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THRILLYJOEL Joel Wapnick Wins 1999 Worid Scrabble Championship No 69-December 1999 The bi-monthly magazine of the ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH SCRABBLE PLAYERS THRILLYJOEL Joel Wapnick wins 1999 Worid Scrabble Championship Scrabble® is a registered trade mark of J W Spear and Sons pic. Leicester LE3 2WT. United Kingdom. Hit bit Word Dtambtr 1999 THE LAST WORD No 69 - December 1999 The official magazine of the Association of British Scrabbio Players Contents Back in 1993 we all shared his joy, now we all share his pain! MARK NYMAN failed in his attempt to World Championship results 3 become the first person to win the World Scrabble WSC review 4 Championship on two separate occasions. The tide ABSP Winter Matchplay 16 went to the player Mark defeated in that final, JOEL Annual General Meeting 18 WAPNICK, who won 3-1 in the best-of-flve final. Playing a Winning Gane 20 There were other excellent performances from many Across The Board 21 Brits including ANDREW FISHER, RUSSELL (Less Than) 20 Questions 22 BYERS and ANDREW COOK who all registered Letters 24 top ten positions. Ratings at 31 Dec 1999 -26 Words of the new millennium 32 There will definitely be an ABSP organised event in You just never know ... 33 Scotland in 2000. The SUMMER MATCHPLAY You think you hate Scrabble? 34 tournament will now take place at Edinburgh Tournament Reports 35 University on 8 and 9 July. Wellies and woollies are Forthcoming Tournaments 40 not necessarily required, according to the organisers The Back Page 44 (hmmm _ I've spent my summers in Scodand before, so I can't put my name next to that one!) Full details and entry forms will be in the next issue Further developments on the SOWPODS franc well The TLW editorial team o always looking for tournament news at least! In November the for contributions from you, the members/ HAVERING Scrabble Club made history when it became the first to offer more a SOWPODS division Perhaps you have played in an at its tournament aimed at lower rated players - a interesting game which could be move which encouraged many such players to try the annotated or featured in our Across dictionary for the first time. And in the next few The Board section? Seen a Scrabble weeks a SOWPODS tournament is to take place in story in the papers which might London, organised by FEMIAWOWADE and interest our members? Any particular MARCO POST. word lists which give you trouble? You may even have an opinion on Please note that Vanessa Peters is now organising the some the articles published in our JERSEY SCRABBLE MASTERS between 18 and Letters pages! 24 March 2000. If you haven't got an entry form you can obtain one from her (please send an sae). More Addresses for submissions are on the details appear in the tournament section. Entry backpage. Don't delay, send in today! forms should be distributed to clubs very shortly. December 1999 Page 3 The bit Word 38 Janes Cherry CA 13 -27 World Scrabble 39 Michael Pray 0M 13 -369 40 Pakorn Nemitrmansuk TH 13 -382 Championship 41 Jeff Grant NZ 13 -588 42 Ishtiaq Chishty SA 12.5 399 43 Odette R1o PH 12 569 44 Brett Smitheram UK 12 SS5 Melbourne, 3-7 November 1999 45 Robert Felt US 12 360 46 Jim Geary US 12 3S8 47 Roland F111O BH 12 285 Final: Joel Wapnick beat Mark Nyman 3-1 48 Lester Schonbrun US 12 100 49 HoIon Gipson UK 12 37 Game scores: 50 Pui Cheng Wui NY 12 6 51 Saheed J1noh NI 12 -22 52 Matayo Bwire KE 12 -31 Game I: Wapnick 623 Nyman 308 53 Albert Hahn CA 12 -48 54 Owen Bondin MT 12 -293 Game 2: Wapnick 330 Nyman 444 54 A Ganesh MY 12 -293 Game 3: Wapnick 472 Nyman 349 56 Ullraa Warwick SL 12 -514 Game 4: Wapnick 403 Nyman 402 57 Akshay 8handarkar BH 11.5 156 58 Paul Cleary AU 11.5 59 59 Taewan Sutthasin TH 11.5 -728 Standings after 24 rounds: 60 Tony Sim SG 11 247 61 Dylan Early ZA 11 US 62 Ricardo Gonzalez SA 11 112 63 Bob Ltpton US 11 -8 1 Jool Wapnick CA 18 1068 64 Steve Poiatnick US 11 -130 2 Hark Nyman UK 17 808 65 Michael Tang SG 11 -172 3 Oavid Boys CA 17 693 66 Peter Sinton NZ 11 -197 4 Adam Logan CA 16 886 67 Potor El bourne MT 11 -319 5 Andrew Fisher UK 16 797 68 Arvtnd