2005 National SCRABBLE® Championship Photos: Round 14

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Photo 15-001	Division 3 top tables: Melissa Routzahn (Crystal Lake, IL) vs. Jessie Jones (Yuma, AZ) and Eric Kinderman (Freehold, NJ) vs. Paul Trachtenberg (Huntington Beach, CA).
Photo 15-002	Table 57 in division 3: Brian Wagner (Nashville, TN) vs. Toni Douglas (Atlanta, GA). Friends and colleagues know Brian best as "Big Doggie."
Photo 15-003	Table 2 in division 1 action: Carol Kaplan (San Diego, CA) vs. Joe Edley (Coram, NY). At table 1 in the distance, Nathan Benedict (Tucson, AZ) plays Panupol Sujjayakorn (Thailand) at the annotated board this round.
Photo 15-004	Nathan Benedict (Tucson, AZ) vs. Panupol Sujjayakorn (Thailand) and their annotators. The annotated games were designed to go onto the Internet directly, making it possible for onlookers in Philadelphia to know the result of the game before we knew in the room.
Photo 15-005	Division 6 as seen from the ballroom's midpoint with the big board and NSA press table in the distance.
Photo 15-006	Lizzy Kate Gray (Santa Cruz, CA) shakes up the bag before picking three replacement tiles at board 2 in division 6.
Photo 15-007	Sheri Justice (Kansas City, MO), cold in the ballroom, borrows a brown sweater from her opponent, Lizzy Kate Gray (Santa Cruz, CA) and bristles at the thought of me thinking she would wear purple and brown at the same time. Board 2 in division 6.
Photo 15-008	Stefan Fatsis (Washington, DC) toiling away at table 50 in division 3, places a word onto the board.
Photo 15-009	Marie Gier (Gainesville, FL) plays Paul Myers (Perris, CA) in division 4.
Photo 15-010	Conrad Bassett-Bouchard (Moraga, CA) vs. Robert Crowe (Fort Wayne, IN). See commentary.
Photo 15-011	Norbert Saldanha (Richmond BC) vs. Evan Koch (Petaluma, CA). See commentary.
Photo 15-012	Shah Ali (Herndon, VA) vs. Marc Levesque (Victoria BC). See commentary.
Photo 15-013	Carolyn Easter (Birmingham, MI) vs. Alex Fiszbein (South Lyon, MI). See commentary.
Photo 15-014	Joel Wapnick (Montréal QC) vs. David Koenig (Englewood, NJ). See commentary.
Photo 15-015	The beloved family Saldanha: Norbert Saldanha (Richmond BC), Dion Saldanha (Richmond BC), Miriam Saldanha (Richmond BC), Dean Saldanha (Richmond BC), and Dielle Saldanha (Richmond BC).
Photo 15-016	Marsha Gillis (Huntsville, AL) vs. Chad Hopper (Austin, TX). See commentary.
Photo 15-017	Jacob Williams (Austin, TX) vs. Janice Kaye (Saint Paul, MN). See commentary.
Photo 15-018	Sheri Justice (Kansas City, MO) vs. Lizzy Kate Gray (Santa Cruz, CA). See commentary.
Photo 15-019	Marlon Hill (Baltimore, MD) entertaining a group with his game analysis. Keith Smith (Austin, TX), J Goard (Foresthill, CA), Peter Armstrong (Baltimore, MD), Stephen Ornish (not playing this year, but famous for being dad to Andre Ornish (La Mesa, CA)), and Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA).
Photo 15-020	Steven Alexander (Portland, OR), Nigel Richards (New Zealand) and Sam Kantimathi (El Dorado Hills, CA) enjoying an end of the day chat about.... SCRABBLE^®!
Photo 15-021	Directors' Meeting. Jim Pate, John Chew, Joe Edley (Coram, NY), Jeff Widergren (Los Gatos, CA), John D. Williams, Jr., and Ted Gest (Washington, DC) and Rebecca Slivka (Seattle, WA), the event organizers.
Photo 15-022	Ted Gest (Washington, DC) and Rebecca Slivka (Seattle, WA), arranged and jointly chaired a well-attended voluntary NSA Directors' Meeting.
Photo 15-023	Jane R. Williams sits beside Tara Rogers on her first day as an NSA employee. Tara flew in from New York earlier today and hit the ground running, including attending the Town Hall meeting that didn't wrap up until 10pm. Way to handle the time change Tara!
Photo 15-024	Joe Edley (Coram, NY), John D. Williams, Jr., and John Chew at the Town Hall meeting.
Photo 15-025	Meeting attendees.
Photo 15-026	More meeting attendees.

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