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Posted on 18 Oct 2017

Meet the Chennai Champion who is taking India's Scrabble hopes to New Heights

He went to many schools in Chennai and some of them allowed him to introduce the game to the children, but did not call him back for teaching them the game. “Only two schools including Bala Vidya Mandir and Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School in Adyar allowed me to teach the students the game. Scrabble is an intellectual game and can help children learn the language,” he explains.

However, he still believes that it will take at least five years for youngsters to take it up as a career. “First, the game needs to become more visible. Only then will it be taken more seriously. In the next five years, there would be more scrabble champions from schools,” he says.


A scrabble champion from Chennai will be representing India at the World English Scrabble Players' Association (WESPAC) Championship, 2017 which will be held in Kenya from November 6 to 12 this year.

45-year-old Ranganathan Chakravarthy practices the game for at least four hours a day. He started playing scrabble when he was 26-years-old. “I was introduced to the game when I was 11-years-old but then there were no tournaments. In 1998, I seriously started playing the game,” says Ranganathan.

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