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Checkers Game Tournaments
Alex Baljakin
2003 Checkers Games
Lamine Diakite vs Alex Baljakin
Netherlands Championship Checkers Game
Den Haag
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Ballgooijen vs Alex Baljakin
Orap Checkers Game Open Axioma,
Netherlands |
Hans Jansen vs Alex Baljakin
Netherlands Checkers Game Championship Den Haag
2004 Checkers Game Competitions
Alex Baljakin vs Ron Heusdens
2nd Place Silver
Netherlands Checkers Championship Open |
Huissen Last Round Netherlands Checkers Game Championship
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Nijmegen 1st Place Game 2005 |
Amongst several mind sport competitions, Alex Baljakin
participated in the following major checkers game
tournaments: the Cannes International Festival
des Jeux or Festival of Draughts/Checkers,
the Netherlands National Championship at Groningen,
the Team World Checkers Game International Draughts
Championship in Varazze Italy with teammates
Harm Wiersma, Rob Clerc and Kees Thijssen and
the World Championship Checkers Game Tournament
Match in Amsterdam.
Auke Scholma vs Alex Baljakin
4th Place
Groningen Checkers Game Tournament. |
Alex Baljakin vs Rob Clerc Nederlands Kampioenschap~Netherlands
Championship Tournament. |
Checkers Game Tournaments
Alex Baljakin traversed Europe to join his teammates Harm Wiersma, Rob Clerc,
Ron Heusdens and Kees Thijssen in Varazze, Italy for the World Team
Draughts/Checkers Game Championship match in 2005. The roster included teams from
sixteen other countries, in which many world Grandmasters participated: Belarus,
Cameroon, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Guinee, India, Israel, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Switzerland and Ukraine.
In this International checkers game competition, the Netherlands team challenged,
defeated and played to draws at the checkerboard familiar opponents such as
Alexander Georgiev, Alexei Tsjizjov, Alexander Schwarzman, Alexander Getmanski,
Guntis Valneris, Jean-Marc Ndjofang, Ndonzi Flaubert, Leopold Kouogueu, Ndiaga Samb,
Bassirou Ba, Anatoli Gantwarg and Arnaud Cordier. Of course, these great checkers
game players only accounted for a portion of the roster in this checkers arena.
World Team Draughts/Checkers Championship, Varazze Italy
Alex Baljakin vs Raldo Varik (Estonia) |
Alex Baljakin vs Alexei Tsjizjov |
In this checkers game tournament of high caliber
play across the checkerboard, where opposing
forces displayed tactical skill in attack and
defense with variations in checkers moves, the
Netherlands team shared defeat in the Quarter
Finals of the World Championship when it lost
to Russia by a final checkers total of two wins
to none. Russia scored five points to the three
by Netherlands. The individual games of Baljakin~Tsjizjov,
Wiersma~Georgiev and Thijssen~Schwarzman all
ended in draws with a score of one win each,
but Rob Clerc could not pull off a win or tie
against Alex Getmanski and this defeat of two
losses was the unfortunate finale for the Dutch
Grandmasters.
The final outcome gave Russia the gold with first place.
Senegal placed second and won silver, while Latvia
ranked third and won bronze. Belarus took fourth place
and the Netherlands secured fifth in its win against
France with a score of 5 wins to 3. In this match,
only Alex Baljakin won his checkers game, while Ron,
Rob, and Kees finished in draws.
Unfortunately, however, the checkers competition did
not come off without a hitch and Cameroon faced some
racial slurs posed by Italian players during the tournament.
Some compensation was made, but at the end of the tournament,
the Netherlands, Senegal, Cameroon, and Guinea filed
a protest against the Italian Draughts/Checkers Federation
for its disorganization and lack of consideration towards
the delegations. This would be taken to the FMJD and
the matter would be investigated to qualify the merit
of the complaint. It would be a blessing to see the
mind sport game unaffected by the ways of the world,
but life just doesn't function in such a manner and
despite good intentions of organizers, often circumstances
exist to spoil even the best planned championship checkers
game tournament match.
2005 Checkers
Cannes Open Festival Des Jeux
1st Place
International Checkers Game Champion
Alex Baljakin vs Hans Jansen |
Siarhei Nasevich (Belarus) vs Alex Baljakin |
World Checkers Championship, Amsterdam Netherlands
Alex Baljakin (Bronze ~3rd), Alexei Tsjizjov
(Gold~1st), & Guntis Valneris (Silver~2nd)
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World International Draughts/Checkers Champions
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
When the International Grandmasters congregated
in Amsterdam for the checkers Games World Championship
competition, the players had plenty to see
in Amsterdam besides a checkerboard.
Amsterdam Checkers Games
View of a Amsterdam Canal |
View a the Amsterdam Canal Boats |
View of the Amsterdam Bridge |
Historic Hotel in Amsterdam |
City Sunset |
Amsterdam-Rijn Canal |
Bijlmer, Amsterdam |
2006 Alex Baljakin
Another year passed and brought new opportunities
for Alex to participate in the familiar setting
of checkers game tournament competition.
Again he challenged notable masters across
the checkerboard and faced new opponents,
new checker game techniques and new endgames
in the world of this mind sport. Baljakin’s
game expertise and board strategies led him
to the final rounds of various
tournaments and championships in the European
International Draughts/Checkers arena. Amongst
the numerous competitions he participated
in, Alex usually placed in the top ranks
with the other International checkers game
Grandmasters.
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