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Nigel Richards (born 1967) is a New Zealand–Malaysian Scrabble player who is among the most successful players of all time. Born and raised in New Zealand, Richards became World Champion in 2007, and repeated the feat in 2011, 2013, and 2018, being the only person to have won the world championship more than once. He is also a five-time U.S. national champion, an eight-time UK Open champion, an 11-time champion of the Singapore Open Scrabble Championship and a 13-time winner of the King's Cup in Bangkok, the world's biggest Scrabble competition. In 2015, despite not speaking French, Richards won the French World Scrabble Championships, after reportedly spending nine weeks studying the French dictionary. He won it again in 2018, and multiple duplicate titles from 2016. Renowned for his eidetic and mathematical abilities, Richards has been described as a reclusive personality and is rarely interviewed. Playing historyRichards started playing competitive Scrabble at New Zealand's Christchurch Scrabble Club. Since beginning his competitive career in 1997, he has won about 75% of his tournament games, collecting an estimated USD200,000 in prize money.[1] In 2000 Richards moved to Malaysia. 2007Richards won the World Scrabble Championship[2] and earned USD 15,000 by winning a playoff, 3 games to 0, against Ganesh Asirvatham of Malaysia.[3] The two qualified for the playoff by leading a field of 104 international experts after 24 rounds of a tournament held 9–12 November in Mumbai, India. 2008Richards won the USA National Scrabble Championship and earned USD25,000 by winning his last three games against the runner-up, 1998 champion Brian Cappelletto, for a record of 22 wins and 6 losses, with a cumulative spread of 1340 points.[4] 2009Richards was the runner-up in the USA National Scrabble Championship in Dayton, Ohio,[5] losing to Dave Wiegand but still winning 25 of the 31 matches. 2010Richards won the USA National Scrabble Championship in Dallas, Texas,[6] again winning 25 games. His performance in this tournament was so dominant that he clinched the title before the last day of competition began. 2011He repeated his success in the World Scrabble Championship[7] in Warsaw, Poland, winning a closely fought final against Australia's top player, Andrew Fisher. Richards won the USA National Scrabble Championship in Dallas, Texas,[8] winning 22 games, including his final two, to hold off a number of challengers. 2012{{notability|date=February 2019}}Richards won the WGPO Word Cup[9] in Bloomington, Minnesota, winning 24 of 31 games, four more than the second-place player. Richards won the USA National Scrabble Championship,[10] in Orlando, Florida, winning 22 of 31 games. To win the title, Richards had to defeat past champion David Gibson by at least 170 points in the final game; he won it by 177 points. At the time of the victory, Richards became the only person to have won the event four times, as well as the only player to have won it in three consecutive years. 2013Richards won 24 of 31 games to finish first at the National Scrabble Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July.[11] The championship was not decided until the last game. Though he lost the game to Komol Panyasophonlert, Richards kept the score close enough to retain the title for a record fourth consecutive time (and record fifth overall). He became World Champion for a third time, beating Panyasophonlert in the final; as of 2013, the World Championship has been renamed the Scrabble Champions Tournament and will be held annually. 2015On 20 July, Richards won the nonduplicate portion of the 2015 French World Scrabble Championship in Belgium after two months of studying the French lexicon. He does not speak French.[12] He won 14 of the preliminary 17 games before defeating the 2014 runner-up Schélick Ilagou Rekawe in the final, two games to one.[13][14] In the duplicate (rarely played in English, but played in French since 1972) he finished second, just one point behind the winner, Switzerland's David Bovet.[15] 2017Competed in,[16] and won, the 2017 WGPO Word Cup.[17] 2018Competed in,[18] and placed 2nd at, the 4th Niagara Falls International Open.[19]. Career achievementsWorld Championship
U.S. National Scrabble Championship
French Scrabble
Other achievements
