Larry Kahn (tiddlywinks)

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Lawrence Kahn (born 1953or1954 [1] ) is an American tiddlywinks player. He is the most accomplished tiddlywinks player worldwide in terms of the number of individual worldwide championships as well as the number of pairs worldwide championships.

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Biography

Larry Kahn grew up in North Miami Beach, Florida. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in ocean engineering in 1975. He would later receive a master's degree in the same field in 1976. [1]

In 1984, he was an ocean engineer with Washington Analytical Services in Rockville, Maryland. [2] As of 2016, he worked with the National Institutes of Health, advising them on IT acquisitions. [1]

Tiddlywinks

Kahn first heard about the game tiddlywinks in 1971 from an MIT handbook sent to incoming students. [1] By 1989, he was the vice president of the North American Tiddlywinks Association and additionally operated a tiddlywinks parlor in Maryland. [3] In the game, he has gone by the nickname "Horsemeat" [1] and "King". [4]

As of 2016, Kahn had won over 100 tiddlywinks championships [1] and held the Guinness World Record for most victories at the English National Championships (eight). [5] As of 2013, he also held the Guinness World Records for "Most Tiddlywinks World Championships" with 21, and "Most Tiddlywinks World Championships (pairs)" with 16. [6] Additionally, he was the only player to have held all six of the game's major titles simultaneously (in April 1995). [1] [7] He has won five international titles competing as a duo with Dave Lockwood. [8]

Lockwood and Kahn frequently compete against each other, with Sports Illustrated once comparing their rivalry to that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. [1] [9] Since the mid-1990s, Kahn has had a World Championship rivalry with English player Patrick Barrie, with the pair contesting 16 matches up to the end of 2019. [10]

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  4. ↑ Teresi, Dick (December 1, 2007). "You Don't Know Tiddly". Forbes. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
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  6. ↑ Glenday, Craig (2013). Guinness World Records 2013 . Bantam Books. p.  193. ISBN   9780345547118.
  7. ↑ "Winkipedia: Larry Kahn" . Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  8. ↑ Bowman, Emma; Simon, Scott (April 21, 2019). "Not Just Child's Play: World Tiddlywinks Champions Look To Reclaim Their Glory". NPR. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  9. ↑ "TO SQUOP, OR NOT TO SQUOP? WINKS WIZARDS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE POND FACE SUCH AGONIZING DILEMMAS EVERY DAY". Sports Illustrated. November 27, 1995. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
  10. ↑ "They are the Nadal and Djokovic of their game, but that game is tiddlywinks". Los Angeles Times. December 26, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
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