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#player1 Noah Noah
#player2 Josh Josh
>Noah: ?GMNOTY 8G GYM +18 18
#note Noah: I didn't write down most of my racks for the Montreal Matchplay tournament, so sometimes what I've recorded in the games are guesses. (I did record most of my racks in the Round Robin games against Jackson.) If I'm really not sure, I might just put a partial rack, or add a comment. When I do guess, it's probably decent, and oftentimes my memory of a rack will be pretty clear.
>Josh: ADDJMQZ 7F JAM +24 24
>Noah: ?EEFNOT 9I OFTENEr +66 84
>Josh: DDQRTUZ N8 R.Z +32 56
>Noah: AADGIRR L8 G.RARDIA +76 160
>Josh: CDDLQTU 14J QU.LT +68 124
>Noah: EEIILSS 15H LEI +20 180
#note I think Josh was surprised by this play, I think by the fact that I didn't take out column O. QUILTS made me uprate the EISS leave here, but my sim still prefers SEI.
>Josh: CDDHLNO 10F HOLD +22 146
>Noah: EEFISST O12 FEST +48 228
#note Sim actually seems to like FIST slightly here, seemingly for the long-term -- maybe because the E is a good tile generally, and on this board in particular, it is good on column O.
>Josh: CDINOWX 11E COX +38 184
#note I did not want to make this play. It's almost certain that Noah has another E here, as otherwise he would have kept his E and played FIST/FAST. Also, there are 8 unseen E's. This means that he's going to be able to access the O column a crushing amount of the time, and I'll be left with row 14 and whatever counterplay his O column play leaves me with, which is peanuts. I basically had to hope here that he just didn't have an E, which meant no A or I last turn either. I considered NIX 11E as well, to keep things open. NIX looks better because I draw COWED 12B which sets up SCOWED. #strategysmall
>Noah: EIINNOS 14B INOSINE +70 298
>Josh: DEIKNUW O4 WINKE. +54 238
>Noah: EEEHIOY M7 HO.EY +37 335
>Josh: DEEIOUU 15B DUE +13 251
#note I don't know if this is a tilt play, a spread play, a good play or a bad play. My reasoning was to score a bit, close the scoring spots and board controlling spots, allow column A to be desperado-ed at some point. It's obviously horrible. Dunno how horrible, it's probably more likely to expect Noah to not have anything good to do down there than win after DUE. #questionable
>Noah: AEEEIOW 12G OWIE +21 356
#note Also considered keeping 4 or 5 vowels. COXAE is actually cool as well, scoring decently and keeping the W for another score next turn.
>Josh: AEIORSU 5K AURE. +10 261
>Noah: ABEERTT 4E BERETTA +62 418
#note I didn't feel certain of this word.
>Josh: AIOOPSS 5A PSOAI +22 283
>Noah: ?AAGINR A1 AGRy.NIA +140 558
>Josh: BCNOPST H1 COP.N +27 310
#note Standout spread play.
>Noah: ADILUVV 2G V.LVA +19 577
#note Or VOLVA C4.
>Josh: BST C3 ST.B +12 322
>Josh: (DIU) +8 330
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