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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian teenage Scrabble protégé Tengku Ariff Shah can spell more English words than most adults in the Western world, but he doesn’t always know what they mean. Ariff is among a swathe of Asian youngsters who are turning the competitive Scrabble scene on its head by using a combination of probability, maths and memory to defeat opponents whose …

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