2nd High game score (and game margin)
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Joan Rosenthal 688
Chris May 253
Game margin: 435
(Scoresheet below)
Chatswood Tournament (Sydney)
Masters Division
Round 2 (of 7)
July 6, 2002 |
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JOAN ROSENTHAL |
CHRIS MAY |
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Move |
Points |
Total |
Move |
Points |
Total |
| 1 |
JIZ 8g |
38 |
38 |
BIZ i6 |
15 |
15 |
| 2 |
FUNEBRAL 6e |
67 |
105 |
IMITATER* h8 |
0 |
15 |
| 3 |
ALMONER 9d |
89 |
194 |
MATTIER* 10g |
0 |
15 |
| 4 |
AQUA 8a |
45 |
239 |
TRIM 5c |
26 |
41 |
| 5 |
KIVA k3 |
22 |
261 |
QUAI b8 |
15 |
56 |
| 6 |
GRAY 12a |
34 |
295 |
XU 13c |
39 |
95 |
| 7 |
OWNS 10f |
47 |
342 |
OIL 11e |
25 |
120 |
| 8 |
GOV 14d |
22 |
364 |
LITOTE* h1 |
0 |
120 |
| 9 |
SONERIs 12g |
79 |
443 |
GOAT a12 |
15 |
135 |
| 10 |
ENTWInED 4g |
74 |
517 |
KON 3k |
19 |
154 |
| 11 |
FEH 3e |
22 |
539 |
LEY 2d |
32 |
186 |
| 12 |
STEERED 1a |
92 |
631 |
PET 11j |
20 |
206 |
| 13 |
CAB 2l |
21 |
652 |
ETH 13k |
26 |
232 |
| 14 |
ODIC h12 |
21 |
673 |
PSI o1 |
23 |
255 |
| 15 |
AGO 14m |
13 |
686 |
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Value of tiles left |
+2 |
688 |
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-2 |
253 |
* Indicates non-allowable words (challenged play; turn missed).
Comments from Joan:
The whole game was fun for me and not for Chris. I didn't feel at all that I was
heading for an Australian record, just kept pulling letters out of the bag...
I think the significant factors were that I was getting good letter
combinations that fitted good places on the board; I was able to score
consistently (even on my "dump" moves); Chris was getting a lot of drek; and his
plausible tries which resulted in 3 nonwords gave me 3 more turns than he had.
That and the fact that I started gave me 4 more turns in the game than Chris,
which was 4 more opportunities to score than might have been expected.
Comments from Chris:
Please mention that both of us were actually playing in Masters, and I'm not a
tournament novice! I can only attribute 250 of the points by which I lost
to distractions...
I hope she enjoyed it as much as I wallowed in self-pity afterwards...
Joan must have decided at this stage [Move 4] that if that idiot Chris hadn't
seen AMARETTI by now then he never would, and gave me the third different place
to play it - a triple word score this time... [Editor's Note: Joan says she
didn't see AMARETTI]
I must confess that the lyrics of "Hair" were running through my head at the
time, perhaps as a consequence of the friendly pre-tournament abuse hurled my
way on account of my unkempt and rather lengthy locks, and in said song the word
MATTY* is used as an adjective. I was so confident I tracked my tiles [MATTIER]
while the challenge was taken up...
Also thanks to everybody through the rest of the day who kindly informed me
that LITOTES is an anagram of TOILETS - a dollar for each of you and I could
have shouted dinner at the Lane Cove Steak House for the entire membership of
ASPA NSW...
For the rest of the game I decided to prove that if I didn't know anything
else I at least knew the 3 letter words.
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