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Checkers Champion Ton Sijbrands
The following is a list of champion Ton
Sijbrands' books on checkers:
- Topprestaties op het dambord 1968, Ten
Have, Amsterdam Top Performance at the
checkerboard; Analyses of forty checkers
games from the 1968 World Championships.
- Ton Sijbrands Dammer; 1973, Prisma,
Utrecht/Antwerpen; written with Jules Welling
(Ton Sijbrands Checkers Player).
- Sijbrands - Andreiko. 1973, Keesing,
Amsterdam; Tweekamp om het wereldkampioenschap
dammen; written with Alexander Münninghoff
(Sijbrands – Andreiko ~ The World
Championship of 1973).
- Tweekamp Wiersma – Clerc; 1978;
(World Championship of Wiersma - Clerc
1978).
- Gantwarg – Wiersma; 1979; Volmacmatch
om het WK 1979; written with H.Kiers, (Gantwarg – Wiersma;
Volmac Match of the World Championship
1979).
- Beter dammen; 1979, Amsterdam/Antwerpen;
written with Philip de Schaap (Better Checkers).
- Dammen; 1985, Luitingh, Utrecht; Een
praktische handleiding voor beginnende
en geoefende dammers; written with Philip
de Schaap (Checkers ~ A practical guide
for novice and experienced checkers players).
- De 20 partijen van de tweekamp om het
wereldkampioenschap 1985; 1986, Dordrecht;
written with Herman Fokkink (20 Games from
the World Championship of 1985).
- Baba Sy; 1989, Dammen, Voorst; Het grote
Baba Sy boek, Tweetalig (ned. en frans)
(Baba Sy ~ The Big Baba Sy book, Bilingual
in Dutch and French).
- Andries Andreiko; 1990, Dammen, Voorst
(Andries Andreiko ~ Checkers).
- Wereldkampioenschap dammen Groningen
1990; 1991, Dammen, Voorst (World Checkers
Championship Groningen 1990).
- De 15 blindpartijen van Middelburg 1991;
1993, Middelburgse Damclub; Wereldrecord
blindsimultaan Middelburg (15 blindfold
games of Middelburg 1991 ~ Analyses by
Sijbrands).
- Les Croniques de Ton Sijbrands Nr 1
t/m Nr 18; 1993, Amsterdam - Voorst; Verzamelde
rubrieken (The Chronicles of Ton Sijbrands
No. 1 to No. 18).
Collaborator of these checkers books:
- Mondilederdamtoernooi om het kampioenschap
van Nederland 1979; 1979, Dammagazine DB
(Netherlands Checkers Tournament World
Leader for the Championship of 1979).
- Wereldkampioenschap dammen 1988 annex
tweekamp Gantwarg Sijbrands; 1988, Dammen,
Voorst, Checkers, Voorst; (World Checkers
Championship 1988 between Gantwarg~Sijbrands).
- WK Dammen 1994; 1994, KNDB Checkers
1994; Den Haag 6 t/m 27 november (World
Championship 1994).
- Challege Mondial 1997 Stadskanaal; 1998,
(World Challenge 1997).
Sijbrands Checkers Future
Though checkers champion Ton Sijbrands still
carries a deep love for the checkers game,
he decided in 2006 to step away from the World
Championship competition, or at least the 2007
checkers tournament in Hardenberg. His reasons
for this decision were as follows:
- He was getting older and at almost 57
Ton feared for a decline in his performance
and preferred to be remembered as a strong
contender in the International checkers
arena.
- The time that he took to prepare for
checkers tournaments and World Championships
took him away from time spent on his autobiography.
- Fundamental changes within the checkers
game: a) reducing the allotted tournament
game time of 7 hours and limiting a game
to 6 hours; b) the tendency to see the
endgame as less essential and c) changes
in scoring.
- The issue of “doping
for denksporters (mind sport players)” ~
“doping controls”
(perhaps Ton meant a testing for drug substances).
Champion Ton Sijbrands is still involved in
the game of checkers at different levels from
writing about it to participating in chosen
tournaments, simultaneous plays and blind simultaneous
games, but Sijbrands would like to see the
traditional game of checkers remain the same.
As of January 2008, he was ranked as the Number
1 player in the World in the International
checkers arena, but only the future will tell
the remaining chapters in the life of the Dutch
checkers champion and Grandmaster blindfold
simultaneous game player.
Ton Sijbrands
playing checkers. |
Ton Sijbrands
Checkers Champion
out for a walk. |
Ton Sijbrands
Checkers Champion
waiting his turn. |
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