Nigel Richards. Check out Will Anderson's youtube channel, he covers pro scrabble matches in the style of chess commentary, and he has a lot of videos featuring Nigel

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought this sounded familiar. The article is from 2015!

[–] FloofahNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow, my error not seeing the article date, sorry about that. It popped up on my feed this am. Better look more carefully in the future.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Haha all good, an interesting story none the less. It's been over 9 years, think he speaks French yet?

[–] FloofahNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He didn’t need to in order to win the Scrabble and indeed, speaking a foreign language needs a lot more than memorising a dictionary, though that in itself was a massive accomplishment.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 11 months ago

Depends how much of the dictionary he memorised! I'd think memorising a dictionary covet to cover would be more work than learning to speak a conversational level of French, but I guess he didn't actually have to memorise the whole dictionary, just enough to have a decent number of words to play in scrabble

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Searle would say he's brainless.

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Foux du fa fa fa fa