Christian Pierre
Encyclopedia
Christine Pierre is a Belgian Scrabble
player who has won the French World Scrabble Championships
five times, equalling the record of Michel Duguet
who won the competition five times in the 1980s while Pierre won all five of his titles in the 1990s. When the international Scrabble ratings were updated in July 2007, Pierre was ranked 2nd out of around 21,000 rated players, and the highest ranked Belgian player. Pierre is the current Belgian national champion in French
(there's also a championship in Dutch
) and has won the national championship 14 times in 22 years. Since 1973 the Belgian national championship has taken place 36 times, Pierre has won about 39% of all the championships.
Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...
player who has won the French World Scrabble Championships
French World Scrabble Championships
The French World Scrabble Championships is an annual Scrabble tournament that takes place in a different French-speaking country every year. Created in 1972 by Hippolyte Wouters, it was the first of the three World Scrabble Championships to be created, with the English version being created in...
five times, equalling the record of Michel Duguet
Michel Duguet
Michel Duguet is a French Scrabble player who won the French World Scrabble Championships five times during the 1980s. His record of five world titles has never been broken, but has been equalled by Christian Pierre during the 1990s...
who won the competition five times in the 1980s while Pierre won all five of his titles in the 1990s. When the international Scrabble ratings were updated in July 2007, Pierre was ranked 2nd out of around 21,000 rated players, and the highest ranked Belgian player. Pierre is the current Belgian national champion in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(there's also a championship in Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
) and has won the national championship 14 times in 22 years. Since 1973 the Belgian national championship has taken place 36 times, Pierre has won about 39% of all the championships.
Notable achievements
- Five times World Champion: 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998
- World Champion by pairs (with Jean-Piere Hellebaut): 1991
- Belgian national champion 15 times: 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009