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Giant 32 of 1981
Posted By: Rick Janowski In Response To: The First International Backgammon Tournament Bahamas 1964 (Chuck Bower)
Date: Monday, 24 September 2012, at 12:44 a.m.
Backgammon Galore keeps a few articles from the old "Las Vegas Backgammon Magazine" and "Backgammon Times" including a Giant 32 list from 1981:
<http://www.bkgm.com/articles/Anonymous/AmericasGiant32/>
In a biographical feature of Kent Goulding in a 1983 copy of Backgammon times, there is an interesting paragraph:
"That Goulding is a championship player of the highest caliber few would dispute. If he is not as good as Magriel (“I would have to admit that Paul is a better player.”), he is at least on anyone’s list of the top twenty active players in the world. “Right now the best player in the world is one of the New York crowd—Magriel, Lester, Low, Senkiewicz,” he says. “It’s impossible to say who’s the best. But if I’m not in that group I’m certainly close.” "
<http://www.bkgm.com/articles/Levi/Biography-KentGoulding/index.html>
My analysis of matches played before 1987, indicates that Lester, Low and Senkiewicz are the best players with prs in the range 4.7-5.2. Ballard, Lubetkin and Woolsey are also very close.
The analysis of matches played before 1995, now has Hosen, Ring and Snellings joining Low, Lester and Senkiewicz as the top players with prs in the range 4.7 to 5.2. Horan, Kazaross, Robertie and Sylvester, join Ballard, Lubetkin and Woolsey as being very close to the top level.
The overall level of performance of the top players doesn't appear to change significantly from the period of 1980 to 1995, but there seems to be a major increase in the number of players able to play at or close to the highest performance levels.
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