Chicago "Club" Recap
It's been awhile since I last posted, but I haven't been playing much. I've stopped going to club ever since it moved to a senior center way up on the north side. There's general dissatisfaction about the new venue amongst the younger generation of Chicago scrabblers, so we've started meeting every few weeks for what's become my de facto club sessions. On Saturday, Tom, Erica, Andrew, Brett, Jeremy, Jeremy's second cousin David, and I met at our old club venue to play some games. These games are a lot of fun as people don't take it too seriously, and there's a lot of joking and discussion during the games but no outright kibitzing.
Despite a few bad mistakes, I had a great day going 6-1 +718 while averaging a fun 455.7 points a game. I really did a great job of outdrawing and out-phoneying my opponents. I should have gone 7-0 but inexplicably didn't challnge KET* after holding it for 4 minutes and knowing it needed to come off for me to have a chance. At least I won't be fooled by it again. I felt kind of bad for Brett who seemed to be wading through some horrible racks in our games. But he's been kicking my butt on Scrabulous, so he probably deserves it.
I've enjoyed playing through other games people have linked to from Livejournal. So if anyone wants to see my games and the in-depth analysis of a career 1300 player (OK, it's mostly Quackle's analysis. I just parrot it), here they are:
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