10x10 Draughts

It's now half a year later, and the chaos around the world title match has only become bigger. In January a match has been played between world champion Alexander Shvartsman and Roel Boomstra, but this match is considered illegal by the Draughts Federation of Russia. Read more about the events that have taken place since the world championship in Tallinn.

After the recent world championship in Tallinn a chaotic situation has emerged concerning who owns the rights to challenge world champion Alexander Shvartsman. Let's make an attempt to summarize the events that caused this situation.

The Brunssum Open tournament 2021 was won by Hein Meijer. He scored 15 points in 9 games, two more than Jean-Marc Ndjofang, Machiel Weistra and Christian Niami. See Toernooibase for the final standings. Take a look at the crucial victory of Meijer against Weistra in the sixth round.

The layout of the analysis has been updated. Now an improved javascript board is used that uses SVG images. Due to this the page can be scaled without affecting the quality of the images. Also the move animations are smoother. Take a look at the analyses of the most recent Dutch championship converted to the new layout: rounds 1-4, rounds 5-8, rounds 9-11, rounds 12-13 and the barrages. The changes have been realized using the open source library cm-chessboard, which is greatly appreciated. Feedback is welcome!

The Dutch championship 2020 was won by Jan Groenendijk. Together with Alexander Baliakin he scored 19 points in 13 games, followed by Roel Boomstra and Wouter Sipma with 17 points. Groenendijk won the rapid barrage against Baliakin with 3-1, while Boomstra did the same against Sipma. Note that this tournament was delayed until 2021 due to the pandemic. See Toernooibase for the final standings. Take a look at some highlights of rounds 1-4, rounds 5-8, rounds 9-11, rounds 12-13 and the barrages.

The Championship of Belarus was won by the young Heorhi Vydzerka, 3 points ahead of Uladzislau Valjuk, and 5 points ahead of the grandmasters Sergej Nosevitch and Alexander Bulatov. See Toernooibase for the final standings. Take a look at some highlights of the games.

Killer draughts is a slight variation to international draughts that is intended to decrease the drawing rate. In this article one can find a comparison of the result for 119 classical 10x10 positions. With the normal rules only 6% end in a decision, while with the killer rules this goes up to 48%.