Hello everyone again. First of all I would like to thank Andrew Hime and Rebecca Slivka for the interest show in the lexicon.
Regarding Rebecca question, I will make a clarification: when I said "first official lexicon" I meant "first official lexicon readable by a computer". In other words, first official text file containing all valid words and only them. That is to say, we have our valid words for many years, otherwise it would be impossible to adress challenges in tournaments, but the words are looked up in the dictionary. When this lexicon or computer readable text file is finished, the door to automatic challenge adressing, word study programs and, of course, AI programs, will be open to the Spanish Scrabble community. The dictionary Rebecca probably has is the Larousse one. That's the dictionary Mattel chose as official when FISE was still being born, and it is a very outdated reference for the purposes of organized tournaments nowadays. Instead, we've been for almost ten years using DRAE (Diccionario de la Real Academia Española). We use the CD version of it, which happens to be available online at DRAE's website. Hence, should any given person want to know if a word is valid or not, he or she would have to know FISE's rules which are here: http://www.fisescrabble.org/reglamento.htm And either buy the DRAE CD or look words in RAE's website which match accurately such said CD. RAE's website is this one: http://www.rae.es/ Once there, words should be looked up in the window labeled: "Diccionario de la lengua española. Vigésima segunda edición." The other and faster way would be to check the word in the lexicon (computer readable text file) I'm developing, but if/when it'll be freely distributed is still unknown. I hope this explanation helps. See you. Cristian Richart.
