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April 2011: Vol. 3, No. 4
N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A April 2011: Vol. 3, No. 4 Hotel Negotiations 101 By Chris Cree About a month before this year’s Dal- las Open (DO), I could tell that at- tendance and thus, room sales were going to be off considerably. As it turned out, our attendance was half off of its zenith and 30% off of its mean. Increased airfare and the economy in general have strengthened the presence of the one day event, including three different cities in Texas. Our players want their offi- cially rated games. Thus, what we have seen is attendance sharply off for multiday events while the total number of tournament games played has increased. I had been talking with the Crowne Plaza – Park Central in Dallas for a while and had made decent acquaintances with the sales manager, events coordinator and food and beverage manager. We had been talking about moving the local one day events from a Golden Corral Buffet-style restaurant in a far north suburb called The Colony From left to right: NASPA Copresident and NSSC host John Chew, 2011 National School to the Crowne Plaza in Dallas proper. I SCRABBLE Champions Alex Li and Jackson Smylie, Hasbro Director of Marketing Jay Bruns, told them I did not have much to offer and National SCRABBLE Association Executive Director John D. Williams, Jr. but if their Chef Danny wants to prepare $10 meals for lunch, that would work. We still do not know if we are going to a question, I asked, “What is it precisely that Canadians Win NSSC do the lunches, but they floored me with we bring to the table that would make you by John Chew the response which was that they just want to do this?” A few years ago, I was having a drink wanted us there and that they would They responded with what could only with a Hasbro vice president and I man- provide small (500–700 square feet) meeting seem like surprise, “You all are great to aged to find the courage to ask the question space for no charge. -
Issue 141 December 2011
Bimonthly Magazine for the Association of British Scrabble Players Issue 141 - December 2011 SCRABBLE ® is a registered trademark of J.W.Spear & Sons Ltd, Maidenhead SL6 4UB committee matters Minutes of ABSP Committee Meeting: Sunday 2nd October 2011 Venue: Philip’s house, London Present: Peter Ashurst (PA), Wayne Kelly (WK), Ross Mackenzie (RM), Philip Nelkon (PN), Steve Perry (SP). Standing apologies: Anand Buddhdev (AB), Elie Dangoor (ED), Darryl Francis (DF), Anand Buddhdev (AB), Elie Dangoor (ED), Paula Davenport (PD), Alec Webb (AW). Apologies: Laura Finley (LF), Stewart Holden (SH), Elisabeth Jardine (EJ), Anne Ramsay (AR) Ratings Officer: John Grayson (JG) Resignations/appointments: Allan Simmons stepped down from the Committee as of the AGM but will remain on the Committee discussion group, at least during the handover period. Minutes of the previous meeting: agreed via email Team member reports and discussion Treasurer’s report: • Barclays mandate has been updated with PA, RM and LF as signatories • Bank balance – £14,359.22 nett of payment of £27,605.62 for Yarnfield Park • 2010 accounts have been audited and approved • Standing Orders – the matter was deferred at the AGM. PA is investigating further. • Membership database has been reformatted, PA / AR are to review the current set up. • Out turn cost for BMSC was a loss of £860.55, prize money was increased by using 2010 surplus of £540. • BMSC giveaway mugs – surplus were sold to Tilefish • Out turn cost for Masters was a loss of £37.00 • 50 Short Scrabble boards have been -
July 2012: Vol. 4, No. 2 the 2012 Dallas Open: Winter in Spring by Chris Cree 2012 Marked the Final Year for the Dallas Open
