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#player1 David_Nwabor David Nwabor
#player2 Matthew_Tunnicliffe Matthew Tunnicliffe
>David_Nwabor: RRUU 8E RURU +8 8
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AENRUUW 7C UWU +9 9
#note 4 U's on the first turn is basically a summoning ritual for the Q
>David_Nwabor: ITZ 8A ZIT +38 46
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AEGNORY 6B ORANGEY +78 87
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: BGOQRTY (challenge) +5 92
>David_Nwabor: BEEL 5H BELE +19 65
>David_Nwabor: BEEL -- -19 46
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: BGOQRTY 5G BORTY +29 121
#note Pretty clear mistake. I'm giving obvious spots for his B, when BOYG limits his options in a much better way.
>David_Nwabor: BEE 4H BEE +23 69
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: DGILMQT -DGLMQ +0 121
#note Q prospects are so dreadful I just need to jettison it, but I hated doing it because I knew it could come up again. Hopefully with more spots avaialble for it
>David_Nwabor: LO A8 .OL +12 81
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: CEIINTV 3J VINIC +26 147
>David_Nwabor: AEINPRS 9H RAPINES +63 144
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: EEEFJRT 2G JEFE +25 172
#note Setting up case R
>David_Nwabor: ?AIINPT L6 PAI.TINg +70 214
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: EEFGIRT 10C FIGTREE +68 240
>David_Nwabor: COX M5 COX +41 255
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AADEILO N6 DEA.OIL +34 274
>David_Nwabor: ADOT K11 DOAT +19 274
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AAADLLO O12 ALOD +21 295
#note I was considering AZOLLA but decided not to set up S spots so aggressively just yet. It would suck to get destroyed on both S spots
>David_Nwabor: DE 1H DE +23 297
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AAELMQS 8K Q. +22 317
#note Huge TALAQ whiff.... jesus
>David_Nwabor: ?AENNST 15E TANNErS +74 371
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AAEILMS C10 .A +5 322
#note I figured out that my best shot was to outrun rather than bingo, since an O in the bag means he has a very unwieldy rack. Unfortunately I only came up with SALAMI and not its anagram ALISMA. I also short-circuited a bit and somehow deduced that I rarely had outplays with 3 tiles next turn. But if I'm assuming O is in the bag, I do of course have outplays with a consonant and my remaining E. Somehow I was thinking I would have 2 consos 1 vowel next turn and rarely having unblockable outs. In the end I settled for a 1/9 fish (melisma), which is clearly worse than I can do with ALISMA (2/9). SALAMI does not win every O-in-the-bag endgame because it concedes SHH. Looks like even with an O draw I lose 3.5/8. It's possible FA is better than 1/9 since some non-M draws might still be really hard for David to win, depending on what I can threaten on row 14. But i think its just 1/9 I cant be bothered to figure it out. ALL OF THAT SAID at the risk of sounding like I'm justifying a mistake here, I did get a strong read that the O was on his rack, lots of shuffling and arranging sets of 3-4 tiles which I feel like you dont do with a 7 conso rack. So given that maybe I just need to go for MELISMA
>David_Nwabor: GHHMOSV 12C GOV +21 392
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AEIKLMS 14B MELIK +60 382
>David_Nwabor: HHMSW O7 SH +41 433
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: AS 13F AS +10 392
#note ran out of time. TALAQ and ALISMA/SALAMI were clumsy mistakes toward the end, though with how the tiles fell in the end i might have just been dead regardless
>Matthew_Tunnicliffe: (HMW) +22 414
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