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CNSC 2008 Commentary: Round 10

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Round 10

Eight women qualified to participate in this year's CNSC. Two of them faced off this round: Sary Karanofsky (Cote Saint-Luc QC) vs. Joan Buma (Grimsby ON). I see four bingos on their board STERNaL, VeINIEST, and RETIREe for Sary and RATLIKE for Joan. Sary's win, 414-375.

Lam Tang (Vancouver BC) vs. Geoffrey Newman (Brampton ON). Grant opened with aBSOLVe for 78 and later played NETTIER for 65. Lam played TENURES for 72 and ended up getting the S onto the opening play that had been lengthened to ABSOLVER, now ABSOLVERS/SAGO for 51 to the triple. Lam's win, 449-357.

Joel Wapnick (Montreal QC) vs. Robin Pollock Daniel (Toronto ON). Robin's TRASHING 74, SOPPIER 72, CoWRITES 74, and BLUESMEN for 72. I see Joel's ELATERID for 74. Robin's win, 502-326.

Dielle Saldanha (Richmond BC) defeats Jeff Parsons (Logy Bay NL), 422-403. However, it his AQUATICS on the triple for 110 that has my attention!

"Where did he learn ATTICISE*?" exclaims David Boys (Dorval QC), in reference to his just finished game at table 1 with Lloyd Mills (Georgetown ON). Though ATTICIZE is good in our dictionary, the S version is only good in SOWPODS, a dictionary that Lloyd doesn't use. Dave, who does play internationally, and admits to some dictionary confusion, left the play unchallenged as he'd seen it before (just not sure where). In any event, it was Dave's win, 418-369. Check it out as it in the annotated game section!

As I type this in, please know that I'm not doing this justice, but I was called over to a board between Evan Berofsky (Thornhill ON) and Vince Castellano (Fairfax, VA). And I think someone has earned a big side bet. Evan played out with the word VOLOsT for 9 points, winning the game, 413-352. But, the win is kind of immaterial here. What matters most is the word played, because it is from the VOLOST dictionary, which is a two-word dictionary that contains VOLOST and VOLOSTS and is somewhat of a game played with a stein in one's hands. I'm sure there is far more to this story... Ask Evan, Andy Saunders, or Chris Lipe for further edification.