2005 National SCRABBLE® Championship Photos: Round 12

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Photo 13-001	Players from Arizona crowding around the big board.
Photo 13-002	Players crowding around both sides of the division 1 message board, looking at standings and pairings. I can identify Michael Baker (Portland, OR), Trey Wright (Van Nuys, CA), Harriette Lakernick (Chicago, IL), Tony Claitor (Orlando, FL), Teresa Schaeffer (Potomac, MD), Jason Katz-Brown (Cambridge, MA), Ian Weinstein (Coral Springs, FL), Jim Nanavati (Burlington ON), and Albert Hahn (Calgary AB).
Photo 13-003	Barbara Platt (Sile, NM) and Ruth Sawyer (Austin, TX) at division 5 message board.
Photo 13-004	Eric Chaikin (Topanga, CA) and Rebecca Slivka (Seattle, WA) clear off tiles in their division 2 game.
Photo 13-005	Mark Pistolese (Hilo, HI) and Gigi Miller (Sparks, NV).
Photo 13-006	Carol Kaplan (San Diego, CA) and Nathan Benedict (Tucson, AZ) at their hard-fought-for division 1 board 2 battle.
Photo 13-007	Division 1 board 1, Panupol Sujjayakorn (Thailand), annotated by Kristen Chew, vs. Joe Edley (Coram, NY), annotated by Gregg Foster.
Photo 13-008	Challenge slip corpses scattered across a WordJudge table.
Photo 13-009	Paul Trachtenberg (Huntington Beach, CA) vs. Jessie Jones (Yuma, AZ) and Melissa Routzahn (Crystal Lake, IL) vs. Eric Kinderman (Freehold, NJ) at division 3 top tables.
Photo 13-010	Terry Lee (Huntington Beach, CA) and Patricia Hiller (Austin, TX) at the WordJudge machine. One of them wasn't happy to discover that JAX* is not acceptable!
Photo 13-011	Division 5's top boards, Maureen Morris (Calgary AB) vs. Anna Miransky (Toronto ON) and Bob Kilpatrick (Washington, DC) vs. Alison Hotten (Santa Cruz, CA).
Photo 13-012	Maureen Morris (Calgary AB) vs. Anna Miransky (Toronto ON). See commentary.
Photo 13-013	Bob Kilpatrick (Washington, DC) vs. Alison Hotten (Santa Cruz, CA). See commentary.
Photo 13-014	[error: no such id: markgarner] vs. a barefoot Nat Gardenswartz (Newton, MA) and Brenda Meyerson (Albuquerque, NM) vs. Aaron Jacobs (Brookline, MA).
Photo 13-015	Jesse Day (Arlington, MA) vs. Ken Kasney (Cypress, TX).
Photo 13-016	The hatted tables: Dan Lee (Pittsburg, KS) (back) vs. William Barfuss (Los Alamos, NM) and Diane Sonderegger (McKinleyville, CA) vs. Bradley Powell (Davis, CA).
Photo 13-017	Top boards in division 6, Sheri Justice (Kansas City, MO) cs. Chad Hopper (Austin, TX) and Marsha Gillis (Huntsville, AL) vs. Lizzy Kate Gray (Santa Cruz, CA).
Photo 13-018	Top boards in division 4, Darren Johnson (Bend, OR) vs. Ben Harrison (Cambridge, MA) and Edward De Guzman (Berkeley, CA) vs. Steve Anstandig (Commerce Township, MI).
Photo 13-019	Top boards in division 2, Michael Early (Fort Worth, TX) vs. Phil Polsky (New York, NY) and Kevin Rickhoff (Saugus, CA) vs. Dielle Saldanha (Richmond BC). Verna Berg Richards (New York, NY) vs. Judy Levitt (Los Angeles, CA) in the distance.
Photo 13-020	Who cares which side is up? An insouciant rack by Kevin Rickhoff (Saugus, CA).
Photo 13-021	A 352-point victory: Judy Levitt (Los Angeles, CA) defeats Verna Berg Richards (New York, NY), 544-192. See commentary.
Photo 13-022	Mike Frentz (Seattle, WA) vs. Shane Tourtellotte (Westfield, NJ). See commentary.
Photo 13-023	Jesse Day (Arlington, MA) s. Ken Kasney (Cypress, TX). See commentary.
Photo 13-024	Jim Kramer (Roseville, MN) vs. John Luebkemann (Pineville, NC). See commentary.
Photo 13-025	Joe Edley (Coram, NY) deep in an endgame analysis in board 1 loss to Panupol Sujjayakorn (Thailand).
Photo 13-026	Steve Hartsman (Brown Deer, WI) vs. Robert Gillis (Owens X Roads, AL). See commentary.

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