WBIF International - Player-Statistics

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Player-Statistics

Name

Steve Sax [G2]
Nickname Gridgammon	STEAMSAX
Nickname WBIF Tiger	STEAMSAX
Nickname BG Studio Heroes	STEAMSAX
Matches (rated)	118 Matches: 62 Won (53%), 55 Lost (47%), 1 Bye
Elo (Rank active/all time)	1602 (254./297.)
-PR	All: 3,58 5: 3,94 10: 3,74 25: 3,44
-PR,	102 Matches (86%): 56 Won, 46 Lost
-PR,	17 Matches (14%): 8 Won, 9 Lost
Profile	Steve Sax was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1960. He played his first backgammon tournament in 1976 at age 15 and won his first major tournament in Louisville, Kentucky in 1983. He has won 24 titles over the years including ABT main events or consolations, jackpots and club championships. His two most notable victories were his 2000 Grand Crystal Beaver victory over Nack Ballard and his win in the Giants Invitational in 2011 over "Falafel". He also has had the honour of playing and winning 10 doubles tournaments most notably the World Doubles Championship in 2006 with partner Brian Zembic. In 2002 he won the ABT championship. Steve has also been voted to the "Giants of Backgammon" list seven consecutive times beginning in 2001 and has reached a ranking as high as 6th. As well as backgammon, Steve enjoys to play bridge, gin rummy and poker all of which to much lesser degrees of success than backgammon. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California where he competes, teaches and writes about backgammon. You can find him at GridGammon often playing under the name of STEAMSAX.

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Tourney placements
Association	Year	Tourney	Class	Rank
WBIF International	2023	WBIF World Consultation Championship 2023		6
WBIF International	2019	WBIF World Team Championship 2019		1
WBIF International	2018	EBIF European Team Championship 2018		2

WBIF Champions Cup 2024 --- Deadline: 28.04., 23:59 (Matchpoints: 13)
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Jiři Vala (orkadimenza)	0:1
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Osvaldo De Massimi (OSVYX)	0:1	(2,54:12,51)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Mykhailo Yuzhnyi (Mozart)	1:0	(3,87:2,95)
3 Matches: 1 Won (33%), 2 Lost (67%) - - - PR: 3,22 (from 2,54 to 3,87), Opponent: 7,14

WBIF World Individual Championship 2024 --- Deadline: 01.05., 23:59 (Matchpoints: 13)
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Albert Steg [M1] (Albert)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Peter Van Rooij [G3] (Pasiphae)	1:0	(2,36:3,32)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Frederic Libert (Arkhimedes)	1:0	(4,51:5,01)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Lars Trabolt [G1] (trabi)	0:1	(4,30:3,74)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Douglas Mayfield (Mayfwriter)	1:0	(4,20:5,83)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Michael Loughman (mglough)	1:0	(4,39:7,70)
5 Matches: 4 Won (80%), 1 Lost (20%) - - - PR: 3,93 (from 2,36 to 4,51), Opponent: 5,02

WBIF World Team Championship 2023
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Costas Chiotinis (costas)	0:1	(3,36:3,66)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Guido Ramer (Berajaparatodos)	1:0	(1,78:7,38)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Maya Peycheva [M3] (TheBgQueen)	0:1	(3,23:8,44)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Alfredo Unes (Unes)	1:0	(4,08:5,39)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Catalin Bucur [M1] (branco1304)	0:1	(3,62:5,60)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Zoltan Kovacs (Satti)	1:0	(1,77:3,99)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Jacob Yang (jacob)	1:0	(2,65:8,81)
7 Matches: 4 Won (57%), 3 Lost (43%) - - - PR: 3,02 (from 1,77 to 4,08), Opponent: 6,47

