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A Champion's Strategies is a revision of Joel Wapnick's 1986 book, The Champion's Strategy for Winning at Scrabble® Brand Crossword Game. It includes:

An appreciation of the game.

A presentation and discussion of the rules.

A discussion of the official word source for club and tournament play.

An exposition on how to score points.

Extensive discussions of strategy, including topics such as balancing the rack, defense, Q strategy, setups, importance of the game score, inferring the opponent's tiles, challenging and bluffing, exchanging tiles, and endgame finesses.

How to prepare yourself for tournament play.

Histories of the North American Championships (1978-1998), the World Championships (1991-1997), the 1995 Superstars Competition, and the 1996 Canadian Championship.

Annotations of eight tournament games, featuring diagrams for every move. Work out your best play before exposing my hidden commentary. Click on a word, and have it appear on the board.

Forty brilliancy positions: find the play, then click to see if you are right.

Fifty-nine great photographs of players, taken by
Ann Sanfedele (© Ann Sanfedele).

See some screen shots here.