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New Zealand professional scrabble player Nigel Richards has won the World Players Scrabble Championship in a three-day tournament in Dallas.
Richards, 41, a Christchurch engineer working in Malaysia, won the United States' 2008 national championship and its US$25,000 ($45,000) prize in Florida in July.
He won the players world championship yesterday three games before the end of the tournament, which featured 49 players from Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Britain and North America.
Richards won US$1000 and a commemorative Scrabble board.
