Robert Watson was the American 1988

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champion. He subsequently retired from tournament Scrabble to pursue other interests, including medicine. Watson, of

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, began playing ''Scrabble'' after memorizing three and four-letter words to play ''

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'' and was skilled at bluffing. He beat Joel Wapnick in the final of the 1988 US championship.

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