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6 times world champion Harm Wiersma published Christmas puzzle (together  with chess and bridge) in the largest Newspaper of the Netherlands. In the draughts column a lot of «64» positions. All fans of draughts invited to participate in solving this Christmas puzzle. The newspaper give 5 prizes for good solutions of 100 Euro each.  Please send your solution as soon as possible

World Cup 2013 in draughts-64 is over. Vladimir Skrabov won. Second and third prize winners were defined in the last Stage of World Cup in St. Petersburg. Dmitry Tsinman took second place and Gavril Kolesov took third place. Valeria Denisova was the best among women. Dmitry Melnikov was the best among boys born in 1997 and younger. See final standing HERE

Final of World Cup 2013 — International draughts-64 competitions memory Vasily Sokov ended. Sergey Belosheyev from Evpatoria, Ukraine, won. Tournament was held from 08 December (arrival day) to 15 December 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russia. 76 players participated in 2 tournaments — World Cup and Youth tournament. See the results, games,  team standing and photo from closing ceremony.

Draughts enthusiast Krzysztof Grzelak (Kornik, Poland) spent from 02 to 12 December 2013 2nd unofficial world championship among computer programs. Tournament ended today. The program «Tornado» is a winner. We congratulate software developer Michail Glizerin with success! Tournament was held in Russian draughts with the drawing of moves and positions (flying draughts). 9 programs was involved. See results HERE

Calendar of competitions on 2014 updated. European Men and Women Championship will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 17 to 26 October 2014. 5th Stage of World Cup 2014 in draughts-64 will be held in Portugal from 1 to 9 November. See calendar and other updates in section Calendar 2014.

Internet project «Draughts is a people’s game!» coming to the end. Also suitable for project completion contests “Cheerful draughts” and «Class draughts». Deadline for work on draughts topic (drawings, stories, logos, photographs, crafts, poems, and other works) for the competition is on November 30. More than 100 participants have already participated in the contest. They sent more

Final of the 33º individual national Championship in Portugal Draughts (Damas Classicas) was played on November 23, 2013 from 10.00 a.m. in the G.D. Jose Ramiro, Lisbon. Manuel Vaz Vieira and Tiago Manuel played for  the 1st place in the Final of 2013. Manuel Vaz Vieira was a champion of Portugal in Damas Classicas 14 times. Tiago Manuel  was the third in the …

This ADMA Activity Calendar booklet has been designed to give an insight of all sports developmental activities that The Association of Draughts in Malawi has planned to carry out during the 2013 – 2014 fiscal year with the support from the Government of Malawi through the Malawi National Council of Sports and also the support from Well Wishers.  

77° Absolute Championship of Italia  in Italian draughts (dama Italiana) was held from 12 to 17 November. Mario Fero won. You can get acquainted with the participants HERE. See full results and games HERE.