List of draughts players

List of draughts players

List of draughts players is concerned with the leading or champion figures in the history of various forms of draughts, commonly called checkers. The list should be limited to champions and significant figures in the game, so if current names do not meet that standard they may be removed.

Human players...

*Leroy Adams
*Vladimir Agafonov
*Jeroen van den Akker
*Rawle Allicock
*Andrew Anderson
*Andris Andreiko
*Alexander Baljakin
*Newell W. Banks
*Al Barnett
*Pieter Bergsma
*Bauke Bies
*Stanislas Bizot
*Patricia Breen (draughts player)
*Joan Caws
*Alexei Chizhov
*Tanja Chub
*Rob Clerc
*Marcel Deslauriers
*Vitalia Doumesh
*Amangul Durdyyeva
*Bagtiyar Durdyev
*Mustafa Durdyev
*Alfred Dussaut
*Alexander Dybman
*Lindus Edwards
*Dul Erdenebileg
*Marius Fabre
*James Ferrie
*Jack Francis
*Clarence Freeman
*Anatoli Gantvarg
*Alexander Georgiev
*Aleksandr Getmanski
*Pierre Ghestem
*Sam Gonotsky
*Zoja Golubeva
*Barbara Graas
*Richard Hallett
*Walter Hellman
*Herman Hoogland
*Edwin Hunt
*Julian Janvier
*Alfred Jordan
*Olga Kamyshleeva
*Vladimir Kaplan
*Reinier Cornelis Keller
*Ron King
*Ygal Koyfman
*Iser Kuperman
*Don Lafferty
*Olga Levina
*Karen van Lith
*Darwin Lorde
*Asa Long
*Elbert Lowder
*Robert Martins
*George Miller
*Alex Moiseyev
*Alfred Molimard
*Jan Mortimer
*Macodou N'diaye
*Jean Marc Ndjofang
*Rashid Nezhmetdinov
*Laurent Nicault
*Derek Oldbury
*Mark Podolskij
*Maurice Raichenbach
*Piet Roozenburg
*N'Diaga Samb
*Auke Scholma
*Alexander Schwarzman
*Ton Sijbrands
*Carl "Buster" Smith
*Benedictus Springer
*Robert Stewart
*Wjatsjeslav Sjtsjogoljev
*Baba Sy
*Tamara Tansykkuzhina
*Kees Thijssen
*Marion Tinsley
*Darya Tkachenko
*Lukas Valenta
*Guntis Valneris
*Jannes van der Wal
*Charles Walker
*Isidore Weiss
*Harm Wiersma
*Tom Wiswell
*Bryan Wollaert
*James Wyllie
*Robert D. Yates

Non-human players

This section is for computer programs who are noted in the history of the game.

*Chinook (draughts player), a program developed at the University of Alberta (noteworthy match against Marion Tinsley)
*KingsRow, a strong program by Ed Gilbert

External links

* [http://www.acfcheckers.com/oldplayers1.html Old Time players page]
* [http://usacheckers.com/biographies.php USA checkers]
* [http://fmjd.org/ World Draughts federation]
* [http://wcdf.wz.cz/index.htm World Checkers/Draughts Federation]
* [http://www.freewebs.com/knightchex/grandmasters.htm Draughts world Grandmaster page]


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