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Silver medalist of the European championship in the classic game, International grandmaster Evgeny Kondrachenko sent report about European Draughts-64 Championship 2016 with an overview of interesting games. See the report  HERE  

International Draughts Federation (IDF) in accordance with the Calendar of the competitions in 2016  together with the Draughts Federation of Georgia holds from 11th November (arrival day) till 20th November (departure day) 2016 in Tbilisi (Georgia) European Draughts-64 Championships among men and women.  Competitions are qualifying for the World Championship 2017. Competitions are held with the support of the Foundation for …

From 2 to 6 November 2016 Bendery hosted the VII Memorial of honored coach MSSR Nikolay Gringruz. 111 players from different regions of Pridnestrov’e, Gagauzia, Moldova and Ukraine took part in the tournament, which was an absolute record for all years.

International Draughts Federation (IDF) and French Federation of Draughts 64-144 in accordance with the Calendar of the competitions in 2016 conducted from 22th (arrival day) to 29 (departure day) October 2016 in Mirepoix-sur-Tarn (France) 5th Stage of World Cup 2016 in draughts-64 – International competition “France-2016”. Vladimir Skrabov won Blitz and Classic program. Dmitry Tsinman sent report about tournament.

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 …