Abraham AE 11 -3S9 6 Russell Byers UK 16 647 69 Rashid Khan PK 11 -427 7 Ron Tiekert US 16 366 70 Barbara Berlin AU 11 -487 8 Nigel Richards NZ 15 1616 71 Cher Siong Gan SG 11 -726 9 Andrew Cook UK IS 983 72 KoiIchiro H1ra1 JP 10.S 188 10 John Hoigate AU IS 782 73 Trevor Hoveliiteier ZA 10 197 11 Brian Cappelletto US IS 711 74 Brendan McDonnell IE 10 75 12 Kendall Boyd NZ 15 603 75 Alec Webb UK 10 -33 13 Nawecn Fernando LK 15 217 76 Seiwyn Lobo AE 10 -83 14 Phil Appleby UK IS 191 77 Kong Chock Heng MY 10 -210 IS Joel Sherman US IS 73 78 Rodney Judd PK 10 -366 16 Surosh Chinnaiyah LK 14 910 79 Olson Assesa KE 10 -398 17 Oavid Utegand US 14 820 80 Vivian Penaflor BH 10 -476 18 Jakkrit Klaphajone TH 14 63S 81 Linda Pray 0M 10 -591 19 Virgilio Quiballo PH 14 566 82 Kunihiko Kuroda JP 10 -614 20 John Luebkentann US 14 309 83 Gold Eburu NI 10 -740 21 Mohan Chunkath IN 14 292 84 Wojdech Usaktewicz PO 10 -876 22 Femi Awowade NI 14 203 85 Catherine Costello IE 9.S -237 23 Lisa Odon US 14 151 86 Leslie Charles TT 9.5 -603 24 Stanley Ndungu KE 14 102 87 Roger 81 on AU 9 215 25 Paul Epstein US 14 88 88 Edward Metivier TT 9 -164 26 Bob Jackraan AU 13.5 166 89 A11stair Kane AU 9 -353 27 Oavid Webb UK 13 602 90 Eugene Goh SG 9 -498 28 Joe Ediey US 13 447 91 Laurentiu Sandu RO 9 -2008 29 Ronald Credo PH 13 439 92 Jin Nanavati CA 8 6 30 Michael Gongolo KE 13 2S5 93 Johnson Fasuba SC 8 -491 31 Steven Gruzd ZA 13 222 94 Lakshan WanniarachchLK 8 -519 32 Joan Rosonthal AU 13 214 95 AntonIn Michel FR 8 -951 33 Howard Warner NZ 13 194 96 Ohanapala Silva SC 8 -1187 34 Gareth Mil Hams VIA 13 178 97 Mario Saliba MT 7 -868 35 Randy Hersom US 13 106 98 Catalin-Eugen Caba RO 3 -2991 36 Shafique Thobani KE 13 14 37 Aranuay Ploysangngara TH 13 -16 The Last Word PagH December 1999 the waves of tiredness. Unsurprisingly my room isn't ready. I have a shower in the fitness centre, and a change of clothes. 8 o'clock, and time for breakfast. I spot Joel Wapnick, and we have breakfast together. We talk about the upcoming tournament. He shows me some of the OSW word lists he's been memorizing; I'm disturbed to find that many of the words look unfamiliar. Why have I arrived in Melbourne so under-prepared? After breakfast I go up to Joel's room to collect the archive CDs I've ordered for the uk-scrabbte mailing list. I decide to take a walk around the lake in Albert Park, across the road from the hotel, trying to fight off the tiredness. I take with me my mnemonic flashcards, some converted to SOWPODS, the majority still OSW. No time to waste... What everyone was playing for... I get back at 11:00. Room still not ready. I kibbitz a game between Jim Geary and David Boys. Already the bar area is becoming a centre of Scrabble activity, as it will remain for the next few days. Finally, around midday I We at TLW would like to record a big thank can get moved into my home for the next you and well done to the team - particularly week. It's a pleasant room - not much of a the sterling performance of Mark in getting to view, but spadous and comfortable. Against the Final, Andrew F in finishing in the top 5, my better judgement, I decide to get a couple Andrew C for a breathtaking 8/8 games on of hours sleep. When the alarm wakes me, I the final day and Brett for his performance on feel worse than ever - disorientated as well as the first 2 days getting up to 4th place before tired. slipping a bit on day 3. For much of the rest of the day, I study word Phil Appleby wrote a very interesting and lists - 4s to 5s, 8-letter words with four amusing piece on his experiences of the WSC vowels, 5s with two vowels, 7s with two which we at TLW felt you may like to anagrams... Lunch and dinner are room share.....[NB the word Bingos refers to what service. Around 10:00 in the evening I call some of us call bonuses. Warning: some of Mark, who's just arrived after flying in from a the words mentioned are not in OSW - these 3-day stopover in Bali. We arrange to meet in are denoted by $] the bar. Helen and Paul are already there. Later, Andrew C and Brett arrive. The Brits Monday I st November are on their way..
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