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Checkers Champions Of The NetherlandsHarm Wiersma
Harm Wiersma was born in 1953 in Leeuwarden, in the province of Friesland, Netherlands. His father, Chris Wiersma, was a checkers player, who introduced his son to the world of the checkerboard when Harm was in 1961 when Harm was nine years old by taking him to play with the youth in the Leeuwarden Checkers Club during 1963-64. Then in 1964, when the Leeuwarden Club joined with Gezellig Samenzijn to form a new club, De Oldehove Checkers Club, the Wiersmas moved to the Huizum Checkers Club. The young Wiersma contested the checkers youth championship of Friesland in 1963 when he was 10 years old and concluded the tournament with an excellent placement for his inexperience and age, which was 4th place behind Sjoerd Visser, Henk Bos and Gerrit Ybema. Then in 1965, Harm placed 1st and 2nd in 1966. It quickly became obvious that the young checker player had an innate sense and intuition when playing at the checkerboard. Wiersma also won the Netherlands Youth Championship in checkers around the same time. In 1965, 1966 and 1968, Chris Wiersma and Anton Schotanus organized the International Turkstra tournaments in the Tivoli Hall. Harm placed first in the youth division in 1965, but in 1966, Anton Schotanus won the youth and Ton Sijbrands placed 2nd in the seniors division; however, Harm did not finish well and was disappointed in his 8th place. The young Dutch checkers novice was developing skills and individual techniques in the game and soon began to display a greater mastery at the checkerboard. In 1967, Harm participated in the Netherlands National Championship in the Seniors Division, along with experienced checkerists like Piet Roozenburg, and another young developing checker player, Ton Sijbrands, who was only seventeen at the time. At thirteen, Wiersma displayed his inherent talent at the checkerboard against his opponents and where he lacked experience, Harm made up for it in tenacity and concentration. 1967
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![]() Wim de Jong vs Harm Wiersma |
![]() Harm & Ton Sijbrands |
![]() Concentration |
![]() Harm vs D van der Staay |
![]() Iser K & Harm USSR vs Netherlands Amstelveen 1968 |
![]() ‘Slawa’ Sjtzjogolev vs Harm Wiersma Turkstra Tournament 1968 |
![]() Willy Heeringa vs Harm Wiersma Friesland-Groningen Championship 1969 |
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