TLW 115 - Nomads Results

C A L E N D A R O F E V E N T S
A quick reference to forthcoming competitions
(fuller list and details inside)
Date Tournament (no. of games) Contact Telephone
Jul 28th-29th New Place, Southampton (13) Amy Byrne 0131 6613869
Aug 4th-5th Nottingham Nomads (16) Clive Spate 01159 200208
Aug 11th Peterborough Speed Event (9) Chris Hawkins 01733 223202
Aug 11th-12th Scottish Round Robin (14) Marion Keatings 01592 265524
Aug 18th MSO Potters Bar (6) Steve Perry 01367-244757
Aug 24th-25th BMSC - Ladies/Men's Events (6) Sarah Wilks 07847 122690
Aug 25th-27th BMSC - Main Event (18) Sarah Wilks 07847 122690
Sep 1st Havering (6) Cindy Hollyer 01277 822050
Sep 8th-9th Wychwood Park, Crewe (13) Amy Byrne 0131 6613869
Sep 9th Middlesbrough (6) Samantha Beckwith 0191 5866436
Sep 14th-17th H-B Holidays - Worthing (14) Viv Beckmann 0191 2742420
Sep 15th-16th NSC Semi-Final - Leeds (12) Philip Nelkon 01628 500283
Sep 16th Norwich (6) Carol Smith 01603 898791
Sep 22nd-23rd Durham Grand (13) Laura Finley 0191 5654079
Sep 29th Hockley (6) Les Costin 01702 523589
Sep 29th NSCT Final - Bradford (8) Philip Nelkon 01628 500283
Oct 6th Stafford (6) Paul Cartman 01785 211851
Oct 7th Bournemouth (6) Ruth Marsden 01202 707148
Oct 8th-9th Cock of the North (16) John Harrison 01661 854336
Oct 12th-15th H-B Holidays - Morecambe (14) Viv Beckmann 0191 2742420
Oct 13th-14th Cardiff Weekend (14) Mary Allen 029 20757311
Oct 14th Salisbury (6) Bob Lynn 01722 325623
Oct 21st NSC Final (5) Philip Nelkon 01628 500283
Oct 26th-29th H-B Holidays - Hereford (14) Viv Beckmann 0191 2742420
Oct 27th Elgin (5) Lorraine Gordon 01466 794332
Nov 2nd-3rd Isle of Wight Vectis (5) Noel Turner 01983 614426
Nov 3rd-4th Cheadle House, (15) Amy Byrne 0131 661 3869
Nov 3rd Romford (6) Cindy Hollyer 01277 822050
Nov 10th Luton (6) Adrian Noller 01582 656234
Nov 23rd-26th H-B Holidays - Harrogate (14) Viv Beckmann 0191 2742420
Nov 23rd-25th Eastbourne Extravaganza (17) Amy Byrne 0131 661 3869
Nov 24th-25th Milton KeynesWinter Matchplay(12) Mike Willis 01908 668117
Dec 1st-2nd Four Nations - Ireland (12) (invitiation only)
Dec 15th-16th Stoke Rochford (12) Christina French 01708 701578
Dec 29th-30th Twixmas (13) Amy Byrne 0131 661 3869
2008
Jan 7th-11th UK Open - Coventry (38) John Harrison 01661 854336
Jan 20th-23rd Pitlochry (14) Alan Sinclair 0131 669 7316
Jan 23rd-25th Pitlochry (9) Alan Sinclair 0131 669 7316
Jan 25th-27th Chester (17) Kathy Rush 01928 733565
Jan 27th West Sussex (6) Peter Hall 01903 775396
Feb 9th-10th Wirral Open (15) John Harrison 01661 854336
Mar 15th East Sussex (6) Ed Breed 01424 219 334
Oct 10th-12th Tuition and Competitive
Scrabble Weekend (5) Farncombe Estate 01386 854100
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No 115 August 2007
Deadline for next issue 5th September
BMSC 2007 UPDATE
- SPONSORSHIP GIVING AND TAKING !
With the addition of £750 sponsorship from JOYBOOST* all the divisions will have an
increase in prize fund. It is anticipated that the round robins will now have a £100 minimum
top prize and the Open Division will have a first prize increased to £650 (the most it has
ever been). Some of the money will be used to help attract media attention to the event and
the prize-giving to gain publicity for the ABSP, tournament Scrabble, and the sponsor.
This year we are also seeking to make a significant charitable donation. At the time of
writing this could well be to The Variety Club of Great Britain (who inject some enjoyment
into the lives of needy children) and a children’s dyslexia charity. This has not yet been
finalised, but by the time you have this issue of TLW (and if you are a BMSC entrant) you
may have already received a sponsorship form. The suggestion is for sponsors to offer a
sum of money per 100 points scored over the whole BMSC event.
*see www.joyboost.com
I am just back from two weeks at my Turkey apartment and although I did
take the Initiation Kit with me, 107 degrees in the shade is not conduc conducive
ive
to learning, however I did pick up a few new Turkish words. So if I play an
odd word against you, you had better challenge it as it may be Turkish, not
Collins. Especially if it has a cedilla under the ‘C’ or an umlaut over the ‘O’!
Some Scrabblers are going over with me next time, so just watch for those
Turkish Scrabble Tournaments starting soon. All welcome.
SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark of J.W.Spear & Sons Ltd., Maidenhead SL6 4UB

Committee Corner .......................... 1
AGM 2007 Agenda .................. 2
Tournament Reports ........................ 11
Centr Star ........................................ 21
Ratings ............................................ 22
Across the Board.............................. 28
ISSUE CONTENTS
To join the ABSP
Fantasy Scrabble League .................. 30
Edgeways ........................................ 32
Personal Profile .......................... 41
Forthcoming Events.......................... 44
Edgeways Solutions.......................... ibc
Calendar of Events ..........................obc
Throughout this publication, comments by the Editor do not represent the views of the
ABSP Committee. Any statements by the Committee are clearly marked as such. All
other contributions to The Last Word represent only the views of the contributor.
THE LAST WORD TEAM
The Last Words Team welcomes contributions from readers to their respective areas,
either as letters, articles or suggestions. Contact information:
Editor:
Elisabeth Jardine
6 Wentworth Avenue
Bournemouth
BH5 2ED
Tel 01202 419708
ejardine1@btinternet.com
Co-editor:
Wayne Kelly
(also submissions for
Annotated games/Moves
to be Proud of)
17 Cossack Avenue,
Warrington, WA2 9PB.
waynekelly74@aol.com
Words and Puzzles:
David Sutton
46 West Chiltern,
Woodcote,
Reading, Berks
RG8 0SG
David.J.Sutton@ukgateway.net
Forthcoming events:
Paul Cartman,
9 Chapel Terrace,
Stafford ST16 3AH
01785 211851
paul.cartman@btinternet.com
the easiest way is via the ABSP website:
http://www.absp.org.uk
Using the Paypal function on the site is very easy and completely safe. More traditionally
you can join or renew by sending your details and a cheque for £15 to Anne Ramsay,
membership secretary, made payable to ABSP to:
ABSP, 8 Glen Clova Place, Kirkcaldy, Fife KY2 6UL
If you wish to write to Anne her email address is anne.ramsay@blueyonder.co.uk
or telephone: 01592 640130
If you have changed your address, telephone number or email address,
please contact Anne as soon as possible with the changes.
COMMITTEE CORNER
COMMITTEE CORNER
The last ABSP Committee meeting took place in London on June 2nd. It was a select group
where we officially welcomed Kat Wilkes as Schools Scrabble Co-Ordinator. We also
have asked Mattel to increase the numbers allowed on the Committee to 18, so that we can
bring Len Moir in to take an active role in Sponsorship, a much-neglected area, which we
feel Len could help with immensely.
Membership is currently at an all-time high of 764 as of May 2007, so thank you all for
helping us reach this tally!
Consequently, we are getting a lot more new players, so Tournament Directors should
make some effort to find out where they should be placed especially when they are basing
the placement on provisional ratings which are not always a good indicator.
This issue contains quite a few announcements - one below from John Grayson concerning
the Novice Rating Enhancement; one from Allan Simmons regarding the BMSC pairings
and sponsorship of the event by JOYBOOST; and, of course, the Agenda for the 2007
AGM..
Wayne Kelly
Note from John Grayson - ABSP Ratings Officer
Novice Rating Enhancement(NRE) is a feature of ABSP ratings that ensures that no new
player can have a rating below 80. This is applied by the Ratings Program up to and
including the tournament in which a player's 15th rated game is played.
In an extreme case, this could apply for 20 or more games. A recent example which alerted
me to the problems caused by NRE was a player rated 80 despite a record of played 21,
lost 21.
NRE continues to be applied to the early games, once a player has passed the threshold of
games. NRE means that the true playing strength of a player rated 80 can range from
around 80 to unmeasurably low.
The ABSP Committee has agreed to my recommendation that Novice Rating Enhancement
be abolished for games rated after June 30th 2007. From July 1st onwards, novices will be
credited with their actual tournament performance, subject to a minimum of 50. The
minimum permitted rating (and thus lowest possible tournament performance) will
increase from 40 to 50 at the same time. The intention of this is to offset the small amount
of ratings deflation that will arise because of the ending of NRE.
It would be unfair (and undesirable) to reduce the ratings ofplayers who currently benefit
from NRE. In some cases, this would lower a rating from 80 to below 60.
It will take some time for the undesirable results of NRE toreduce significantly, but I believe
it is a change worth making now,
for more realistic ratings in the future for those rated 80 and below.
John Grayson
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ABSP ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2007
Members are reminded that the 2007 AGM will be held at 8.30pm on Sunday 26th August
at the Yarnfield Conference Centre, Yanfield near Stafford, in conjunction with the ABSP's
British Matchplay Championship. All members are invited to attend.
PROXY VOTES may be sent to the Chairman, Terry Kirk at Flat 6, Stockwell House,1A
Stockwell Park Road, LONDON SW9 0AP.
Email proxies are allowed but you must give your full name and member number in the
email: terry.kirk@interactivedata.com
A proxy voting form is provided on within page this 10 issue of this of issue TLW. of TLW.
FINAL AGENDA
1 To receive the Chairman's report (included in this issue)
2 To receive and consider the accounts of the Association for 2006, and the
associated Auditor's and Treasurer's reports
3 To elect the officers and other members of the Committee
The current Committee consists of:
Anand Buddhdev, Amy Byrne, Paul Cartman, Elie Dangoor, Darryl Francis,
Stewart Holden, Liz Jardine, Wayne Kelly, Terry Kirk, Ross Mackenzie, Anne
Ramsay, Allan Simmons, Evan Simpson, Kat Wilkes (plus Philip Nelkon as
Mattel representative ).
The officers of the Committee are currently:
Terry Kirk (Chairman)
Amy Byrne (Secretary)
Ross Mackenzie (Treasurer)
Terry, Amy and Ross intend to stand again for these roles.
All other Committee members are standing.
The honorary President is Gyles Brandreth.
4 To confirm the Auditor for the year 2007 (Yoke Shin)
Next year Mervyn Bright will be taking over the role of auditor.
5 To fix the subscription for 2007
It is proposed that the subscription remains at £15 per annum
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6 MOTIONS
6.1 "To allow 'variant' tournaments to be rated, approved by the committee on a
case-by case basis".
Proposer: Stewart Holden
Seconder: Allan Simmons
This motion is supported by the ABSP Committee
Supporting information for Motion 6.1
In 2005 the committee decided to allow organisers to choose which challenge
rule and time limit to offer, for a trial period of one year. Whilst the vast majority
of events have continued to allocate 25 minutes per player per game and use the
single challenge rule, occasional tournaments with shorter or longer times and/or
the 5pt challenge rule have taken place for those who wanted to attend them. In
each case the tournaments have been new events which were not previously part
of the tournament calendar. At the 2006 AGM a motion was passed to continue
the trial for another year, with many members saying that the situationshould be
made permanent as long as requests to hold 'variant' events are still individually
approved or rejected by the committee. The committee feels that fears over
variant rules becoming increasingly popular or taking over the standard rules
have been proven to be unfounded and this motion is to allow these more flexible
options for organisers on a permanent basis.
6.2 "To offer half price ABSP membership to those under 18 at the time of joining
or renewing".
Proposer: Stewart Holden
Seconder: Kat Wilkes
This motion is supported by the ABSP Committee
Supporting information for Motion 6.2
To coincidence with the new Schools Scrabble initiative we would like to
encourage more young players to join the ABSP. The financial aspect of
this offer have been approved by the ABSP Treasurer, Ross Mackenzie.
6.3 "To disallow Tournament Directors from playing in events in which they are
directing, except in cases of emergency where the nominated Director has
become unavailable at very short notice".
Proposer: Stewart Holden (as an individual, not a Committee Member)
Seconder: Steve Perry
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This is a motion submitted by Stewart as an individual and is not Committee
endorsed.
Supporting information for Motion 6.3
The purpose of a Tournament Director is to be available to help all players at all
times. The committee feels that Directors are not able to do this adequately if they
are also playing in the event themselves. By attempting to compete in the event,
Directors must then interrupt their own games when they are required to
adjudicate on a query or dispute on another table. If players know that the
Director is also competing they will be more reluctant to call him/her away from
his/her own game. There is also the possibility of Directors having to adjudicate
on games which may affect their own position in the tournament. The identity of
the Director needs to be known to all players from the start and this person need
to be clearly visible and able to be called over for assistance as easily as possible.
With an increased number of new players coming into the game at almost every
tournaments the committee now feels it is time to insist that the Tournament
Director must not also play in their own tournaments. In cases of emergency
where the nominated Director becomes unavailable immediately before or
during an event and no replacement can be found we accept that this may still
occasionally be necessary.
7 DISCUSSION ITEMS
Committee Objectives 2006-2007
A review of how the Committee is performing against its Objectives
Chairman’s Report
AGM APPENDICES
Introduction
It's hard to believe it's already a year since I was invited to attend my first ABSP Committee
meeting with a view to taking over from Allan Simmons as chair at the 2006 AGM. I'd like
to thank Allan and the rest of the team for the help they've given me over the last year, and
to make the task of overseeing the world of UK Scrabble less daunting. Indeed one of
Allan's achievements during his four years at the helm was to redistribute many of the tasks
around the Committee to spread the load more equitably.
2006-2007 started with a huge shock for us all with the loss of Graeme Thomas, long-time
Chairman of the ABSP, who I worked closely with on the London Scrabble League
Committee, and who was a good friend. As you're all now aware, a Graeme Thomas
Memorial Fund has been established which seeks to raise money to encourage new players
and support young UK players who travel to the World Youth Scrabble Championship
(WYSC). As well as personal donations, and a contribution from Graeme's estate from his
family, a small levy has been added to the BMSC entry fee to supplement the fund.
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Collins
Well, it's been a long time coming, but we're finally there! The month of May saw the
switch from Chambers to Collins and a whole host of juicy new words for us to sink our
teeth into. I know that many of us thought the day would never come. I'd particularly like
to recognise the contribution made by Darryl Francis as our dictionary representative, who
has worked tirelessly to provide Collins with corrected proofs and lists of words to ensure
we have the book that we have to day. On the back of this, Anand Buddhev has created
an adjudication tool that has been made freely available to tournament organisers
everywhere, and which is already proving to be indispensable.
Membership
As of May 2007, ABSP was at an all-time high of 764 members. Increasing the
membership is one of the Committee's key objectives, and it is encouraging to see the
numbers continue to grow. This is in no small part due to the efforts of Stewart Holden in
promoting New Player Events. These are set to continue, and with the renewed initiative
to promote Scrabble in schools I'm confident that the numbers will continue to grow. A
growing membership means increased responsibility for the Membership Secretary, and
we're very lucky that this rests in the capable hands of Anne Ramsay. Anne now maintains
a month-on-month membership total to help us track underlying trends.
Tournaments
I'm happy to say the UK tournament Scrabble scene seems to be blooming. Innovations
such as the Wirral Open and Durham Grand, the brainchild of the Len Moir, and carried
on also by Laura and the late Pete Finley, have been welcome new developments. The
UK Open scheduled for January 2008 will certainly be a landmark event.
Variety is the spice of life, and I'm glad to see the experimentation with Chris Hawkins
speed Scrabble event.
An important step has been the establishment of the Tournament Organisers’ Forum under
the expert stewardship of Steve Perry. This gives the Committee vital access to tournament
organisers around the country, and feedback is sought over proposed changes to rules. The
TO Forum has also been instrumental in the rewriting of the new Guide for Tournament
Organisers. My thanks go to all TO's for taking the time to organise so many events for the
enjoyment of us all.
Paul Cartman continues to keep a watchful eye over the tournament calendar, helping
avoid any potential clashes along the way.