N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A July 2012: Vol. 4, No. 2 The 2012 Dallas Open: Winter in Spring by Chris Cree 2012 marked the final year for the Dallas Open. This was the seventh such event: DO7. The event was born following discussions of divisions and my belief that the players of today have no idea how good they are. Anybody can beat anyone at any time. For many years with our old rating system, one was basically stuck within a division. This was in contrast to the way SCRABBLE tour- naments were when I first started in 1980. All tournaments were single-division. After the formation of divisions, upward move- ment was extremely difficult to maintain and lower-division players never had the oppor- tunity to compare themselves to and com- pete with the best. So, to prove the point, the open tournament was resurrected and the first Dallas Open took place in 2006. In the very first game of the first Dallas Open, Phyllis Owen (Plano, TX), rated no Board 1 at the Dallas Open: (L–R) annotator Dee Segrest (Highland Village, TX), event leader more than 800, bested one of the best players Kate Fukawa-Connelly (Kittery, ME) in the seat she kept throughout the second day, her Round to ever play the game, Robin Pollock Daniel 15 opponent Patricia Barrett (Houston, TX) and annotator Kathleen Watson (Bedford, TX). (Toronto, ON). No matter what happens in the rest of her career, Phyllis has that personal What Happened in Vegas 2012 NSC Update victory that no one can ever take away. -
Rank Name Home Wins Spread 1 Adam Logan Canada 20.0 +1613 2
Rank Name Home Wins Spread 1 Adam Logan Canada 20.0 +1613 2 Pakorn Nemitrmansuk Thailand 18.0 +678 3 Naween Fernando Australia 17.0 +741 4 Ganesh Asirvatham Malaysia 16.0 +690 5 Gareth Williams Wales 16.0 +664 6 Paul Cleary Australia 16.0 +643 7 David Boys Canada 16.0 +612 8 Dave Wiegand United States 16.0 +599 9 Lukeman Owolabi Nigeria 15.0 +832 10 Siu Hean Cheah Singapore 15.0 +776 11 David Eldar Australia 15.0 +672 12 Paul Allan Scotland 15.0 +591 13 Dean Saldanha Canada 15.0 +414 14 John O'Laughlin United States 15.0 +367 15 Michael Arthur Quao Ghana 14.5 +725 16 Panupol Sujjayakorn World Champion 14.5 +422 17 Harshan Lamabadusuriya England 14.0 +1209 18 Howard Warner New Zealand 14.0 +894 19 Joel Sherman United States 14.0 +847 20 Terry Kirk England 14.0 +770 21 Andrew Fisher Australia 14.0 +724 22 Chrys Placca Ghana 14.0 +437 23 Oscar T. Rivera Philippines 14.0 +254 24 Edward Martin England 14.0 +210 25 Tim Adamson United States 14.0 +166 26 Akshay Bhandarkar India 14.0 +127 27 Manop Phiphatboonserm Thailand 14.0 -553 28 Peter Armstrong United States 14.0 -815 29 Helen Gipson England 13.0 +736 30 Steve Polatnick United States 13.0 +492 31 Nick Ball England 13.0 +407 32 Albert Hahn Canada 13.0 +405 33 Joel Wapnick Canada 13.0 +395 34 John Luebkemann United States 13.0 +392 35 Theresa Camilleri Malta 13.0 +349 36 Femi Awowade England 13.0 +332 37 Keiichiro Hirai Japan 13.0 +330 38 Lisa Odom United States 13.0 +272 39 Jojo Delia Malta 13.0 +260 40 Yawo Takyi Ananga Ghana 13.0 +183 41 Phil Appleby England 13.0 +167 42 Gerald Carter Thailand -
March 2011: Vol. 3, No. 3
N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A March 2011: Vol. 3, No. 3 Can-Am in Calgary: Com- petition & Camaraderie By Chris Cree In golf, pressure has been defined as trying to make a five-foot putt for $10 when one only has $5 in one’s pocket. What goes through one’s mind when get- ting ready to make a SCRABBLE play? “This will win the game. This can lose the game. If he has the Z it is all over. Is this word good? If I win this game my rating will be at its highest. I just cannot open the triple at this stage.” Etc. When playing in the Can-Am SCRABBLE Challenge, add these thoughts to the mix: “This is for my country and my team. My country and my teammates are depending upon me. I cannot let them down.” Seven players from the U.S. faced seven players from Canada in the 2011 Can- Am. Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR), Brian Bowman (Villa Hills, KY), Marty Gabriel (Charleston, IL), Sam Kantimathi (Sacra- mento, CA), Jerry Lerman (Foster City, CA), Bradley Whitmarsh (Attleboro, MA) and Wanda Fleming from Washington D.C. was the SCRABBLE Flash winner at the Bethesda, M.D. I faced off against Adam Logan (Ottawa, Tournament that took place March 20, 2011. ON), Eric Tran (Calgary, AB), Ron Hoekstra (Vancouver, BC), Tony Leah (Toronto, ON), Dallas Open VI NSC 2011 Update Robin Pollock Daniel (Toronto, ON), Dean by Sherrie Saint John by the Championship Committee Saldanha (Richmond, BC) and Sinna Vijaya- Like a well-oiled machine, the sixth an- The National SCRABBLE Championship kumar (Mississauga, ON). -
