Is chess possibly the most over-analyzed and obsessed-over game on the planet? Perhaps poker? Maybe Monopoly? Guess go?

It’s possible that this game is, in fact, Scrabble. In case you don’t believe me, check out this Wikipedia article, where a tournament-level game between two players, scoring 1,004 points between them, is exhaustively explicated and wrung for every last drop of strategic significance. Scrabble is, to me, one of the most interesting popular board games out there, but this is just nuts.

In related news, a documentary about tournament Scrabble players, the name of which escapes me, either has recently, is currently, or will soon be making the rounds in American cities that actually have a cinema scene (Statesboro, unfortunately, is not one of them). If it’s anything like this game synopsis, it’ll be interesting, if a bit of a headache inducer.