Latest revision as of 13:44, 24 August 2026

John Chew is a Certified Tournament Director from Toronto, ON, CAN.

He is a current member of the following committee(s):

• Advisory Board (chair), 2019-12-19~
• Canadian Committee (ex officio), 2009-02-22~
• Championship Committee (cochair), 2009-01-01~
• Club/Director Committee (ex officio), 2009-02-15~
• Dictionary Committee (acting chair), 2014-09-24~
• Executive Committee (chair), 2019-07-22~
• Finance Committee (ex officio), 2009-01-01~
• Forward Energy Committee (ex officio), 2016-07-23~
• History Committee (ex officio), 2009-04-01~
• IDEA Committee (ex officio), 2020-07-27~
• International Committee (ex officio), 2009-06-22~
• Marketing Committee (ex officio), 2010-01-01~
• Membership Committee (ex officio), 2009-02-15~
• Pairings Committee (chair), 2012-06-06~
• Publications Committee (chair), 2009-04-01~
• Ratings and Recognition Committee (ex officio), 2009-01-01~
• Rules Committee (ex officio), 2009-01-01~
• Social Media Committee (ex officio), 2015-03-02~
• Steering Committee (cochair), 2008-10-01~
• Technology Committee (acting chair), 2019-07-22~
• Tournament Committee (ex officio), 2012-08-20~
• Web Committee (chair), 2009-01-01~
• Zyzzyva Committee (cochair), 2014-11-01~

He has served past terms on the following committee(s):

• Advisory Board (cochair), 2009-01-01~2019-12-19
• Dictionary Committee, 2009-03-04~2014-09-24
• Executive Committee (cochair), 2009-01-01~2019-07-22
• Director Manual Committee (ex officio), 2009-06-01~2014-04-01
• Pairings Committee (cochair), 2003-12-01~2012-06-06
• Technology Committee, 2009-03-23~2009-07-01
• Technology Committee (ex officio), 2009-07-02~2019-07-22
• Tournament Committee (chair), 2009-02-15~2009-06-17
• Tournament Committee, 2009-06-18~2012-08-19

He is also:

• chief executive officer of NASPA (since 2019-07-22)
• past copresident of NASPA (until 2019-07-22)
• director of the oldest sanctioned SCRABBLE club in North America, NASPA Club #3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• director of the Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship
• director and webmaster of the World SCRABBLE Championship
• a software developer, best known in the SCRABBLE community for his tsh tournament management program
• coholder of the North American record for highest-scoring tied tournament game (502–502)
• past webmaster for the NSA

He lives with his family in Toronto, ON, where he develops electoral data distribution and visualisation software, and occasionally still performs research in discrete mathematics. He can be reached by email at info@scrabbleplayers.org or by phone between 9:30 A.M and 8:30 P.M. ET (or at any hour during major championships) at +1 416 876 7675. You can also send him chat messages on Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, LINE, Skype or WhatsApp; email him for account information.