User:Mglovesfun
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User:Mglovesfun
Martin Richard Gardner
Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom 
19/09/1983
See my talk page and my contributions
What I work on
News
- July 1 : Official start of the 2007-08 French-language Scrabble season. After 2006-07, I'm rated Série 4a in duplicate (top 8%) and Série B in matchplay (rating of 1415, 258th out of 1243 players with a rating).
- July 8 : Shipley Scrabble tournament: 3 wins out of 4, 3rd place out of 20 players in division A.
- July 19 : Travelling to Vaujany (Isère department in France) to do the festival de Vaujany de Scrabble. While there, I'm play four tournaments in five days including three duplicate tournaments and one match play one.
- August 19 : Joined Yahoo! Games to play Chess, and lost my first ever game.
- August 20 : Results of my final two maths exams; 57% and 70% which gives me 67% overall, which is a C.
- August 26 : My half brother is 18 months old.
- September 12 : First two games at Leeds Chess Club; one loss and one draw.
- September 17 : Official start date at Leeds University.
- September 24 : Official start of classes at Leeds University. I've also joined the chess club and the poker club.
- October 3 : Decision to leave Leeds Scrabble club and Leeds chess club at least while I'm doing my studies at University. However I'll still do Scrabble tournaments some weekends and can play at the club during the holiday periods.
- November 29 : Went to see The Nutcracker with my girlfriend, it was excellent!
- December 7 : End of term at Leeds University.
- February 17 : Anniversary of when me and my girlfriend first met.
- February 19 : My girlfriend's birthday.
- February 26 : My half brother Samuel's birthday.
- March 16 : My half brother Matthew's birthday.
- March 22 : 4th anniversary of my first competitive Scrabble game on the Internet Scrabble Club.
- March 29 : Peterborough Scrabble tournament (in English).
Sport
My favourite teams, players and athletes are
- Swindon Town, football club
- New York Mets, baseball club
- Montreal Canadiens, hockey club
- Leeds Rhinos, rugby club
- Ronnie O'Sullivan, the snooker player
- Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley and Dennis Rodman the basketball players
- Pete Sampras, Andy Murray and Tim Henman the tennis players
- Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Greg Maddux, Hank Aaron and Albert Pujols the baseball players.
- Professional athletes such as Paula Radcliffe, Colin Jackson, Linford Christie, Michael Johnson, Dwain Chambers and Steve Backley
Mixed martial arts
- Fan of combat sports, including boxing, judo, karate, jujutsu, kickboxing, sumo wrestling, wrestling and mixed martial arts in general.
- Fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, in particular the competitors Royce Gracie, Emmanuel Yarborough, Don Frye, Mark Coleman and Oleg Taktarov
Scrabble
Currently a member of the Fédération Internationale de Scrabble Francophone. I also play at Leeds Scrabble club and have played ABSP tournaments in the past.
My Scrabble heros are Michel Duguet, Antonin Michel and Franck Maniquant. Let's not forget Mark Nyman who used to live just a couple of miles away from me... but now lives in Manchester.
Upcoming tournaments
My next tournaments:
Recent tournaments
I play mainly in French. Hence I represented the United Kingdom at the French World Scrabble Championship. I have also played at Cannes and at Vaujany (Isère department in France)
- 228th out of 276 in the elite division
- 176th out of 298 pairs in the pairs event
- 33rd out of 54 in the Scrabble World Cup
In English
- 34 wins, 11 defeats and 1 draw at my club
- 6 wins, no losses at the Swindon division C (ABSP) tournament (1st place)
- 3 wins, 3 losses at Peterborough (ABSP), 10th place out of
- 2 wins, 2 losses at Middleton (15th place)
- 3 wins, 1 loss at Shipley (3rd place)
- 2 wins, 2 losses at Middleton (place not yet known)
Personal bests
In French
- For one word: BISEXUE O7 149 points (World Championship, 2006)
- For a non-bingo: OXYDEE N9 92 points (Cannes, 2007)
- For one game: 545 points (Cannes, 2007)
- For a duplicate game: 94.26% (Vaujany, 2007)
In English
- For one word: ARIETTES 1H 131 points (ABSP Swindon, 2005)
- For a non-bingo: AZURE 8K 74 points (ABSP Swindon, 2005)
- For one game: 595 points (Morley Scrabble club, 2007)
