2005 National SCRABBLE® Championship Photos: Anagrams Championship

John OLaughlin (Hartland, WI), Mike Frentz (Seattle, WA), Keith Smith (Austin, TX), and Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA) study words during Angrams Championship registration.

Joe Edley (Coram, NY) goes over event rules while Jim Pate stands nearby.

A group compromised of a few players and many onlookers listens to Joe Edley (Coram, NY) as he describes the basic rules.

At table Edley, J Goard (Foresthill, CA), Ben Withers (Houston, TX), Robert Linn (Potomac, MD), and Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR) (back).

John Chew at a timer and Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA) on poised pen.

Ben Withers (Houston, TX) flips out a tile into the middle of the table on his turn, Joe Edley (Coram, NY) on timer, Robert Linn (Potomac, MD), Frank Tangredi (West Babylon, NY) (back), and Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR).

Sam Kantimathi (El Dorado Hills, CA) standing up for a better perspective, Dean Saldanha (Richmond BC), Komol Panyasoponlert (Thailand), and John Chew (back) and (jasonkb) (back).

John OLaughlin (Hartland, WI), Eric Chaikin (Topanga, CA), Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY) (standing), Trey Wright (Van Nuys, CA), Ron Hoekstra (Grand Rapids, MI), and Robert Kahn (Plantation, FL) (back).

Travis Chaney (Van Buren, AR), Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (Thailand), and Trip Payne (Boca Raton, FL).

Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY), (standing), Trey Wright (Van Nuys, CA), Stefan Fatsis (Washington, DC), Kevin Fraley (Madera, CA), unknown, and Ron Hoekstra (Grand Rapids, MI).

Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA) (back), Dean Saldanha (Richmond BC), (standing Win Inthara (Orlando, FL), Dion Saldanha (Richmond BC), Panupol Sujjayakorn (Thailand), Miriam Saldanha (Richmond BC), and Dielle Saldanha (Richmond BC)), Komol Panyasoponlert (Thailand), and John Chew.

Stefan Fatsis (Washington, DC) and Daniel Wachtell (New York, NY) share a laugh.

Two plays.

Game in progress.

Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR) stacking them up. Daniel Goodwin (Seattle, WA) looks on in amazement.

Michael Early (Fort Worth, TX) with Dion Saldanha (Richmond BC) and Dielle Saldanha (Richmond BC), the sisters, watching on.

What does a more than 1000-point hand look like in Anagrams? Like this one created by Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR).

In round 1, Travis Chaney (Van Buren, AR) had only four plays, but two of them were monsters: PHALANGE?L, JAUKED, EXTERIORIZATiON, and MAgNETOSPHERIC.

Joe Edley (Coram, NY) goes over endgame finishing rules with te table run by Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY).

Evan Berofsky (Thornhill ON) is organizing picks for the rotoisserie he organized.

Benjamin Bloom (Miami Beach, FL) (left) taking part in a game or carpet angrams with the younger set: Andy Ross-Perry (San Rafael, CA) Andre Ornish (La Mesa, CA), Tony Claitor (Orlando, FL), Alex Fiszbein (South Lyon, MI), and Conrad Bassett-Bouchard (Moraga, CA).

The anagrams room as viewed from the doorway.

Round 2, Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY) with finger in point mode. It is now YOUR turn, Ron Hoekstra (Grand Rapids, MI).

Michael Wolfberg (Concord, MA), more fond of Boggle than Anagrams, watches table John Chew. Trip Payne (Boca Raton, FL) and Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (Thailand) visibile in this shot.

Sam Kantimathi (El Dorado Hills, CA), Randy Hersom (Morganton, NC), Joe Edley (Coram, NY), Travis Chaney (Van Buren, AR). and Peter Armstrong (Baltimore, MD) (back).

Joel Sherman (Bronx, NY) points to J Goard (Foresthill, CA). Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR) has stacked up an impressive set of words in the lower left and Komol Panyasoponlert (Thailand) as created the tighter stack of shorter words just above Dave's.

Sam Kantimathi (El Dorado Hills, CA) with his single monster word: REDETErMINATIONS.

A mom and dad sandwich: Rich Baker (Eureka, CA), Campbell, and Liz Ashby (Eureka, CA). Son, Hudson, is playing elsewhere.

Carla Chase (New York, NY) and Chris Cree (Dallas, TX) drop in to class up the place.

The final table of players, Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR), Randy Hersom (Morganton, NC), John OLaughlin (Hartland, WI), Steven Alexander (Portland, OR), Travis Chaney (Van Buren, AR), Peter Armstrong (Baltimore, MD), and Joe Edley (Coram, NY) on the timer. John O'Lauglin's laptop is serving as both the lookup machine (in the top window) and commentary tableau (in the bottom window). Onlookers include Jacqueline Camper (Memphis, TN), Laura Klein, Paula Catanese (Mountain View, CA), Brian Cappelletto (Chicago, IL), Wendy Cappelletto, Chris Ofstad (Antioch, CA) (sitting), J Goard (Foresthill, CA), Maddy Golob (Santa Clarita, CA), and Jerry Lerman (Foster City, CA).

Finals table after all tiles are used. Dave Wiegand (Portland, OR) is the grand winner!