Darya Aleksandrovna Tkachenko (; born 21 December 1983) is a Ukrainian

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

player holding the

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titles of FMJD Master (MF) and Women's International Grandmaster (GMIF). She is five-time women's world champion (2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2024) and twice women's European champion (2004, 2006) in

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. In 2016, she also won the women's world championship of

Turkish draughts Turkish draughts (Turkish: Dama)(Armenian: շաշկի, տամա)(Arabic: دامە)(Kurmanji: Dame) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and several other locations around the Mediterr ...

Biography and career

Darya Tkachenko was born in Torez,

Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast, also referred to as Donechchyna (, ), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 million residents. Its capital city, administrative centre is Donetsk, though d ...

, Ukraine. She has finished high school in

Snizhne Snizhne (, ) or Snezhnoye (), formerly known as Vasylivka (; ) until 1864, is a city in Horlivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The eastern edge of Snizhne is adjacent to administrative border of Luhansk Oblast. Its population is History The ...

, Donetsk Oblast, and then started her biology studies in

Kyiv University The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (; also known as Kyiv University, Shevchenko University, or KNU) is a public university in Kyiv, Ukraine. The university is the third-oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv and ...

. She graduated in 2004 and proceeded to post-graduate studies in the same university which she successfully finished in 2007. In 2008 she started working on her Doctoral thesis. Darya started playing draughts when she was 10 years old. In November 1996, being less than 13 years old, she won a bronze medal at the Ukrainian Under 19 championships. In 1999 she became a European Under 19 champion. The next year she won this tournament again and also won a bronze medal at the World Under 19 championships. In 2001 she became a World Under 19 champion and won a seniors Ukrainian championship. In 2003 she once again won the Ukrainian championships, in 2004 the senior European championships and in 2005 the World championships in Latronico. The next year she once again became a European and World champion, having won the World championship match again the Russian competitor Tamara Tansykkuzhina. She also won the European team cup with the "Pleso" team. In 2007 Tkachenko lost her World title, letting Tansykkuzhina to the first place in the tournament held in Jakutsk, Russia, but the next year she was able to regain the championship after winning the match again her Russian counterpart. In 2007 and 2008, she won the European team cup twice more with the "Motor Sich" Zaporizhzhia. In 2010 Tkachenko lost both European and World championships, placing as low as 19th in Europe and 4th out of 6 participants in the World championship but in the next year returned the world title after defeating Zoja Golubeva in a three-set match.

World and European seniors championships record

References

External links

Darya Tkachenko
profile at

Darya Tkachenko
at the Netherlands draughts federation Website

at the "Ukrshashki" portal 1983 births Living people People from Torez Ukrainian draughts players Players of international draughts Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Russian draughts players Ukrainian emigrants to Russia Naturalized citizens of Russia Sportspeople from Donetsk Oblast {{Ukraine-sport-bio-stub