Here is a game I played against Jesse Day at the San Diego Open. I think I played pretty well in the beginning, but had trouble in the end. In particular, I wonder about the ABEGIRS rack. Thoughts?

Here's the game.

Here's an exciting game from the SDO, thought I didn't play so well. Both players' racks are included.

Play the game!

Just ran into MIDWATCH on Zyzzyva. The definition is "a watch on a ship between midnight and 4 A.M.". Does anyone know of any other definitions with times written like that, in either OSPD or CSW?

Here is an interesting game that I played against Conrad. I am particularly curious about one rack which I will tell you about in advance.

Play.

In other news, we played an 8-bingo blitz game in which I played off DE leaving EGKLW and drew W(E)EKLONG!

Improvement in Scrabble, or anything, is always an interesting subject. There are so many subareas of any one area to improve in, and in such a deep area as Scrabble, each subarea is itself quite fascinating. While I occasionally get bored with improvement in an area--if strategy starts to seem degenerate, or studying becomes tedium--I soon pick up ( Read more... )

Cross-tables has really outdone itself this year. Anyone want to play a joke tournament using these rules?

Dreams are pretty fun. I dreamt I was in Portland with my mother and brother in our house's dining room. We gazed out the window at Mars and surrounding bodies. I guess our window was like a telescope or something, because it was a huge view. It was also strangely very green, though we didn't find it strange in the dream. Eventually my brother and ( Read more... )

Lost a nailbiting matchplay series to XP today! It was a tough series, and I played it alright. There were some interesting positions in the mix. The games are on cross-tables, ids 10644-10650. Enjoy, and comments are welcome!

Here is the part of last night's dream that I can best remember. There was a lot more too ( Read more... )

Kind of funny. As I voted for copyright1983's LJ Idol entry (which you should do too, Here), I found that there is a blog called sonophax, perhaps a misspelling of sophonax? I thought that was interesting.