François Tardieu - France
Born in Saint Maur, France on November 4, 1964 François Tardieu comes from a background of mathematics and finances. Tardieu is a three-time Backgammon Champion of Europe and has won a myriad of other titles and big money prizes on the international backgammon circuit. A few recent ones that come to mind are the 3rd Aix-Les-Bains Backgammon Open in 2007, the Masters of 6th Paris Master & Open in 2005 and the Masters at the 11th Mitteleuropa Tournament in Nova Gorica, Slovenia in 2001.
François also won the Consultation Doubles at the Riviera Backgammon Challenge & Open with partner Jean-Philippe Rohr In 2003, and the 2nd European Backgammon Doubles Championships with teammate Serge Rived at the Barrière Open in 2006.Tardieu has dedicated thousands of hours studying backgammon and has developed several theories and formulas on the strategy of the game, often sharing them with other players in online articles. He intends to someday publish a backgammon book about these and other topics of the game's strategy that he has studied.
Very often, Tardieu has his live matches recorded and allows them to be published online. He has an amazingly low error checker play rate of 2.246 in 50 analyzed matches on the GammonLuck.com Ranking List of World Class Players where he is ranked #1In recent times, François has turned some of his attention to Poker and has been playing in live events. He has made it to at least one final table that was televised in Europe and won the Lyon event of the new Partouche Poker Tour in March of 2008.
