Steen Grønbech - Denmark
Steen Grønbech is a Dane backgammon player who also serves as vice chairman of board of the Danish Backgammon Federation, the strongest, most organized backgammon association in the world. Steen plays regularly at the elite division of the DBgF, as part of the Team Play65.
Steen Grønbech, who plays backgammon at the Danish Backgammon Federation since 2000, had recently begun gaining recognition outside of Denmark. He played the 2006 World Backgammon Championship in Monte Carlo (after winning a qualifier event at the Nordic Open) and the Million Backgammon Tournament organized by PartyGammon in 2007 at the Bahamas, where he won the $200 jackpot).
Grønbech was the number 1 player at the 2009 WSOB Race, after getting between the four winners in almost every World Series of Backgammon event that year: third and first consolation at the WSOB Cannes and 2nd at the WSOB Prague Doubles. He overcame backgammon giants like Matvey "Falafel" Natanzon and won a seat at the WSOB Shootout, held on February 2010 in London.
In 2009 Cyprus Open, Steen won the WBA Member of Honor prize for his work on the World Backgammon Tour (WBGT), a global tour planned to unify backgammon, and to cross three continents on its six stops. The tour was launched in 2010 with the Nordic Open, and the next stop is expected to take place in San Francisco with the 2nd US Open.
