User:Poslfit

My name is John Chew and you can find out more about me at http://www.poslfit.com.

I have lived in Toronto since 1966, except for a few years in Japan, France, and Mexico.

You may have come across my name in the following contexts.


 * I have written four peer-reviewed mathematical papers about geometry and about meta-Fibonacci sequences.
 * I am a descendant of the same 17th century Virginia colonist John Chew as the 18th century Philadelphia lawyer Benjamin Chew, but not descended from Benjamin.
 * I was an 11-time contestant on the The New Quiz Kids.
 * I won the Canadian Mathematical Olympiad in 1981, and won a silver medal for the first team to represent Canada at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1981 in Washington.
 * I won the first Toronto Rubik's Cube championship in 1981.
 * I created and edited the Inter-Network Mail Guide, an early reference work for the pre-web Internet, mentioned inter alia in IETF RFC 1175.
 * I was the 2021 recipient of the Peter Gzowski Award.
 * Since 2022, I have been involved in a Canadian lexicography project, and spoken on the subject at the American Dialect Society and Editors' Association of Canada meetings in 2023; I am not a linguist, but am a son of the Canadian anthropological linguist John J. (Jack) Chew, Jr.
 * I am involved in competitive Scrabble in many ways, including
 * being head of NASPA Games
 * having organized, directed or helped run every top-level English-language tournament in North America, England, Malta, South Africa, Thailand and the world
 * having a Swiss pairing system named for me
 * being the editor of the NASPA Word List
 * coheld for many the competitive record for highest-scoring game ending in a tie (at 502)