"For most grandmasters, Scrabble is about the intellectual challenge of solving the puzzle contained in every rack of tiles. Emotions are a distraction." —Stan Fatsis for Defector
In competitive Scrabble, there’s Nigel Richards and everyone else. The 57-year-old New Zealander has won 11 North American and world championships combined; no one else has won more than three. He is widely believed to have memorized the entire international-English Scrabble lexicon, more than 280,000 words. He crafts strategic sequences that outperform the best bots. […]
This video by Alex Dings is incredible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-8NrvVqbT4
It's about Nigel Richards, the widely regarded best scrabble player of all time, by a huge margin.
Nigel is very interesting - he's the best, but also kind/wholesome and seemingly only plays because he enjoys the game. I love that!
The way Alex tells Nigel's story is also great: it's a fascinating and well explained narrative. The memes throughout are so good, too!
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