From: "Mongo, Santamaria!" <icenine@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 03:04:04 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Consensus Game #1, Turn #9
Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.94.980307024826.1414B-100000@panix2.panix.com>
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, John J. Chew III wrote:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o ----------------------------- Player Tiles Score Time 1|= V ' M A Q U I K O R E|1 2| I " N F E - |2 cgp AEILRTU 266 --- 3| G - C U l L I O N S |3 opp ------- 310 --- 4|M O - I N T '|4 5|A R C T E - |5 Waiting for cgp to play. 6|N " H " R " |6 The bag contains 17 tiles. 7|t ' A B O G Y ' |7 The clock is running. 8|E H Y O I D ' =|8 9|A ' O F T ' ' |9 Time penalties are not in effect. 10|U P T " " " |10 This game does not count for ratings. 11| L W E N D - |11 12|J A D E S ' - '|12 Unseen tiles: A B D EEEEE G III 13| Z - ' ' - |13 L N OO P RR SS T V W 14|A A " " - |14 15|X ' = ' =|15 Votes are due midnight EST, 1998-03-12.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
OUR k3 (13) is interesting for its rack leave and score, but fails to do anything useful for us positionally, so nix to that. It's time to be aggressive. This rack is just too good to break up, an opening fish seems clearly indicated to me. Even if we wanted to break it up, we couldn't score much more doing so than with the move I propose, (yes, I know about CLUTTER and CATTIER, but the leaves in either case do nothing for us).
DUI g11 seems to me to do everything right. It is one of the few moves that actually is likely to result in a better rack than we already have, it sets up our T on row 14 with only one more unseen, anything opp might try to block with will score very little, and it's downright difficult to block anyway. It also still holds the ZED/E possibility on a board where it is very hard to score even half that much anywhere else, which, after last turn's 13-point gain, would actually get us close enough that we might not even need a bingo to win.
G.I. Joelgernaut (Joel Sherman 2006 DUI g11 (5 points! in the words of the immortal Steve Williams, who would never make this play, but frequently makes this score)