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2019 World Draughts Championship
The 2019 World Draughts Championship at the international draughts was held from September 15 to October 3, 2019, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast under the auspices International Draughts Federation FMJD. Twenty players competed in the tournament, which play as a round-robin. The winning prize for the tournament was 20,000 euros. World Champion 2016 and 2018 Roel Boomstra did not play in the World Championship. With his title Alexander Georgiev became World Draughts Champion for the tenth time, equaling Alexei Chizhov. Participants Reserve # Jan Groenendijk (Netherlands) # Alexander Baljakin (Netherlands) # Anatoli Gantvarg (Belarus) # Alexander Getmanski (Russia) # Vadim Virny (Germany) # Yuri Anikeev (Ukraine) Rules and regulations The games were played in the official FMJD time rate of the Fischer system with 1 hour and 20 minutes for the game plus 1 minute per move. Conforming to the FMJD regulations, players are not allowed to agree on a draw before they both mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Draughts
International draughts (also called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a Abstract strategy, strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts. The gameboard comprises 10×10 squares in alternating dark and light colours, of which only the 50 dark squares are used. Each player has 20 pieces, light for one player and dark for the other, at opposite sides of the board. In conventional diagrams, the board is displayed with the light pieces at the bottom; in this orientation, the lower-left corner square must be dark. History According to Draughts historians, draughts historian Arie van der Stoep, the 100 square draughts board came into use in the Netherlands between 1550 and 1600, and the number of pieces was extended to 2x20 between 1650 and 1700. The name "Polish draughts" was following a Dutch convention of the time that "unnatural" ideas were considered "Polish". Rules The general rule is that all moves and captures are made diagonally. All refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Igor Moreno Silva
Allan Igor Moreno Silva (born August 6, 1992 from São Luís/MA) is a Brazilian player in the International draughts. He won Panamerican championship in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016, champion of Brazil in International draughts 2015. International Grandmaster (GMI). World Championship International draughts * 2011 (18 place) * 2013 (14 place in final B) * 2015 (10 place) * 2019 (11 place) Panamerican Championship International draughts * 2011 (1 place) * 2013 (1 place) * 2015 (1 place) * 2016 (1 place) * 2018 (2 place) International tournaments * 2016: Salou Open (2 place in blitz) External linksPfofile FMJDPfofile KNDB KNDB (channel 26) is a television station in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States. Owned by BEK Sports Network, Inc., a subsidiary of BEK Communications Cooperative, it is affiliated with multiple networks on various digital subchannels, with ... References 1992 births Living people Brazilian draughts players Players of international draughts { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess J0l44
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Anikeev
Yuri Anikeev or Iurii Anikieiev (born June 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian International Grandmaster (GMI) of International and Brazilian draughts. He won the 2023 World Championship in International draughts, also won the 2004 World Championship in Brazilian draughts and won the 2016 Draughts World Championship (rapid). He has been the champion of Ukraine in International draughts and draughts-64 many times. Anikeev was disqualified by the International Draughts Federation (IDF) from participation "in all official IDF competitions on the three years up to December 15, 2019." IDF cites breach of its code of ethics as the reason for the suspension. Akineev claims that his political views as well as his wearing a Ukrainian embroidered shirt at international tournaments are the real reason for the suspension. As a resident of Kharkiv, Anikeev publicly voiced his criticism of Russia's annexation of Crimea and its invasions in Georgia and Eastern Ukraine. IDF is based in Saint Petersb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadim Virny
Vadim Aleksandrovich Virny (russian: Вадим Александрович Вирный, born 1965 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a German (formerly Soviet) International draughts player, an International Grandmaster. He was a European champion, World vice-champion and two-times World team champion in International draughts in the 1980s. Vadim Virny's father is Alexander Yakovlevich Virny, well known as a draughts coach and an author of several draughts textbooks. Early achievements Vadim became a draughts master when he was 13 years old. In 1979, at 14, he won a bronze medal at the World junior championship and the next year for the first time took part in the Soviet championship finals, sharing places 6—10. In 1981 he won the World junior championship in Brussels, defeating another young Soviet player, Alexander Dybman, in the final barrage. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Getmanski
Alexander Eduardovich Getmanski (russian: Александр Эдуардович Гетманский; born October 6, 1977, Tula) is a Russian draughts player ( International draughts and draughts-64), author of books on draughts. He took third place at Draughts-64 World Championship in 2003, also he took second place at Draughts World Championship 2017 in rapid and third place in blitz in 2016 year. Winner of Junior World Championship in 1996 and 1997. Three times winner of Russian championship. International grandmaster (GMI). World championship * 1997 (4 place in semifinal group B) * 2001 (15 place) * 2003 (9 place) * 2005 (10 place) * 2011 (11 place) * 2013 (5 place) * 2017 (5 place in semifinal group С) * 2021 (2 place) European championship * 1999 (6 place) * 2002 (9-16 place) * 2006 (15 place) * 2008 (13 place) * 2010 (13 place) * 2012 (21 place) * 2014 (5 place) * 2016 (7 place) * 2018 (7 place) Russian championship * 1997 (2 place) * 1998 (1 place) * 1999 (1 place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoli Gantvarg
