List of draughts players is concerned with the leading or champion figures in the history of various forms of draughts. The list should be limited to those who are notable in the game or its history.
Champions or masters in variants of draughts
Lyons Draughts site (in French) Alatenghua Alex Moiseyev Alexander Baljakin Alexander Dybman Alexander Georgiev Alexander Getmanski (also spelled as "Aleksandr Getmanski")FMJD Aleksander Kandaurov Alexander Schwarzman Alexei Chizhov Alfred Dussaut Alfred Jordan The Canadian checker player, Volume 2"Old Time Players" at "Checkerworld" – A World Checkers/Draughts Champion Alfred Molimard Amangul Durdyyeva Anatoli Gantvarg FMJD Andrew Anderson Andris Andreiko Arnaud CordierArticle in La Dépêche du Midi Asa Long Baba Sy Ben Springer Koninklijke Nederlandse Dambond Carl "Buster" Smith – Champion in Pool checkers. Charles Walker Cornelius "Con" McCarrick Darya Tkachenko Dennis Pawlek Derek Oldbury Don Lafferty Donald Oliphant Dul ErdenebilegKNDB Edvardas Bužinskis Edwin Hunt Elbert Lowder Elena Altsjoel – A Women's International Draughts Champion Elena Mikhailovskaya – First Women's International Draughts Champion Eugène Leclercq – A Men's International Draughts Champion KNDB Guntis Valneris Hanqing Zhao Harm Wiersma Herman Hoogland KNDB Ion Dosca Iser Kuperman Isidore Weiss Jack de Haas Jake KacherFMJD James Ferrie – A World Checkers/Draughts Champion James Wyllie Jan Groenendijk Jan Mortimer Jannes van der Wal Jean Marc Ndjofang FMJD KNDB Leopold Sekongo Li Tchoan KingLyons Draughts site (in French) Lindus Edwards Lourival Mendes França Lubabalo Kondlo Lukas Valenta Marcel Deslauriers Future Is Near Marion Tinsley – He is considered the greatest American-checkers player ever.Sports Illustrated Marius Fabre Maurice Raichenbach FMJD Michele BorghettiWCDF ratings page Nadiya ChyzhevskaChess Arbiter Pro Draughts Natalia Sadowska N'Diaga SambFMJD Newell W. Banks Nina Hoekman Olga Kamyshleeva – A Women's International Draughts Champion Olga Levina KNDB Patricia Breen Pierre Ghestem Piet Roozenburg FMJD Rashid Nezhmetdinov KNDB Richard Fortman Rob Clerc Robert Martins – A World Checkers/Draughts Champion Robert Stewart – A World Checkers/Draughts Champion Robert D. Yates Roel Boomstra Ron King Ryan Pronk Sam Gonotsky Stanislas Bizot Tamara Tansykkuzhina Tanja ChubKNDB Ton Sijbrands Vadim Virny Viktoriya Motrichko Vladimir Kaplan Vyacheslav Shchyogolev Walter Hellman William F. RyanUSA Checkers KNDB Yulia Makarenkova Zoja Golubeva
Non-human players This section is for computer programs who are noted in the history of the game.
Chinook (draughts player), a program developed at the University of Alberta (noteworthy match against Marion Tinsley) KingsRow, a strong program by Ed Gilbert Nemesis (draughts player), world computer champion in 2002
References
External links Old Time Players USA checkers World Draughts federation KNDB – Koninklijke Nederlandse Dambond – homepage