The Last Word
The last year has seen editorial changes at The Last Word. My thanks to Ben Wilson who
resigned his co-editor post in 2006 for all his past efforts. The current team is headed by
editor-in-chief Elisabeth Jardine, ably assisted by Wayne Kelly and Alec Webb. The new
arrangement is working very well and is supplemented by thoughtful submissions from
numerous contributors. As has been noted on the uk-Scrabble mailing list, many of us find
David Sutton's themed word lists an invaluable learning tool.
Wayne is also responsible for coordinating our publications, and will be working with
Anne Ramsay to distribute updated games rules to all members following the AGM.
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Ratings
Increased membership numbers and increased tournament numbers mean an increased
burden for the ABSP Ratings Officer John Grayson. You wouldn't think it, given the express
turnaround time for newly updated ratings to be published following each and every
tournament.
Finances
Ross McKenzie continues to scrutinise the finances of the ABSP with a firm but fair hand.
His report gives further detail for the year.
Yoke Shin is standing down as auditor after performing his final audit this year. I'd like to
thank Shin for his contribution over the last few years, and I hope we'll continue to see him
accompanying Austin to some of our tournaments. The ABSP are lucky to secure the
services of Margaret Bright's husband Mervyn to continue the auditor's role. Mervyn is a
retired Chartered Accountant.
Website
The ABSP website continues to be the online source for all you ever wanted to know about
UK tournament Scrabble and its participants. Webmaster Evan Simpson keeps everything
shipshape and is always keen to implement enhancements suggested by the membership.
This year has seen the addition of a tournament map, maintained by Craig Beevers, which
I know is particularly useful for our overseas members planning to visit our shores, and
those of us with a grade D in CSE Geography!
Sponsorship and Publicity
Earlier this year, Ed Martin stepped down from the role of Publicity Officer, and I'd like to
use this opportunity to thank him for the time he spent serving on the Committee. Allan
Simmons has picked up the reins, and has already managed to secure added sponsorship
for the BMSC this year. I know Allan is brimming with ideas for the coming 12 months,
and with the addition of Len Moir to the Committee to work with Allan on this brief, I'm
sure the next year will bring more in the way of new sponsors.
Stewart Holden continues as Publicity Officer, and has recently been busy firing off press
releases connected with the ABSP Masters and BMSC. He's also been instrumental in
publicising the ABSP through the medium of the Internet Scrabble Club (ISC) and New
Player Events, which have added a welcome surge of newer, younger players attending
tournaments for the first time. I really do feel as though we're at the start of a very exciting
time in UK Scrabble.
The Committee
As well as the changes mentioned above, I'm delighted that we have Kat Wilkes as a new
member, responsible for School Scrabble. Looking at overseas Scrabble nations, notably
the Thais, it reminds me how important it is to 'catch 'em young', and Kat has already made
a start, working with Philip Nelkon at Mattel to organise a Schools Championship, the
finals of which will coincide with the NSC finals in October. Kat has also been recently
interviewed about Scrabble for 'Teachers' magazine.
With Kat's appointment, the Committee has reached its full quota, but given the added
benefit we feel Len Moir can bring to the table, especially in regard to sponsorship, I am
seeking Mattel's permission to increase the size of the Committee by three, to eighteen, to
give added flexibility going forward. I should add that not all Committee members are
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needed at all meetings, but given the increasing demands of the Organisation, it is
important to have people with the relevant experience at hand via email.
Data Protection Officer Elie Dangoor also takes up the role of Complaints Officer for the
ABSP. He'll take responsibility for investigating any reported incidents of anti-social
behaviour amongst our membership. Fortunately in the last 12 months these have been
remarkably few-and-far between.
Keeping an eye on me over the last year, ensuring I don't trample rough-shod over protocol
and procedures, has been Secretary Amy Byrne, who also ensures the whole Committee
are kept abreast of communications from you the membership.
The current Committee stands as:
(Gyles Brandreth - honorary President)
Terry Kirk (Chairman)
Ross Mackenzie (Treasurer)
Amy Byrne (Secretary)
Anand Buddhdev (Technical Officer and Deputy Webmaster)
Paul Cartman (Tournament Coordinator)
Elie Dangoor (Data Controller/Complaints Officer)
Darryl Francis (Dictionary Advisor)
Stewart Holden (Publicity)
Elisabeth Jardine (Magazine editorial coordination)
Wayne Kelly (Document Controller)
Len Moir (tbc)
Philip Nelkon (Mattel representative)
Anne Ramsay (Membership Secretary)
Allan Simmons (Sponsorship / WESPA rep)
Evan Simpson (Webmaster)
Kat Wilkes (Schools Scrabble)
Before I sign off, I wish the best of luck to all the UK representatives at the forthcoming
World Scrabble Championships in Mumbai, and hope one of us can go one place better
than Austin Shin's marvellous second place at the WYSC in 2006.
Finally, I'd like to thank all our members who as we know are the most important part of
any organisation. I know that so many of you contribute in a myriad ways to make the
ABSP what it is today.
I look forward to seeing many of you at the BMSC and the AGM
Terry Kirk
Chairman
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The deficit for 2006 is £918, largely arising from the outlay in buying reusable Handbook
binders and punched inserts. However, in 2007 and subsequent years, the spending on
updating the Handbook will be significantly less.
I am pleased to report another increase in membership subscriptions, and once again I offer
my thanks to you, the membership, for this. Additionally, rising interest rates and a more
flexible banking arrangement means interest income has increased significantly this
year, to a level I hope to match in 2007.
Publications continues to be our main spend each year, although the Royal Mail's switch to
Pricing in Proportion has kept postage costs down from August 2006 onwards. Committee
expenditure has risen this year, but cutbacks on travel and attendance expenditure during
2007, due in part to so much business being conducted by email nowadays, should see a
return to 2005 levels next year, despite the committee being at full strength.
Miscellaneous expenditure has risen dramatically this year. Since much of this could be
viewed as publicity expenditure (leaflets, Protiles giveaways) or as the provision of a service
to tournament organisers (results sheets provision) the increase does not greatly concern me.
Having said this, I am aware that such things need to be kept in check.
The balance sheet demonstrates how many of you were prompt in renewing last Christmas,
so thanks for this. It also shows that, despite the deficit mentioned above, the Association is
still financially secure, retaining a cash reserve that allows us to invest in and pursue new
projects in fulfilment of the objectives, without feeling constricted by funding. Based on
this, I propose no change to the annual subscription of £15.
As always, feel free to contact me at any time with any query or comment on the Association's
accounts.
Ross Mackenzie
Treasurer, ABSP
treasury@absp.org.uk
TREASURER'S REPORT
The accounts of the Association are presented on pages ## 9 and ## 10 of this issue, issue,in in the form
of an Income Income and Expenditure statement and a Balance Sheet Sheet as at 31 December December 2006.
Please read these,along these, along with the Auditor's Report below.
Auditor’s Statement
The ABSP Committee is responsible for the preparation of the accounts. My
responsibility is to examine the system on a test basis in order to verify whether the
relevant controls have been complied with, and that income, expenditure, assets and
liabilities have been correctly processed and recorded.
I am of the opinion that the accounts are fairly stated.
Yoke Shin
Auditor
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Association of British Scrabble Players Income and Expenditure Account for the years ended 31 December
[2] Miscellaneous income
40 35
5 -
- 23
- 33
- 34
45 125
Table numbers
Replacement badge
Garments (net)
Protiles
Results sheets
Notes 2006 2005
£ £
Income
Membership subscriptions 10,341 10,144
Tournament surplus/(deficit) [1] (86) (635)
Bank interest 241 130
Miscellaneous [2] 45 125
10,541 9,764
[3] Publications
4,092 3,887
1,728 2,028
1,477 948
680 580
125 100
(150) (112)
__ - _ 85
7,952 7,516
TLW printing
Postage and packaging
Handbook
TLW editing
TLW enveloping
TLW income
Travel
Expenditure
Publications [3] 7,952 7,516
Committee expenses 2,113 1,875
Website 137 -
Insurance 221 220
Miscellaneous [4] 1,036 194
11,459 9,805
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Surplus on year (918) (41)
Surplus brought forward 7,322 7,363
Surplus carried forward 6,404 7,322
[4] Miscellaneous expenditure
221 -
162 -
128 114
126 -
116 -
100 -
95 25
47 -
41 55
1,036 194
Results sheets
Protiles used
Transaction charges
Leaflets
Garments (net) and renewal giveaway
WYSC assistance
WESPA
Membership cards
Engraving
NOTES £ £
[1] Tournament surplus/(deficit)
BMSC 204 (675)
Masters (99) 36
British Team Tournament - 4
Durham Grand (34) -
New Player Event (157) -
(86) (635)

Balance Sheet as at 31 December
Notes 2006 2005
£ £
Current assets
Bank deposit account 7,211 6,464
Bank current account 3,186 545
PayPal account 491 630
Stocks [5] 1,478 1,450
Sundry debtors 273 761
12,639 9,850
Current liabilities
Prepaid membership subs 5,220 2,163
Sundry creditors 220 365
Pete Finley Fund 760 -
Graeme Thomas Fund 35 -
6,235 2,528
Retained surplus 6,404 7,322
NOTES £
[5] Stocks
Results sheets 217
Logowear 158
Protiles 661
TLW P&P 187
Round boards 255
1,478
ABSP - AGM - PROXY VOTING FORM
Please ensure you have read and understood the detail of the motions and the associated
supporting notes.
Return to: Chairman, Terry Kirk at Flat 6, Stockwell House,1A Stockwell Park Road,
LONDON SW9 0AP
You may email your proxy vote to terry.kirk@interactivedata.com supplying the same
detail as on this form - please make sure your full name and membership number* is
supplied. (*given on your TLW envelope label)
Motion 6.1 - Variation tournaments
YES ___ NO ___ CHAIRMAN'S discretion ___
Motion 6.2 - Half price membership for Juniors
YES ___ NO ___ CHAIRMAN's discretion ___
Motion 6.3 - To ban TD's from playing in their own events
YES ___ NO ___ CHAIRMAN's discretion ___
Signed _______________________________ Dated _____________
Name ________________________________ Member Number ___________
Scottish Open
12-13 MAY
Report from Ross Mackenzie
SCRABBLE SCRABBLE EVENTS
RESULTS RESULTS & & REPORTS
Organisers are encouraged to send a list of prize winners and a brief
tournament report to the TLW editor as soon as possible after the event.
Remember I can only publish them if you send them to me!
This year's Open was once again held in Perth, although for the first time in many years we
were treated to heavy rain rather than glorious sunshine for the first morning of play. As on
previous occasions, the field was split into the Open division and a smaller B division, this
year with the latter playing as a round robin with a final KOTH round.
A feature of the Open is always the opportunity for some "giant-killing", and there were
upsets aplenty throughout the event. One man who avoided them was Martin Harrison,
streaking ahead early on to end day 1 with 6 straight wins, two wins clear of ten people on 4.
Lena Glass and Sheena Wilson headed B division on 5 wins, with Colin Nicol in third on 3.5.
On day 2 Martin's magic touch faded slightly, leading to a very tight finish at the top of the
Open division. Going into the final round, any of Scotland's top three (Neil Scott, Helen
Gipson and Allan Simmons) could have clinched the title, but it was Helen that held on to
retain the trophy for another year.
In B, having scored a draw against each other in game 1, Colin Nicol and Linda Bradford
now faced each other in the KOTH round, with Linda needing to win by 62 or more to
clinch the division. Colin triumphed, relegating Linda to fourth; Colin may have drawn his
inspiration from his family, who were ably carrying out the running duties of the day!
Spot prizes for highest scoring moves of the weekend went to Len Moir and Caroline Foy:
spot prizes for the highest game scores over the weekend were claimed by Ian Whyte and
Ray Tate.
At this event, the Catriona Budge trophy is annually awarded to the club whose top three
finishers do best overall. Although the top three Glasgow club finishers amassed 21 wins
between them, Edinburgh managed 21.5, and so retain the team trophy.
Scotttish Open Division
Helen Gipson 10 1102
Neil Scott 9 1093
Allan Simmons 9 921
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Scotttish B Division
Colin Nicol 9.5 701
Sheena Wilson 8 389
Willie Scott 8 276

Bournemouth
13th May
Report from Val Wright
This Tournament was held on 13 May 2007 in aid of the Bournemouth Society for the Visually
Impaired (BSVI) at their Rooper Hall in Moordown, which has now become a regular venue.
The play was in round, or oval, robin format with 9 divisions each playing 6 games.
Highest word score during the day was ATROPINE from Bob Lynn for 131.
A raffle raised £104 for the BSVI and sales of homemade cakes and marmalade raised a
further £80. We expect to donate £500 from the entry fees to the BSVI, even though entries
were down on previous years. This is probably due to the increasing number and variety of
tournaments each year.
One hears various excuses for late arrival at Tournaments but there was a new one – the Isle
of Wight Ferry broke down, stranding the whole contingent the wrong side of the water. The
ferry got fixed and they arrived well into the first game, but two of their number even managed
to win their group – well done.
Bournemouth Scrabble Club and the BSVI express their thanks to all the players for their
support of the event. We wish to congratulate new Bournemouth player May Tullett on
winning ‘I’ Group in her first ever ABSP rated tournament.
Bournemouth A
Wale Fashina 6 608
Gary Oliver 4 361
Bournemouth B
James Rossiter 5 222
Elisabeth Jardine 5 169
Bournemouth C
Margaret Staunton 5 272
Margaret Bright 4 248
Warrington
19th May
Report from Wayne Kelly
Bournemouth D
Hazel Parker 4 362
Judy Young 4 -15
Bournemouth E
Jo Tebbutt 5 479
Ron Bucknell 5 175
Bournemouth F
Vera Sime 4 332
Jan Vokes-Taylor 4 201
Everything looked like it was going to be okay until this week,
barring a few late payers. Even when there was a drop-out on
Thursday, I could replace them with a player who’d enquired on
Tuesday when we had no places left.
Then Friday, the wand of ill health was waved, and another player
dropped out with bad sunburn... No honestly. A last minute plea
failed to net any new players and we had no further drop outs,
meaning our reluctant reserve stepped into the breach.
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Bournemouth G
Anne Cheesman 5 345
Margaret Coleman 4 -151
Bournemouth H
Brian Beaumont 5 238
Paul Harding 5 192
Bournemouth I
May Tullet 4 201
Mollie Allam 4 16
Mikki Nicholson
Division A winner
This year we had the luxury of having the room the night before for setting up tables and
blue-tacking notices to the wall, so a lot of the stress was taken out of the morning’s preparation.
All players arrived on time, though I am sure that Kathy Rush (reserve) was hoping someone
would have phoned up to cancel! All that was left to do was press the button to create the
fixtures - A was accurate, C for correct but B was bol.. wrong. The program was printing out
the results with B playing as though it was a separate tournament, starting all table nos and
codes at no 1. This delayed the start by 10 mins, which we caught up by second game and
everything was under way and progressing well. We were coping with one runner, one satdown
adjudicator and me, roaming around with a CSW. The adjudication tool was not used
at all, as it was quicker to look in the book than traipse back and to the laptop on the stage.
Then at lunch time, an A division player decided he was not fit to play any more and went
home. We gained an extra runner but felt bad that 4 players were going to miss their quota.
Then after round 3 a C division player dropped out so we had more runners than we knew
what to do with! While all this was going on though 60 people (or just under) were playing
Scrabble.
There were prizes galore - In each division the top 4 were rewarded plus the ratings prize
(1st £75 and trophy/2nd £50 and bottle of wine/3rd prize £30 and box of chocs/4th prize
£20/ratings prize £10) Also had spot prizes for highest spread in a single game, closest to
zero spread, highest SOS - all for those not in other prizes. In honour of Collins, we also had
a spot prize open to everyone for highest scores with a move involving ZA. The prize was a
bottle of wine and a mystery prize... It wasn’t stale pizza though, it was a pizza cutter!
In Division C, after brief spells at the top by Lyn Allock and Kathy Suddick, Jean Owen took
over after round 3 and stuck there. beating Kathy Suddick in round 4 turned out to be the
decisive moment as Jean went one win clear. Miles Daniels could have caught her but lost
out in the final game.Kathy’s daughter Fliss (short for Felicity) was making her debut and had
the misfortune of losing one game by 30 after going overtime by 2 mins something. Nicest
move (going off challenge slips) MAVERICK played by Lyn Allock. The ZA prize went to
Betty Bates, other prizes to Sheila Miller, Irene Atkinson, Linda Moir.
In Division B, after a brief spell in pole position after Round 1, Steve Balment succumbed to
Jason Carney who by round 4 was the only unbeaten player. He lost in Round 5 which
really put the cat among the pigeons with 5 players on 4 wins all theoretically able to win.
Dave Hoyle was most unlikely as his depended on the the other two games being drawn!