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cross-tables.com/profile.php?p=6003 |title=Nigel Richards – Player Profile |publisher=cross-tables.com |date= |accessdate=23 February 2014}} 2. ^{{cite web|author=John J. Chew, III |url=http://live.wscgames.com/2007/player/1/082.html |title=WSC 2007: Nigel Richards [#82] |publisher=Live.wscgames.com |date= |accessdate=23 February 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web|author=John J. Chew, III |url=http://live.wscgames.com/2007/finals.html |title=WSC 2007: Finals |publisher=Live.wscgames.com |date= |accessdate=23 February 2014}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cross-tables.com/tourney.php?t=6077&div=1 |title=National Scrabble Championship : Division 1 Results |publisher=Cross-tables.com |accessdate=23 February 2014}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cross-tables.com/tourney.php?t=6499&div=1 |title=National Scrabble Championship : Division 1 Results |publisher=Cross-tables.com |accessdate=23 February 2014}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cross-tables.com/tourney.php?t=6936&div=1|title=National Scrabble Championship : Division 1 Results|publisher=Cross-tables.com|accessdate=23 February 2014}} 7. ^{{cite web|author=John J. Chew, III |url=http://live.wscgames.com/2011/finals.html |title=WSC 2011: Finals |publisher=Live.wscgames.com |date= |accessdate=23 February 2014}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cross-tables.com/tourney.php?t=7331&div=1 |title=National Scrabble Championship : Division 1 Results |publisher=Cross-tables.com |accessdate=23 February 2014}} 9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.wordgameplayers.org/ratings/texttable.php?tID=110 |title=WGPO Word Cup Main Event |publisher=Wordgameplayrs.org |accessdate=23 February 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020233600/http://www.wordgameplayers.org/ratings/texttable.php?tID=110 |archivedate=20 October 2013 }} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cross-tables.com/tourney.php?t=7717&div=1 |title=National Scrabble Championship : Division 1 Results |publisher=Cross-tables.com |accessdate=23 February 2014}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cross-tables.com/tourney.php?t=8163&div=1 |title=National Scrabble Championship : Division 1 Results |publisher=Cross-tables.com |accessdate=23 February 2014}} 12. ^{{cite web|last1=Lichfield|first1=John|last2=Goodwin|first2=Harry|title=The new Francophone Scrabble world champion doesn't speak French|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-scrabble-world-champion-winner-doesnt-speak-the-language-10404448.html|website=The Independent|accessdate=12 August 2016}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.ffsc.fr/endirect/endirect.php?tournoi_id=cdm2015classique&page=resultats&code=R20|publisher=French Scrabble Federation|title=Louvain 2015 French World Scrabble Championships live}} 14. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/jeux/un-neo-zelandais-devient-champion-du-monde-de-scrabble-francophone_1007653.html|title=Le champion du monde de Scrabble francophone est néo-zélandais et ne parle pas français|newspaper=France Tvinfo}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ffsc.fr/endirect/endirect.php?tournoi_id=cdm2015elite&page=resultats¢re=&code=C07|publisher=French Scrabble Federation|title=Louvain 2015 French World Scrabble Championships live, duplicate final results}} 16. ^{{cite news |last1=Steele |first1=Brian |title=Scrabble tournament draws players from around the world to Springfield |url=https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/08/word_cup_scrabble_tournament_d.html |accessdate=1 February 2019 |work=MassLive |date=1 August 2017}} 17. ^{{cite web |title=WGPO Past Tournaments |url=http://wordgameplayers.org/ratings/index.php?c=pu&a=pt |website=Word Game Players |publisher=WGPO |accessdate=1 February 2019}} 18. ^{{cite news |last1=Langley |first1=Alison |title=Niagara to host international Scrabble tourney |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-niagara-falls-review/20180730/281556586630717 |accessdate=1 February 2019 |work=Niagara Falls Review |date=30 July 2018}} 19. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.cross-tables.com/tourney.php?t=10358&div=1 |title=Niagara Falls, ON (CSW) |publisher=Cross-tables.com |accessdate=1 February 2019}} 20. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.ffsc.fr/endirect/endirect.php?tournoi_id=cdm2018classique&page=livredor|title=Championnats du Monde 2018 – Élite Classique|publisher=French Scrabble Federation|accessdate=21 July 2018}} External links
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