WBIF World Consultation Championship 2023 (unrated)
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 8		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Mehrdad Tehrany [M1] (Astronomics)	0:1	(4,33:2,57)
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Mario Lazzer [M1] (johndoe)	1:0	(kontumaz)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Mustafa Kemal Arslan (MKA26)	1:0	(3,38:9,61)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Turker Eflanli (faustino19)	1:0	(2,77:3,86)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Asbjorn Arntzen [M1] (asa)	1:0	(2,57:2,78)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Marianne S. Husum [A1] (MarianneH)	0:1	(2,61:4,31)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Torsten Lux [G3] (Lucky Lux)	0:1	(3,41:2,47)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Bye
8 Matches: 4 Won (57%), 3 Lost (43%), 1 Bye - - - PR: 3,24 (from 2,57 to 4,33), Opponent: 3,84

WBIF World Club Championship 2023
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Sean Jones [A2] (Malverndice)	0:1	(3,37:6,95)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Klaus Host (JJoker)	1:0	(3,10:10,10)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Gaute Andersen (GA)	0:1	(4,57:8,03)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Andreas Sauseng [M3] (xander)	0:1	(3,45:7,22)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Paul Albert (flow00)	1:0	(2,46:5,56)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Alex Ellerington (Alexe)	1:0	(2,54:10,72)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Markus Jordan (mjoker060773)	1:0	(2,12:8,29)
7 Matches: 4 Won (57%), 3 Lost (43%) - - - PR: 3,01 (from 2,12 to 4,57), Opponent: 7,83

WBIF World Individual Championship 2023
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 14		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Igor Moraes (igormoraes)	0:1	(2,71:7,56)
Round 13		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Douglas Mayfield (Mayfwriter)	0:1	(2,38:5,65)
Round 12		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Karol Szczerek (kasz)	1:0	(4,56:9,25)
Round 11		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Dale Nelson (Dabears)	1:0	(7,71:20,40)
Round 10		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Petru Hlihor [M3] (petruhl)	1:0	(3,68:6,67)
Round 9		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Marco Bonetti (Bonemar)	0:1	(3,94:5,82)
Round 8		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Pete Heskett [M1] (peteh)	1:0	(4,86:3,76)
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Albert Steg [M1] (Albert)	1:0	(3,06:4,38)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Leonid Riskin (Grisha)	1:0	(2,90:6,25)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Ashkan Yahyazadeh [M2] (ashkan11)	0:1	(2,92:5,15)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Fernando Neumark [M1] (fneumark)	0:1	(4,79:3,83)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Serafeim Tsaknis (anikitos720)	1:0	(2,18:11,75)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Breck McCormack (McDally)	1:0	(1,05:4,14)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Kevin Jessup (Burnieboy)	1:0	(3,01:13,14)
14 Matches: 9 Won (64%), 5 Lost (36%) - - - PR: 3,55 (from 1,05 to 7,71), Opponent: 7,39

WBIF World Club Championship 2022
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Radu Ciortan [M1] (raduciortan)	1:0	(6,27:3,64)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Dario Damnjanovic (Dede0410)	1:0	(3,90:8,05)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Arthur Menez [A2] (Arthurox)	1:0	(3,20:5,60)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Mykhailo Yuzhnyi (Mozart)	0:1	(2,96:5,66)
4 Matches: 3 Won (75%), 1 Lost (25%) - - - PR: 4,37 (from 2,96 to 6,27), Opponent: 5,58

WBIF World Cup 2022
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Maciej Kaluzinski (s1macio)	0:1	(3,56:8,36)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Dmitry Shirokov (Dmitry)	0:1	(5,14:9,63)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Stephen Nelson (hksteve)	1:0	(5,08:5,86)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Sebastian Müller (Crumblejack)	0:1	(2,98:5,86)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Michael Dyett (beekind2me)	1:0	(4,17:4,25)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Martin Filipi (Pikomuf)	1:0	(3,67:6,17)
6 Matches: 3 Won (50%), 3 Lost (50%) - - - PR: 3,88 (from 2,98 to 5,14), Opponent: 6,57

