The International Draughts Federation (IDF) together with the Uzbekistan Draughts Federation in accordance with the Calendar of the IDF competitions in 2025 held from 14 to 23 January 2025 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) first events of 2025: Training event and International competitions “Stars of Uzbekistan-2025”.
Competitions were held in the categories: men, women; juniors (boys and girls) up to 27 years old (born in 1999-2005); boys and girls up to 17 years old (born in 2009 and younger) in two disciplines: Classic and Blitz games.

Gavril Kolesov and Iuliia Nikanorova won Blitz!
Gavril Kolesov and Zhanna Sarshaeva won discipline Classic game! (more…)

In the athletes / ratings section, new rating lists in draughts-64 for men and for women have been published for January 1, 2025.

See new ratings HERE

International Grandmasters Ihar Mikhalchenka and Elena Scovitina are still the first in the world ranking for 2025.

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New Year’s greetings of IDF President Vladimir Langin

Dear friends!

On behalf of the International Draughts Federation (IDF) and myself personally, I congratulate all draughts players, coaches, organizers, officials and all draughts lovers on  the coming New Year!

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Traditional draughts tournaments were held in Saarbrücken (Germany) from 15 to 17 November 2024:

18th International Draughts-100 Tournament Saarbrücken – Open (15-16 November 2024)
14th Open German Draughts-64 Championship (Brazilian version) (16-17 November 2024)

Jakob Friesen won the Open German Draughts-64 Championship (more…)

International Draughts Federation (IDF) according to the decision of the IDF Board held in Türkiye November 5, 2024 during the World Youth Draughts-64 Championship the reporting General Assembly (General Meeting) of the International Draughts Federation (IDF).

The minutes and other documents of the General Assembly have been published.

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The International Draughts Federation (IDF) in accordance with the Calendar of the IDF competitions in 2024 held World Youth Draughts-64 Championship in age groups up to 9, 11, 14, 17, 20 and 27 years in Türkiye from 1 to 11 November 2024. In the age groups U27 and U20, the classification of the World Championship among students was established.

The World Youth Championship was held in the disciplines of Blitz, Rapid and Classic game. See the results.
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The International Draughts Federation (IDF) in accordance with the Calendar of the IDF competitions in 2024 held World Championship in draughts-64 among veterans in Türkiye from November 1 to November 11, 2024.
Competitions were held in the age categories:
Men 60 years and older (1964 year born and older);
Men 50-59 years old (1974-1964 year born);
Women 50 years and older (1974 year born and older).
The World Championship among veterans was held in the disciplines of blitz and classic game. See the results.
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The International Draughts Federation (IDF) in accordance with the Calendar of the IDF competitions in 2024 held in Türkiye from 1 to 9 November 2024 World Cup in draughts-64 – International competitions “Türkiye-2024”.

The World Cup was held in three disciplines. See the results and Standings in the World Cup 2024-2025 after the 4 stages. (more…)

ATTENTION!

The preliminary calendar of events of the International Draughts Federation (IDF) for 2025 has been published.

All annual scheduled events will take place in 2025. The European Championships for men and women will be held in Kemer (Turkey) at a high level and with a good prize fund. In the autumn, the traditional World Championships among youth, students and veterans will be held. The World Cup stages will be held in April in Kemer (Turkey) together with the European Youth Championship; in May in the capital of Uzbekistan Tashkent and in the autumn together with the World Championships among youth, students and veterans. (more…)

On September 23, the IDF office received a letter from the FMJD leadership about the termination of the long-term cooperation agreement. This decision of the FMJD was not a surprise for the IDF. The FMJD leadership has been interfering with our work for many years, trying to destroy the competitor in the face of the IDF and create small weak sections within the FMJD for different types of draughts-64 in order to represent draughts-100 in all international organizations as the main and practically the only international discipline in draughts. After the FMJD General Assembly in 2021 and the arrival of new leadership, there was a chance for joint cooperation between the FMJD and the IDF in one structure for the development of all types of draughts in the world. The IDF proposed to conclude an agreement with the FMJD on long-term cooperation and division of powers, which was signed in February 2022 after lengthy discussions, agreements and consultations with lawyers. Unfortunately, the political situation made its own adjustments. (more…)