Hi,
I played a few games with masters, and I still believe most of them make something I consider to be a (small) mistake.
When having the below hand, doing the green thing is better for me. Playing that last tile the 'normal way' will create three unique path III, which isn't good.
On the other hand doing this create two II, and one F. And F are extremely valuable, because many of the other tiles can be played on it. You can see on the left most of the tiles which goes nicely on it. And most of them are not easy to use.
Note that in some bad cases, you can create a 3-way trap.
So rarely it will backfire to you, but often, you will be able to play one or two complicated tiles on it.
I added that part to the strategy guide, but really, try to do more pattern F, even if you disagree with it, do it when you already have too many I on the board, since having differents pattern is better.
I played a few games with masters, and I still believe most of them make something I consider to be a (small) mistake.
When having the below hand, doing the green thing is better for me. Playing that last tile the 'normal way' will create three unique path III, which isn't good.
On the other hand doing this create two II, and one F. And F are extremely valuable, because many of the other tiles can be played on it. You can see on the left most of the tiles which goes nicely on it. And most of them are not easy to use.
Note that in some bad cases, you can create a 3-way trap.
So rarely it will backfire to you, but often, you will be able to play one or two complicated tiles on it.
I added that part to the strategy guide, but really, try to do more pattern F, even if you disagree with it, do it when you already have too many I on the board, since having differents pattern is better.