John Chew

John Chew is a copresident of NASPA, cochair of the Steering Committee, member of the Web Committee, an ex officio member of all NSA committees and webmaster for the NSA.

He is also:

• director of the oldest sanctioned SCRABBLE club in North America, NSA Club #3 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• director of the Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship
• assistant director and webmaster of the World SCRABBLE Championship
• a software developer, best known in the SCRABBLE community for his tsh tournament management program
• the 2006 Person of the Year
• coholder of the North American record for highest-scoring tied tournament game (502–502)

He lives with his family in Toronto, ON, where he is working on the defence of his PhD thesis in mathematics at the University of Toronto. He can be reached by e-mail at jjchew@math.utoronto.ca or by phone between 9:30 A.M and 8:30 P.M. ET at +1 416 876 7675.

Recent activity

• 2009-03-01: launched online registration for 2009 National SCRABBLE Championship
• 2009-02-14: installed and configured NASPAWiki
• 2009-02-13: designed initial version of NASPA home page
• 2009-02-12: designed provisional NASPA logo