Alexander Borisovich Dybman (russian: Александр Борисович Дыбман; born in 1962) is an inactive

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

International draughts International draughts (also called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a 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 onl ...

player, two-time

World champion A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

(in 1986 and 1987), and four-time Soviet champion in International draughts. At the age of 17, in 1979, Dybman won a bronze medal at the Soviet championship, and in 1980 he shared a second place at the Soviet championship with the former World champion, Vyacheslav Shchyogolev. In 1980 and 1981, Dybman won silver medals at the World junior championships–first in a tournament (with Alexander Baljakin taking the first place), and then after losing in the final barrage to another young Soviet player, Vadim Virny. The best period in Dybman's playing career started in 1983, where he won four Soviet championships in a row. (In 1985, he took part in the Fall championships and skipped the ones in the Spring). The following year he won the

World championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

in Groningen and was awarded a Grandmaster title. The next year, he played a World championship match against

Anatoli Gantvarg Anatoli Abramovich Gantvarg (russian: Анатолий Абрамович Гантварг; born 3 October 1948 in Minsk) is an international grandmaster in international draughts from Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known a ...

, drawing all 20 gamesFinal table of the World championship match Dybman vs. Gantvarg
/ref> which meant that he retained the World crown for one more year. In the late 1980s, Alexander Dybman fell seriously ill. The Soviet medicine was not able to help him, and he moved to Germany. Since then, he almost never plays in rating-related tournaments.

References

External links

Profile
at the Tournament base of the Dutch Draughts Federation Soviet draughts players Russian draughts players Players of international draughts 1962 births Living people {{Germany-sport-bio-stub