Jason lost to Len Moir quite heavily and dropped out of the prizes altogether. The final game
to come back was the decisive one with Liz Barber losing to Graham Haigh. Nicest move -
OPPUGNS played by Anne Hidden. The ZA prize went to Kathy Rush, other prizes - Jason
Carney, Jill Bright, Sally Lewis
In Division A Mark Lane set the pace with a 164 win in game 1, but was overtaken next
round by the seemingly unstoppable Lewis Mackay who winning each game by over 100.
By round 4 though he had been stopped by Mikki Nicholson, which let Chris Harrison take
the top spot. Given that Chris was actually the joint lowest rated player still playing, after
Frank’s departure, that is some going in that field. Mikki beat Chris in the next round to be
the only player on 5. The 3 chasing him - Stewart, Lewis and Chris could all overtake him
though. An early two bonuses for Mikki against Stewart set him off towards the winning
post. Nicest move - LIVEWARE by Lewis Mackay. The ZA prize went to Mike Whiteoak
Other prizes - Adrienne Berger, Mike Whiteoak, Darryl Francis.
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Many thanks to the helpers on the day - Emma, Leanne, Jane, Betty & Chris plus Kathy Rush
for standing in. Big, big thanks to the Warrington club members - namely June, Jill, Irene and
Kathy for all their help. The players were nearly as well behaved as last year, but just a bit less
healthy! I leave the shushing to others though - mainly because I know how to tune it out!
Warrington A
Mikki Nicholson 6 492
Lewis McKay 5 810
Stewart Holden 4 328
Phil Robertshaw 4 163
Ratings Chris Harrison (6th)
Morecambe
11-13th May
Results from John Harrison.
14 rounds.
Morecambe 1
Pat Wheeler 10 715
Norma Howarth 9 9
Morecambe 2
Jill Jones 11 358
Hilary Birdsall 9 231
Brighton
20th May
Report from Doj Graham
Warrington B
Graham Haigh 5 332
Len Moir 5 314
Steve Balment 4 261
Julie Tate 4 260
Ratings Liz Barber (6th)
Morecambe 3
Peter Lindeck 11 725
Richard Pajak. 9 430
Morecambe 4
Remie Salazar 11 910
Paul Walford 9 59
Every tourney has at least one moment of blinding epiphanic context. I could hardly foresee
that coming so soon as ten minutes into the first round when “Has anyone a spare clock?”
was uttered towards the cranking brains of the rusting assembly.
Magical that 25 minute body clock. Watch out SAM Timer!
Nothing else was nearly so eventful; no-one was taken ill, or threw their tiles in the air (how
many more venues will I have to go to before this happens?) and the beating of computer
keyboards was not overbeaten by the trammelling of runner footpads, this being the first
weekend of CSW.
The raffle raised £85 in aid of the Martlets Hospice and I learnt more words from my opponents
than they did from me (again!). I still don’t think you should unwive if you can’t unhusband.
The usual suspects in Div A did their stuff via some rather more convoluted prep techniques
such as the winner Gary Oliver, whose immaculate six was borne of four hours sleep and Ed
Martin’s third place was due to his walk from Brighton Station which is actually quite a trek.
Splitting them with a performance to be proud of, Ed Rossiter, who stood alone on 5 wins
making a Southampton 1,2, and an insight into how they won the league title last year.
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Warrington C
Jean Owen 6 527
K. Suddick 5 454
Juliet Green 4.5 418
Miles Daniels 4 304
Ratings Moreen Shilitoe (6th)
Morecambe 5
Marcia Hall 11 55
Olive Martin 8 228
Morecambe 6
Frank Goodier 11 386
Catherine McMillan 8 -30
I’ve always thought it hard to win a division when you’re the top ranked player, having to
stave off all those sharks snapping at you and needing to win four to be in with a chance of
your rating treading water so Ralph Obemeaser’s win on spread from Elizabeth Terry, the
two joint highest rated in Div C was meritable in the extreme. Margaret Seabrook yodelled
into third, the only other on five wins.
Not to be outdone B Div also had just the three on five split by spread this time Theo Kuti
who was fourth highest rated in the Div holding off Maurice “the Palm” McParland with
David Carrod third. Finally I’ve littered this piece with phoneys as in all the games I won I
played at least one, failing to find any in the two I lost. Do I share these enfeeblements with
any of you out there?
Brighton A
Gary Oliver 6 853
Ed Rossiter 5 225
Ed Martin 4 532
Stoke Rochford
26th - 28th May
Results from Dave French
Players in A and B played 18 games. Their wins and spread totals in the final tables include
a win by 1 point against the fictional A. Zother. Most in C played 19 games.
Stoke Rochford A
Helen Harding 14 821
Wayne Kelly 13 837
Phil Robertshaw 13 522
Nick Deller 13 383
Melton Mowbray
Brighton B
Theo Kumi 5 475
Mo McParland 5 280
David Carrod 5 187
Stoke Rochford B
Phil Kelly 14.5 443
Nuala O’Rourke 14 1194
Moira Conway 13 434
Philip Aldous 12 450
3rd June
Report from Alec Maureen Webb Rayson
“Phew! It’s certainly a Melton day”, one local was heard to remark, referring to the hot sunny
weather that always seems to accompany the Melton Mowbray Scrabble event, and warm it
was indeed. Outside was the preferred area to congregate between games and cold squashes
were more in demand than hot beverages.
All 74 participants of Melton Mowbray’s largest tournament to date had registered comfortably
before the first game was scheduled and the only significant problem of the day occurred
during the first round when it was found that two pairs of players had unwittingly played the
wrong opponents. Fortunately Ken Pritchett operating the computer was able to call on the
experience of Graham Wakefield to help amend the first round pairings even though they
had already been played. Those who got off to a flying start to lead their respective divisions
at the lunchtime interval were the event’s top rated player Lewis Mackay and Liz Barber,
both from Sheffield, and Mapperly’s Pat Rockley.
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Brighton C
Ralph Obemeasor5 395
Elizabeth Terry 5 304
Marg. Seabrook 5 118
Stoke Rochford C
Carol Smith 15 931
Philippa Morris 14 1031
Ted Lewis 13 1036
Marlene Skinner 13 588

By the end of the 5th round there was just one unbeaten player in each division. In division
A it was Martin Harrison (Scunthorpe), in B it was Lorna Rapley (Grantham) and in C Vivienne
Stokes (Leicester). As it turned out all 3 were beaten in the final round but fortunately for
Lorna both of her nearest rivals were also beaten so she was able finish at the head of
division B. In C Vivienne was overtaken by Mick Healy (Leicester) playing in only his second
tournament, while in A Martin was beaten in the final game by Alec Webb (Lowestoft) who
overtook him to clinch his third A division win at this event.
The Melton Scrabble Tournament is held in the town’s mayoral chambers and supports the
mayor’s chosen charity which this year was Mencap and Melton youth projects and Melton
SC will be able to donate around£500 from this event. It is traditional for the town’s mayor to
present the prizes, but this year the mayor was otherwise engaged so was represented by his
deputy Norman Slater who is a good friend of the Melton Scrabble Club.
Alec Webb Lorna Rapley Mick Healy
Melton A
Alec Webb 5 587
Steve Perry 5 373
Martin Harrison 5 141
Ratings: Ben Wilson
Harrogate
8-11th June
Division 1
winner
Pater Ashurst
Harrogate 1
Peter Ashurst 9 506
Adrienne Berger 9 147
Rhoda Gray 8 -162
Melton B
Lorna Rapley 5 260
Dot Taylor 5 166
Carolyn Emery 5 106
Ratings: Pat Friend
Harrogate 2
Christine Gillespie 10 554
Stany Arnold 10 389
Dorn Osborne 8 344
Harrogate 3
Roma Hollingworth10 262
Ginny Dixon 9 306
Syd Berger 9 259
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Melton C
Mick Healy 5 424
Celia Osborn 5 246
Vivienne Stokes 5 134
Ratings prize: V. Nelson-Owen
Harrogate 4
Kathy Carson 9 461
Paula Docherty 9 433
Ruby Flood 8 64
Harrogate 5
Josephine Croasdale13 747
May Gray 8 -110
Maria Raffaelli 7.5 151
NSC/T Southampton
Individual Results Ed Rossiter 4 337
James Rossiter 5 734
Paul Allan 5 645
Chris Finlay DC 5 372
David Sutton DC 5 324
Maureen Chamberlain 5 113
Andy Cook 4 545
NSC/T Bristol
Individual results.
Mike Whiteoak 6 689
Gareth Williams 5 450
Neil Green 5 413
Chris Fenwick 5 276
Sue Bowman 5 -4
NSC/T North
Individual results.
Lewis Mackay 6 506
Wayne Kelly 5 427
Craig Beevers 5 380
Paul Thomson 5 318
Graham Haigh 5 272
NSC/T Peterborough
Individual results.
Simpson, Evan 6 777
Holden, Stewart 5 664
Brown, Christian 5 418
Brown, Maurice 5 208
Hawkins, Chris 4 278
NSC/T Perth
Individual results.
Amy Byrne 5 480
Simon Gillam 5 409
Tom Wilson 5 277
NSC/T London
Individual results.
Ed Martin 5 536
Paloma Raychbart 5 345
Kwaku Sapong 5 327
Elie Dangoor 5 323
Robert Richland 5 308
Calum Edwards 5 108
Chris May 4 438
Jackie McLeod 4 359
Gary Oliver 4 251
Anthony Pinnell 4 217
Brian Jones 4 160
Frankie MaireyDC 4 83
Abraham Sosseh 4 20
DC = declined place
Linda Vickers 4 378
Janet Phillips 4 367
Chris Davison 4 341
Steve Perry 4 286
Karl Kwiatkowski 4 188
Darryl Francis 4 634
Mikki Nicholson 4 462
Paul Nind 4 246
Gordon Proctor 4 245
Chris Quartermaine 4 240
Martin Harrison 4 202
Webb, Alec 4 276
Eade, Yvonne 4 219
Bassett, Paul 4 192
Emery, Carolyn 4 120
O’Rourke, Mike 4 45
Melanie Beaumont 4 495
Wilma Warwick 4 344
Allan Simmons 4 290
Barry Grossman 4 286
Chris Vicary 4 203
Femi Awowade 4 196
Vincent Boyle 4 139
Sandie Simonis 4 123
Graham Bonham 4 116
Daniel Simonis 4 90
Richard Woodward 4 12
Chris Keeley 4 12
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3rd June
Team results
Southampton Saints 13 1322
Southampton Deviants 12 815
The qualifiers for the NSCT Final are
Southampton Saints: James Rossiter, Ed
Rossiter and Gary Oliver.
Winners of the Plate South Winds.
9th June
Team results were :
Travelling Hillbillies 12 998
Twonkers 12 719
Dorian Dynamos 12 453
Newport. 11 737
Travelling Hillbillies qualify.
17th June
Team: Sheffield Steel 13 839
(Lewis Mackay, Paul Nind, Mark Lane)
Plate: Aireborough B 8 19
(Russell Smith, David Longley, Carol
Sienkiewicz)
9th June
Team results were :
Nomads Q 11 575
GroupObThreeQ 11 444
Cambridge 11 260
MAD 11 184
24th June
Teams
Edinburgh A qualify Wilma, Simon,
Amy 14 1233
Glasgow Caledonia 11 262
Plate winners
Edinburgh B 10 462
7th July
Team results
Rupstoh Mahnettot 12 438
London Pride 11 647
London League 10 197

Edinburgh
9th - 10th June
Results from Ross Mackenzie.
Edinburgh A
Helen Gipson 12 1358
Mikki Nicholson 9 400
Steve Perry 8 471
Neil Scott 7 492
Cairn Hotel
9th - 10th June
Cairn A
Peter Ashurst 9 506
A Berger 9 147
R Grey 8 -162
Cheadle
30th June - July 1st
Cairn B
C Gillespie 10 554
S Arnold 10 389
D Osbourne 8 344
Cairn C
R Hollingworth 10 262
G Dixon 9 306
S Berger 9 259
Twenty-eight players descended upon the beautiful Cheadle House in Cheshire for the first
of Amy Byrne’s events with the renowned business conference company De Vere Venues.
Cheadle House is a Victorian mansion fitted with modern facilities and it certainly lived up
to its gowing reputation; the huge bedrooms would be more accurately described as ‘suites’
with the bathrooms alone being the size of an entire bedroom in some hotel chains. The
playing room was a modern business meeting room with free tea, coffee and chilled water
always available and free wireless Internet access anywhere in the building.
27 players were split into three divisions playing round robin groups followed by extra rounds
of Swiss pairing. One no-show player caused a minor headache by not letting us know he
wasn’t coming; having been included in the pairings for the first round his absence meant
other players had to endure occasional byes throughout the weekend. The tournament
otherwise ran smoothly and in very good spirits, helped by excellent food and friendly staff.
In Div A Mike O’Rourke was the man to beat for the first few rounds but his form fell away
and it become a battle between top-rated attender Phil Robertshaw, the omnipresent Mike
Whiteoak and local man Paul Richards playing his first event for several months. Going into
the final round three players were leading 8-4; Phil Robertshaw’s natural ability was rewarded
with an easy win against Paul in the final round to take the top division. In Div B the two
main contenders were Steve Balment and Peter Ashurst, who between them held the top
spot for most of the weekend. Steve beat Peter narrowly on two occasions but in the end it
was the Blackburn man who prevailed. Div C was a foregone conclusion by lunchtime on
Sunday; Marjorie Smith was so far ahead of the field she could not be caught with two rounds
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Edinburgh B
Willie Scott 9 360
Margaret Armstrong 8 238
Margaret Harkness 8 207
Colin Nicol 8 179
Cairn D
C Carson 9 461
P Docherty 9 433
R Flood 8 64
Cairn E
J Chroasdale 13 747
M Gray 8 -110
M Raffaelli 7.5 151
left to play. Colin Nicol and Barbara Lukey jostled behind her but in the end Christine Tudge,
the lowest-rated player present, finished off an excellent performance to nab second place.
A few of the more interesting words played included ARMIGERO, HIRUDINS, VITAMERS,
EASEFUL, FUNSTER, ATAXIA, AIRWOMAN, SUREFIRE, IANTHINE, ACIDOSIS, OUVRAGES,
COTTERING (a nine-letter double-double through TE) and the handy new five-letter GRENZ.
This weekend also saw the launch of the Centre Star games website (http://
www.centrestar.co.uk) featured elsewhere in this issue. Many of the top players present
submitted their racks and moves after games in order for them to be put on the website for all
at home to play through and enjoy. See the article on Centre Star for a full article on this
exciting new venture.
It was universally agreed that Cheadle is a marvellous venue and should be used again. With
an absence of rated events in the North West after October the venue has been booked again
for 3rd-4th November and it is hoped this will then become an annual event.
Cheadle A
Phil Robertshaw 9 648
Mike Whiteoak 9 226
Essex Extraordinaire
24th June
Report from Phil Kelly
Cheadle B
Peter Ashurst 10 346
Steve Balment 9 346
It was very satisfactory that we started with exactly 80 players as intended, whilst everyone
who wanted to play was included. Also very pleasing was that quite a few people had been
prepared to travel considerable distances (such as from Devon and Lincolnshire) to take
part. I think this shows the demand is there and, so long as tournaments are well run and
don’t clash unnecessarily with other tournaments, organisers should be applauded rather
than attacked for running tournaments.
There was a great range of experience with ten unrated players taking part as well as many
regular veterans of the tournament circuit. There were two minors and quite a few younger
adults as well those more senior in years. And I think equally important is that all abilities
were represented ranging in rating level from 75 to 185. But with there being 4 divisions
nobody should have felt out of their depth. Scrabble for all!
It may be invidious to pick out a few individuals for mention, as everyone seemed to have
played in good spirit. But I will mention some anyway!
Mauro Pratesi did a superb job on the computer with all rounds being prepared flawlessly
and on time.
D Division was won by youngster Annie Hawes. I’m not quite sure how young she is but I
think she is a strong tip for future successes in higher divisions.
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Cheadle C
Marjorie Smith 10 654
Christine Tudge 8 195

C Division featured two veterans who have plugged away over the years getting into the
prizes, namely Pam Windsor and Jake Berliner.
In B Division young Calum Edwards demonstrated his progress by winning the division.
In A Division Bob Violett improved dramatically on his recent performance at Harrow
(0 wins out of 6) by winning 5 games out of 6 to win the division. Perhaps he left the beer
alone this time, although it was certainly available!
