I missed USUFRUCTS on the Daily 9s today on aerolith. I didn't know it as an 8 either, so I did some extensive research on the great inter-web to ascertain its meaning (as in, I read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry). Wouldn't you know, later this afternoon I was reading the conclusion of "Road to Los Angeles" by John Fante, and I came ( Read more... )

Here's another one from last August, this time against jarofclay. It was close the whole way, and I'm still confused about a couple of sim results in the pre-endgame, as noted in the comments. I'm looking for opinions! Oh yeah, I'll remember CABEZON(S) and CABEZONE(S) now, too.

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This is an old one from August 2007 against nasferatu aka key_lime_guy
Watch both of us miss 10s!

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This position came up at club tonight. I'm not entirely sure how I knew this low-prob 8 (eat your heart out,
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Check out this game against biza0re from about a month ago. Watch me miss an 11!

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From last July, versus dugy1001.

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Saturday July 12th, 2008

I stayed in on Friday night and watched some TV, played on ISC, and did some Zyzzyva cardboxing*. I was asleep by 11:30, which is quite early for me. This was because I needed to rouse myself at 5:30 on Saturday morning, which is VERY early for me. There were still 4 hours until the first tiles would be drawn. I showered ( Read more... )

4 - 3  + 258

4th place (I think, maybe 5th)

Just out of the money, needed to win the last game for 3rd, and Jeff Clark just edged me out. I did pick up high win (542) and high loss (419) though. I had some interesting games; made some fun plays and faced some tough quandaries. Fully-Quackled games and more data will appear tomorrow.

This was a high-loss to fuzzmoz, played in May of this year. I managed to trip-trip in the middle of the game and still lose!

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See, I play people other than Frank! This one is against 
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