Alexander Moiseyev (born February 19, 1959) is a Soviet-born American

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. He holds the title of Grandmaster in

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 ...

Russian draughts Russian draughts (also known as Shashki or Russian shashki) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Russia and some parts of the former USSR, as well as parts of Eastern Europe and Israel. Rules As in all draughts variants, Russian draughts ...

and

English draughts English draughts (British English) or checkers (American English), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side. The ...

. In this latter he was world champion in the 3-move version from 2003 to 2013, winning five

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, ...

s, in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2011.

Career

Born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, Moiseyev began playing Russian draughts at seven and by age fifteen he achieved a Master rating. He had further success in Russian draughts, but switched to international draughts in 1979 or 1980 (sources conflict). In 1991 he left Russia and settled in the US. He won the US title at the international form in 1995 and then switched to

, also known as "American checkers". He went on to win the US National Tournament in 1999. In 2003 he won the world title in 3-move draughts. In 2008 he won the gold medal at the 1st World Mind Games, held in

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, in American checkers. Moiseyev won the gold medal again in American checkers at the 2012

SportAccord World Mind Games The International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) inaugurated the SportAccord World Mind Games December 2011 in Beijing. For all sports, the meet was invitational and the events were not world championships. Beside satisfaction of the participating ...

in Beijing. In 2013 he lost the 3-Move World Title Match against

Michele Borghetti Michele Borghetti (born 13 March 1973) is an Italian grandmaster of international draughts, Italian draughts and English draughts (also known as "American checkers" or "straight checkers"). In English draughts he was world champion in both 3-move a ...

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1959 births Living people American checkers players Players of English draughts Russian draughts players Sportspeople from Moscow {{US-sport-bio-stub