Anatoli Abramovich Gantvarg (russian: Анатолий Абрамович Гантварг; born 3 October 1948 in Minsk) is an international grandmaster in international draughts from Belarus. He won the Draughts World Championship The Draughts World Championship is the world championship in international draughts and is held every two years. In the even year following the tournament, the World Title match takes place. The men's championship began in 1885 in France and since 1 ...s in 1978, 1980, 1984 and 1985, as well as four Soviet Union championships (1969–1981). In 1984 and 1985 he was selected as Belarus Sportsperson of the Year. Gantvarg has a university degree in mathematics, but throughout all of his life, he remained a professional draughts player. He has two daughters: one lives in the Netherlands and the other in Australia. Publications * Gantvarg, A. A. (198650 поединков на 100 клетках Polymya References Soviet draughts players Belarusian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Baljakin
Alexander Baljakin (born 8 April 1961) is a Dutch draughts player born in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk. He is also a writer of books about draughts. Career Baljakin became junior World Champion when he was still performing as a member of the Soviet team.Over Alexander Baljakin , dvvbi.nl In this period he became Soviet national champion in 1982, 1988 and 1989. He also won a gold medal at the Summer Olympiad in 1985 and as well as a silver at the World Championships in 1986. He won the Team World Cup in 1987. He moved to Minsk in 1986 and after the fall of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Groenendijk (draughts)
Jan Groenendijk (born 7 September 1998 in Wageningen) is a Dutch draughts player who ranked second at the 2015 World Draughts Championship in Emmen. Winner Salou Open -2015. He also won the Dutch championship twice (2020, 2022). Groenendijk is an International grandmaster. World championship * 2015 (2nd place) * 2016 (2nd place) * 2017 (7th place in semifinal B) * 2019 (4 place) * 2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ... (4 place) European championship * 2012 (26th place) * 2014 (9th place) * 2018 (11th place) External linksProfile Jan Groenendijkat site KNDB References 1998 births Living people Dutch draughts players Players of international draughts People from Wageningen Sportspeople from Gelderland {{Board-game-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Draughts Federation
The Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames (FMJD, World Draughts Federation) is the international body uniting national draughts federations. It was founded in 1947 by four Federations: France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. Members Currently, the FMJD has more than 70 national federation members in 2021. Recently the FMJD has become a member of the Global Association of International Sports Federations and strives for Olympic recognition. The FMJD memberships is part of a more general movement toward integration of Mind Sports in the regular sports arena, a development that, in the vision of the FMJD, is to be lauded. The FMJD is member of the: *General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) *International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) Presidents # 1947: J. H. Willems, # 1968: Beppino Rizzi, # 1975: Huib van de Vreugde, # 1978: Piet Roozenburg, # 1980: Wim Jurg, # 1984: Vadim Bairamov, # 1985: Piet Roozenburg, (interim) # 1986: Piet Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groenendijk, Jan (draughts)
Jan Groenendijk (born 7 September 1998 in Wageningen) is a Dutch draughts player who ranked second at the 2015 World Draughts Championship in Emmen. Winner Salou Open -2015. He also won the Dutch championship twice (2020, 2022). Groenendijk is an International grandmaster. World championship * 2015 (2nd place) * 2016 (2nd place) * 2017 (7th place in semifinal B) * 2019 (4 place) * 2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ... (4 place) European championship * 2012 (26th place) * 2014 (9th place) * 2018 (11th place) External linksProfile Jan Groenendijkat site KNDB References 1998 births Living people Dutch draughts players Players of international draughts People from Wageningen Sportspeople from Gelderland {{Board-game-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guntis Valneris
Guntis Valneris (born in Riga) is a Latvian draughts player. He was the 1994 World champion in international draughts, a two-time European champion (1992, 2008), two-time World champion in fast draughts (1999, 2007), three-time Junior World champion (1984–1986), and multiple-time Latvian national champion. Career highlights Guntis Valneris started playing draughts when he was 10 years old. Viktor Adamovich became his first coach. In a year, Guntis won the Latvian U18 championship in Russian checkers, and at the age of 13 he was already the winner of the Latvian senior championships and the U18 USSR Champion. Another future World champion, Alexander Schwarzman, was one of the players he defeated at the Soviet U18 championships. In 1982 Guntis Valneris switched to international draughts, with Emmanuils Merins becoming his new coach. Under Merins's guidance, Valneris three times in a row won the World Junior Championships. In 1985 he won his first senior Latvian championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
