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Committee Corner .......................... 1 Scrabble Books .............................. 4 Who’s For A Trip Down The Nile? .. 7 Tournament Reports ........................ 8 Letters ............................................ 18 Simultaneous Scrabble Record ........ 20 Ratings ............................................ 21 THE LAST WORD TEAM The Last Words Team welcomes contributions from readers to their respective areas, either as letters, articles or suggestions. Contact information: Deadline for next issue 2nd July 2004 ISSUE CONTENTS Across The Board ............................ 25 Edgeways ........................................ 33 The French Connection .................. 38 Xtras ................................................ 40 Forthcoming Events.......................... 44 Edgeways Answers .......................... 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. General Editor: Alec Webb 17 St Margarets Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR32 4HS absp.tlw@btinternet.com Games and Strategies: Phil Appleby, Thorns Cottage, Mount Pleasant Lane, Lymington, Hants SO41 8LS phil_appleby2000@yahoo.co.uk Forthcoming events: Paul Cartman, 9 Chapel Terrace, Stafford ST16 3AH 01785 211851 paul.cartman@btinternet.com Words and Puzzles: Raymond Tate, 6 Amochrie Glen Hollybrook Paisley PA2 0DY Raymond@Tate7856.fsnet.co.uk Features: Christina French 127 Carlton Road, Gidea Park, Romford, Essex RM2 5AU 01708 701578 christinafrench@ntlworld.com In the event of issues of The Last Word not being received, or if you change your address, please contact Viv Beckmann 0191 273 1705 email: howzatvb@gotadsl.co.uk LAST CHANCE Refer-a-friend Scheme If by 30th June, through your encouragement, someone joins the ABSP for the first time, you will receive a voucher giving you £5 discount on your subscription for 2005. Be sure to make Viv Beckmann aware of your entitlement. Tel: 01912 731705 or email:howzatvb@gotadsl.co.uk There is a limit of three vouchers per member. COMMITTEE CORNER ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2004 Members are reminded that the 2004 AGM will be held at 8.15pm on Sunday 29th August at the Queens Moat House Hotel, West Bromwich, in conjunction with the ABSP’s British Matchplay Championship. All members are invited to attend. The DRAFT agenda is detailed below. Amendments to motions and new motions must be received by June 18th in order to be discussed at the next Committee meeting on June 20th. The final agenda will be published next issue. PROXY VOTES may be sent to the Chairman, Allan Simmons at: Edington House, The Bow, Coldingham, Berwickshire TD14 5NE Email proxies are allowed but you must give your full name in the email: abspchair@aol.com Proxy Voting forms will be provided with the next issue of TLW. DRAFT AGENDA 1 To receive the Chairman’s report (this will be published next TLW) 2 To receive and consider the accounts of the Association for 2003, and the associated Auditor’s and Treasurer’s reports (the accounts are currently being audited and will be published next issue). 3 To elect the officers and other members of the Committee The current Committee consists of: Paul Allan, Viv Beckmann, Amy Byrne, Paul Cartman, Elie Dangoor, Darryl Francis, Stewart Holden, Wayne Kelly, Ross Mackenzie, Jackie Mcleod, Allan Simmons, Alec Webb, plus Philip Nelkon as the Mattel representative. The officers of the Committee are currently: Allan Simmons (Chairman) Amy Byrne (Secretary) Ross Mackenzie (Treasurer) Our honorary President is Gyles Brandreth. All the officers intend to stand again for these roles. All other Committee members are standing again 4 To confirm the Auditor for the year 2004 (Yoke Shin) 5 To fix the subscription for 2005 It is proposed that the subscription remains at £15 per annum 1

6 MOTIONS These are detailed below and will be addressed in the order shown 6.1 Committee Service Reward Proposer : Allan Simmons Seconder: Amy Byrne It is proposed that Committee Members (excluding Mattel rep) receive £20 for each Committee Meeting that they attend (excluding AGMs), effective from September 2004. Note re Motion 6.1: The Committee has unfortunately not yet found anyone willing to chair an independent Committee Reward Panel to address the broad area of reward for service. Meanwhile, we have felt it essential to address the TLW editorial role and bring it more in line with that of Ratings Officer, and so agreed routine payments to the TLW editor through the March Committee Meeting (reported last TLW). However, we felt it more appropriate to seek membership approval for a more general payment for Committee members, thus this motion. Whilst we recognise that meeting attendance does not equate to ongoing effort/actions throughout the year, it does seem the only fair and easily measurable way to introduce a small financial compensation for service. For most attendees a Committee meeting takes a very long day including travelling. We trust members agree the approach we are proposing is reasonable. It is estimated the cost will be around £600 per annum which is available at existing funding levels. 