Is Nigel Richards still better than SOTA Scrabble AI engines? The claim, explained
panickssery · x · 2026-09-25
- A circulating claim holds that Nigel Richards, the greatest competitive Scrabble player ever, is still better than SOTA Scrabble AI engines — possibly due to the huge branching factor and the need to predict the range of racks an opponent might hold.
- Rich Demenos asks grok to verify the claim. Richards famously won French and Spanish world titles without speaking those languages, an extreme case of human domain talent.
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