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From: poslfit@gmail.com (John J. Chew III)
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 00:25:32 -0500
Subject: Consensus Game #1, Turn #5
Message-id: <199802010525.AAA13275@coxeter.math.toronto.edu>

I was delighted to receive a record 51 votes for the fourth move of this first CGP consensus game. An initial split between the top two candidates (11D or D11 WEND) was correctly resolved (in Maven's humble opinion).

I've started posting the weekly position and extracts from CGP correspondence at Club #3, in the hope of stimulating the same sort of discussion there, and should say that if anyone else wants to do the same, I will accept proxy votes submitted by CGP members on behalf of any tournament-rated players.

Thank you all for voting. The move chosen was 11D WEND (13), you draw COU to your leave of LNS?, and opponent has replied j2 FINERY (32). 

   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
   -----------------------------      Player Tiles   Score Time
 1|=     '       =       '     =|1
 2|  -       "       F       -  |2    cgp    CLNOUS?   126  ---
 3|    -       '   ' I     -    |3    opp    -------   157  ---
 4|'     -       '   N   -     '|4
 5|        C         E -        |5    Waiting for cgp to play.
 6|  "     H "       R       "  |6    The bag contains 52 tiles.
 7|    '   A   B O G Y     '    |7    The clock is running.
 8|=     H Y O I D       '     =|8
 9|    '   O F T   '       '    |9    Time penalties are not in effect.
10|  P     T "       "       "  |10   This game does not count for ratings.
11|  L   W E N D       -        |11
12|J A D E S     '       -     '|12   Votes are due midnight EST, 1998-02-07.
13|  Z -       '   '       -    |13
14|  A       "       "       -  |14
15|=     '       =       '     =|15
   -----------------------------
   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o

cgp                                     opp
DEFHIOY  8d   HYOID           +32   32  -------  7g   BOG             +21   21
DEFLOST  9e   OFT             +23   55  -------   e5  CHAYOTE         +60   81
ADEJLNS 12a   JADES           +58  113  -------   b10 PLAZA           +44  125
DLNNSW? 11d   WEND            +13  126  -------   j2  FINERY          +32  157
E-mail your vote for cgp's next move to the list if it comes with interesting commentary, or privately to me otherwise. I will send an acknowledgement message to private votes unless they arrive right before the deadline, but not to cgp votes unless specifically requested. Don't forget to include your rating, and be clear that you're voting. That is, say "I vote for X and my rating is Y" somewhere in your message rather than "I think X looks like the best play, especially after reading about it all week".

John Chew (poslfit on MD/WD/PD)
poslfit@gmail.com * http://www.math.utoronto.ca/~jjchew 

 9214 11d WEND
      1973 Randy Hersom (RandyH) <randyhersom@hc1.hci.net>
      1971 Jere Mead (shmuxti) <mead@mdc.net>
      1950 Randy Greenspan (panchax) <panchax@ix.netcom.com>
      1920 Chris Lennon (clennon) <clennon@teleport.com>
      1916 Bob Lipton (BLipton) <blipton@sunet.net>
      1900 Lester Schonbrun (Lester) <maxim@netcom.com>
      1900 Evan Simpson (zog) <zog@scrabble.demon.co.uk>
      1900 Jeff Widergren <jw@c-cube.com>
      1885 Mike Baron <MBaron1949@aol.com>
      1862 Marlon Hill <mhill@aqinc.com>
      1855 Alan Frank <alf@world.std.com>
      1852 Stu Goldman (Stu) <stu@netcom.com>
      1851 Joel Horn <jhornx2@juno.com>
      1850 Steven Gordon (sgordon) <SAGordon@primenet.com>
      1850 Luise Shafritz (Luise) <lushaf@yahoo.com>
      1846 Rose Kreiswirth (RoseK) <RoseDon@earthling.net>
      1840 Richard Silberg <Drgerbils@aol.com>
      1831 Alan Stern (homerun) <homerun@sure.net>
      1803 Bob Schoenman <BSchoenman@aol.com>
      1800 Phil Appleby <phil_appleby@uk.ibm.com>
      1700 Ann Ferguson (alf) <alf@oz.net>
      1689 Tracy Cobbs (MadMax) <TCobbs@aol.com>
      1580 Lawren Freebody <vividsky@MCIONE.com>
      1561 Pam Grazette (Pam) <PamGee811@aol.com>
      1541 John Van Pelt (jvp) <jvp@opensesame.com>
      1526 Wayne Wollerman <waynew@capeonramp.com>
      1483 Aaron Long <mcl1@email.psu.edu>
      1455 Fern Lindzon (plant) <lindzon@rogers.wave.ca>
      1395 Lynn Gunn <lgunn@internet.omm.com>
      1256 Clay Colwell (StealthSmurf) <eris@bga.com>
      1220 Louis Berney (lbags) <lbags@aol.com>
      1200 Sherrie Saint John (Sherrie) <saint@mit.edu>
 5134 d11 WEND
      1942 Rich Baker <rgb5@cornell.edu>
      1921 Lisa Odom <Asilmodo@aol.com>
      1902 Jan Dixon <JanDixon@aol.com>
      1900 Jerry Lerman <jerry_lerman@compuserve.com>
      1880 Zev Kaufman (Wolf) <zev@interlog.com>
      1869 Steve Pellinen <Pellinet@aol.com>
      1868 Michael Baker <mikebob@pacifier.com>
      1832 Mike Wise <mikewise@interlog.com>
      1779 Daniel Goldman (DanielG) <dgis1@mindspring.com>
      1778 Jim Nanavati <jnana@pathcom.com>
      1751 Keith Richard Cejmer (avajillion) <krcejmer@up.net>
      1700 Jim Bodenstedt <jboden@hal-pc.org>
      1600 Jeff Parsons (Newfy) <jeffreyp@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
      1583 Robin Lewis (relewis) <relewis@flash.net>
      1476 Paul Winke (Winke) 
      1460 Stephen Schwitzer (schwitze) <schwitze@sprynet.com>
      1400 Carl Barish (carl) <carlba@954access.net>
      1386 Ken Smith (mauiboy) <kensmith@maui.net>
  225 -DLNNW
      1507 Walker Willingham <wwilling@Adobe.COM>