WBIF World Club Championship 2021
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 9		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Oliver Squire [G2] (squireOshakes)	0:1	(3,57:3,67)
Round 8		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Stefanos Bonanos (sbonanos)	1:0	(4,15:7,33)
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Patrick Didisheim [M2] (Bonot)	1:0	(1,96:3,00)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Bernd Schmidt (Bacas999)	1:0	(4,54:11,49)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Andrew Selby (Selbs)	1:0	(4,64:4,89)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Steeve Korn [A2] (Tiiive)	1:0	(4,87:6,66)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Rodryk Schönfeld (RodGammon)	0:1	(4,16:12,89)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Frederic Libert (Arkhimedes)	0:1	(2,68:3,64)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Jorge Datola (beto0605)	0:1	(2,39:10,02)
9 Matches: 5 Won (56%), 4 Lost (44%) - - - PR: 3,51 (from 1,96 to 4,87), Opponent: 6,66

WBIF Champions Cup 2021
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Bob Wachtel [M1] (woknroll)	0:1	(4,36:2,18)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Martin-Frederic Kahn [G3] (Gambitcello)	1:0	(2,98:1,58)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Asbjorn Arntzen [M1] (asa)	0:1	(2,83:4,90)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Martin Stemberka (MarStem)	0:1	(1,93:2,70)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Stipe Sesnic (Firo)	1:0	(1,39:5,93)
5 Matches: 2 Won (40%), 3 Lost (60%) - - - PR: 2,68 (from 1,39 to 4,36), Opponent: 3,66

WBIF World Individual Championship 2021
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 14		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Cihangir Cetinel [M3] (cihangircetinel)	0:1	(6,37:4,26)
Round 13		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Lica Molan (illicce)	1:0	(2,64:6,39)
Round 12		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Honza Cerny (anezka)	1:0	(7,39:3,54)
Round 11		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Hidajet Eminovic (Hidajet)	1:0	(3,88:9,83)
Round 10		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Frank Talbot [M1] (Frank)	1:0	(1,78:4,07)
Round 9		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Simon Carter [M3] (DrCornwallis)	1:0	(4,72:3,76)
Round 8		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Volker Sonnabend [G3] (VSonnabend)	0:1	(3,52:3,65)
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Dmitriy Obukhov [G2] (Lyurix)	0:1	(6,39:4,76)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Kostas Raissis (kostasr)	1:0	(5,03:8,76)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Derek Murphy (Tyreman)	1:0	(3,48:9,73)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Aref Alipour [G2] (Aref91777)	0:1	(1,28:2,35)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Evangelos Loridas (LORBAGOS)	1:0	(3,47:12,62)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Udo Zindler (KingU)	1:0	(3,35:8,25)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Aleksandar Miletic (Alcodex)	0:1	(3,54:6,84)
14 Matches: 9 Won (64%), 5 Lost (36%) - - - PR: 4,19 (from 1,28 to 7,39), Opponent: 6,63

WBIF World Club Championship 2020
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 8		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Mehrzad Jarrah-Layegh (paschmalauf)	0:1	(3,38:11,72)
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Mario Lizano (Patarra)	1:0	(2,78:5,83)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Alexandru Barbu [M3] (Alessandro81)	1:0	(5,06:8,23)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Volker Sonnabend [G3] (VSonnabend)	1:0	(2,58:3,17)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Oliver Squire [G2] (squireOshakes)	1:0	(without PR)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Daniel Zahariev (Top_kalitko)	0:1	(3,92:6,33)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Bjørnar Pettersen (BGRunner)	0:1	(2,75:3,40)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Hakan Tanisik (Hahigo)	1:0	(3,85:7,74)
8 Matches: 5 Won (63%), 3 Lost (38%) - - - PR: 3,45 (from 2,58 to 5,06), Opponent: 6,59

