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Wanted: Your 2 Cents - US Giants List
Posted By: Coolrey In Response To: Wanted: Your 2 Cents - US Giants List (Christian Munk-Christensen)
Date: Monday, 1 June 2009, at 4:30 p.m.
Interesting post. I know full well how good Mochy and Michy are... How well Falafel and Sander Lylloff and Mort and Katjia and Lars Bonding and Lars Trabolt play... The excellence of Tardieu is legendary... and I assume that YOUR game is pretty damn good too, Christian.
Jake Jacobs told a story one time of going to Sweden or some nordic place where they complained loud and long that too many Americans got on the Giants list, and not enough europeans. Jake provided them with ballots and urged them all to vote. None did. People would rather complain than vote, and Europeans appear to be too laid back to do it.
As a general rule I might run into Mochy, Falafel or Sander at MC and be a considerable underdog... But I am much more likely to run into someone who couldn't win the intermediate event at any US ABT event, even one with only 39 players. There are more strong tournament players in the USA, they are more knowlegeable about match strategies, and they are not allergic to pens.
Falafel in particular makes fun of American BG, it is like a sport to him, but it would be hard for him or anyone else to come to the USA and win the American Backgammon Tour... Trust me.
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