September 20, 2017 in St. Petersburg was held a meeting of the Board IDF. Short report of the IDF Board meeting is HERE. The meeting approved the results of the world championships among teams, youth and veterans, held in Bulgaria from August 23 to September 2, 2017; the issues of preparation for the World Championship 2017 were considered; the preliminary calendar of the competitions for 2018 was approved; approved the newly established African Draughts Confederation as the organization responsible for the development of draughts-64 on the African continent under the aegis of IDF; the issues of the current activity of the federation were considered. According to the results of the competition in 2017: world championships in Bulgaria, national championships and the implementation of norms in the various competitions, new international titles been assigned to the next players:
Men
| 1 | Besedin Vladislav | Russia | IM | By norms |
| 2 | Gaiazov Shamil | Russia | IM | By norms |
| 3 | Getmanskii Grigorii | Russia | IM | By norms |
| 4 | Viaznikov Evgenii | Russia | IM | By norms |
| 5 | Kirillov Yuri | Israel | IM | By norms |
| 6 | Isaac Bafaki | Uganda | FM | Automatically |
| 7 | Madalitso Thomu Juma | Malawi | FM | Automatically |
| 8 | Wayne ‘Shines’ Reid | Jamaica | FM | Automatically |
| 9 | Tiago Manuel | Portugal | FM | Automatically |
| 10 | Bukreev Kirill | Russia | FM | By norms |
| 11 | Vengelis Lukas | Lithuania | FM | By norms |
| 12 | Kolosov Dmitrii | Russia | FM | By norms |
| 13 | Plakk Uno | Estonia | FM | By norms |
| 14 | Rozvalinov Alexander | Ukraine | FM | By norms |
| Women | ||||
| 15 | Petruseva Polina | Belarus | WIM | Automatically |
| 16 | Balukova Olga | Russia | WFM | Automatically |
| 17 | Valnere Antra | Latvia | WFM | By norms |
| 18 | Vatolina Kristina | Russia | WFM | By norms |
| 19 | Kuznetsova Kseniia | Russia | WFM | By norms |
| 20 | Lazovik Yana | Belarus | WFM | By norms |
| 21 | Petrova Liudmila | Russia | WFM | By norms |
We congratulate players with well-deserved international titles!
The new full members of IDF became the national organizations of Turkey, Finland and India.
