I don't get it. I read about people bemoaning the lost era of Scrabble of the past ten years. In reality, what we had was pretty unremarkable. I love the community that I belong to but we have been exceptionally static for the past decade. Aside maybe from Michael Tang's Causeway ambitions, this is the best thing that's happened to Scrabble since ( Read more... )

Just posted all of my games from BAT - looks like I didn't make too many big mistakes, but I blew two games against Ian and Joel Sherman and my shenanigans against Cesar could easily have cost me a third ( Read more... )

(cross-posted from facebook ( Read more... )

not getting any work done, so I figured I would write up something that's on my mind ( Read more... )

http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=13456#0#

chris added some comments so it could be worth your while to take a look.

I'm finally catching up on my backlog of tournament games. Some of my early bird games were already up (including this highly entertaining thread about some questionable decisions I made) but I am finally getting to the main event. I had forgotten how entertaining my first four games were - that's all I've had time to go through for now, but there' ( Read more... )

During my recent Asia trip, Inspired by the unbelievable Hong Kong skyline, I did something while I was there that I very rarely do: I went on a couple of nice longish runs. It was great! However, even better was that as I tried to calculate how far I'd gone (about four miles), it became apparent that if I used kilometers, it would turn out to be a ( Read more... )

traveling is weird. Sometimes you think about it and plan for months ahead of time. Sometimes the time comes and it just happens. This time around, I've been so busy for the last month that it's completely shocking that I'm supposed to go to China tomorrow. I can't remember ever being quite as unprepared.

then again, on further reflection, when I ( Read more... )

http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=12359#1#

it is not very exciting, but there is some entertainment value and we both teamed up to annotate it.

David Gibson.

the current formula is not very good.