I just lost a game in the FSL because I simply didn't realise that CIDER took an A to make ACIDER. This shows how important is the value of hooks in the game. On my rack I had ACEIRTT, immediately spotted CATTIER (standard -IER), a few seconds later remembered from word study that CATTIER had two other anagrams - CITRATE and the more unusual ATRETIC. 

Had I played ATRETIC, - live it would seem as if I had studied a word list and some how learned this unusual word or online, depends on the play...
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I have decided to devote the rest of my gaming life to improve my scrabble. I have played a bit of chess but alas no improvement. To be fair, I struggle to remember the variations and always missed tactical moves even novices find easy. So after years of buying chess books and watching chess videos and joining ICC and playchess.com, I gave up - for now...

Aerolith.org was first introduced to me by the scholarly ebook - The Scrabble Players' Handbook- a masterful collection of important insight...
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