Nigel Richards started memorizing the language's Scrabble word list a year ago.
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. Recognized in international Scrabble over his three-decade career as the greatest player of all time, Richards’ Spanish language victory was notable even by his standards, other players said. Forced to adjust his gameplay to compensate for different tile values in English and Spanish Scrabble, Richards also had to contend with thousands of additional seven, eight and nine letter words in the Spanish language -– which demand a different strategy.
His mother, Adrienne Fischer, told a New Zealand newspaper in 2010 that Richards did not excel at English in school, never attended university and took a mathematical approach to the game rather than a linguistic one.Would you help us provide essential information to our readers during this critical time?. We view our mission to provide free, fair news as critically important in this crucial moment, and we can't do it without you.
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