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7th Open German Draughts-64 Championship (Brazilian Version) was held in Saarbrücken (Germany) within the 11th International Tournament Saarbrücken-Open from the 21th to the 22th October 2016. Alexander Bleicher won championship, Igor Elvov took the second place, Mikhail Zlobinskiy took the third place.

From 13 to 16 October 2016 in Kazan was held Memorial of R. Nezhmetdinov in Russian draughts among boys and girls up to 10 and 13 years. Memorial of. R. Nezhmetdinov, known masters of chess and draughts, is held in Kazan for many years. In recent years, he has received the status of the World Cup and has the name “Cup of …

International grandmaster Evgeny Kondrachenko sent an interesting publication “The World of Draughts”, in which he systematized the game of draughts. This publication can serve as a guide for coaches and other fans of draughts. See publication  HERE

The meeting of the IDF Board took place in St. Petersburg on 15 October. The meeting considered the results of the TAFISA World Sports Games, admission of new members, disciplinary matters, have been approved the new international titles, addressed issues of current activities. Report of IDF Board 15-10-2016

VI TAFISA World Sports Games completed. 12,000 athletes from 87 countries in 62 sports participated in the competition. The competition was held under the patronage of the IOC, TAFISA and UNESCO. At the opening ceremony, which took place on October 8 at the famous Anchol Park, World Sports Games opened Indonesian President Joko Widodo, the participants welcomed the President of …

International Draughts Federation (IDF) according to the calendar of competitions 2016 holds in Jakarta (Indonesia) from 6 to 12 October 2016 International Draughts-64 Competition in the framework of the 6th TAFISA World Sport for all Games 2016. The competition is held with the support of the Foundation for Assistance of development of Draughts Sports “Russian Draughts”. International Grandmaster Sergey Belosheev won Rapid …

Draughts Federation of Russia in Loo (Sochi) from September 19 (day of arrival) to October 01, traditionally held: Russian Championship in draughts-64 (Russian draughts) among men and women. Russian Cup in draughts-100 among men and women. All-Russia competitions in Russian draughts among boys and girls. Russian Championship in draughts-64 among men and women ended. See results.

On September 22, the event, which FMJD and its organizer, Mr. Marcos, pathetically called the World Cup, started in Brazil. As everybody can easily see from the “competition” standings, in the tournament are involved official representatives from two countries (Brazil and Poland) and several tourists without applications of their national federations and contrary to federation’s decisions. At the same time …

The winner of the blitz program, Grandmaster Yuri Kirillov from Israel sent analyzed games of the World Championship among veterans in Kranevo, Bulgaria. International Grandmaster Gennady Shapiro from Germany sent an overview of the games. See new publications HERE

Preliminary calendar of IDF events in 2017 published HERE. What should pay attention: World Championships for men and women will be held in October 2017 in St. Petersburg (Russia). In the older group of Juniors the upper limit for the age increased. Players 26 years and younger will be able to take part in competitions. We ask all countries to send calendars of national …