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#player1 Matthew_Tunnicliffe Matthew Tunnicliffe
#player2 Bradley_Whitmarsh Bradley Whitmarsh
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: EGINTVW 8H VINEW +30 30
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: EEGI J6 GE.IE +12 12
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AGGIIOT K3 AGIO +13 43
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: DEIOO L8 .OODIE +20 32
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AGILTTY L2 GAITT +26 69
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: ERZ 14L REZ +35 67
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: ALLRRUY 15M LAY +31 100
#note Leave is clumsy enough that I should just take ALLURER and let Brad take the Z underlap spot...
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: ABC K10 CAB +29 96
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: CILRRUX 3I CR..L +20 120
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: EEK 2L .EEK +20 116
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: INRSTUX I7 N.X +39 159
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: OW 1N WO +38 154
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: IRSSTTU 13K S.T +20 179
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: EH 4H EH +13 167
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: EIRSTUU -UU +0 179
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: AEILN 5E ALINE +20 187
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: EIJPRST E4 J.P +12 191
#note Had no clue what to do here, but this seems OK
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: MRRU D5 MURR +19 206
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AEIORST C7 OARIEST +73 264
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: ADENNP B2 PANNED +26 232
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AFLOOUU A5 AFOUL +36 300
#note In hindsight, I should do the other AFOUL spot to kill more bingo lanes. It's not giving back that much
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: IQTUV 10B Q.VIUT +40 272
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: BDDOOUY A1 DOY +30 330
#note I bungled this position pretty badly. Yes, the instinct is to block SPANNED without opening a new line, and this prevents Brad's bingo for one turn. But I am leaving 3 tiles in the bag and have just opened an extremely obvious spot for Brad to plunk two tiles to open a premium seven lane. I will be forced to make a low-scoring block up top and pray that he fails to hit anything down below. Playing BODY looks scary, and it is. The fact is that I am very likely to lose regardless of what I do, because there are two blanks unseen and I am up by less than a bingo. I probably need to draw a blank and get a bit of luck to pull this out. BODY scores well enough to outrun many of his bingo hits down below and exposes a weak enough letter (the B) for eights. YOB, in the same spot exposes the fewest bingos, but simply does not score well enough to outrun most big plays down below. My choice of DOY outruns a decent chunk of the bingos down below, and obviously exposes no bingos up top, but it surrenders the dangerous 2-turn sequence that I willl struggle to beat without a blank draw and some other luck. We're looking at a difference of about 30% of a win between DOY and BODY, which is pretty damn chasmic.
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: ??EHSST E8 SH.TtErS +71 343
#note In the end, DOY did introduce a much more complicated position for Brad, who was very low on time. He did consider the 2-turn sequence starting with C2 SH, but played this low on time. BODY would have given up the much simpler winning bingos of BRASHEST. So my choice of DOY is not without merit when you consider the time factor
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: BDFNORU 15A FORB. +39 369
>Bradley_Whitmarsh: AIM C2 AM +29 372
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: DNU 1C DUN +11 380
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: (I) +2 382
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