Pakorn Nemitrmansuk

Pakorn Nemitrmansuk (born 1975) is one of Thailand's top Scrabble players and the 2009 World Scrabble Champion[1].[2] An architect and resident of Bangkok[3], Thailand, Nemitrmansuk has competed at World Scrabble Championship six times between 1999–2011 and was the runner-up in 2003 and 2005[4].[5]

At World Scrabble Championship 2009 in Malaysia in November, 2009, Nemitrmansuk won 18 games in the first 24 rounds,[6] earning him a spot in the best-of-five final against the reigning champion Nigel Richards, where Nemitrmansuk won the championship by three games to one.[7]

Achievements

References

  1. ^ Scrabble world lost for words at Thai win, Bangkok Post, 30 November 2009 [1] Retrieved 30 April 2011
  2. ^ http://www.wscgames.com/2009/ WSC 2009
  3. ^ Game on, The Observer, Lynn Barber, 11 December 2005, [2] Retrieved 30 April 2011
  4. ^ Scrabble Kings Vie for Linguistic Superiority, New York Times, Alan Cowell, 21 November 2005 [3] Retrieved 30 April 2011
  5. ^ http://www.wscgames.com/cgi-bin/player.cgi?given=Pakorn&surname=Nemitrmansuk&country=Thailand&exact=1 WSC Player Information: Pakorn Nemitrmansuk
  6. ^ http://live.wscgames.com/2009/standing/1/24.html WSC 2009 Standings: Round 24
  7. ^ http://live.wscgames.com/2009/finals.html WSC 2009: Finals

External links

1991: Peter Morris · 1993: Mark Nyman · 1995: David Boys · 1997: Joel Sherman · 1999: Joel Wapnick · 2001: Brian Cappelletto · 2003: Panupol Sujjayakorn · 2005: Adam Logan · 2007 & 2011: Nigel Richards · 2009: Pakorn Nemitrmansuk