
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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In a round-robin tournament among $8$ chess players (each pair plays one match), the scoring rules are: the winner of a match earns $2$ points, a draw results in $1$ point for each player, and the loser scores $0$ points. The final scores of the players are all different, and the score of the player in second place equals the sum of the scores of the last four players. What is the score of the second-place player?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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