tiles

[Santa70]

I played now a bit, i have seen, that very good players exactly know which tiles are played at the end. Say the last 2 tiles.
how is this possible??

[euklid314]

The best video on tile counting that I know is from Alexey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScZ2HqXoIqM

[Meeplelowda]

The best video on tile counting that I know is from Alexey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScZ2HqXoIqM

I laughed because the first thing he does is illustrate his point with an endgame puzzle that is an example of how it makes more sense to block the opponent's field rather than play the road for "maximum" points but leave the field scoring opportunity open for the opponent to catch up. So many threads have been created on here basically saying "no, you're supposed to try to score yourself, not stop other people from scoring!" Strange, I don't recall Alexey_LV starting a thread here complaining about being "blocked."