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From: poslfit@gmail.com (John J. Chew III)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 01:59:53 -0500
Subject: Consensus Game #1, Turn #2
Message-id: <199801110659.BAA19211@coxeter.math.toronto.edu>

Thank you very much to the thirty-three players who voted on the first move of this first CGP consensus game, and to all who contributed to the lively inaugural discussion. The winning play was 8D HYOID, and a full list of votes can be found at the end of this message.

In reply to a couple of points raised earlier this week:

The pacing of one turn per week is intended both to allow exhaustive discussion of each turn, with everyone who wants to having a chance to weigh in (and not just those of us who are surgically attached to the Internet), and to keep my workload down to a reasonable level. I'm pleased to see that my expectations of that workload have been accurate so far.

If I do a second consensus game, cgp will play second in that game. Players are of course free to vote for passing if they feel that going first is a disadvantage.

Now on to more important business. You have drawn DLOST to EF, and opp has replied with 7G BOG (21). 

   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
   -----------------------------      Player Tiles   Score Time
 1|=     '       =       '     =|1
 2|  -       "       "       -  |2    cgp    DEFLOST    32  ---
 3|    -       '   '       -    |3    opp    -------    21  ---
 4|'     -       '       -     '|4
 5|        -           -        |5    Waiting for cgp to play.
 6|  "       "       "       "  |6    The bag contains 78 tiles.
 7|    '       B O G       '    |7    The clock is running.
 8|=     H Y O I D       '     =|8
 9|    '       '   '       '    |9    Time penalties are not in effect.
10|  "       "       "       "  |10   This game does not count for ratings.
11|        -           -        |11
12|'     -       '       -     '|12   Votes are due midnight EST, 1998-01-17.
13|    -       '   '       -    |13
14|  -       "       "       -  |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
E-mail your vote for cgp's next move to the list if it comes with interesting commentary, or privately to me otherwise. Don't forget to include your rating, and be clear that you're voting. That is, say "I vote for X" 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

Voting Record (n-hundred rating = n-squared votes) 

 7274 8d HYOID
      2051 Joel Sherman (Joel) 
      1997 Joel Wapnick (JoelW) 
      1921 Lisa Odom 
      1908 Chris Cree 
      1908 Chris Lennon (clennon) 
      1900 Jerry Lerman 
      1900 Lester Schonbrun (Lester) 
      1885 Mike Baron 
      1880 Zev Kaufman 
      1869 Steve Pellinen 
      1868 Michael Baker 
      1862 Marlon Hill 
      1850 Steven Gordon (sgordon) 
      1803 Bob Schoenman 
      1800 Phil Appleby 
      1800 Alan Stern (homerun) 
      1800 Mike Wise 
      1700 Jim Bodenstedt 
      1600 Jeff Parsons (Newfy) 
      1583 Robin Lewis (relewis) 
      1561 Pam Grazette (Pam) 
      1483 Aaron Long 
      1455 Fern Lindzon (plant) 
       969 Julia Bogle (OOT) 
 2016 8h EDIFY
      1900 Jere Mead 
      1855 Alan Frank 
      1852 Stu Goldman (Stu) 
      1840 Richard Silberg 
      1700 Dan Stock 
      1507 Walker Willingham 
      1386 Ken Smith (mauiboy) 
  361 8g HODIFY*
      1900 Jeff Widergren 
  196 8g YOD
      1460 Lee Cooper (coop) 
  144 8g FOY
      1200 Clay Colwell (StealthSmurf)