7 Update on Collins Scrabble books status and opportunity for discussion of Mattel switch from Chambers to Collins 8 Discussion of Committee Objectives 2003-2004 A review of how the Committee is performing against its Objectives. SPONSORSHIP BREAKTHROUGH The Committee are pleased to announce the ABSP’s first major sponsorship breakthrough. Chambers Harrap Publishers have agreed to sponsor the 2004 ABSP Masters and the 2004 ABSP British Matchplay Scrabble Championship for a total of £2,000. The arrangement for 2004 has been cleared with Mattel. The sponsorship will be split, £400 for the Masters and £1,600 for the BMSC (spread across divisions). There will also be leather-bound dictionaries for both champions and a special Chambers trophy for the BMSC champion. Both events will be publicised as “in association with Chambers Harrap Publishers” and there will also be Chambers books donated to the prize fund. Whilst entrance fees will also contribute towards the prize funds in both cases, for the BMSC it is expected that this will enable the event to have entrance fees in line with those of 2003 and have more attractive prizes, including a special Chambers BMSC 2004 trophy for the overall winner. 2 ABSP MASTERS 2004 in association with Chambers Harrap publishers. This event is now scheduled to take place on Mon/Tue June 7th/8th (it would already have happened when you read this!) at a grandiose restaurant near Oxford, Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, which is owned by Raymond Blanc. We are expecting to have a celebrity to attend the opening and Josh Whitehead will be there filming as part of his Channel 4 documentary. The Committee is grateful to Phil Appleby and Mark Nyman for their help with the organisation. BRITISH MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2004 In association with Chambers Harrap publishers. This event will be at the West Bromwich Moat House hotel over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Full details are given in the entry form with this issue. AN UPDATE RE THE COLLINS DICTIONARY ISSUE FROM THE ABSP DICTIONARY COMMITTEE (ABSP-DC) Darryl Francis, Allan Simmons, David Webb Members would have seen the ABSP-DC’s article in the last TLW which was representative of the disappointing position with Collins and their FAQ as at that TLW deadline. Since then there has been some welcome liaison from Collins. We now have some reason to be confident that less than 100 root words (plus inflexions) will disappear and none of these will be USA words. The root words that will disappear are relatively insignificant to a player’s useful Scrabble vocabulary and include such words as SYRLYE, EMBREWE, PICCADELL (plus inflexions). However, there is not time for the ABSP DC to assess the expected thousands of new words coming in from Collins’ sources and check them against the base OSW word rules, although we have seen some sample pages and advised Collins on areas they still need to address. For that reason, plus the key fact that the initial Collins book (scheduled for the Summer) cannot possible reflect the 2004 USA updates (which are still being worked on in America), we will NOT be recommending any 2004 Collins book to be adopted. We are also aware that if there are too many thousands of new words, that itself may be an unacceptable element of the change. During the course of 2004 we expect to properly assess candidate new words from Collins sources against OSW-base rules, and discuss and agree a viable future update process. When the 2004 book is published we will scrutinise it fully to assess its suitability. We hope that Collins will make copies available for others (e.g. some clubs) to review as well. In 2005 a version of the book with definitions is expected to be published. That will be the earliest opportunity to reflect updates from the USA. So, it will not be until a 2005 AGM, and the publication of a 2005 book with definitions, that a vote and decision can be made. Whilst endeavouring to assist Collins in producing a book that might be acceptable to the players, the ABSP-DC equally believes that players as a group ultimately have a choice should a Collins Scrabble word book be unacceptable. To that end the ABSP DC is also exploring contingencies with Chambers. 3

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