CGP is a mailing list for tournament Scrabble players. If you don't play, you'd think that would be a pretty mellow group, but controversy abounds. The following links lead to some of the letters I've written to cgp categorized by subject matter.
Reply to: A Question for Sowpods Advocates
Ron Tiekert's followup to above
On Schisms and Free Challenges
Would Phonies Be Bad Publicity for Scrabble?
Call for an Internationally Accepted Word Source
On a Common Ground for Internationally Accepted Word Source
Re: A Playwright Among Us
Frequently Offered Objections to Standardizing on International Scrabble
Re: WSC Free-Challenge Rule
On the Future Adoption of QI
Words to Learn Upon International Conversion
Give and Take Bad
The North American SOWPODS Club Trial
Halfway Dictionary Conversion
Dictionary Scope Alignment
Transitional Unease
Geniture
Unity Motivation
Big Disparity
Sports Illustrated Goes SOWPODS
Oxymora
Luck, SOWPODS & Ralph Miller
Reno - July 97
Ft Mitchell, KY - August 97
Followup to Zev Kaufman's Ft Mitchell Report
1997 World Scrabble Championships in Washington DC
1999 World Scrabble Championships in Melbourne, Australia
Providence in my Rear-View Mirror Report
Providence in my Rear-View Mirror Report Followup
Followup to Mike Baron's 2001 WSCQT Trip Report
Opening Rack: EEJLNNQ
Opening Rack: ABGHLSZ
Followup to Opening Rack: ABGHLSZ
Opening Rack: EEGGRSS?
A position between Joel Sherman and Matt Graham - August 97
Joel's Response Regarding Above Position
An ending with Robert Felt
Bonehead Play of the Week #1
Opening Rack: CGHLNZ?
Find the Best Play
Hanging an A or S?
I forgot to Mention...
More on volatility vs. opp skill
Backwards Simulation
Measuring Luck
AELLTWY
Portsmouth, NH challenges
Newby Eugenics at the Jerusalem Club
No Stu Goldman at Jerusalem Club
Abuse of Newbies at Houston Club
My 2nd Visit to a Scrabble Club
A Play From GIJoel's Reno Diary
Response to: The Evolution of Scrabble
Response to Players Who Claim Maven Cheats
JG's Summer Reading and Review
On Proportionate World Championship Representation
The Study of 5-Letter Words
Banking Points and Recounts
Three Scrabble Sightings
Fallacy of the Negative Instance and Other Stuff
Rating Spread Won't Change Game Play
Thoughts on My Morning Mailbox
Opinions and Historical Path Determinism
The Problem With the Replenish Rule
Stopping the Clocks for Recounts
Delayed Tile Drawing -- Are You Guilty?
Ultimate Movie Quote Quiz
Sixth For Sale
Joe Edley's Detached Retina
For Sale from the JG Catalog
On Joel Sherman's Elitism
Joey Returneth
Origin of the term CASE
Word Retention
BYOB
On Buying a Franklin Mint Scrabble Set on eBay
On Rule 10(h)
Sports Anagrams
What's the Big Subidea?
Swiftilies
Scrabble Rage
Tabourin
Disintegrating E's
DOOM vs. CD-Rom vs. Networdz
Think Like a Search Engine
Catfish Kharma
Headphones Anecdote
Playing Scrabble With Schrödinger
Baseball Anamonics
Scrabble's "Tightest" Board
Smoke in Reno
Hitting the Clock 1
Hitting the Clock 2
Unwarping Boards
Bingo Dumping
Scrabble Slot Machines & Game Complexity
Tracking on Hold
Gilligan's Scrabble Island
1086 pt game
Unlimited Play Ups
More on Playing Up
Anonymity and Longwindedness
Mark Morris: In the Local News
HIMA & RIAC
Commemorative Sydney Olympic Scrabble Set
Washington Square Park Layout
Gambling Establishment Anagram Quiz
Board positions and intellectual property?
Numbers spelled out
Truly Elite Players
Canadian team for 2001
JG Scrambled Joke Quiz #1
Banning Players for Being Good
SN 160 correction
Test for You People With a Problem
Finally Got a Computer
Welcoming Newcomers (rather long)
A Test of Resolve
Shoveling, Tiling in Rochester
WOF: Fool or Genius?
JG Scrambled Joke Quiz #2
Player A
OJ Simpson .. Word Freak?
Changing the format of a tournament
Word Freak Rising
Ratings Volatility
When Should You Recount the Tie When Should You Challenge a Possible Phony
The RobTimer by Dr Robert Parker
A Brief History of the OSPD by Dan Pratt
Hebrew Scrabble in Jerusalem Post by Steve Goldberg
Analysis of a Scrabble Sonnet by Dr James A Cherry
If a Scrabble reporter covered baseball ... by Jonn Dalton
Most Common Definitions in the OSPD by Steven Alexander
Nigerian Scrabble Politics
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