Essex A
Bob Violett 5 451
Steve Perry 5 246
Terry Kirk 5 204
Essex B
Calum Edwards 6 494
Teresa Hill 5 315
Lou Brundell 4 389
New Malden
30th June
Results from Mark Meakin
New Malden A
Stewart Houten 6 461
Austin Shin 5 244
Paloma Raychbart4.5 428
Ratings :Theo Kumi4 731
New Malden B
Esther Kumi 5 520
O. Ajayi 5 431
Marie Perry 5 320
Ratings :R Bucknell4 144
ABSP Masters
30th June - 1st July
Results from Evan Simpson
Simmons, Allan 12 2 986
Gipson, Helen 11 850
Awowade, Femi 10 663
Webb, David 10 197
Allan, Paul 9 987
Kelly, Wayne 9 378
Philpotts, Adam 9 -80
Brown, Christian 9 -93
This report was generated using tsh version 3.180. As you can see it places the surname first. In future I
might have to go over to this for all TLW reports to save having to type them all out again. Be patient. Ed.
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Essex C
Pam Windsor 5 328
Marion Hamer 5 298
Jake Berliner 5 215
Essex D
Annie Hawes 5 339
Susan Thorne 5 228
Jacqui Aldous 5 213
New Malden C
Jessica Pratesi 5 422
David Holmes 5 420
James Couch 5 387
Ratings:M. Ernest 4 155
New Malden D
Patrick Kelleher 6 209
Monica Marden 5 212
S. Fontaine 4 294
Rating :Helen Tegg 4 119
Martin, Ed 7 -228
Appleby, Phil 7 -411
Sugar, Brian 7 -428
Camilleri, Theresa 6 -209
Beevers, Craig 5 -263
Dennis, Di 5 -321
Williams, Gareth 2 -910
Oliver, Gary 2 -1118
TOURNAMENT ORGANISERS
CENTRE
STAR
The Cheadle event at the start of July saw the launch of an exciting new website
designed by Stewart Holden. Centre Star is a library of games played at UK tournaments,
displayed onscreen in full colour and allowing you to browse through each game
move-by-move, deciding what you might have done before seeing which moves were
actually played. Stewart tells us more:
“I had the idea of doing this site after working with John Chew on the NSC Final
coverage last year, using his excellent game posting software to make the match
available on the web. The software works by simply taking a game which has been
put into Quackle and saved, uploading it to the site and immediately converting it
into a sequence of web pages. Games can also be submitted to the site move-bymove
as they actually happen but I haven’t quite mastered doing this bit by myself
yet!
Any game saved in Quackle (a .gcg file) can be uploaded to the site in a matter of
seconds. The only requirements for having games up there is that they were ABSPrated,
recent enough to be played to CSW and that both sets of racks are provided.
Some people have queried the “.co.uk” domain - this doesn’t mean it is a business
since this domain suffix can be used by anyone for anything. The website is totally
non-commercial, I’m just doing it because I want to see it done. As the site grows I
will be looking for other people to collect games and put them into Quackle for
converting. More on that later.
This site is hugely dependent upon people submitting games for it. I have come up
with the idea and put some of my free time into creating the website but I can’t do
much more than that myself; this requires input from players of all levels willing to
share their games and moves for everyone else’s benefit. If you run a website of your
own you can also help raise the prominence of this site by providing a link to it and
any other information. This is a game library belonging to Scrabble players and built
by Scrabble players, so please give it your support in any way you can.”
Please note the charge for having a flyer for your event distributed
within TLW will go up to £20 from October's TLW.
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http://www.centrestar.co.uk

A B S P R a t i n g s
(GM) Grand Master (Exp) Expert
ABSP membership number for members
is shown before name
198 1422 Wale Fashina
198 0774 Brett Smitheram(GM)
197 0147 Helen Gipson(GM)
194 0751 Paul Allan(GM)
194 0497 Andrew Davis(GM)
193 0007 Allan Simmons(GM)
193 0338 David Webb(GM)
192 0280 Andrew Perry(GM)
190 0745 Harshan
Lamabadusuriya(GM)
190 0158 Ed Martin(Exp)
189 0015 Phil Appleby(GM)
189 0478 Elie Dangoor(Exp)
188 0777 Adam Philpotts
188 0846 Austin Shin(Exp)
187 0880 Femi Awowade(Exp)
187 1197 Christian Brown
187 0621 Andrew Cook(GM)
187 Shanker Menon
187 1427 Mikki Nicholson
185 0823 Wayne Kelly(Exp)
185 0060 Terry Kirk(GM)
185 Mark Nyman(GM)
184 1000 Stewart Holden(GM)
184 0764 Lewis Mackay(Exp)
183 1355 Craig Beevers(Exp)
183 1163 David Sutton
182 1220 Theresa Camilleri
182 0005 Brian Sugar(GM)
180 0734 Nick Deller
180 Fidelis Olotu
179 0307 Dick Green(Exp)
179 0482 Neil Scott(GM)
178 0072 John Grayson(GM)
178 1368 Phil Robertshaw
177 0362 Gary Oliver
177 Biyi Oyadiran
177 0162 Alec Webb(Exp)
176 0014 Di Dennis(GM)
176 0463 Helen Harding
176 Omar_Malleh Jah
176 Philips Owolabi
175 Adekoyejo Adegbesan
175 Gerry Carter
175 0770 Jake Jacobs
175 0041 Gareth Williams(GM)
174 0025 Richard Evans(Exp)
174 0530 George Gruner(Exp)
174 0004 Philip Nelkon(GM)
174 1295 Shane O’Neill
174 0773 Chris Vicary
173 1443 Steve Hilton
173 0281 Steve Perry
173 0224 Gary Polhill(Exp)
173 0049 Bob Violett(Exp)
172 0199 Graham Harding
172 0038 Jackie McLeod(Exp)
172 0115 Diane Pratesi(Exp)
172 1369 Ben Tarlow
172 1057 Mike Whiteoak
171 0368 Chris Hawkins(Exp)
171 Peter Igweke
170 1016 John Ashmore
170 0045 Barry Grossman(Exp)
170 0888 Chris Keeley
170 0999 Kay McColgan
170 0814 Jared Robinson
170 0292 Wilma Warwick
169 0006 Darryl Francis(Exp)
169 Mark Goodwin
169 Brendan McDonnell
169 0012 Ruth Morgan-
Thomas(Exp)
169 0101 Robert Richland(Exp)
169 0428 Kwaku Sapong
168 0241 Bob Berry
168 Catherine Costello
168 1170 Paloma Raychbart
168 Alastair Richards
168 1488 Edward Rossiter
168 0172 Daniel Simonis
168 0021 Evan Simpson(GM)
167 0058 Russell Byers(GM)
167 Philip Cohen
167 0202 Penny Downer(Exp)
167 1428 Martin Harrison
167 0609 Bob Lynn
167 1469 James Rossiter
167 0123 Noel Turner(Exp)
167 0017 Mike Willis(Exp)
166 0081 Joyce Cansfield(Exp)
166 1006 Ross Mackenzie
166 0479 Andrew
Roughton(Exp)
166 0088 Sandie Simonis(Exp)
165 0019 David Brook
165 0059 Simon Gillam(Exp)
165 1102 Paul{Sale} Richards
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165 Dianne Ward
164 0573 Gary Fox
164 Neil Green
164 Mark Hollingsworth
164 Jin_Chor Tan
163 0343 Amy Byrne
163 0165 Cecil Muscat
163 1389 Paul{Tranmere}
Thomson
162 1116 Paul Bassett
162 0766 Chris Davison
162 1408 Rael Hayman
162 Paul Nind
162 Ricky Zinger
161 0103 Danny Bekhor
161 0079 Chris Finlay
161 Jeff Ngeze
161 0795 Chris Quartermaine
160 1129 Lee Hartley
160 Ken Heaton
160 0986 Robert Pells
160 0213 Neil Rowley
159 0534 Caroline Atkins
159 1221 JOjo Delia
159 Ed Garrett-Jones
159 1203 Greg Kelly
159 0984 Roy Miller
159 1363 Stephen Pearce
159 Frances Ure
159 0810 Linda Vickers
158 Alan Georgeson
158 1228 Mark Lane
158 0837 Peter Liggett
158 Martin Reed
158 Karen Richards
158 Margaret Rogers
158 0857 Angela Swain
157 0914 Vincent Boyle
157 0105 Elisabeth Jardine
157 0226 Alan Sinclair
157 0719 Kate Surtees
157 Kevin Synnott
157 0489 Tom Wilson
156 0228 Adrienne Berger
156 1301 Richard Blakeway
156 0852 Maureen Chamberlain
156 1375 Michael Chappell
156 1440 Tim Charlton
156 1211 Ian Coventry
156 Chris Cummins
156 0688 Lorraine Gordon
156 1404 Chris Harrison
156 1429 Stewart Houten
156 Brian Jones
156 1164 Karl Kwiatkowski
156 0086 Frankie Mairey
156 Dave Nunn
156 0760 Sanmi Odelana
156 0476 David Shenkin
156 0018 Karen Willis
155 1460 Paul Burton
155 1145 Peter Darby
155 0967 Gerard Fox
155 0408 Nuala O’Rourke
155 0229 Graham Wakefield
154 0836 Chris Fenwick
154 Ralph Gibbs
154 1243 Doj Graham
154 1362 Graham Haigh
154 0919 Peter Thomas
154 0116 Martin Thompson
154 0094 Rachelle Winer
153 0055 Helen Grayson(Exp)
153 0488 Marion Keatings
153 Timothy Lawrence
153 0093 Ruth MacInerney
153 0272 Ivan Swallow
153 0555 Raymond Tate
152 0252 Steve Balment
152 0469 Tony Davis
152 0923 Teresa Hill
152 Christine McKenzie
152 0268 Donna Stanton
151 0051 Cathy Anderson
151 1046 Paul Ashworth
151 0978 Andy Becher
151 1423 Calum Edwards
151 Christina French
151 0331 Davina Galloway
151 Andrew Goodwin
151 1419 John Hardie
151 0631 Alison Sadler
151 0876 Evelyn Wallace
150 0080 Mary Allen
150 Tony Bearn
150 Eddy Breed
150 0121 Debbie Heaton
150 0267 Graham Maker
150 0154 Mike O’Rourke
150 1279 Ben Wilson
149 0427 Peter Ashurst
149 John Balloch
149 0835 Maurice Brown
149 1120 Anand Buddhdev
149 0406 Moya Dewar
149 0124 Ivy Dixon-Baird
149 0084 Pauline Johnson
149 0655 Mary Jones
149 Pinaach Kolte
149 Eileen Meghen
149 0020 Janet Phillips
149 0480 Anne Ramsay
149 1268 Abraham Sosseh
148 0574 Simon Carter
148 Alan Catherall
148 0838 Theresa Cole
148 Billy Dott
148 0024 Angela Evans
148 1322 Frank Forster
148 0793 Joanne Hiley
148 0713 Trish Johnson
148 Theo Kumi
148 0035 Lois McLeod
148 0802 Patricia Pay
148 Chrystal Rose
147 1412 Melanie Beaumont
147 Alan Buckley
147 0449 Alan Childs
147 0069 Moira Conway
147 0997 Phil Kelly
147 0100 David Lawton
147 0135 David Meadows
147 1019 Lynne Murphy
147 1292 Bryn Packer
147 0873 Matthew Pinner
147 0790 Margaret Staunton
147 0589 Anne Steward
147 Pam Titheradge
147 1206 Sarah Wilks
146 0822 Jill Bright
146 0399 Louise Brundell
146 0732 Wanda De Poitiers
146 1270 Len Moir
146 0576 Carole Rison
146 1053 Stephen Wintle
145 1210 Graham Bonham
145 0003 Laura Finley
145 0232 Iain Harley
145 1051 Elizabeth Hull
145 0537 Carol Malkin
145 0067 Danny McMullan
145 1198 Maurice McParland
145 1097 Ronnie Reid
144 0789 Alan Bailey
144 0369 Brian Bull
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144 0254 Ian Burn
144 0061 Lorraine Crouch
144 1115 Nick Jenkins
144 0996 Kenneth Ross
144 1131 Russell Smith
144 0291 Sylvia Swaney
143 0635 Philip Aldous
143 Jean Bromley
143 1202 Jason Carney
143 William Coleman
143 0523 Kate Leckie
143 0690 Maureen Reynolds
143 0422 Carol Stanley
143 Lesley Trotter
142 0395 Pat Colling
142 Patricia Fenn
142 0636 David Williams
141 James Crooks
141 0933 Ann Golding
141 0471 Anne Hidden
141 1067 Gavin Holmes
141 0335 Robert Johnston
141 Wendy Lindridge
141 Kay Powick
141 0161 Margaret Pritchett
141 Richard Woodward
140 1217 Carolyn Emery
140 0544 Marjory Flight
140 Tim Hebbes
140 0150 David Longley
140 0120 Kate McNulty
140 Gerry Pearce
140 Jean Rappitt
140 0960 Mary Siggers
140 0029 Marlene Skinner
140 0177 Henry Walton
140 0637 Val Wright
139 1179 Janet Adams
139 0066 Sue Bowman
139 Jean Bridge
139 1005 Verity Cross
139 1466 Suzanne Dundas
139 0608 Sandra Hoffland
139 0656 Huw Morgan
139 0707 Gwynfor Owen
139 1153 Colin Parker
139 0505 Gordon Procter
139 0016 Maureen Rayson
139 0423 Alec Robertson
139 Carol{Ryde} Smith
138 1079 Oluyemi Adesiyan
138 0096 Diana Beasley
138 0511 Samantha Beckwith
138 0089 Margaret Bright
138 1092 Heather Burnet

138 Chris Downer
138 0329 Heather Frankland
138 0840 Rhoda Gray
138 0776 Peter Hall
138 1125 Andrew Hart
138 0632 Carol{Norwich} Smith
138 1287 Stuart Solomons
138 1294 Christine Strawbridge
137 0419 Michael Baxendale
137 0565 Ann Coleman
137 Alan Guy
137 1476 Daniel Harris
137 Alastair Ives
137 Terry Jones
137 0875 Jim Lyes
137 1050 Yvonne McKeon
137 Helen Mitchell
137 0911 Marie Perry
137 0829 Kim Phipps
137 0028 Lorna Rapley
137 Martin Sheehan
137 0099 Josef Thompson
136 Alasdair Dowling
136 1282 Barbara Goodban
136 0242 Sheila Green
136 Sheila Hinett
136 0456 Margaret Keegan
136 Esther Kumi
136 Tess McCarthy
135 0856 Minu Anderson
135 1544 Anne Atherton
135 Nick Baker
135 Sally Lewis
135 Roger Ordish
135 0932 Jill Parker
135 Fred Rankin
135 0775 Pat Wheeler
134 Liz{Leicester} Allen
134 1373 Stany Arnold
134 Gillian Ashworth
134 1559 Joe Bridal
134 Joe Caruana
134 0163 Yvonne Eade
134 0443 Ann Pitblado
134 0470 Norman Smith
134 Carole Thomas
134 0248 Jean{Cardiff} Williams
133 0922 Barbara Allen
133 0738 Margaret Armstrong
133 Brenda Baxter
133 1331 Carol Grant
133 0414 Jill Jones
133 1514 Victoria Kingham
133 0401 Sharon Landau
133 Nola Marrow
133 0804 Mary Oram
133 Malcolm Roberts
133 0995 Carol Sienkiewicz
133 Wojtek Usakiewicz
132 0557 Janice Bease
132 1020 Derek Bower
132 0238 Margaret Burdon
132 1305 Jason Goddard
132 0975 Jill Harrison
132 0032 Ron Hendra
132 Helen Jones
132 1025 Marion Kirk
132 0077 Joy Lloyd
132 1189 Martin Taylor
132 1149 Jim Wilkie
132 1273 Peter Winnick
131 Sheila{Perth}
Anderson
131 1409 Mick Beasley
131 0330 Viv Beckmann
131 Jean Dymock
131 Brenda Margereson
131 1380 Anthony Pinnell
131 0938 Helen Polhill
131 1457 Amanda Sodhy
131 Janet Southworth
131 Evan Terrett
131 1320 Rita Todd
131 Jenny Woodroffe
130 0110 Liz Barber
130 Eryl Barker
