Scrabble Champions Tournament 2014 464. In the final game, Craig had bingos VENTROUS, GAIETIEs, DIORItE while Chris had DIRECTER and a 60-point XENIC but Craig sealed the win with a 42-point TALAQ to take the game 438 - 414 and the title of World Champion. Beevers, whose prize was £3,000, has been playing for 12 years and was the 2009 UK champion. Third and fourth were Dave Wiegand and Adam Logan respectively. The weekend following the championship there was a consolation tournament which was won by 2013 champion Nigel Richards. Scrabble Champions Tournament 2014 The World Scrabble Championship 2014, renamed by Mattel to Scrabble
Development of the World Chess Championship in Yugoslavia Fischer raised a series of objections and Iceland was the final venue. Even then Fischer raised difficulties, mainly over money. It took a phone call from United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a doubling of the prize money by financier Jim Slater to persuade him to play. After a few more traumatic moments Fischer won the match 12½–8½. Anatoly Karpov won the right to challenge Fisher in 1975 for the World Championship. Fischer objected to the "best of 24 games" championship match format that had been used from 1951 onwards, claiming that it would encourage whoever