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Scrabble Championship 1997 was the fourth World Scrabble Championship.
The winner was Joel Sherman of the United States. The World Scrabble
Championship 1997 was held in the Stouffer Renaissance Mayflower Hotel,
Washington, D.C., and was the second to be held in the United States.
Eighty players played a Swiss tournament of twenty-one games each, with
each player playing seven games on each of the first three days. The two
top players from this tournament then played a best-of-five game final
to decide who would be World Scrabble Champion 1997.