130 0767 Kathy Bullen
130 1182 David Carrod
130 0106 Ian Caws
130 0920 Eleanor Dobson
130 0223 June Edwards
130 0475 Jill Fisher
130 1265 Joy Fox
130 0442 Agnes Gunn
130 1199 Richard Hitchcock
130 0297 Norma Howarth
130 1269 Richard Moody
130 Jo Ramjane
130 0895 David Reading
130 0036 Dot Taylor
130 Annette Tinning
129 0899 Jake Berliner
129 Jean Carter
129 Garry Clark
129 0570 Jean Gallacher
129 0868 Christine Gillespie
129 Maureen Greening-
Steer
129 Sheila Wall
128 0512 Etta Alexander
128 Barbara Dein
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128 Phyllis Fernandez
128 0663 Linda Hillard
128 1136 Ted Lewis
128 0886 Ruth Marsden
127 Gail Allen
127 1513 Linda Bird
127 0682 Janet Bonham
127 Rose Calder
127 0092 Priscilla Encarnacion
127 Paul Heasman
127 0572 Val Hoskings
127 1237 Dorn Osborne
127 0452 Peter Sime
127 0136 Jan Turner
126 0943 Carol Arthurton
126 0735 Hilary Birdsall
126 Janet Braund
126 Winnie Buik
126 Sylvia Carroll
126 Ann Davidson
126 0641 Norma Galley
126 0759 John Harrison
126 1066 Barbara Morris
126 0904 George Newman
126 Brenda Rodwell
126 0634 Edith Smith
126 Gill{Taunton}
Thompson
125 0748 Jean Crowder
125 1242 John Garcia
125 1035 Andy Gray
125 1146 Leonora Hutton
125 0211 Philippa Morris
125 Hari Nanayakkara
125 Mauro Pratesi
125 1231 David Steel
124 0898 Alistair Baker
124 0390 Betty Balding
124 Sue Ball
124 Jill Burgess
124 0107 Joan Caws
124 Jennifer Clifford
124 0718 Pat Friend
124 0539 Lynn Giles
124 1413 Geoff Goodwin
124 0737 Margaret Harkness
124 0772 David Hoyle
124 Medina Hull
124 0263 Sheila Jolliffe
124 0858 May Macdonald
124 Miri Purse
124 Maria Treadwell
124 1175 Rosalind Wilson
123 Elizabeth{IW} Allen
123 1455 Angela Burke
123 Beverley Calder
123 0915 Shirley Chidwick
123 Georgina Cook
123 0992 Geoff Cooper
123 0381 Michael Harley
123 1257 Mary Hopwood
123 Sheila Jeffery
123 1110 Pamela Kikumu
123 1535 Marc Meakin
123 0625 John Mitchell
123 Julie Nelkon
123 0972 Denise Saxton
123 0864 Margaret White
122 0849 John Ball
122 Noel Barnes
122 1158 Wasinee Beech
122 1473 Neil Broom
122 0402 Sally Fiszman
122 1007 Margaret Irons
122 0142 Jane Lowndes
122 1511 Colin Nicol
122 Christina Pace
122 Heather Roberts
122 0152 Marjorie Smith
121 0257 Syd Berger
121 Pat Broderick
121 0347 Kathleen Higgins
121 1608 David Holmes
121 Helen Rees
121 0616 Gertie Roberts
120 1310 Jim Blackler
120 1207 Hannah Corbett
120 Val Couzens
120 Heather Cruickshank
120 0668 Ceridwen Davies
120 1479 Bob Jarvie
120 Angela Mort
120 0236 Hazel Parker
120 Judy Young
119 Harry Beckett
119 0493 Kate Boutinot
119 0948 Eileen Foster
119 1238 Juliet Green
119 1244 Jayanthi Kannan
119 0320 Fay Madeley
119 0833 Judy Monger
119 Mark Murray
119 Mark Redhead
119 1468 Kathy Suddick
119 Julie Tate
119 0134 Isla Wilkie
118 0924 Linda Barratt
118 0518 Eileen Basham
118 Bobbie Bennett
118 Doreen Blake
118 Eileen Douglas
118 1510 Jessica Pratesi
118 0385 Ken Quarshie
118 Jo Tebbutt
118 0826 Elizabeth Terry
118 0246 Wendy Tiley
118 Maureen Underdown
118 0356 Pamela Windsor
117 0854 Joseph Doku
117 1027 Margaret Firmston
117 0715 Barbara Hill
117 1181 Sue Ison
117 1113 Christabel Jackson
117 Ann McDonnell
117 Mary Morgan
117 Ralph Obemeasor
116 Shirley Angell
116 0709 Betty Benton
116 0982 Ron Bucknell
116 1456 Andrew Eames
116 Joanne Hawkins
116 0477 Malcolm Shaw
116 0052 Martin Summers
116 1276 Evelyn Wansbrough
116 1003 Sheena Wilson
115 1391 Jan Bailey
115 Linda Beard
115 Maisie Culpin
115 0156 Dorothy Dean
115 0755 Carmen Dolan
115 Ann Fiddler
115 Marian Hamer
115 Roma Hollingworth
115 0752 Peter Kelly
115 Joan Lawrence
115 1054 Barbara Lukey
115 1315 Tanya Robson
115 Michael-John Turp
115 Lee Walker
115 1585 Martin Waterworth
114 1063 Irene Atkinson
114 Maureen Austin
114 Anne Backley
114 0603 Linda Bradford
114 Jane Comer
114 1424 Len Edwards
114 Marie English
114 Joyce Gershon
114 Paul Moorefield
114 1159 Vivienne Plewes
114 Rose Spencer
114 0169 Sue Thompson
114 Cyndy Walker-Firth
114 1434 Kat Wilkes
114 Rosemary Wood
113 Margaret Bigg
113 Rhian Lewis
113 0976 Adrian Noller
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113 Willie Scott
113 0692 Margaret Seabrook
113 1071 Barbara Solomon
113 Monica Stockwell
113 Sally Twine
113 Jane Weston
113 1339 Carole Wheatley
113 June Wilson
112 1263 Barbara Barker
112 Irene Catherall
112 Eunice Conibear
112 Eve Dwyer
112 1298 Helgamarie Farrow
112 1169 Yvonne Holland
112 0736 Molly Lane
112 1080 Margaret Mitchell
112 0626 Martha Mitchell
112 0184 Celia Osborn
112 Norman Partridge
112 1478 Vivienne Stokes
111 0761 Mary Adams
111 Mary Brodbin
111 Marjorie Gardner
111 0298 Mavis Harding
111 Doug Hill
111 Joy Reason
111 Kathleen Ward
110 Doreen Acton
110 Ann Croll
110 Marie Davie
110 Marlene Diskin
110 1262 Ginny Dixon
110 Jill Dyer
110 1458 June Faulkner
110 Lena Glass
110 1452 Ivo Kiddle
110 1183 Priscilla Munday
110 James Mutton
110 Joan Rees
109 Don Beavis
109 Fran Burling
109 1029 Tricia Cooper
109 Joan Ellis
109 0640 Daphne Fletcher
109 Noel Foulkes
109 1073 Jenny Harris
109 Mary Orr
109 1341 Pamela Sparkes
109 0917 Nicola Staunton
109 1171 Susan Thorne
109 0844 Jan Vokes-Taylor
108 0953 Peter Bailey
108 1002 Margaret Boyd
108 Beryl Browner
108 Martin Byrne
108 Gill Carr

108 0683 Mavis Ernest
108 1052 Barbara Haggett
108 0934 Joyce Jarvis
108 0400 Margaret Johnson
108 Barbara Kent
108 0798 Peter Lindeck
108 0952 Jean Owen
108 0954 Dorothy Pearson
108 1009 Jenny Sakamoto
108 Isobel Smith
108 1271 Claudia Wiseman
107 1038 Jacquie Aldous
107 1049 Ken Bird
107 Jenny Burgess
107 0827 Ann Clark
107 1439 James Couch
107 0513 Florence Davies
107 1340 Paula Docherty
107 0791 Rosemary Jordan
107 Jean Mainwaring
107 0931 Janet Milford
107 0782 Richard Pajak
107 Shirley Scoberg
107 0357 Jean Shaw
107 0451 Vera Sime
107 Sheila Szzvanowski
107 Sheila Tutt
107 0671 Chris Wide
106 Betty Bates
106 0579 Sheila Booth-Millard
106 1489 Anne Cheesman
106 1248 Margaret Coleman
106 1522 Matthew Edwards
106 1317 Marjorie Struggles
106 1383 Sarah-Jane Taylor
106 1504 Andrea Waddington
105 1503 Maureen Barlow
105 0725 Paul Cartman
105 0410 Myra Copleston
105 Joyce Frost
105 1112 Peter Johnson
105 0486 Marjorie Lefley
105 June Lindridge
105 David Paine
105 1445 Jean Robinson
105 1118 Remie Salazar
105 Helen Sandler
105 0564 Jean Stevens
105 0436 Irene Woolley
104 Eileen{Rdng}
Anderson
104 1259 Sheila{Rmfrd}
Anderson
104 Madelaine Baker
104 0474 Eileen Bradshaw
104 Bridget Busk
104 Sandy McLeod
104 0946 Sheila Reeve
104 0851 Sheila Smith
104 1450 Christine Tudge
103 Elisabeth{Clvlnd}
Allen
103 Sylvia Baldock
103 1168 Brian Beaumont
103 1540 Rowan Callaghan
103 Len Choules
103 0527 Dorothy Churcher
103 Cecilia Cotton
103 Gwyneth Cox
103 1008 Yvonne Goodridge
103 0941 Audrey Harvey
103 Marjorie Hislop
103 0927 Audrey Medhurst
103 Heather Stevens
103 1506 Gill{Norwich}
Thompson
103 0376 Claire Violett
102 0951 Bill Anderson
102 0985 Carmen Borg
102 Jean Buckley
102 Pat Burgess
102 Barbara Etheridge
102 Paul Harding
102 0374 Joy Hodge
102 0799 Cindy Hollyer
102 1064 June Johnstone
102 1222 Bronagh Kenny
102 Margaret Macdonald
102 Marina Mehta
102 0970 Sheila Miller
101 Philip Bowden
101 0726 Christine Cartman
101 Les Costin
101 1119 Anne Darby
101 1306 Margaret Emmott
101 0405 Peter Ernest
101 Rona Falconer
101 1410 Hilbre Jenkins
101 1134 Dorothy Kemlicz
101 Christine Pullen
101 Gwen Roberts
101 Beryl Shoesmith
101 1520 Paul Walford
101 1398 Jill Warren
101 1442 Gordon Winter
100 0384 Mabel Choularton
100 0928 Iris Cornish
100 Joan Everitt
100 1261 Jo Holland
100 Olive Holroyd
100 1509 Heather Laird
100 Josie Rogers
100 1085 Betty Simmonds
100 Dieter Turk
100 0935 Ian Whyte
99 Marie Anderson
99 Jack Baker
99 0415 Marjorie Garrett
99 1089 Vivienne Newman
99 Renee Paine
99 1560 June Peck
99 1502 Cathy Poacher
99 0083 Pat Rockley
99 0485 Ann Toft
99 Alice Tozeland
99 0872 Jacqui White
98 Gilly Batten
98 0758 Kathy Carson
98 Anne Connolly
98 David Darman
98 1516 Hazel Parsons
98 Moreen Shillitoe
98 Derek Turner
97 0526 Keith Churcher
97 Steve Davie
97 Peter Dittert
97 Douglas Emmott
97 Maggie Fleming
97 Fay Goble
97 Pete Ison
97 Mary Keevy
97 Barbara McLaren
97 1304 Linda Moir
97 1297 Graham Pace
97 Connie Riach
97 1253 Philip Turner
97 0900 Amabel Winter
96 Alex Beckmann
96 1081 Anna Blakey
96 0563 Fred Burford
96 1200 Caroline Elliott
96 Alan Everitt
96 Jean Jacobs
96 Mollie Moran
96 Susan Paton
95 0877 Shirley Cave
95 1453 Anne Corpe
95 1600 Sheila Johnston
95 1496 Margaret Keeper
95 1218 Terry Masterson
95 Hepzi Rodrigues
95 1174 Peter Trembath
95 0818 Rose Wall
95 1441 Jean{Ryde} Williams
95 Henry Woodward
94 Mary Connell
94 Josephine Croasdale
94 1185 Lyndon Johnson
94 John MacLellan
94 1219 Jean Masterson
94 Isabelle McLean
94 1454 Janet Watson
94 Sonja Wyld
93 Judy Beales
93 1616 Iris Grover
93 0783 Barrie Hall
93 Marcia Hall
93 Patricia Holmes
93 Patrick Kelleher
93 Irene Lawes
93 1030 Derek Neath
93 Esme Norris
93 Doreen Searles
92 Peter Beales
92 Ruth Binding
92 1104 Hazel Brannan
92 1558 Maxine Brookes
92 Prue Buckingham
92 0030 Ruby Flood
92 Rosemarie Howis
92 Joan Johns
92 Rose Lawson
92 Monica Marden
92 1492 Peggy Moore
92 1587 Irene Newberry
92 1546 Grace Peel
92 Les Searle
91 0359 Vera Allen
91 1525 Caroline Foy
91 1176 Gordon Lamb
91 1332 Sheila Wyatt
90 Bernard Bruno
90 1289 Kerry Constant
90 1162 Betty Hallett
90 0859 John Macdonald
90 Olive Martin
90 Olive Matthew
90 0828 Moira Metcalf
90 1141 Michael Murray
90 Winifred Stitt
90 Richard Tempest
90 Rena Waddell
89 Anne Lawton
89 1068 Lionel Millmore
89 Patricia Parton
89 0119 Mary Ralfs
89 0253 Peter Shuttlewood
89 Beryl Trace
88 Jan Gibson
88 Lionel Howard
88 0778 Gwen Linfoot
88 0132 Lorna Llewellyn
88 1554 Vicky Nelson-Owen
88 1084 Rod Winfield
87 Peter Basham
87 Joan Garlick
87 1526 Matthew Hall
87 Sally Hanson
87 Evelyn Mankelow
87 Nicholas Robertson
86 Dorothy Henry
86 Pat MacLellan
86 1267 Margot Montgomery
86 Judith Puttick
86 Reg Wiseman
85 0998 Jean Hendrick
85 1147 Brenda Lock
85 Zoe Marlowe
84 1235 Rita Barton
84 1465 Doreen Clayton
84 1586 Sheila Cresswell
84 1524 Malcolm Davis
84 1148 Renee Gilbert
84 Eileen Hunter
84 Margaret{Edbgh}
McGhee
84 1405 Elizabeth McNab
84 1390 Maria Raffaelli
84 1448 Joy Rowe
84 Jill Russell
84 1252 Ruth Turner
83 Anna Churchouse
83 1039 Dorothy Edwards
83 Connie Hudson
83 Jan Hudson
83 1480 Doreen Jarvie
83 Betty Nichols
83 1588 Angela Rigley
83 1399 Carol Russell
83 Kalpana Thakker
82 0290 May Gray
82 June Lovett
81 Chris Baker
81 Trevor Warwick
80 Alice Bennell
80 Paul Grimshaw
80 Ena Harding
80 Helen Thompson
78 Hilda Bristow
78 Frank Goodier
78 Ann Gregson
78 1485 Winnie Haston
78 Teresa Haycock
78 Jacqueline King
78 Edna Lindeck
78 Peter Munt
78 1531 Lydia Sharkey
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77 1334 Catherine McMillan
77 Iris Semus
76 0908 Ted Anderson
76 1548 Vivienne Bishop
76 Maris Bradley
76 Mary Harris
76 1324 Margaret Jaggs
76 1290 Mary Kennedy
76 Jean Ross
75 1541 Marjorie Lunn
75 Joan Murphy
75 1135 Sylvia Oates
75 Audrey Paley
75 Olive Smith
75 1205 Patrick Teague
75 1288 Millie Ward
74 Marie Cross
74 Dorothy Double
74 Nancy Yorkston
73 1545 Helen Nelson
73 1086 Margaret Webb
73 Keith Woodruff
72 Michael Double
72 Eileen Johnson
72 Muriel Mortimer
72 1377 Maria Moseley
72 George Sinclair
71 0541 Pamela Brown
71 Connie Hardacre
71 Jane Thomas
70 Doreen Coleman
70 Christine Hall
70 0153 Mary Lindsay
70 Alec West
69 1316 Veronica Baker
69 Julie Rees
69 Margaret Scott
68 Michael Slow
68 Carl Szzvanowski
66 Shelagh Howes
66 Helen Tegg
65 Jessie Chisholm
65 Glenys Jones
65 1028 Peggy Lavender
63 0949 Barbara Horlock
63 1386 Betty Meazey
61 1284 Margaret Hallin
61 Kath Harrison
59 Zandra Begg
56 Maureen Knox

We have had to conserve space in this issue for all the AGM details, so Across the Board
has had to slim down. Hopefully next issue we can beef things up, with details of games
from the ABSP Masters and the BMSC providing cracking moves and puzzling positions.
Send them into me at waynekelly74@aol.com or post to me at 17 Cossack Avenue,
Warrington, WA2 9PB.
You will have no doubt heard about the new website, Centre Star, pioneered by Stewart
Holden and John Chew - www.centrestar.co.uk. It already contains a few games from
Cheadle and the Masters, and will no doubt have more by the time you read this.
This will provide a wealth of board positions for me to dredge when it gets a bit thin on the
ground, and maybe some kind soul can take one of the games and annotate it for
publication.
