| Course in draughts 2 |
 Download the free book A Course in Draughts part 2. The book was written by the dutch master Tjalling Goedemoed, and sponsored by Frits Luteijn. The book is very well suited to players who know about the tactics of the game, and want to increase their understanding of positional aspects of the game.
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| Belgian Championship 2009 |
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| World championship match 2009: Schwarzman retains the title |
 The match for the world championship 2009 between world champion Alexander Schwarzman and challenger Alexander Georgiev was played in the Dutch towns Enschede, Hengelo and Twenterand. After a tight battle it was Schwarzman who had the best nerves during the tie break on the last day. Take a look at the
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| Two short games |
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The Russian Championship 2009 was won by GMI Alexander Georgiev, and the tournament in Salou 2009 by GMI Guntis Valneris. Take a look at two short and explosive games of Georgiev against Shaibakov and Valneris against Ivanov.
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| PDN Checker |
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A PDN Checker has been added to http://10x10.org. It is an online tool to check if games in Portable Draughts Notation are valid. Read more about the PDN Standard.
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| Dambolite applet |
 The draughts applet dambolite has been released. This applet was used for the World Championship 2007 in Hardenberg, and for the World Mind Sports Games 2008 in Beijing. Some features are: - supports PDN input
- supports DamWeb input
- can start in an arbitrary position of the game
- can be used for live games
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| 142 problems of Boezjinski |
 For his 50th birthday Edward Boezjinski has published 150 problems on the Shashki forum. Most of them were entered into the computer by Edwin Twiest. View the problems using the dambo applet. For those who don't know: Boezjinski has published several books, a very good one is "Strategia i taktyka w warcabach (1997)".
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| 1 September 2007, Dutch championship blitz for teams |
 On September 1 the Dijks Leijssen Dutch championship blitz for teams took place in Westerhaar. The end result: - Hiltex Amsterdam
- Dammers Uit Oost
- Witte van Moort Westerhaar
Take a look at some pictures of the tournament.
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| 2007 Dutch team cup |
The end result: - Dammers Uit Oost
- Meurs DEZ Culemborg
Take a look at some pictures of the tournament.
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| World Championship 2007 Hardenberg |
 The World Championship in Hardenberg has begun. On this site we will feature some analyses.
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| Dutch Championship 2005 |
 | In the 9-th round of the Dutch championships in Groningen, Thijssen played a beautiful game against fellow grandmaster Clerc. Look here for an analysis of the game Rob Clerc - Kees Thijssen. | | Kees Thijssen | |
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| EntryDambo version 2.03 |
 An update of EntryDambo is available, a java application that allows you to create web pages with the ReplayDambo applet. This is pretty much the same version as the one that has been used to broadcast the games of the World Championship 2005
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| World Championship Blindfold 2005 |
 | In Schiedam the first (unofficial) world championship blindfold play is being held. The tournament is sponsored by Van Stigt Thans, and seems to be very well organized. On this site you can find an analysis of the spectactular game between Tsjizjov - Schwarzman in the opening round. |
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| Endgame analysis |
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An analysis of some practical 4 against 2 endgame positions where white has three pieces behind the main diagonal. This material is targeted at experienced draughts players.
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| Collection Marc de Meulenaere 2003/2004 |
 Marc de Meulenaere submitted a large collection of draughts problems, that can be viewed using the dambo applet. After a recent update, there are now 16241 problems.
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| TU/e Man-Machine Match 21 November 2004 |
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On Sunday 21 November there will be a man-machine match between international master Jeroen van den Akker and the strong draughts program Flits from Adri Vermeulen. The games will be broadcasted live on damserver.nl, and there will also be a webcam. For more information, see the website of the match. The match will be played at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, together with the open Dutch championship for computers.
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| TU/e Man-Machine Match Results |
 Flits has won the match against Jeroen van den Akker with 4-2. In the first game of the tie-break Jeroen didn't react adequately to a combinative threat from Flits. For more information, see the website of the match. The Open Dutch championship for computers ended in a victory for Dragon from Michel Grimminck. Dragon and TD King both ended with 13 points, but Dragon won the tie-break. Take a look at the results and the games.
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