Robert Felt - U.S National Scrabble Champion

Robert Felt was the 1990 US National Scrabble Champion, a chess master and a computer programmer for Rand McNally.

Robert Felt had a career 65% winning percentage, winning 1,496 games while losing 818 and tying 8. Felt's average score was 402-to-378.

The U.S. National Scrabble Championship

Robert Felt competed in the National Scrabble Championship 11 times from 1985 to 2002. In 1990, Felt won the NSC tournament.

The United Kingdom Scrabble Championship

Also in 1990, Robert Felt won the U.K. Scrabble Championship. This is considered a major feat of mastery in Robert Felt's word game legacy, because the US and UK tournaments require entirely different games. Each country uses entirely different SCRABBLE dictionaries, meaning Robert Felt had to memorize two dictionaries in the same year.

World Scrabble Championship

Robert Felt never won the World Scrabble Championship, but he finished 4th in 1997 and 6th in 1993.

Robert Felt Biography

Robert Felt lived from 1953 to 2002 and competed in major Scrabble tournaments from age 29 until the time of his death. Robert Felt attended the University of Chicago in the early 1970's. Robert was able to clep out of so many classes as a freshman that he was classified a junior.

While at the University of Chicago, Robert Felt competed for the school's chess and bridge teams. Years later, Robert Felt would be rated by the U.S. Chess Federation. Robert acquired the name "Sloth" while at school, in part because of his propensity to sleep in the dorm's stairwells, instead of walking the four stories to his dorm room.

After 7 years at the school, Robert Felt left school to take a job as a computer programmer. Felt eventually became a programmer for Rand McNally, where he did important work on the software placed in many 911 call centers. Many police and fire departments to this day use software based on Robert Felt's designs.

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