I’ve taken one of the moves from Mike O’Rourke’s first game at the Cheadle event - it’s not
quite a Move to be proud of, as there was a higher scoring play (as well as a a few other
bonuses) but it was a great word, make no mistake. See if you can spot all the bonuses
playable and which was the highest scoring.
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Moves to be proud of - ISC special
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1. Stewart Holden, June 2007
Score:
Stewart 157
Opponent 176
3. Mikki Nicholson, June 2007
Score:
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Opponent 395
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FANTASY SCRABBLE LEAGUE
It’s all change since last time - Gary Oliver went to the top not long after the last update
but now he isn’t even in the top 3. The Majors has mad a major difference, ahem, with Ed
Martin, Helen Gipson and Allan Simmons giving the players extra points. Also the
resurgence of Steve Balment has helped a few players too!
The best value players to have are Austin Shin, Mikki Nicholson and Christian Brown.
By th next update we will have had the BMSC winner, which could change everything
again!
For now though, Martin Harrison leapfrogs everyone to take the lead - he wasn’t even in
the top half a couple of months ago, and neither was second placed Mark Lane.
These results are up to and including the games played on July 1st.
Manager Players Score
Martin Harrison Ed Martin, Helen Gipson, Wayne Kelly, Lewis Mackay
Mikki Nicholson, Austin Shin, Nick Deller, Martin Harrison,
Phil Robertshaw (Steve Balment, Maurice McParland)
132.5
Mark Lane Brett Smitheram, Helen Gipson, Wayne Kelly,
Femi Awowade, Austin Shin (Martin Harrison, Steve Balment)
130
Chris Harrison Ed Martin, Paul Allan, Theresa Camilleri, Lewis Mackay 125.5
Mikki Nicholson, Austin Shin, Christian Brown, Martin Harrison,
Phil Robertshaw (Chris Harrison, Ed Rossiter)
Gary Oliver (team2) David Webb, Ed Martin, Phil Appleby, Stewart Holden,
George Gruner, Austin Shin (Ed Rossiter, James Rossiter)
125
Peter Thomas (team1) Brett Smitheram, Ed Martin, Allan Simmons, Stewart Holden
Austin Shin (Danny Bekhor, Jessica Pratesi)
124.5
Mikki Nicholson Brett Smitheram, Ed Martin, Theresa Camilleri, Lewis Mackay 123.5
Mikki Nicholson, Austin Shin, Christian Brown (Jessica Pratesi, Kat
Wilkes
Margaret Pritchett Brett Smitheram, Helen Gipson, Di Dennis, Stewart Holden
Austin Shin, Jake Jacobs (Steve Balment, Sarah Wilks)
118
Ed Martin Brett Smitheram, Ed Martin, Allan Simmons, Stewart Holden
John Grayson (Steve Balment, Alan Childs)
117.5
Peter Thomas (team2) David Webb, Ed Martin, Craig Beevers, Adam Philpotts
Stewart Holden, Austin Shin (Peter Thomas, Ann Golding)
116.5
Phil Robertshaw (team 1) Brett Smitheram, Ed Martin, Theresa Camilleri, Brian Sugar
Mikki Nicholson, Austin Shin, Christian Brown (Jason Carney,
Gerard Fox)
116
Helen & Graham Harding Brett Smitheram, Ed Martin, Harshan Lamabadusuriya
Stewart Holden, Austin Shin, (Austin Shin, Stewart Houten)
115
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Manager Players Score
Mauro Pratesi Ed Martin, Paul Allan, Terry Kirk, George Gruner
Austin Shin, Christian Brown, Fidelis Olotu (Jessica Pratesi,
Calum Edwards)
112
Phil Robertshaw(team 2) Andrew Perry, Allan Simmons, Harshan Lamabadusuriya 105
Lewis Mackay, Neil Scott, Mikki Nicholson (Jason Carney, Ross
Mackenzie)
Wayne Kelly Brett Smitheram, Ed Martin, Theresa Camilleri, David Sutton
Mikki Nicholson, Austin Shin, (John Hardie, Stany Arnold)
102.5
Gary Oliver (team1) Brett Smitheram, Harshan Lamabadusuriya, Phil Appleby 102.5
Stewart Holden, Austin Shin, John Grayson (Ed Rossiter, Alan Bailey)
Terry Kirk Brett Smitheram, Ed Martin, Harshan Lamabadusuriya
Brian Sugar, Dick Green (Ben Tarlow, Austin Shin)
94.5
Andrea Waddington Brett Smitheram, Harshan Lamabadusuriya, Wayne Kelly
Lewis Mackay, Stewart Holden, Martin Harrison
(Mark Goodwin, Phil Robertshaw)
83.5
Steve Perry Brett Smitheram, Andrew Perry,Theresa Camilleri, Brian Sugar 81.5
Austin Shin, Dick Green (Robert Richland, Stewart Houten)
Barrie Hall Brett Smitheram, Helen Gipson, Terry Kirk, Stewart Holden
Austin Shin, (Barrie Hall, Paul Walford)
80
Richard Moody Olatunde Oduwole, Helen Gipson, Craig Beevers 77.5
Femi Awowade, Brian Sugar, Mikki Nicholson (Mike Whiteoak,
Richard Moody)
Mike O’Rourke Brett Smitheram, Ed Martin, Wayne Kelly, David Sutton
Ben Tarlow (Carolyn Emery, Jason Goddard)
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SOLUTIONS TO ACROSS THE BOARD
Centre Star poser
Mike played ARMIgERO 15E 60 points. He could have also played through the I,
AIRdROME, ARMOIREs and ARMORIEs and the highest scoring move AERIfORM for 62
points. Through the U on the top row, ARMOUREd and ARMOUREr were possible.
Moves to be proud of
1. Stewart played ZEITgEIST at J1 down for 84 points.
2. Andrew played SWINGBEAt at G13 across for 80 points.
3. Mikki’s outplay was FAdAISE N7 down for 90 points, making 7 other words in the process
- EF GULA ED NA TI AWES TIDE. Not only a good word but a great fit!
Query from last issue.
Margaret Burdon wrote in to ask about the game featured in Move NOT to be proud of, in
which it appeared there were 5 U’s on the board. I copied exactly wht Richard Moody had
submitted - I’d check your tiles quickly, Richard! There was a misprint with the score,
however.
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EDGEWAYS
Compiled by David Sutton
(Puzzle solutions on inside back cover)
Curio Corner
In the car on the way back from the Regionals we fell to talking, as one does, about the
archaic second person singular forms of verbs. One has to be careful making assumptions
about these, because if thou thinkest* or believest* that thou canst tack -EST on to any verb
and make a valid word thou hast got another think coming: it doth not work like that. Here
is what I claim to be the complete list of such forms that are valid:
bist
canst
couldest
couldst
didst
doest
The Five-Minute Anagram Challenge
Below are four sets of anagrams, presented in ascending order of difficulty. Each anagram
has a unique solution. It is suggested that full marks in set A corresponds to a ABSP rating
of around 125; in set B to 150; in set C to 175; and in set D to 200, though of course people
differ in their vocabularies and anagramming skills so any such categorisation can only be
loose and intuitive. Give yourself five minutes for the chosen set. Of course, by all means
try the harder sets, but don’t be discouraged if the going gets tough!
For this issue I am sticking with the new Collins words again, but since these should by
now be becoming somewhat more familiar the C and D bands include a few lower
probability items: we wouldn’t want it to get too easy, would we?
A. DIJE JOES IIHO MAHO KROG
KUAZI EXIJA UHIRA SANDINE AREBOAT
B. BEJEM EXTIM ADACE UHEAR OXFIE
IRATEEE AGISATE OAREMAN ASALTER VOTEDAN
C. FUBOE SAJAP TONIO IASKU UNICE
ATOSSIE LORETTA NONRISE RONLINES NEOPLOTS
D. UTOPINE AIRTOWN OTRUEONE TREELING GASTROID
GOTHAIL BAREHIES PLETHIER WARMEALS ROCKLISH
dost
haddest
hadst
hast
mayest
mayst
mightest
mightst
saidest
saidst
saist
sayest
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sayst
shouldest
shouldst
willest
wost
wottest
wouldest
wouldst
Author! Author!
For this issue I am pleased to hand over the reins on this one to Doj Graham,
who says that he always reads this article in the hope that one day it will
feature an author that he has actually read, but having so far been
disappointed has decided to send in his own compilation. Doj’s choice is
The Glade Within the Grove, by the Australian writer David Foster. Doj says
that Foster’s ‘precise subject matter, specific in-depth knowledge of botany
and contemporary sense of modern life at odds with deep-rooted
anthropological concepts make a potent mixture of humour tinged with the
bizarre and full of closely-observed insights’.
David Foster
There isn’t room for all the words Doj picked out, so I’ve chosen those with
a specifically antipodean flavour. If you want more, read the book! If anyone else wishes to see
their favourite author featured, by all means follow Doj’s example.
banksia an evergreen, flowering shrub, native to Australia. [From Sir
Joseph Banks, English naturalist].
barra, barramundi an Australian fish
bowyang (Aust. coll.) a strap tied round the trouser legs by outdoor
labourers.
brumby (Aust. sl.) a wild horse.
casuarina a tree of the genus Casuarina, native to Australia and parts
of SE Asia, with jointed branches resembling gigantic
horsetail plants.
dunny (Aust. sl.) an outdoor lavatory. Also an adjective meaning
deaf, stupid: DUNNIER, DUNNIEST.
einkorn a variety of wheat.
emmer a primitve strain of wheat.
epacrid, epacris a member of an Australian genus of heath-like plants.
fugly+ (Australian, vulgar) very ugly.
geebung an Australia proteaceous tree or its fruit.
gunyah an Australian aborigine’s hut.
hakea+ an Australian shrub.
hoon (Aust. sl.) a yob, a lout.
lantana a tropical shrub of the vervain family.
mallee a scrubby Australian evergreen tree.
pandanus a palm of S. E. Asia, the leaves of which
are used to weave mats: PANDANUSES or
PANDANI.
sarking thin boards for sheathing, as above rafters, and under shingles or slates.
tanbark a tree bark used as a source of tannin.
trifecta a wager in horse racing whereby the bettor must pick the first three places in order.
waratah any of a genus of Australian proteaceous shrubs
with very showy flowers.
wowser (Aust. sl) an obtrusively puritanical person.
yabby, yabbie a small freshwater crayfish; (verb) to catch
yabbies: YABBIES, YABBYING(+), YABBIED(+).
zambuck, zambuk (NZ slang) a member of the St John’s
ambulance brigade, esp. one on duty at a sporting
event.
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gunyah
yabby

Anagrid:
1a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
HORIZONTAL CLUES: VERTICAL CLUES:
1. NIDGRAM a. NONEMMS
2. TRYAIR b. BARTSY
3. SLYEXO - SOLFANIC c. ILIASA - ODOSTHEI
4. NDEBIT d. ERODDD
5. DIALEP - YOLANTAL e. LESSIE - NIBAGSIS
6. SEESBEST f. MUNSETES
7. SMASTERY g. EIGHTRAN
8. DESTURB h. SBAAMLY
9. MONTHIES i. DEBOTETS
10. DACHSKOD j. ENNACTED
11. OMALSION - KERTIA k. UNDERTAD - ONIRAD
12. DINNEE l. RESCKU
13. SNILIGAN - ARCSER m. LASSLINE - MANKIE
14. SIMESS n. TREESS
15. SEGGAOI o. SATARLY
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The Story Continues: The New Collins Fours
This is a story intended to help people remember the 300 new four-letter words that have come
in with CSW. It features every one of these words. Definitions can be found in the Basic Initiation
Kit, but note that in a few cases these definitions are wrong or sub-optimal and new, correct
definitions have been used in the story: this applies to LATU (plural of LATS, a Latvian unit of
currency), LUMA (an Armenian uit of currency), WAWA (to talk) and ZZZS (an informal noun
for sleep).
I wake up early, am tempted to snatch a few more ZZZS, but make an effort and get up. It’s a
cold morning and I like to sleep KAAL, so I quickly put on a BUBU that I picked up on holiday
in Mali and think about breafast. I JARP a GOOG into the pan, then decide to have a BRIK with
it and wash it all down with a sparkling CAVA; just one glass because I find it tends to MUZZ
me and if I have too much I COWK: I’m no ALCO. There’s some MAKI in the fridge but I leave
it there because I can’t face cold rice first thing in the morning. I finish up with an apple, leaving
the CHOG of course, and a nice juicy YUZU.
After breakfast I go on the computer because I want to get
in touch with one of my BRUS called Tairongo, a Maori I
met in New Zealand. I don’t like to spend too much time on
the computer - it makes you seem such a SPOD - but it’s
nice to keep in touch with friends. He’s currently working
as an ACCA in Australia and has been to several
conferences as a representative for the Maori federation. It’s
hard to think of him as a DELO wearing a COMM: he’s such
a big guy, built like some MOAI on Easter Island, though
actually very gentle: I’ve seen him go out of his way not to
step on a HUHU. Just don’t make him HOHA, and
whatever you do don’t call him a HORI.
moai
Tairongo invited me to stay in his KAIK when I was out there, and it was really interesting. He
has a big extended family, almost a HAPU really, just like a Samoan AIGA. His mother is an
important lady in his tribe, a KUIA, who taught me the Maori REOS and all I know about KAWA:
how to MIHI guests to a marae, when to make a WERO and so on; she was a good teacher,
though she would RARK me sternly if I made a mistake. She also cured me when I got a fever
from the bite of a NAMU, with a herbal draught she made from the leaves of the PUHA and the
PUKA. Tairongo’s father is a real old craftsman, a KORO who makes beautiful KORU patterns;
he told me the best wood to use is from the coniferous MIRO because it’s soft and easily worked,
though you can also use KARO wood. He carved me a beautiful model of a WHIO as a souvenir
of my stay, a bit classier than your usual blue china duck over the mantelpiece, and he also
made me a PATU to bring home, a sturdy cudgel about the size of a PAAL. It’s for my protection
back home, he says: he seems to think I’m in danger from some PERP every time I walk down
a street. Tairongo’s mother gave me a beautiful KETE woven from flax, to put my shopping in.
Naturally I offered them a KOHA in return, but they wouldn’t take it. ‘We don’t go in for KULA
here’, they said.
Unfortunately I’ve mislaid my friend’s ADDY. What’s the use of a computer that can MUNG data
at heaven knows how many MIPS if you do things like that? Sometimes I am such a DORB, in
fact one of the world’s biggest WOFS. But by going to his ARPA I manage to read his BLOG, and
find that he’s been making a DOCO about Maori life and religious belief: it explains the idea of
an ATUA, a sort of spirit that can be good or bad.
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Tairongo seems to have been having quite an adventurous time. He had a dodgy experience
surfing when a big NOAH tried to gnaw his NADS off, but he was able to CHIB it with his knife
and it seems to have been the shark that came off worst. There’s also an amusing account in his
blog of an altercation he had with an Australian umpire when playing rugby. I don’t know what
started it, but the UMPY said he was a WARB, then called him a JAFA - if you want to know
what a JAFA is here’s a clue: YABA. This made Tairongo really angry, because he comes from
nowhere near Auckland, but he tried to keep calm and WAWA peacefully, but then the umpire
implied that Tairongo has KOAP with his sister, or would if
gnow
she weren’t so DRAC. Tairongo really flipped at this and
chased him all round the pitch threatening to DACK him,
WHUP him good, douse him in KERO and stuff his head
down a KYBO. Of course, the other players were only too
happy to SOOL him - you know what these ALFS are like.
Fortunately for the umpire he could run like a GNOW and
got away by climbing a BOAB tree at the edge of the pitch.
While I’m on the computer I make a few corrections to a couple of APPS I’m writing, then log
on to my instant message system, but all I’ve got is the usual lot of SPIM. Never mind, it’s time
anyway to pop down to the local DUKA for the morning paper and some odds and ends, and
give the dogs a bit of a walk: I’ve got a Tibetan APSO and a BRAK that I got from my South
African friend Hendrik. I leave a note to the home help to make sure that she DEGS the HOMA
on the window-sill; it’s in bud and I’m hoping I’ll soon have two HOMS, or even end up with a
whole GREX. There’s also a rather delicate MIHA, with its fronds just unfolding, another
souvenir of my trip to New Zealand.
So, I put on my ZOOT suit - I’m really into retro dressing - and off I go. I don’t bother with any
of my CAGS because it doesn’t look like rain. The local shop, which is about a KLIK away, is
run by an Indian friend of mine called Deepak, who sells DESI Indian food. ‘Hello, YAAR’, he
says, ‘I hope you are TEEK. What can I do for you today?’. I tell him I’m after some spices for my
IKAN fish dishes. While he’s serving me his teenage son comes in, smoking a BIDI. ‘Hey, GORA,
no GORI today?’ he says, referring to my blonde girl-friend. ‘You be polite to my customers’ says
his father, ‘or you’ll be out on your JAXY. Go and do something useful like digging the BAGH.’
