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Deborah Porter retains her Best Improver title, ahead of Richard Spencer and Amanda Lowe.   This is the first time ever that a past winner has retained their title!

 

High-scoring words:

·       114       REQUINS                     Richard

·       113       WORKABLE                 Joy

·       99        JALOUSE                     Richard

·       97        WINLESS                     Graham

·       93        SERIATE                      Wanda

·       90        CANISTER                    Graham

·       90        TIGGERS                     Maire

·       86        DESTAIN                      Maire

·       86        FALLERS                      Michael

·       86        RADIOMAN                  Graham

·       86        SPLENDOR                  Helen

·       83        BOWSPRIT                  Charles

·       82        JUSTICES                    Joy

·       80        DETRAIN                      Charles

·       77        TRAINED                      Maire

·       76        GANNETS                    Maire

·       76        GNATWREN                 Richard

·       76        STAINED                      Maire

·       74        OUTLIES                      Maire

·       73        MASSIVE                     Joy

·       72        PISSERS                      Maire

·       70        BOATLOAD                  Charles

Other words: DIGESTS 69 Maire, ENTRAIL 69 Maire, GRANITE 69 Maire, PRAIRIES 68 Joy, RINGERS 68 Maire, APPARELS 65 Charles, LEASING 65 Joy, MINARET 65 Maire, ENABLES 63 Maire, EJECTA 62 Helen

 

Many bonuses or high-scoring moves by one player in a game:

·       ABSENTEE 88 NESTLES 73 NEONATAL 65 REQUINS 114                               Richard

·       CREASIER 83 SOLATES 66 EGOTISE 77 GENITOR 78                                    Graham

·       ESTRONE 73 ERASION 75 LOADING 61 REPTILES 74                                     Graham

·       REPLIERS 80 RETUNDS 66 RATIONAL 58 EX 52                                             Helen

·       RUSTIER 76 ADORNERS 61 GARNETS 81 DETANGLE 80                               Wanda

·       ZA 66 SATIETY 74 BESTOWED 59 TETANIC 86                                               Helen

·       CUTESIE 80 MILORDS 72 LECANORA 74                                                        Richard

·       DAUNTERS 79 AQUATINT 86 SLAVING 85                                                       Graham

·       ICONISE 69 FORELEG 82 ENTOILED 65                                                          Richard

·       FAUTING 82 SHORTER 83 ROSINER 74                                                          Richard

·       FIERIER 78 REFLATES 70 PASTERNS 68                                                        Helen

·       GIMPIER 78 LEASING 76 CLOUDING 78                                                          Deborah

·       MILNEBS 78 STASHIE 73 RELEGATED 86                                                       Richard

·       PANOPLY 89 UNDERACT 76 CARBINE 81                                                       Graham

·       PLANTER 74 DINGIER 74 MUSTIER 77                                                            Helen

·       REMINTS 82 ANTIQUES 67 DEPLANE 73                                                         Helen

·       SINCERE 67 SERIATE 93 LIMITERS 63                                                            Wanda

·       SMITTEN 66 SALUTING 66 KINDEST 80                                                           Keith

·       SOAPIER 73 COATING 66 RAPINES 77                                                            Graham

·       TRENDING 68 POUNDERS 89 DELATORS 63                                                  Fiona

·       WARPING 75 EXPORTS 90 ATEBRINS 74                                                        Wanda

 

Other things:

·       New personal bests:      Amanda 392, Jim 445

·       9-letter words:               GRAVESIDE 28 Fiona RELEGATED 86 Richard

 

Name

Old rating

New rating

Rating change

P

W

D

L

Average

Highest score

Highest ever

Deborah Porter

107

133

26

24

14

0

10

368.8

456

542

Richard Spencer

171

186

15

28

24

0

4

431.3

599

625

Amanda Lowe

79

92

13

14

5

0

9

315.1

392

392

Joy Wade

109

120

11

13

6

0

7

310.0

444

484

Helen Harding

178

188

10

27

23

0

4

435.2

539

597

Keith Radbourn

85

91

6

24

7

0

17

282.1

348

418

Martin Stephens

97

101

4

22

7

0

15

322.8

371

477

Wanda de Poitiers

156

156

0

24

17

0

7

418.3

557

592

Graham Harding

178

175

-3

36

27

0

9

440.1

578

661

Hepzi Rodrigues

137

133

-4

18

12

0

6

373.9

549

554

Fiona Titcombe

138

134

-4

16

8

0

8

376.1

482

551

Charles Parker

107

98

-9

19

4

0

15

313.5

408

509

Maire Bennett

84

74

-10

25

3

0

22

270.0

371

448

Pat Llanwarne

148

134

-14

17

8

0

9

345.3

435

516

Michael Spencer

95

77

-18

29

4

0

25

295.1

386

502

Insufficient games – a previous quarter’s results, or 13 games in a quarter, needed to qualify

Sharon Hewitt

141

137

-4

6

4

0

2

347.2

416

548

Maureen Barlow

137

122

-15

11

5

0

6

351.4

411

528

Jim Macey

141

124

-17

6

2

0

4

346.2

445

445

Jen Brennan

72

45

-27

1

0

0

1

333.0

333

436

Ann Shaw

56

 

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

317

Mary Twomey

99

 

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

430

Kate Lester

101

 

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

363

Gillian Cranston

101

 

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

448

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Three East Berks players travelled to Staverton Park, near Daventry for a 15 game tournament between Christmas and New Year.