CALENDAR SCRABBLE PLAYERS Compiled by Steve Perry
The bi-monthly magazine of the ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH CALENDAR SCRABBLE PLAYERS compiled by Steve Perry A quick reference to forthcoming competitions. (fuller list and details inside) No. 130 February 2010 Deadline for next issue: 5th March 1-2 or 2-1? Pakorn wins WSC Nigel 2nd Nigel wins Causeway Pakorn 2nd Quite a Malaysian feel to this month’s Last Word with reminiscences from the WSC, the Causeway and the WYSC from Allan Elie, Karen, and “The Phenomenon” which I am afraid I had to cut short as he does go on a bit!! cont’d inside TLW 130 52 49 ISSUE CONTENTS COMMITTEE Committee Corner 1 Scrabble for Beginners 27 Events Reports and Results 4 Ratings 30 Youth Matters 14 Edgeways 36 CORNER That Was Then 18 Forthcoming Events 41 Letters 21 Solutions ibc The Committee met on December 13th in Faringdon. WESPA 24 Calendar of Events obc Among the items discussed was the need for a Youth Scrabble Officer, as Karen Richards will be leaving the country in the near future. We hope to form a small team of interested people Throughout this publication, comments by the Editor do not represent the views of who will liaise with a representative from the school clubs already registered with Mattel, the ABSP Committee. Any statements by the Committee are clearly marked as such. as well as encouraging young players and overseeing WYSC qualification. If you would be All other contributions to The Last Word represent only the views of the contributor. interested in being part of this team please contact me or Ross. -
Total SCRABBLE®
Total SCRABBLE® The (Un)Official SCRABBLE® Record Book Jan 2009 Update Compiled by Keith W. Smith Page 1 Copyright 2003, 2005, 2009 Keith W. Smith HASBRO is the owner of the registered SCRABBLE® trademark in the United States and Canada. © 2005 HASBRO. All rights reserved. The SCRABBLE® trademark is owned by J.W. Spear and Sons, PLC, a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc. outside of the United States and Canada. Page 2 Acknowledgements This work would not have been possible without the support of the following people who provided information, suggestions and support: Steven Alexander, Paul Avrin, Mike Baron, Lynn Cushman, Bruce D'Ambrosio, Darrell Day, Jan Dixon, Mike Early, Joe Edley, Dave Engelhardt, Paul Epstein, Stefan Fatsis, Mady Garner, Stu Goldman, Bernard Gotlieb, René Gotfryd, John C Green Jr, Ron Hoekstra, Joel Horn, Robert Kahn, Sam Kantimathi, Carol Kaplan, Zev Kaufman, Jim Kramer, John Luebkemann, Joey Mallick, Lloyd Mills, Louie Muller, Philip Nelkon, Rita Norr, Steve Oliger, Jim Pate, Trip Payne, Bryan Pepper, Dan Pratt, Mark Przybyszewski, Mary Rhoades, Ann Sanfedele, Bob Schoenman, Peter Schwartzman, Dee Segrest, Joel Sherman, David Stone, Geoff Thevenot, Graeme Thomas, Ron Tiekert, Susi Tiekert, Joel Wapnick, Dave Wiegand, and Ben Withers. Page 3 A Plea The first thing you need to know about the book you are holding is that it's incomplete. As much as I'd like to have used complete data for every tournament ever played, I just don't have it (and in many cases it may not exist). Future editions will include more complete information and I hope to eventually have complete information. -
October 2011: Vol. 3, No. 10
N A S P NASPA Bulletin® The monthly news bulletin of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association A October 2011: Vol. 3, No. 10 Worlds in Warsaw by Chris Cree SPECIAL 2011 WSC EDITION This past month I had the privilege of participating in the World SCRABBLE Championship in Warsaw, Poland. Over 100 players qualified of which 15 were from the United States and 8 were from Canada. The Team U.S.A. members (see photo below) were myself, John O’Laughlin, Geoff Thevenot (Austin, TX), Bradley Whitmarsh (Attleboro, MA), Nathan Benedict (Tucson, AZ), David Koenig (Silver Spring, MD), Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR), Brian Bow- man (Villa Hills, KY), Mark Kenas (Madi- son, WI), Jim Kramer (Roseville, MN), Laurie Cohen (Tempe, AZ), Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY), Chris Lipe (Rome, NY), Mar- ty Gabriel (Charleston, IL) and Sam Rosin (Bernardsville, NJ). Nigel Richards (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), the first two-time World SCRABBLE Champion, receives the winner’s cheque from Sanjay Luthra and Philip Nelkon. Photo: John Chew. 2012 NSC Registration 2011 WSC Report by the Championship Committee by John Chew The 2012 National SCRABBLE Cham- The following is a condensed version of the pionship will take place on August 11–15, official coverage of the event: for the original 2012 at the Royal Pacific Resort in Orlando, version, please visit live.wscgames.com. FL, the venue of such past events as the 2011 If you have never been to the WSC, do not The Team Canada members (see photo National School SCRABBLE Championship make the mistake of thinking it is just like below) were Nick Ball (Victoria, BC), David and the 2008 National SCRABBLE Cham- any other SCRABBLE tournament, but big- Boys (Dorval, QC), Andrew Golding (Ver- pionship. -
Rank Name Home W-L Spread 1 Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (Won Best
Rank Name Home W-L Spread 1 Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (won best of 5 final) Thailand 18.0-6.0 +1388 2 Nigel Richards World Champion 18.0-6.0 +1854 3 Dave Wiegand United States 17.0-7.0 +895 4 Marut Siriwangso Thailand 16.0-8.0 +1207 5 Komol Panyasophonlert Thailand 16.0-8.0 +1095 6 David Boys Canada 16.0-8.0 +876 7 Naween Fernando Australia 16.0-8.0 +842 8 Craig Beevers England 16.0-8.0 +777 9 Joel Wapnick Canada 15.5-8.5 +748 10 Helen Gipson Scotland 15.0-9.0 +883 11 Wellington Jighere Nigeria 15.0-9.0 +658 12 Nathan Benedict United States 15.0-9.0 +634 13 Sherwin Rodrigues India 15.0-9.0 +624 14 Jason Katz-Brown United States 15.0-9.0 +608 15 Andrew Fisher Australia 15.0-9.0 +533 16 Dennis Ikekeregor Nigeria 15.0-9.0 +301 17 Rik Kennedy Northern Ireland 15.0-9.0 -68 18 Mikki Nicholson England 14.0-10.0 +880 19 Mark Nyman England 14.0-10.0 +620 20 Lewis Mackay England 14.0-10.0 +585 21 Geoff Thevenot United States 14.0-10.0 +561 22 Jim Kramer United States 14.0-10.0 +473 23 Brian Bowman United States 14.0-10.0 +441 24 Ayorinde Saidu Nigeria 14.0-10.0 +398 25 Panupol Sujjayakorn Thailand 14.0-10.0 +364 26 Neil Scott Scotland 14.0-10.0 +200 27 Nick Ball United States 14.0-10.0 +160 28 Edward Okulicz Australia 14.0-10.0 +33 29 Mark Kenas United States 14.0-10.0 +8 30 Theresa Brousson Malta 13.5-10.5 +188 31 Pichai Limprasert Thailand 13.5-10.5 +72 32 John OLaughlin United States 13.0-11.0 +783 33 Phil Robertshaw England 13.0-11.0 +644 34 Harshan Lamabadusuriya England 13.0-11.0 +476 35 Jeff Grant New Zealand 13.0-11.0 +383 36 Chrys Placca Ghana -
The World Is Not Enough! the End of An
The bi-monthly magazine of the ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH SCRABBLE PLAYERS No 106 February 2006 Deadline for next issue 13th March Collins Update There is an important announcement regarding the status of the adoption of the Collins Dictionary on page 6 by the ABSP Dictionary Committee. The world is not enough! As promised last time, this issue contains a report of the World Scrabble Championship which took place in November in London. We didn't get a lot of photos sent to us though, but we have included one in a new feature entitled - The Big Picture! Fantasy Scrabble is back! Now before you get your hopes up, this is not choosing which players you would like to see posing Caldendar Girl-esque, but a competition to see if you can guess who is going to be good at playing Scrabble this year. Check out pages 22 and 23 for rules and details of how to enter. The end of an era There seems to be have been a lot obituaries feature in TLW recently and we have two more this issue I am sad to say. Catherine Schwarz, responsible for getting us the first Official Scrabble Words and Lists published by Chambers sadly died in December. We also bid farewell to Vernon Draper, a regular on the tournament scene until ill health took its toll. On a brighter note, two of our Scrabblers are celebrating births see page 38 to find out who! Catherine Schwartz adjudicates at the NSC in 2000 SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark of j.W.Spear & Sons Ltd., Maidenhead SL6 4UB ISSUE CONTENTS Committee Corner 1 Ratings 16 2005 ABSP Awards 2 Fantasy Scrabble 22 Worlds & Masters Qualification .