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Checkers Champion Ton ‘Teunis’ Sijbrands1949 ~ present
In 1961, at age 11, Ton’s father introduced him to the world of checkers by taking his son on a Saturday afternoon trip to the youth checkers club of Leen de Rooij, where it didn’t take long for the future checkers champion to quickly develop an interest in the mind sport that soon blossomed into an innate love of checkers. In 1962, a young Ton Sijbrands was also introduced to the International draughts circuit where he was given the opportunity not only to observe checker masters use their individual techniques at the checkerboard, but the boy was also afforded the chance to be ‘secondant’ for Senegalese master, Baba Sy, where Ton annotated the game moves as the Grandmaster faced various checkers opponents in the Lucas Bols Tournament in Amsterdam.
That same year Sijbrands became the Dutch youth champion for the first time, but Ton also succeeded in winning this title several times after that during the early phase of his checkers career.
Ton continued to participate in various checkers tournaments such as the Dutch and European championships during 1966, but his triumphant year was 1967.  RC Keller, Ton Sijbrands and his parents 1966 Youth National Checkers Champion Not only did the young checkers player succeed in defeating his opponents in the national checkers arena to become the Dutch champion at the Brinta Tournament in Hoogezand-Sappemeer in 1967, but he also achieved a significant win to become the European champion that year.
1967 Tournament Play
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