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From: Pellinet <Pellinet@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:52:16 EST
Subject: Re: Consensus Game #1, Turn #9
Message-id: <3c8ff813.350804b2@aol.com>

Brian Sheppard used to talk about watching Maven play, learning something just by seeing the patterns that develop throughout a game. So I took our current position and simulated two moves ahead, which actually shows three of our plays and two opponent's plays, set the simulator to Display and sat back and watched for awhile. Unfortunately, I couldn't simulate RULIER because it's not in my version's lexicon (I'm working on the fix, right John C?), but I did look at DUI, OUR and CATTIER.

This is high speed, high level Scrabble at its video best, lacking only commentary to make it appealing to a mass market. What I saw confirms DUI as my choice, but I wish I could have seen what RULIER led to. One of the interesting results was how often a bingo was played from o1, by either player. Turns out there are something like 675 playable bingos from the E at o1, and it looked like about 20-30% of the time one of us played there over the next couple of turns. I like leaving the line open for that reason.

Very few bingos developed from the S at m3, but many played at 12g (or along row 13 or 14 after DUI) and there were frequent two or three bingo options that developed over just the next couple of turns. There is a lot of scoring to be had yet on this board, by both players.

Of course ZEE and ZED showed up often, as did S plays at h11. The other interesting hot spot for us to keep in mind is column C parallel to VIGOR. Just about every simulated variation showed something coming down there.

Hope this type of discussion of simulations isn't too revealing for most prior to the deadline.

Regards,

Steve Pellinen