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#player1 Kenji Kenji
#player2 Carl Carl
>Kenji: BEEIINW 8G NEWBIE +24 24
#note Worth noting before the start: Many top experts would've played this game as a non-collusive 6-pass. I asked Carl before the game "Hey, so, umm, you're in automatically if you don't lose by more than 15" and Carl said "I know you're up to something, I just want to win the game by 500 if I can". This comment was scary enough to me to scare me off the caterpillar game (honestly I didn't want to deal with the social consequences of that anyway). Oh, and WIENIE is probably better, slightly.
>Carl: KOO J6 KO.O +20 20
>Kenji: AIILPTU 6F PULI. +17 41
#note Carl took 5 minutes or so, so I assumed a blank.
>Carl: ??CGNNY H8 .NsiGNCY +92 112
>Kenji: AAEGIIT H4 AI. +4 45
#note When you're making 4 point fishes on turn 3 keeping AEGIT, you know you're in trouble. That being said, I really do think this is best. IGUANA followed by column f defensive plays are just devastating, and even if Carl doesn't do that I'm in really bad shape.
>Carl: CEOX 10D COXE. +29 141
>Kenji: ADEEGIT D10 .AGE +14 59
#note I just didn't see the 9e parallels here, and while leaving row 8 isn't good, I still have to do that here. Both are clearly better.
>Carl: EORSW 14B RESOW +40 181
>Kenji: DEINTTT 13C T.T +12 71
>Carl: FFHHJRU L4 QUAR. +28 209
>Kenji: DDEINTZ 15A ZED +45 116
#note I actually think I just have to shove here with ADZ. Yes, it absolutely sucks if Carl has the E, but this position is completely terrible, and Carl shouldn't have so many Es in his range here. I need lines, and I need to get there ASAP, and this doesn't do it. This honestly isn't even close: I really think I fucked up here. Yeah, there's 6 Es, there's other ways to block, and even it's not blocked I don't necessarily get there, but sometimes you've just gotta swing for the fences, and down 138 with a decent bingo rack and a close equity decision against a competent player means you absolutely have to go for it here. This is actually really, really bad.
>Carl: HILNR 4D RHIN.L +18 227
>Kenji: ADINSTU M2 DUI +19 135
#note Hindsight means nothing, but I really felt like I screwed up at the time, and it turns out I did.
>Carl: AELV 3F LEVA +24 251
>Kenji: AFNORST N1 FATSO +36 171
#note It's good recognition that you need more lines, but you just realized it too late. FONDS probably does this better anyway, but at least I tried something. I just waited too long.
>Carl: AADMNRS O5 MANSARD +84 335
#note At this point I congratulated Carl for making the finals. This game's over, and yeah, I fucked this one up.
>Kenji: EINORTU 13H .EUTRINO +68 239
>Carl: AEFLM 5B FLEAM +40 375
>Kenji: BIJRTTY 2F BY +36 275
>Carl: EH O1 EH +37 412
>Kenji: GIJORTT E9 J.G +28 303
>Carl: AIOSV 10J SAVIO. +26 438
>Kenji: DIIORTT B2 TRI.ID +24 327
#note It's one point better to block, but I don't really care much.
>Carl: EEP 14J PEE +25 463
>Carl: (OT) +4 467
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