There were 4 round-robin groups of 16, and one small group of 14 (a round robin followed by 2 'king-of-the-hill' rounds).

Fiona played in the smaller E division and won 9.5 games out of 15.  Some of her wins were by quite large margins including +198, +157 and +134. The draw was also a high scoring encounter 403 points each. Well played Fiona!

 

Graham played in Division C, and after a slow start managed to win 8 out of 15 games. His biggest win was by 140 points, but his worst loss was by a staggering 263 points! Ouch !

 

Helen was the lowest rated player in Division B and a late flurry of wins, gave her a total of 7 out of 15. An excellent performance given she started bottom of the division. Her biggest win was by 100 points.

 

The venue was very good, with an excellent break-out area nearby where tea and coffee was on tap (sadly no biscuits!). There was even a communal 500 piece jigsaw puzzle and pool table for those wanting a different activity between Scrabble games. 

There were lots of good words played over the weekend - the three that Fiona, Graham and Helen were most proud of were DOURINE (a disease of horses), NETSUKE (Japanese clothes fastener) and JOOK (Scottish word to dodge).

 

Above are a couple of Helen's boards!

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East Berks Scrabble club recently held its Christmas Party with the ever-chaotic continuous Scrabble, a brain-stretching quiz and scrabble bingo. Lots of chances to win a variety of prizes.

 

Trophies were also given to 2023 competition winners :

 

Handicap - Graham

Best Improver - Maureen

All-play-all winner Division D - Charles

All-play-all winner Division C - Sharon

All-play-all winner Division B - Fiona

All-play-all winner Division A - Graham

 

Well done to all winners!

 

The club is open next on Thursday 4th January 2024 730pm.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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On the 18-19th November, Richard played in the A division of the ABSP Winter Matchplay held in Milton Keynes.  Here is his report :

 

The Winter Matchplay is an annual two day event played in the centre of Milton Keynes over a weekend in November.
 
The event is split into 3 divisions and there were 64 players in all. I was the one East Berks player involved and played in Division A.
 
I won the first game well but in game 2 I faced one of the top players and lost by a whopping 350 points with the opponent scoring 624, playing 5 bonuses and getting 70 odd for a Z play!
 
Although I was one of the lowest rated players in a strong division I had hoped to better the tally of 6 wins from 17. I did lose one game by a single point and had my first experience of going for a full recount which you can opt to do in a close game. I hadn't realised though that it involved checking all of the word scores on the board -not just the addition. This took a long time and it meant everyone was delayed playing their final round! . Also, unfortunately for me the scores were found to be correct!
 
However, I still enjoyed playing in the tournament and will no doubt play there again next year.
 
A selection of my favourite bonuses played by me and against me are as follows;
 
Me - EPIGEAN, LABIATE, UNNAILED, ORGASMED, TRAVELOG, DENOTIVE, REVOICES, SANTOUR, ORDNANCE, ASTATIDE (9X 122)
Opponents- RANULAR, DETRITAL, MIKVOTH(!), UNISONS, MISVALUE, NORITIC, GENTOOS, REMIGIAL

 

Well done Richard - some very tough competition in deed.

 

Here is one of his boards.

 

 

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In the first few days in November, Fiona played in 2 scrabble tournaments in Malta - here is her report - thank you Fiona!

 

The Malta Scrabble club hosts an annual tournament which is attended by players from all over the world.  I thought that some November sun, combined with Scrabble sounded much nicer than rain in Blackwater!   There were a number of tournaments – I attended the one day early bird, and the main three day event.  !  I was joined by a countdown friend, Tom, for the early bird – it was Tom’s first tournament and he’d spent the plane journey learning the 2 letter words!   I played people from England, Scotland, Ireland, Malta, Australia and India, and lots of other countries were represented too  – a truly international event

The warmup day didn’t go particularly well Scrabble-wise, but I played some lovely people and won 2 of my 9 games.   The main tournament was 25 games, and I won 10, but many of the games were very close and I finished with a positive spread which I think is a tournament first for me!  I also got my highest tournament score of 549, and averaged 392 points per game so despite the low win rate I was happy enough with how I’d played.  

Over 34 games there were lots of bonuses!   My favourites were SUIVANTE and DEADEYES, and my highest scoring bonus was ADJOINS for 117 points.  Others included DRACONES, MONIKER, TRITONE, SEAMIEST, ROTARIES, BLEMISH, TALENTED, UNREADY, HOARSER, RURALIST (twice!), TILLERS, SALLIES, TERRIES, MEALIER, MENDINGS, CURRANTS, INSOFAR, ROISTER, RUSTLING, SONNETS, SAURIAN, WEDGIES, UNSTAGED, RELISTS, STUNNERS, LISTENER, DETAILS, STOUTLY, AVIATED, IONISING, EGOTISE, SERRATE, ENTITLES, PEASANT, FAIRIES, OUTLIER, ABIDING

There was a 5 point per word penalty for challenges, so a lot of invalid words stayed on the board.  5 points shouldn’t be too much of a deterrent, but I did have one game where my unsuccessful challenge swung the game to my opponent!

 

The hotel was lovely, and there was a small sandy beach nearby which was deserted at sunrise.  The sea was the perfect temperature for a swim!  The Malta Scrabble club had arranged a meal out and a tourist day, and those were a lot of fun too.   I’d definitely recommend it if you fancy some winter sunshine!

 

 

 

One of my games – I didn’t challenge IFFS – I should have, it’s invalid!

 

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