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BMAB NEWS: Grandmaster Title awarded to Marty Storer (USA)
Posted By: Rick Janowski
Date: Friday, 2 October 2015, at 7:48 p.m.
BMAB NEWS: Grandmaster Title awarded to Marty Storer (USA)
Further to the recent announcements regarding Steve Sax and Victor Ashkenazi, I have great pleasure in announcing the award of the title of Grandmaster (Class 3) to Marty Storer, renown as an outstanding backgammon author and analyst. Marty is now the seventh American player to achieve this prestigious title. He earned this title by virtue of excellent performances on the American Backgammon Tour (ABT) (American Backgammon Tour) tournaments this year, achieving an average PR of 3.12 from 114 experience points (12 matches). His application is based on his streamed matches on the ABT this year, where he has won 75% of matches played against a group of players with average strength of 5.89 PR (edge of 2.77 PR). He is also awarded a provisional title of Grand Master (Class 2), which he is likely to achieve when his experience reaches 150 experience points, assuming he maintains a similar level of play. Many thanks to Michelle Steinberg and her helpers Bill Patterson and Bruce Farquhar, for managing and documenting the streaming and transcribing process.
Congratulations to Marty for this fantastic achievement! Here is his mini biography:
Marty Storer lives in the northeastern U.S. He has played since 1975. He honed his skills in the dim-lit backgammon dens of New York, Buffalo, and Toronto, winning his first big tournament in Ottawa in 1983. He won the inaugural American Backgammon Tour, and won two ABT tournaments in 1994. By 1995 he was ranked 13th on Kent Goulding's International Rating List. Since then, software engineering and family have come before backgammon and he has played relatively rarely. Still, he was New England Backgammon Club Champion for the 2012-13 season and runner-up in 1995-6. More recently he won the 2015 Michigan Summer Championship and the 2015 U.S. Backgammon Federation Eastern Championship, also placing in the 2015 Carolina Invitational. He wrote the acclaimed two-volume Backgammon Praxis (2005) featuring matches of Malcolm Davis, and co-authored a book of middle game strategy, What's Your Game Plan?, with Mary Hickey (2011). He is the USBGF Feature Editor for Annotated Matches, and regularly writes articles for the USBGF's magazine PrimeTime. He will be seen more often on the tournament circuit from now on. He is not on GridGammon—yet.
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