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Apr022021
Prodigies Everywhere
Friday, April 2, 2021 at 6:05PM
Maybe some of you who know the Scrabble world won't find this so impressive, but an eight-year-old who has had a couple of 700 point scores in tournament games at least seems awfully impressive. At any rate, it's an interesting piece, and the very brief reflection on whether excellence in Scrabble is due to linguistic or mathematical intelligence reminds me of discussions I've had with "civilians" (i.e. people who don't play chess, or barely do) who (wrongly, IMO) assume a close connection between chess and skill at mathematics.
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