Trader Triumphs in 3 to Take the Tiles Title
From Times Wire Reports
It was all in a “darg” as a Chicago options trader won the World Scrabble Championship in Las Vegas.
Brian Cappelletto, 32, of Chicago dashed Montreal music professor Joel Wapnick’s hopes for repeating as world champion, winning three games to one in the best-of-five finals.
Cappelletto, the 1998 U.S. national Scrabble champion, scored 50 points with “vozhd,” a word for a supreme leader in Russia.
Collecting an additional 19 points was his “darg”--a task or days’ work.
Cappelletto won $25,000 as champion.
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