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#player1 Noah Noah
#player2 Seth Seth
>Noah: EGLNOOW 8D WOOLEN +26 26
#note I filled in actual racks where I think I know them.
>Seth: AQT 7C QAT +29 29
>Noah: AEEGITT 9C GATE +18 44
>Seth: IINRV H4 VINI.R +13 42
>Noah: EEIPRST 4E PER.IEST +76 120
#note Started laying down PESTIER, ended up with this.
>Seth: ?FILPRX 5D FIX +43 85
>Noah: ADMRUUY 3J YAUD +25 145
>Seth: ?ADELPR 2J PARED +51 136
#note He thought for a bit here, which I think made me think he could have a blank, though I don't think it affected my decision much.
>Noah: CILMNRU 1M MIC +30 175
>Seth: ?ELNSTY J8 STErNLY +79 215
>Noah: AABLNRU 12I U.BAN +14 189
#note Also considered ANURAL. YULAN is available if I want to keep thinkgs opener.
>Seth: FHOO 13L HOOF +29 244
>Noah: ACGJLRW B8 JAW +27 216
>Seth: EIILRUU O10 IRE.UL +30 274
>Noah: BCEGLOR N7 GLOBE +26 242
#note Should maybe just have gone for BECLOG. Decent pool to draw to, the C isn't doing much here.
>Seth: OTU 8L TO.U +15 289
>Noah: ACDGMOR 7K RAG. +15 257
#note Feels like I didn't consider GRAHAM but also sort of like it might've flickered through my mind. I mostly considered CYMAR as an alternative to this. GRAHAM looks like the play to me.
>Seth: ER 3F RE +16 305
>Noah: CDEHMOS 11B SCHMOE +40 297
#note Very good draw to CDMO, but I'm still in kind of a tenuous position here.
>Seth: ADI 12D AID +25 330
>Noah: ?ADENTV 13C VElDT +33 330
#note Took most of my clock (maybe 6 minutes?) to play this. First considered VANED, which I think I thought might win with a Z draw (turns out it doesn't, but I think Seth was low on time and could've missed the wins), but noticed near the end of my time that it potentially gave away a bunch of spread by opening IONIZES. Ended up going with this, which I thought wouldn't ever win, but actually it can win if I draw the E, in an endgame with some pretty tricky lines - I thought more about this game afterward, and eventually ended up postmorteming, I think mostly with Mack and Michael Fagen, though a few others may have watched / contributed as well. Quackle suggests that he just play ZEKS, after VElDT + E draw, but if he does block with KOS 6J, in the postmortem we saw RET 9I, which saves rAN 11J and a huge NA H14 if he makes his only Z play of TIZ. VEND looks like a win with a K draw, and is probably a more likely winner than VElDT, given Seth's plays up to this point. We may have found another 1/8 in the postmortem, but I don't think we were able to do any better. I think I saw rEDAN when thinking by myself, but we may not have discussed it together - that is also a 1/8. Similarly, Macondo gives ADmEN and DEcAN as wins, for a total of 5 1/8s, and DrAT 13D as a nonwinner that ties when the E is drawn, but nothing better than 1/8. Update 7/30/24: Cesar did his own run of Macondo peg to find that V(AT) L6 ties with an S draw, with the line ZONKEY-DEAN-AHI-pST - I'm guessing Quackle's suggested "win" of (E)EK loses to a stick sequence where I block ZEIN (I might have run macondo 4-ply on that endgame and also found it had trouble, which would make sense, since a stick endgame would probably need more plies). ZONKEY looks like a tricky play to find, so V(AT) seems like a good way to try for at least a 1/8 win against a human opponent.
>Seth: EIKNOSZ 6J ZEK +45 375
>Noah: AIN 15L NAI. +5 335
>Noah: (INOS) +8 343
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