Imre Leader
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Imre Leader (°31/10/1963) is arguably the leading British player of all time. He is the first player to win the United Kingdom championship nine times: he won in 1983, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2007. He was in the top 3 of every published British rating list until he dropped to number 4 temporarily in July 2004. In 2004, he became the first player over the age of 40 to win the UK Championship. He was runner-up in the WOC in 1983, and has reached the semi-finals on four other occasions. He was on the UK team that won the World Team Championship in 1988. He has won the Cambridge Open five times. He won the first European Grand He already won 15 EGP tournaments. One Othello principle named after him is the "Leader's Flat Wall Theory": if you have to play into a region, it is often good to create a flat wall, because the opponent will have no quiet way of breaking through it.
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WOC participations;
1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007.
