Vladimir Vigman (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Вигман; lv, Vladimirs Vigmans; born in

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) is a

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draughts Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers ...

player in

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and Draughts-64. Three-times was second at World Draughts-64 Championships (

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) (1985, 1987, 1989), three-times USSR champion in

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(1976–1978), draughts trainer and journalist, author of books on draughts. International grandmaster in International, Brazilian and Russian draughts.

Sport achievements

In 1968 Vigman got the title of national master. In 1970 he won the silver medal in USSR championship at Russian draughts, then from 1976 to 1978 he won the gold medal. In 1978 he became a national grandmaster. He also participated in the USSR championship of International draughts. In 1984 Vigman took sixth place at World Draughts Championships in

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. At the first World Draughts-64 Championships (of Brazilian draughts) in 1985 he was second place after Aleksander Kandaurov. He was also second after

Alexander Schwarzman Alexander Mikhailovich Schwarzman (russian: Александр Михайлович Шварцман; born 18 September 1967 in Moscow) is an international grandmaster in international draughts, Russian draughts and Brazilian draughts from Russia ...

at the next championships in 1987. At the third championships in 1989 Vladimir Vigman had the same result as Alexander Schwarzman, but became second place again because at that moment there was a rule which gave preference to the current world champion. Since 2007 Vigman has played in

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. As a sports journalist, he began to work in the journal «Шашки» in 1971 (Riga) and later became its Chief Editor. In 1986 Vigman wrote a book about draughts named ''Радость творчества''. In 1991 he published his next book ''Grand Master, Surrender!'' which contains 300 maches of a draughts grandmaster. Vigman invented a variant of draughts in which each player have 24 pieces (two full set) – one on the white squares, the other on the black. Each player plays both games simultaneously: one game on the white squares, the other on the dark squares. The total result is the sum of the results of both games.Vigman's draughts
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Vigman's draughts

References

External links

Profile at the Dutch draughts Federation archive

Profile
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Short biography
(Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Vigman, Vladimir Latvian draughts players Soviet draughts players Players of international draughts Sportspeople from Riga 1952 births Living people