Nigel Richards, a professional player who holds five English-language world titles, won the championships in Granada in November, losing only one game out of 24
A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title – despite the language barrier that stopped him from chatting with his opponents.
In second place was defending champion Benjamín Olaizola of Argentina, who won 18 of his games – and does speak Spanish. But what challenge remains for a player who has dominated the game in his native tongue? Richards in 2008 was the first player ever to hold the world, U.S. and British titles simultaneously – despite having to “forget” 40,000 English words that do not appear in the American Scrabble word list to triumph in the U.S.
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