The lad just IGGS his father and goes out, dropping his DIMP on the floor. His father sighs. ‘He’s
a problem’, he says. ‘Got no respect: calls me, his own father, a BUDA and his mother a BUDI,
refers to his uncle as a KUTA and his aunt as a KUTI, and says his sister is a MOTI. And you
should see how he dresses, either like a western CHAV or in CAMO gear, and all he wants to
do is MICH from school and lie about all day listening to GOTH and talking on his MOBY. Do
you know, the other day he came in and blew out the candles when we were having an ARTI.
I asked him what he plans to do for a living, and do you know what he said? I’m going to be a
JEDI, he says. How do they fill their heads with such KAKS? More likely he’ll end up as a DERO
or a MEFF.’ ‘Well, perhaps a BOHO’, I said, ‘I hear he’s quite artistic’. ‘He did draw a funny
animal on his bedroom wall with a BIRO’, admitted his father. ‘I asked him what it was, because
it looked a bit like a camel and a bit like a llama, and told him he needed to make the DIFF a
bit clearer. ‘I don’t care about DIFS’, he says, ‘it’s a CAMA’.
‘Not that my daughter’s much better’, Deepak goes on. ‘All she thinks about is getting a BOYF.
At least she’s not one of those BOIS. I try to get her to stay in and do her schoolwork, but she
wants to be like her friend who goes out and JOLS every evening. She says why can’t she MOSH
too and have a JIVY time listening to EMOS. She says her friend’s parents are really KEWL and
her friend is allowed to bring boys home and entertain them in her own room, but I’m not having
an ODAH in my house’. Poor Deepak, he does try to JAGA his daughter against the evils of the
world, and it’s so difficult these days. I know he really hoped his children would become MEDS.
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He fingers his MALA as if in prayer; I hear him BRUX and GROK what
he’s feeling.
I give Deepak a FLIM in payment for my purchases; he gives me my
change. I look at this carefully because the shop’s in a very
cosmopolitan area and there have been some funny coins in it before
now. I’ve found a KUNA, or actually several KUNE, from Croatia,
there was a DENI, a couple of BHAT from Thailand, several SUMY
from Uzbekistan, some LATU from Latvia, a LUMA from Armenia,
there was a LIPA - no, I tell a lie, two LIPE - from Croatia, there was a
mala
TYIN from Kyrgyzstan, together with a few SOMS or SOMY; there was
even an old Scottish MECK.
‘By the way, try one of these’ says Deepak just as I’m
acai
going. ‘It’s a new line in fruit I’m thinking of selling, it’s
called an ACAI.’ He gives me a berry. ‘It’s not from the
NONI tree, is it?’ I say. ‘No, no, he says, ‘that grows in
Asia, these come from Brazil’.
I walk on and who should I meet but my South African
friend Hendrik. ‘Hey, JONG, how’s it going with
WENA?’ he says. ‘KIFF’, I say, ‘and you?’‘Not so good’,
he says. ‘SJOE!’ I say, because Hendrik’s usually pretty
cheerful. ‘No’, he says, ‘in fact, things are pretty VROT.
My OUMA died a fortnight ago and then my OUMA last week; they both had MYCS. EISH!’ he
SADS. ‘And my pet rabbit’s got MYXO, and bit me on the finger this morning. EINA! And my
sister-in-law - poor VROU - has given birth to a PREM. Bad luck, eh?’ ‘YEBO’, I say. When
Hendrik gets excited he tends to lapse into his TAAL or native Afrikaans, and it can get a bit hard
to understand, especially because he tends to BREI a lot. ‘And then some MOER, some POEP,
runs into my car’ he goes on, starting to BREY even more ‘- you know, my beautiful SAXE Skoda
- and then tries to claim it’s my fault, the MOFO. And he says my car is UPTA anyway. SIES!
Listen, BOET, I say to him, do you think I’m some kind of JAAP, ISIT? I KLAP him a good one
and just for good measure punch him in his fat BOEP and now he’s suing me for assault. PTUI!’.
And I hear him GOSS. Poor Hendrik, he gets a bit GUNG ho, and then regrets it: he’s all over
the OCCY today.
I say goodbye to Hendrik and a little further on run into
another friend of mine, Aaron, wearing a KUFI. He teaches
the Torah in a synagogue, and is on his way to buy a couple
of new YADS. ‘I know what I’ve been meaning to ask you’,
I say, ‘this ERUV, this area within which you are allowed to
do certain things not normally permitted on the Sabbath -
kufi what is it that you actually do do inside it?’. He smiles
mysteriously. ‘Let’s just say we know how to enjoy our Sabbath EREV’, he says. I don’t want him
to think I’m a YUTZ, so I don’t pursue the matter. I ask him what the difference is between an
AVEL and an OVEL and he says there isn’t any: they both mean a mourner during the first seven
days after a death. I’m quite interested in comparative religion and ask him whether there’s any
equivalent in Judaism of Islamic WUDU, the ritual washing before the daily prayer, and we
discuss different attitudes to usury, which Judaism allows but the Koran strictly forbids as RIBA.
I have more shops to visit. First I take some NEGS of my holiday into the photographer, then I
stop off at a rock shop to buy my girl-friend something for her birthday. She’s really into geology
- did her PhD on the LIAS - but there aren’t many jobs in geology so she’s now become a WAAC,
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which at least gives her a chance to pursue her other great interest, climbing. That keeps her
really slim - she’s never going to need a LIPO. The rock shop has some flashy looking YAGS, but
she doesn’t like synthetic stuff, so I buy her a really nice piece of serpentine - VERD antique, the
dealer says - and also a rather fine picture of a TOMO in limestone country. Then I pop into the
climbing shop across the road to pick up some FIFI hooks for her. Don’t know whether you’ve
ever seen a FIFI hook, but it looks a bit like a KYPE on the lower jaw of a mature male salmon.
While I’m there I can’t resist getting her a TOPO showing all of the routes up K2. I shouldn’t
encourage her really - I don’t like to think how many GRAV a body gets up to falling from the
top of K2. The other thing she likes is antique music - she’s in this ensemble that play authentic
instruments without any sound equipment or even MICS. They’re never going to win an EMMY,
but one has to encourage one’s DOYS, and going past the window of a music shop I notice a
fine LYRA viol for sale and order that for her too.
All this expense reminds me that I’m due for a SESH with my financial adviser, so I pop in to see
him. He’s an American, used to be a noted athlete in JUCO before he got injured and they EXED
him from the team. He’s very keen that I should diversify my portfolio into the international
markets: keeps on about these KYES, that seem to be some sort of Korean-American banking
club, and also wants me to get involved, via some MEZZ process that I don’t understand at all,
with a Caribbean SUSU, but I’m a bit doubtful. Still, he’s a canny fellow: I notice him putting a
SPIF on an envelope, and he says he has all the firm’s stamps perforated like that with the firm’s
initials to stop employees nicking them. And he keeps a DEBE on his desk to put any pennies in
that he SAMS in the street, and is careful to EMPT it each night before he goes home.
I have lunch at a Japanese restaurant. The dÈcor’s a bit
too inclined to POMO for my taste, but it’s restful
sado
watching the KOIS in the fish-tank, and each afternoon
they have a SADO: I find the graceful movements very
soothing and enjoy the scent of the tea. It’s a good place
to come if you’re a VEGO, because they do wonderful
UDON. But today I have another kind of noodles, SOBA,
the big buckwheat ones that I actually prefer to
Malaysian MEES, and with it I have a good dollop of soy
sauce made from KOJI. I notice that dish of the day is
CRAY with GARI, but I don’t much like shellfish, which
contain too many APOS for me, nor the taste of ginger.
They don’t do only Japanese cusine, you can also get a good dish of PUPU, and various kinds
of KUEH. I talk with the waitress about her time at her JUKU; she’s says there’s a lot of pressure
on Japanese students and she’s glad her time at school is over now.
On the way back home I meet my friend Paddy, a small bright-eyed Irishman, chirpy as a SPUG.
He’s a TAIG and it being St Patrick’s Day is drunk and burbling on about seeing SIDH in his
garden. ‘Been at the bottle again, Paddy?’ I say. ‘You should stick to the mineral WAIS’. He URPS
and FAAS. ‘Thash the shixth time I’ve FAAN’, he says. ‘What a shilly FEEN I am’. ‘Come on’, I
say to Paddy, ‘you’ve had ENUF. Let’s get you home before someone VAGS you or the TECS get
after you for stealing that PLUE they were asking me about yesterday’. ‘It’s not for YOUS to tell
me to go home’ he says in an ARSY sort of way. ‘I’ll jusht have a STIM more whiskey’ and with
that he falls flat on his face and lies in the road like a LYCH. I ponder the business of being an
ALKO: getting drunk has always seemed pretty RENK to me, and I wonder why society thinks
it’s more acceptable for people like Paddy to get in that state that than to SKYF a few ZOLS.
This reminds me that it’s the local elections today, and I suppose I’d better vote, not that I’ve got
much faith in the political process. OMOV is all very well, but the fact remains that if you’re
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OOFY you’ve got clout and if you haven’t you’re just a FEEB, of no more account than a KUTU
or a PUBE. If I had more energy I’d BORK a few of our politicians in the media.
My way home has taken me through a rather disreputable bit of the BURB; they’ve tried to
improve it by building a PLEX there, one of those modern FABS with a FLIR in each room to cut
down the risk of fire, but it’s just turned out to be a target for graffiti vandals. I don’t understand
these people who want to BORM public buildings; the same sort of people, I suppose, who just
don’t care about ECOS. At least one of the graffiti is a bit classier than usual - someone clearly
of a mathematical bent has drawn an elaborate geometrical figure based on a SECH.
As I’m going along Deepak’s son comes past me hanging on to the back of a friend’s bike; the
friend’s a West Indian lad with one of those FROS where each curl looks like a FRIB stuck on to
the scalp. To my mind trying to CROG in heavy traffic is a sure way to the CREM, but it’s not my
business, so I resist the temptation to YORP after him. Just as he gets to the corner I see him fall
off - actually I’m having to SKEN because the sun’s in my eyes so I seem to see two HIMS fall
off - but he picks himself with no harm done.
My last encounter of the day is with my Scots friend Hamish. ‘Have ye had ONIE news of oor
Kenneth’, he asks, naming a mutual acquaintance. ‘I’ve had NANE myself for HAUF a year noo.
Yesterday his wife CAAS me on her MOBE asking if I know where he is because he said he was
coming DOON to see me.’‘WHAE?’, says I. ‘Kenneth’, she says, ‘are you DEIF or something? I
think he’s left me to BYDE wi’ some Sassenach floozie’. And she gives a GERT sob. ‘Nae way,
he LOUS you too much for that’, says I. ‘Dinna be in such of a hurry to FAUT the man, he never
GANS FAUR, he ISNA the type, I’m sure ye’ve NISH to worry about’. ‘If he has left me’, she says,
‘I shall LOWP off the Forth Bridge’. ‘Och, calm DOUN and dinna talk sae SAFT’ says I, ‘I can
see why thou BIST a little upset now, but even if he has gone you’ll find there’s plenty more seals
in the sea to come to your AGLU’.
At last I get home, and it’s time to YARK my evening meal. There are some ZEPS in the fridge
and a few SAVS, but I feel like fish again: there are some fillets of HAKU and HOKA in the
freezer, together with the remains of yesterday’s ONOS and AHIS, that will go well served with
a sprig or two of HIOI, and there’s a couple of PAVS for dessert. By the time I’ve cooked and
eaten it’s after ten o’clock - how the EVOS fly - so I DOUK myself in a SITZ bath, which is very
relaxing though there’s not much room to SKET about. And so to bed.
New Hooks For Old
Here are twenty-five ‘old’ words which have acquired interesting ‘new’ hooks. Your task
is to find the match the words on the left with the letters on the right. The hooks may be
front or back. Note that there is one for each letter of the alphabet except Q (sorry, but
Collins have given us no new Q hooks, front or back).
BOOK A NUTS B BEST C ALAS D
SUCK E LURE F OMER G DONS H
GLUM I HAWK J HEME K WISH L
PARE M WHAT N UTA O UGLY P
WARE R RUNG S RACK T AUFS U
AYIN V UDO W TUI X OOSE Y
AGA Z
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Cryptogram
20 19 17 2 17 21 1 25 14 17 10 15 18 23
10 21 24 18 17 8 19 17 12
24 18 22 20 13 2 17 13 10 24 22 25 17 8
5 13 23 16 24 21 9 24 15 24 26 17
9 20 21 24 23 18 24 19 15 24 8 9 18 23
8 8 20 9 22 25 20 18 13 8 24
24 26 17 26 18 19 19 18 23 24 9 18 19 9
12 6 8 4 21 7 7 18
19 14 19 9 18 2 18 23 19 18 20 19 18 23
18 24 3 18 21 21 24 9 24 19 9
18 11 13 24 10 20 19 18 24 21 24 10 20 24
23 17 21 21 8 24 23 20 21 26 20 17
19 8 18 23 23 20 8 26 9 21 17 18 10 14
24 17 18 9 18 8 19 26 20
23 19 17 2 17 19 19 17 14 6 18 24 8 19
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
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Personal Profile: David Eldar
This is a series in which well-known players are encouraged to reflect on the game and reveal
the secrets of their success. For this issue we have an international flavour, as my guest is the
young Australian David Eldar. David is beyond doubt one of the most amazingly precocious
talents ever to burst on the world Scrabble scene. By the age of thirteen
he was more than holding his own in strong tournaments against
seasoned players; at fifteen he represented Australia in the WSC and
finished a stunning eleventh; last year he beat our own Austin Shin for the
World Youth Championship and finished fifth in the very strong Asian
Causeway Challenge tournament; currently he holds top place in the
Australian rankings ahead of such redoubtables as Naween Fernando,
Chris May and our own Andrew Fisher. Somehow he also finds time for
tennis, table-tennis and schoolwork.
David, can you start by saying a little about how you got into Scrabble?
I got into the game through an interest in words, as most people do. I was playing Scrabble at
home when I was five. Later I used to play online games such as ‘Word Racer’, and then
‘Literati’ for a short while. When I was thirteen my mother’s friend suggested a Scrabble club,
and I went; now I’ve been playing for just over four years. I won my first Masters tournament
at the end of 2003, and my first State championship in 2004.
My current rating is 1998, which is my best ever, and this year, after having been in the top ten
for quite a while, I achieved the number one spot in Australia.
How many rated games do you reckon to play per year?
About 150 a year. I probably won’t play many this year though, due to pressures of
schoolwork.
Approximately how many hours per day, on average, do you devote to the play and/or study of the
game?
It used to be a LOT. But that was mostly leisurely. Now I spend less time playing or studying
than I did, but I’m still stuck on ISC a lot - I’m a hopeless addict!
Can you describe what forms your study takes, in order of importance to you.
Most of my knowledge has come in an unregimented way from the large number of games
I’ve played. The only study I do now is of anagrams and hooks, which I learn in combination:
I don’t see any merit in taking these separately.
I never play against the computer. But I do analyse practically every tournament game I play.
Can you say roughly what proportion of your study time you spend on each of the word lengths from
4 to 8?
In the past I spent a LONG time on the 4’s. I have never made a serious attempt to study 5’s
or 6’s, (except for Jumbletime, if that counts), but again I have a large knowledge of them due
to the time I spend online. All my study time now is spent on 7’s and 8’s.
In the case of seven- and eight-letter words, can you roughly quantify the way in which you weight
your study, if you do, towards higher probability words.
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I originally began by trying to learn the words through in alphabetical order, as no one told me
when I was starting that you can’t just learn 25000 words in a year. That didn’t last too long
though. I also spent time studying words that end in things such as -AY, and words that have
5 vowels. After about a year, though, I switched to probability lists, and now all my study is
with these.
Do you study ‘bonus stems’?
Not any more, though I did in my first year or so.
Do you use any mnemonic techniques, e.g. anamonics, associative phoneys, or the kind of more
elaborate techniques described in ‘How To Win at Scrabble’?
No, these have never worked for me. Just learning by rote seems to suit me best.
Do you spend any time on the study of words of nine letters or more?
Unless VERY occasional Jumbletime counts, no.
When you look back at your own games, do you find that when you miss the optimum move, this is
most often a) because you simply don’t know the word, b) because you know the word but don’t find
it or c) because you know the word and find it but fail to recognise that it is the optimum move?
It’s mostly B. Then A occasionally, and then C. Actually I tend to disagree with the sim a lot,
so I perhaps don’t really sim my games properly. But I still recognize when I’ve been an idiot!
Can you give a rough idea of what proportion of the current SOWPODS lexicon up to and including
8 letter words you would claim to ‘know’ in the sense of being able to state confidently that any
given word from it is valid or not?
