Highest score in a Scrabble club

Michael Cresta (USA) scored a club record of 830 points - against his opponent's 490 - at the No.8 Scrabble Club in Lexington, Massachussets, USA on 12 October 2006. He played with the wordlist from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD). The highest score in a game using the Official Scrabble Words book, which governs play in the UK, is 793 by Peter Preston (UK) in 1999. In America, Canada, Israel and Thailand, the game of Scrabble is governed by the American Tournament Word List (TWL), which is based on a modified version of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD). All other English-speaking countries rely on the Official Scrabble Words International (OSWI) book, which contains words from both the OSPD and the Official Scrabble Words (OSW) book; this is also known as SOWPODS, an abbreviation of OSPD and SOW.