:36] Now the reason that GIN rates only +5.0 is displayed: it has such a risk of horrid pairings that don't pan out. With no 7s or 8s, JJB finally turns his attention to the underused Q.
>JB: ?AFRRSZ O4 ZARF. +27 128
#note 0:36 [23:11] (zarf n11 42 +15) JB gets some value, but 15 more is to be gotten by remembering the hook herm/a and retaining the S for pluralizing zarf later.
>JJB: AGIIINV 15D VINI.G +14 203
#note 2:12 [9:24] (via n10 24 +18.3) Continue to suffer from -ing myopia, JJB resolves to dispose of it together, even though A and I repel each other with -6.9 leave value. GIIN still values at +1.4, and so the hook via/herma 24 is a much more commendable blue square. JJB also considers vigia 5k 18 and should have preferred that (or even exchanging to AGIN +8.2); vimina also undoubles the Is.
>JB: ?EEERSS 4M SE. +12 140
#note 2:32 [20:03] (see 13k 22 +10.9; ens m7 18 +6) JB has now drawn a plethora of bingos but both players have shut the board down heavily and her search time is not rewarded. She also has a plethora of good fishes; to keep EERS?, she could pluralize bonebeds for 18, or for the near-optimal leave of ERS? she could underlap see 13k with three other scorers. At any rate she can hope to put bingo pressure on opponent on next turn.
>JJB: AACEISV N10 VESICA +46 249
#note 0:16 [9:08] (adjust score +2) Having shed his -ing, JJB gets a rack where he recognizes the only bingos (playing through R). However, he also sees vesica quickly, and then realizes on JB's time that it gets the oft-desired sextuple on the V with a hook, making it a near-bingo and making JB's bingo goals less effectual. JB miscounts as 46 and is not corrected.
>JB: ?EELORS 3H RESOLEd +69 209
#note 1:31 [18:32] (roselle 3g 70 +1) The bingo comes with little fanfare. Surprisingly, overlapping one word fewer gets an extra point from the premium (roselle or resolve). Also ahead of some bingos is reoil/yer/re/mo 13k 26. JB still needs to outplay JJB in the final to secure the game.
>JJB: AEINPRU H1 PU. +15 264
#note 1:59 [7:09] (unrepair 6h 64 +39.5) Now it's JJB's turn to neglect a bingo, embarrassingly so. He remembers unpaired/unrepaid, sees unrepair on the board, reminds himself that unrepair couldn't possibly be a verb, and then draws the invalid unconscious assumption that it isn't a noun either! This makes for a funny anecdote after the game, but knowing the bingo and not playing it is costly in tempo even if a bingo can be drawn with the leave (only +9.5 value). Column H could be used to score immediately with unripe/purine 27 without much leave loss.
>JB: ALMTUUX 4E MAUL +14 223
#note 1:26 [17:06] (ox e10 36 +19.0) For best results JB needs to see either ox/ox 36, or mutual/purl 25 in this spot, either of which can allow the other next; Quackle slightly prefers ox. JB doesn't get enough time to reach the double and elects to hold the X too; she gets better than 36 for it soon enough.
>JJB: ADEGINR 5A DERAIGN +81 345
#note 0:51 [6:18] JJB gets a fertile rack and finally underlaps the correct and only play impressively using three twos. Quackle sees less than 1% hope for his opponent at this point, even knowing her rack, which is not a total loss.
>JB: NRTTUWX -NTUW +0 223
#note 0:53 [16:13] (urtext b2 58 +53.3) Playuing by the standard of fun, JB would have an opportunity to sextuple her X with urtext 58, holding onto her nearly 1% win chances. Tux/ton/ute 17 also leaves bingo lanes open for possibilities. Simulation suggests that trading TUX rather than playing it may offer the best odds, keeping NRTW; some exchanges work, but some do not give any simulated wins.
>JJB: AFIKNOT 15M K.F +30 375
#note 0:28 [5:50] (koan 15l 39 +3.2) JJB draws a good random rack and can play kaf quickly, neglecting only the greater points of koan 39 and the balancing effect for of/do/ef 29.
>JB: ERTTWXY 6A EX +53 276
#note 0:18 [15:55] JB has redrawn another T and W, but can console herself with a fun 53.
>JJB: AEIINOT 14A OI +10 385
#note 2:10 [3:40] (adenoid n2 29 +16.3; oi 6f 13 +3) JJB should be able to spot the extension ideation 30, and if he had more time might calculate his way into the subtle extension adenoid 29 with three perpendiculars. His fish is suitable, though 3 behind oi/ago/uni; but when a showy play is also the high scorer and balancer it should be sought, and time should be allotted for that.
>JB: HRTTUWY A5 ..WY +36 312
#note 0:15 [15:40] JB quickly plays the best clearance of the results of her previous score, misadding 3 extra.
>JJB: AAEIINT N6 AI. +11 396
#note 0:45 [2:55] (adjust scores +7) JJB also finds the best clearance of his uncleared rack, without noting JB's miscalculation of 3. He finds himself obliged to empty the bag, not a big problem. He then misreads his 385 as 381 and underscores himself another 4 points.
>JB: HNRTTUU K2 H.UR +14 326
#note 1:54 [13:46] (hurt 5j 17, we 15a 34, tun 7h 10+10 +22) Holding another rack that would be lovely on an open board (untruth), JB has little to offer the endgame. Thruput 13 is nice (6.8 better in static leave) but doesn't allow a big enough out. Hurt 5j 17 or hut 7h 16 allow the best continuation with positive net, due to forestalling opponent's outs in two.
>JJB: AEINTTW 15A ET +16 412
#note 1:09 [1:46] (witan 3b 25, tut 10, et 16+2 +1) We 34 commends itself, but then titan 3b can be blocked with mitt e4, yielding an inferior result. JJB finds the best pair, et with option of witan or twain, but would get one point more for finding the second et 16 (available after witan) and inverting the order.
>JB: NTTU E4 ..TT +6 332
#note 0:22 [13:24] JB instinctively makes the correct block, reducing JJB's response.
>JJB: AINTW 6H TWAIN +17 429
#note 0:23 [1:23] (adjust score +1) JJB is prepared for the play but makes one last math error under time trouble, losing another point.
>JJB: (NU) +4 433
#note JJB's total math errors lower his spread by 10, but when he reads the scores off his sheet they are accepted and the form is filled out. Only after signing it does he ask for JB's sheet and see the 4-point error. The other misscores were silently accepted and not noticed during play. JJB protests that both players agree the error was made, but the ruling is that corrections can only be made for situations like swapping the two final scores, not for correcting spreads after a signature. This is an instructive reminder that players have rights to see their opponents' scoresheets and to recount without pressure, and should exercise those rights freely. JJB indeed took time to recount his loss in game 3 so should not have felt pressured to finalize scores quickly here. In this case JB's passing by or trading away of recision 72, soiree 38, urtext 58, and the hurt/tun or hut/runt outplays was more significant than JJB's omission of daylong 40, girned 42, via/herma 24, unrepair 64, or adenoid 29, or his misscoring. Known points available: JJB 14, JB 44. Overall points available: JJB 111.1, JB 201.0.
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