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The Fund for promotion and development of draughts sport “Russian Draughts” open its own news site. With the opening organizers of the Fund expect to attract the maximum attention of the general reader to one of the most popular games in the world – draughts on a standard 64-cell board.

Youth championships, qualifying for the World and European Youth Championships were held in various countries in February and March. We publish the results of:

Russian Youth Championships among boys and girls in age groups U16, U19 and U23 was held in Leningrad region from 4th to 13th March in three programs: Blitz, Rapid and Classic. See more information on the site of Draughts Federation of Russia HERE       

Meeting of the IDF Board was held February 25, 2016 in St. Petersburg. At the meeting were discussed issues of calendar 2016 and approved the new IDF regulations. The most important of these are Rules of the game and competitions in draughts-64 (Revised 2016) and Regulations for assignment of international titles IDF (See HERE) IDF in accordance with the Charter …

Calendar of competitions 2016 updated. You can view and download Calendar HERE 

Calendar of national events published in section Calendar 2016. See calendar HERE

Championships of Uzbekistan among men, women and youth 23 years and younger were held in Tashkent from 18 to 24 February. Competitions were held in three programs – classical, rapid and blitz. 65 players participated.

The world champion, international grandmaster Elena Skovitina won Championship of Moldova 2016 among women. The championship was held from 15 to 21 February 2016 in the capital of Moldova city of Chisinau. Christina Zaruba took second place, Anna Shlyahovskaya took third place on additional criteria.

Open Championship of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia) in Russian draughts took place in Kazan (Russia) indoors TSSDYUSHSHOR name R.G.Nezhmetdinov from 21 to 23 February 2016. The competition was attended by players from different cities of Tatarstan and the guests of the Samara region, Republics of Bashkortostan and Chuvashia. The competition was attended one of the strongest players of the world, International Grandmaster Oleg Dashkov. 

President IDF Vladimir Langin for the purposes to revive and develop draughts in Kyrgyzstan with the support of Fund “Russian Draughts” visited the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek from 13 to 15 February. As part of the planned activities February 14, Vladimir Langin held a seance of simultaneous game. More information HERE