Nigel Richards. Check out Will Anderson's youtube channel, he covers pro scrabble matches in the style of chess commentary, and he has a lot of videos featuring Nigel

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought this sounded familiar. The article is from 2015!

[–] FloofahNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow, my error not seeing the article date, sorry about that. It popped up on my feed this am. Better look more carefully in the future.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haha all good, an interesting story none the less. It's been over 9 years, think he speaks French yet?

[–] FloofahNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He didn’t need to in order to win the Scrabble and indeed, speaking a foreign language needs a lot more than memorising a dictionary, though that in itself was a massive accomplishment.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

Depends how much of the dictionary he memorised! I'd think memorising a dictionary covet to cover would be more work than learning to speak a conversational level of French, but I guess he didn't actually have to memorise the whole dictionary, just enough to have a decent number of words to play in scrabble