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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)

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