WBIF Champions Cup 2020 (GG)
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Sergiu Malis [M2] (sergiu)	0:1	(4,18:6,11)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Bogidar Iliev (1913)	0:1	(4,42:5,62)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Jose Antonio Torres (mrjat)	0:1	(kontumaz)
3 Matches: 0 Won, 3 Lost (100%) - - - PR: 4,30 (from 4,18 to 4,42), Opponent: 5,88

WBIF World Individual Championship 2020
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 8		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Sinisa Vrhovec (gorkipelin)	0:1	(5,04:4,24)
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Franco Tosin (fratos)	0:1	(4,65:11,55)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Jean-Christophe Play (crayon)	1:0	(3,45:11,20)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Xavier Pichon (xav1234)	0:1	(4,43:9,07)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Gary Fox (GFox)	1:0	(7,60:13,08)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Ercan Recan [A2] (erecan)	1:0	(3,11:9,49)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Thomas Myhr [G1] (ZicoBlack)	0:1	(3,47:3,89)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Andrei Bessonov (Bessonov)	0:1	(3,76:16,42)
8 Matches: 3 Won (38%), 5 Lost (63%) - - - PR: 4,49 (from 3,11 to 7,60), Opponent: 10,01

WBIF World Team Championship 2019 (GG)
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 10		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Georges Grünbaum [A1] (doubletake)	1:0	(4,11:7,60)
Round 10		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Catalin Bucur [M1] (branco1304)	0:1	(3,90:4,97)
Round 9		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Takayuki Hino (hinognu)	1:0	(2,73:4,17)
Round 8		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Catalin Bucur [M1] (branco1304)	1:0	(3,47:3,21)
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Johannes Jonsson (JJBecher)	1:0	(2,42:9,75)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Gaz Owen [G2] (gaztafari)	1:0	(3,52:4,24)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Georges Grünbaum [A1] (doubletake)	0:1	(3,50:7,05)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Michalis Manolios [M1] (mman)	0:1	(3,37:4,96)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Lev Rosenfeld (mancal77)	0:1	(1,80:1,75)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Sinisa Vrhovec (gorkipelin)	0:1	(2,43:6,37)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Sebastian Roque (Chilango93)	0:0	(kontumaz)
11 Matches: 5 Won (45%), 6 Lost (55%) - - - PR: 3,16 (from 1,80 to 4,11), Opponent: 5,45

WBIF Champions Cup 2019 (GG)
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Plamen Atanasov (Pachocop)	0:1	(5,41:8,78)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Jakub Zytkowski (szuszcz)	0:1	(3,52:7,93)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Bob Wachtel [M1] (wockadoo)	0:1	(3,37:3,85)
3 Matches: 0 Won, 3 Lost (100%) - - - PR: 3,92 (from 3,37 to 5,41), Opponent: 6,60

EBIF European Team Championship 2018 (GG)
Round	Date	Pairing			Result	PR
Round 11		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Asbjorn Arntzen [M1] (Asbjorn)	0:1	(2,59:3,25)
Round 10		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Rolf Vetsch (Nickhavanna)	1:0	(5,57:6,26)
Round 9		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Bye
Round 8		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Asbjorn Arntzen [M1] (Asbjorn)	0:1	(1,94:3,73)
Round 7		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Fritz Rattinger [M1] (Jaflo)	1:0	(2,91:5,81)
Round 6		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Giorgio Castellano [G3] (jorghe)	1:0	(3,46:1,99)
Round 5		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Pedro Sanz (PepinoLoco)	1:0	(2,93:7,78)
Round 4		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Denis Polochkin (GeTRiGhT)	0:1	(3,99:6,51)
Round 3		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Gunnar Birnir Jonsson (GunniB)	0:1	(3,25:7,97)
Round 2		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Honza Cerny (anezka)	0:1	(2,92:3,17)
Round 1		Steve Sax [G2]	-	Bakar Matikashvili (maquisard)	1:0	(3,17:7,05)
11 Matches: 5 Won (50%), 5 Lost (50%), 1 Bye - - - PR: 3,19 (from 1,94 to 5,57), Opponent: 5,39