Khatri continues to struggle on day two

National champion wins three of eight games in world scrabble event.

KARACHI: National champion Waseem Khatri’s hard luck continued on the second day of the World Scrabble Championship as he won only three games out of eight in the event underway at Prague, Czech Republic.

Despite Khatri’s impressive average of 443 points per match, he failed to break into the coveted top 10 players out of 110 participants in the championship. On the other hand, Muhammad Inayatullah had a better run as he won five out of eight games.

Thailand’s Komol Panyasophonlert led day two while US player Dave Wiegand stood second as defending champion New Zealand’s Nigel Richards sat on the third spot.



In the Open Category competition, Tariq Pervez kept up his strong performance, winning four out of five games. Had he won his last match, Pervez would have finished on third place. However, he missed his chance and ended on eighth position, one down from the previous day.

“Scrabble has got a lot to do with luck as well,” the Pakistan Scrabble Association (PSA) vice-president Javaid Iqbal told The Express Tribune. “Sometimes the tiles are just not suitable, you end up with more consonants than vowels which makes things difficult. But Pervez is really good and a very sound player mathematically.”

Published in The Express Tribune, December 7^th, 2013.

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