At a very rough estimation, 95-100% of 4’s, 80-95% of 5’s, 70-90% of 6’s, 60-80% of 7’s, 55-
80% of 8’s. But I really have no way of knowing.
Do you attempt to ‘peak’ for certain events (i.e. intensify your study).
Sometimes I study heaps before tournaments, but a lot of the time I can’t be bothered! I do tend
to review the top 5000 7’s and 8’s before any major tournament.
To what extent do you find that once you have learnt words you tend to remember them and to what
extent do you find that your word knowledge suffers from ‘fade’ and requires constant
reinforcement?
I normally only need to see words once or twice for them to be in my head, but to find them
on my rack sometimes requires rather more exposure. At the recent nationals I hadn’t studied
properly for nearly half a year, and I noticed that I was forgetting whether things were good,
and missing obvious bingos. So I guess it’s maybe a bit under half a year for the ‘fadeout’.
How interested are you in the meanings of the words?
Vaguely interested when I happen to come across them.
Would you describe your attitude towards significant extensions to the Scrabble lexicon (such as
happened with the change to OSWI, and is about to happen with Collins) as apprehension,
excitement or something between?
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As far as the Collins change goes, I am very aggrieved. It’s not the fact of having to learn another
lot of words, it’s the fact that it will ruin a lot of the defensive and other nuances in the
SOWPODS game: that really irritates me. And also the fact that more than half of the new
words are ludicrous and shouldn’t be there.
Do you feel that as far as individual tournaments go, being ‘in form’ plays a significant role in
Scrabble success, or that any such factor is swamped by the luck of the tiles?
My attitude is that it’s playing well that wins. I blame myself for my errors, never my luck. If
you don’t play a perfect game, then it’s your fault if you lose, as far as I’m concerned... although
I’m sure that many will disagree with me.
How much do you think success at Scrabble depends on a natural ability which, perhaps like musical
ability, one tends to have or not have and how much do you think it is overwhelmingly a matter of
application?
I’m not sure, but I think you can only get so far if you don’t have the natural ability. But so far
can still be pretty far!
Do you feel that you yourself have pretty much got as far as you’re going to in the game, or do you
feel that you have the potential to get (even) better?
I certainly hope I can still improve. My main limiting factor is lack of time to study: I don’t know
nearly enough words. Also, my board vision is crap at times, and I sometimes make strategical
errors.
Do you think that you would study more and take the game more seriously if the material rewards
were greater, e.g. serious prize money in tournaments?
Definitely. If there was more money in it, I’d spend all my time learning words, and perfecting
my game.
Finally, can you say something about the Australian Scrabble scene: I know this is a very vibrant
one at present, but it must be very different from playing in a small country like ours.
Well, I haven’t been around that long, but I get the impression that the Australian tournament
scene has made a big progression since the arrival of Andrew and Naween. They have
generated a much fiercer competition, and by forcing everyone to try to match their level of
play have brought us up to a very high international standard. I’m pretty sure that the average
scores and standard of play were a lot lower five years ago.
We do have quite a few clubs, but I stopped attending this year because of school, and because
the club where most top players go is inconvenient for me; most of my play now is on the
Internet. Distance is obviously an issue, and when we do meet up face to face we naturally
want to get in as many games as we can - I honestly think it’s ridiculous the small number of
tournament games you guys play in a day. But that’s all to our advantage in the long run
though!
Thank you very much, David, and the best of luck with your Scrabble; I’m sure a lot of people here
will be watching your future progress, as they have watched your past progress, with the utmost
interest, not to say amazement and envy!
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Compiled by Paul Cartman, ABSP Tournament Co-ordinator
Nottingham Nomads (16 games)
4th – 5th August
Peterborough Speed Event (9 games)
Saturday 11th August (ABSP rated)
Contact Chris Hawkins
01733 223202 (home)
07879 885158 (mobile)
Venue Millfield Community Centre,
439 Lincoln Road,
Peterborough, PE1 2PE
Speed Scrabble 15 minutes per player per
game. 10 point penalty for every minute
over 15 minute overtime, game forfeited if
Scottish Round Robin (14 games)
11th -12th August
MSO Potters Bar (6 games)
Saturday 18th August
Contact Steve Perry
01367-244757
Emergency Number on the day
07969-294062
Venue Potters Bar United Reformed
Church, Darkes Lane,
Potters Bar, EN6 3BZ
BMSC Yarnfield Park
Men's & Ladies Event
Friday - Saturday 24th - 25th August
Contact Sarah Wilks
07847122690
Main Event
Saturday - Monday 25th - 27th August
Contact Sarah Wilks
07847122690
New Player Event (5 games)
Saturday 24th August
Contact Stewart Holden
0115 841 5179
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Contact Clive Spate
0115 9200208
player overtime by 10 minutes or more.
Registration 09:15
First game 09:45 Departure 17:30
Entry costs: £16.50 for nonABSP members
£14.50 forABSP members
Deduct 50p if bringing timer, which you are
prepared to lend.
Cheques payable to Peterborough Scrabble
Club, 39 Peterborough Road, Eye,
Peterborough, PE6 7YA
Contact Marion Keating
01592-265524
Registration 9.15 First Game 10.30
Number of divisions dependant upon entries
Refreshments Tea/coffee available during
the day but lunch is not provided
Entry Cost £16 All comers
Cheques should preferably be mailed to MSO
on form downloaded from link on ABSP
website, or in second instance from Steve
Perry, 29 Elm Road, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7EJ
BMSC UPDATE – PAIRINGS INFORMATION
There has also been some re-thinking of the
pairing system used for the Open Division
(and any other division that is not a roundrobin).
For this years event we are going to
trial the following:
For the Final Day (rounds 14-18):
Players may have one repeat pairing (based
in games 1-17)
Round 18 will be a straight King-of-the-Hill
so players may again have repeat pairings
irrespective of how many times they have
played before.
Best Western, Worthing
14th - 17th September
Lothersdale Hotel Morecambe
12th-15th October
Entry forms are available now.
Draft Timetable for holidays
Friday: Arrive from 3pm, Dinner at 6pm,
games start 7:30pm
Saturday: Games from 9:15am to 1:30pm,
Wychwood Park, Crewe (13games)
Sep 8th-9th
Middlesbrough (6 games)
Sunday 9th September
Contact Samantha Beckwith
0191-5866436
Venue Linthorpe Community Centre,
Linthorpe Road,
Middlesbrough
Registration 09:45
First game 10:15 Departure 17:30
2/3 divisional tournament.
NSC/NSCT Semi Final
15th – 16th September
Norwich (6 games)
Sunday 16th September
Contact Carol Smith
01603 898791
Venue Hethersett Village Hall,
Hethersett, Norwich, Norfolk
Registration 09.30 First game 10:15
Departure 18.00
H-B HOLIDAYS
or John Harrison
Contact Viv Beckmann
01661 854336
0191 2742420
hbhnewcastle@hotmail.com 0798 6768056
Havering Autumn Tournament (6 games)
Saturday 1st September
Contact Cindy Hollyer
01277-822050
Venue Kelvedon Hatch Village Hall,
Kelvedon Hatch, Brentwood,
Registration 09:15
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Three Counties Hotel, HEREFORD
26th -29th October
Cairn Hotel, HARROGATE
23rd-26th November
Dinner at 6pm, games start 7:30pm
Sunday: Games from 1:00pm to 5:00pm,
Dinner at 6pm, games start 7:30pm
Monday: Depart
First game 10:00 Departure 18:00
Tea/Coffee available at points during the day
but lunch is not provided.
Entry costs: £12.50 for ABSP member
£14.50 for non-ABSP member
Deduct 50p if bringing clock which you are
prepared to lend
Contact Amy Byrne
0131 661 3869
Lunch is not provided.
Entry costs: £12.50 for ABSP members
£14.50 for non-ABSP members
Deduct 50p if bringing timer and are
prepared to lend it
Closing Date for entries 28th August
Cheques payable to Cleveland Scrabble
Club and sent to Samantha Beckwith, 91
Hatfield Place, Peterlee, Co Durham, SR8 5SU
Venue Leeds
Contact Phil Nelkon
01628 500283
2 or 3 divisional tournament depending on
entries Tea/Coffee and homemade cakes
provided (but not lunch)
Entry costs: £11.00 to ABSP members
£13.00 to non-ABSP members
No further discounts
Cheques payable to Carol Smith, 31 Christine
Road, Spixworth, Norwich, NR10 3PH

The Durham ‘Grand’ Weekend
22 nd – 23rd September 2007
Venue: Trevelyan College, Elvet Hill
Road, Durham,
0191 334 7001 or 7011
Arrive by 12 noon Saturday.
First game 12.30pm.
NSC/NSCTFinal Bradford
Saturday 29th September
Hockley (6 games)
Saturday 29th September
Contact Les Costin
01702 523589
Emergency Number on day
07891 143691
Venue Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, 98 Grovewood Avenue,
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 5EG
Stafford (6 games)
Saturday 6th October
Contact Paul/Christine Cartman
01785 211851
Emergency Number
07792591089
Venue St Joseph’s College, London Rd,
Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent,
ST4 5NT
Registration 10.00
First game 10.20 Departure 17.45
Tea and Coffee machines available, sandwiches
will be made (less than £2.50 if pre-ordered)
Bournemouth (6 games)
Sunday 7th October
Contact Ruth Marsden
01202 707148
Venue Rooper Hall, 5 Victoria Park
Road, Moordown,
Bournemouth
Emergency on day only
07720 949 825
Registration 09:30 First game 10:10
Cock of the North (16 games)
8th - 9th October
Contact Len Moir
0151 6061112
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Last game Saturday ends approx 9.40pm.
First game Sunday 8.45am, prizegiving
5.00pm, depart approx 5.20pm.
Contact Laura Finley
206 Cleveland Road,
Sunderland, SR4 7QR
Contact Phil Nelkon
01628 500283
Registration 09.15 First game 10:00
Depart 17.45
3/4 divisional tournament. Tea/Coffee
available on arrival and between games.
Entry cost £12.50 for ABSP member
£14.50 for Non-ABSP member
Deduct 50p if bringing clock
Cheques payable to Les Costin, 60 Bramble
Road, Eastwood, Essex, SS9 5HB
Disabled access to playing area can be
made from specific entrance thereby
avoiding steps. Suitable toilet some way
from playing area. 3/4 Rated divisions
Entry costs: £13.00 for ABSP member
£15.00 for non-ABSP member
Deduct 50p if prepared to lend a timer
1 non-rated division
Cost £10 per player
Cheques payable to Stafford Scrabble Club,
and sent to Christine Cartman, 9 Chapel
Terrace, Stafford, ST16 3AH
Time of departure 17.30
3 / 4 Divisional tournament
Tea/Coffee available throughout the day
Entry costs: £12.50 for ABSP member
£14.50 for nonABSP member
Cheques payable to :-
Bournemouth Scrabble Tournament and sent
to Ruth Marsden, 27 Spencer Road, Canford
Cliffs, Poole, BH13 7ET
Closing date for entries 28th September
or John Harrison
01661 854336
0798 6768056854336
Cardiff Weekend
13th – 14th October
Salisbury (6 games)
Sunday 14th October
Contact Bob Lynn
01722-325623
Emergency Number
0771-818-9630
Venue Winterbourne Glebe Hall,
Winterbourne Earls, Salisbury,
SP4 6HA
NSC Final London
Sunday 21st October
Elgin (5 games)
Saturday 27th October
Contact Lorraine Gordon
01466-794332
Emergency no on day
07967 129188
Venue Elgin Community Centre,
Trinity Road, Elgin
Registration 10:00
First game 10:45 Departure 17:30
Romford (6 games)
Saturday 3rd November
Contact Cindy Hollyer
01277 822050
07712 960642
Venue Kelvedon Hatch Village Hall,
School Road, Kelvedon
Hatch, Brentwood, Essex
Division according to entries
Registration 9.15
Isle-of-Wight
10th Vectis Event (5 games)
2nd – 3rd November
Contact Noel Turner
01983 614426 (Home)
01983 202516 (Work)
Venue The Broadway Park Hotel,
Sandown
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Contact Mary Allen
0191-274-2420
Entry costs: £13.00 for ABSP member
£15.00 for nonABSP member
Deduct 50p if willing to lend a timer
Cheques payable to Robert Lynn Scrabble
Account, and addressed to Robert Lynn,
4 George Street, Salisbury, SP2 7BA
Contact Phil Nelkon
01628 500283
2 division tournament
Tea/Coffee and biscuits on arrival, lunch
and refreshments prior to leaving
Entry costs: £14 for ABSP members
£16 for NON-ABSP members
No further discounts
Cheques payable to Elgin Scrabble Club
and sent to Lorraine Gordon, Glenview,
Aberdeen Road, Huntly, Aberdeenshire,
AB54 6JD Closing date for entries 20.10.07
First game 10.00 Departure 18.00
Tea/Coffee and biscuits available before the
start and between games
Entry costs: £12.50 For ABSP members
£14.50 for nonABSP member
Deduct 50p if you are able to bring and
lend a timer
Cheques payable to Romford Scrabble Club
c/o Cindy Hollyer, 78 Peartree Lane,
Doddinghurst, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 0RH
Main Event (11 games)
3rd – 4th November
Contact Noel Turner
01983 614426 (Home)
01983 202516 (Work)
Venue The Broadway Park Hotel,
Sandown

Luton (6 games)
Saturday 10th November
Contact Adrian Noller
01582 656234
Emergency no. on day only
07753 143262
Venue Whitefield Junior School,
Stockholm Way, Luton.
Registration 09:20
Cairn Hotel, Harrogate
23rd – 26th November
Eastbourne Extravaganza(13 games)
23rd - 25th November
Venue Langham Hotel Eastbourne
Milton Keynes Winter Matchplay
24th – 25th November
Contact Shin
01908 675303
Venue Holiday Inn, Saxon Gate West,
C’tral Milton Keynes MK9 2HQ
The entrance fee includes: Tournament
Stoke Rochford (12 games)
15th - 16th December
Twixmas (13 games)
29th-30th December
Venue Staverton Park, Northampton
2008
UK OPEN
Monday 7th – Friday 11th January
Contact John Harrison
01661 854336
Chester (16 games)
26th - 28th January
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First game 10:00 Departure 17.40
4 divisional tournament.
Tea/Coffee and squash available at points
during the day but lunch is not provided.
Entry costs: £12.00 for ABSP member
£14.00 for non-ABSP member
Cheques payable to Luton Scrabble Club
and sent to Adrian Noller, 1 Wendover
Way, Luton LU2 7LS
Contact Viv Beckmann
0191 2742420
Contact Amy Byrne
0131 661 3869
entry (including 60p rating levy). Saturday
dinner, Sunday lunch. Tea, coffee and
biscuits at refreshment breaks. Sunday
breakfast (residents only). Swimming pool
and health club (residents only). Resident’s
parking free (Non-resident’s parking is
chargeable).
Contact Christina French
01708 701578
Contact Amy Byrne
0131 661 3869
Contact Len Moir
0151 6061112
Contact Kathy Rush
01928 733565
West Sussex (6 games)
27th Jan
Pitlochry 1 (14 games)
Sunday 20th - Wednesday 23rd January
Pitlochry 2 (9 games)
The 5-Minute Anagram Test
Edgeways Solutions
Contact Peter Hall
01903 775396
Wednesday 23rd – Friday 25th January
Contact Alan Sinclair
0131 669 7316
A. JEDI SJOE HIOI HOMA GROK
AZUKI JAXIE RAHUI DANNIES AEROBAT
B. JEMBE MIXTE CAAED ARUHE FOXIE
EATERIE AGATISE AMARONE TARSEAL NOVATED
C. BOEUF JAAPS NOOIT KUIAS CUNEI
SOSATIE RETOTAL RONNIES ONLINERS PELOTONS
World Scrabble Championships
D. POUTINE WAITRON EURONOTE GREENLIT GORDITAS
GOLIATH HEBRAISE HERPTILE MALWARES HORLICKS
Cryptogram Anagrid
1=P, 2=M, 3=Z, 4=V, 5=W, 6=B,
7=F, 8=N, 9=T, 10=L, 11=Q,
12=X, 13=U, 14=Y, 15=K, 16=J,
17=O, 18=E, 19=S, 20=I, 21=R,
22=C, 23=D, 24=A, 25=H, 26=G.
New Hooks for Old
E-BOOK NUTS-O BEST-I
M-ALAS SUCK-Y LURE-X
G-OMER U-DONS GLUM-S
C-HAWK R-HEME WISH-T
PARE-V WHAT-A K-UTA
F-UGLY WARE-Z B-RUNG
D-RACK H-AUFS L-AYIN
UDO-N P-TUI W-OOSE
J-AGA