Allan Simmons

Allan Simmons (born July 27,1957) was one of the founder members of the Association of British Scrabble Players and succeeded Peter Finley as its Chairman. He is now the Chairman of WESPA, the World English Scrabble Players Association. He is also the 2008 UK National Scrabble Champion.

As well as playing top level Scrabble since the late 70's, Simmons is also known as a prolific author of Scrabble books and publisher of Onwords magazine since 1979. Together with Darryl Francis he has produced every edition of Official Scrabble Words by Chambers and has more recently worked with HarperCollins on their official wordlist book (not any of their other Scrabble range which are sadly error-prone). He also currently writes a weekly Scrabble column for The Times, compiles a weekly Scrabble puzzle for The Telegraph, and compiles the content for an annual desktop Scrabble puzzle calendar (with some input by Stewart Holden) .

Allan Simmons has won the British Matchplay Scrabble Championship four times, The Scottish Championships three times, the UK Masters twice, the UK National Scrabble Championships once, and played at the World Scrabble Championship four times.