Nigel Richards has also been champion in English and – after memorising dictionary in nine weeks – French
More than 150 competitors representing 20 countries descended on a hotel on the outskirts of Granada last month to battle it out at the Spanish World Scrabble Championships.
Now, weeks after the letter tiles were meticulously placed and the points tallied, news of the tournament’s winner, Nigel Richards, has made waves across“This is someone with very particular, incredible abilities, he’s a gifted guy,” Benjamín Olaizola, who came second to Richards in the Spanish-language tournament,made headlines
after he won the francophone world championships without being able to speak or understand French. Instead he reportedly memorised the entire French Scrabble dictionary in the span of nine weeks.at the time. “He won’t know what they mean, wouldn’t be able to carry out a conversation in French, I wouldn’t think.
“Just mentioning his name makes me tingle, he’s a phenomenon,” Eric Salvador Tchouyo, a world champion Scrabble player from Cameroon,. “I often say he would make a good doctoral thesis topic for students in medicine because it’s incomprehensible that someone could have such memory capacity in a language he doesn’t speak.”
Describing Richards as an “exceptional” person, he noted that whenever Richards turned up at a tournament, the other players knew they were playing for second place at best. “When Nigel Richards sits at a table, everyone loses their nerves, even the biggest champions,” he said. “Playing against Nigel Richards is like playing against a computer.”
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