Game Details
Player 1
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#player1 Connie_Creed Connie Creed
#player2 Samuel_Kaplan Samuel Kaplan
>Connie_Creed: AGJ H7 JAG +22 22
#note Will I get a winning record and a somewhat small rating loss or a losing record and make it easily my worst one?
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?ADEEIL 10B AEDILEs +72 72
#note Easy enough.
>Connie_Creed: EOPZ E9 P.EZO +32 54
>Samuel_Kaplan: AIORRTX I7 OX +29 101
#note I drew the natural ORATRIX which does not play on this board. After ARRO(Z), the X is actually not that great a tile even though it looks like I can continue outscoring Connie. I did see F5 OXTAI(L) but RR is just so bad that keeping AIRRT isn't terrible either with the open E in AEDILES. OXTAIL also felt reckless at this score.
>Connie_Creed: OOU 12C OU.O +26 80
>Samuel_Kaplan: AFIRRTV J4 RIFT +25 126
#note Atrocious draw, but I didn't see C9 F(E)T(O)R. Yea, that looks a little safer to force Connie to open. This gives back the D and G hooks that I don't have. #visionsmall
>Connie_Creed: DEG J3 G....ED +22 102
#note Interesting play.
>Samuel_Kaplan: AAINNRV 5E NAVAR.N +40 166
#note Yep. That's the play. #visionsolid
>Connie_Creed: IIKW 4B KIWI +24 126
#note Could also YAW to reparallel on top but I liked setting up my C for another score next turn.
>Samuel_Kaplan: ACHIRWY 3C HAW +39 205
#note Looks good.
>Connie_Creed: DEEP K8 DEEP +29 155
>Samuel_Kaplan: CFIORTY 6D FOY +37 242
>Connie_Creed: DEI 5A DIE +16 171
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?CIIRTU A5 .UCI +21 263
#note CIRcUIT would have been amazing to get down! But this is fine.
>Connie_Creed: EGLOR 3H LO.GER +18 189
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?HILMRT 13C MH. +29 292
#note Definitely not doing L10 MIRTH with 4 Ss left. I'll let her get impatient and open up something for me then I will take advantage of it.
>Connie_Creed: NT L2 N.T +6 195
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?EILRTT L9 fLITTER +73 365
#note bRITTLE also works in this spot as well. I chose fLITTER given her last play and the consonant heavy pool.
>Connie_Creed: ANRSSTU 14G SAUNT.RS +70 265
>Samuel_Kaplan: CEMNOSV 15D VENOM +56 421
#note Yep
>Connie_Creed: AAINRU N8 ANURIA. +9 274
>Samuel_Kaplan: ABCIOST O6 COB +33 454
>Connie_Creed: BEELQSY 7C YES +23 297
#note It was not hard to see that Connie is Q-stuck. Safe to say this one definitely went my way.
>Samuel_Kaplan: AIST M5 AITS +10 464
#note Definitely not the best tournament I've had. There were some frustrating moments in the games I lost, but there is a major positive to take: I came back from another triple digit deficit in Round 2 and I ended on a good note. Gonna lose 14 rating points but that's part of Scrabble sometimes. Till next time in Princeton!
>Samuel_Kaplan: (BELQ) +30 494
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