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Checkers Champion Iser Koeperman![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1922-2006 Iser Josifovitsj Koeperman (Kuperman) was born in 1922 in Kiev, Ukraine, which was at that time part of the Soviet Union. Iser began playing checkers at the age of thirteen and quickly displayed a strong affinity for strategies on the checkerboard. By all accounts, Koeperman was a checkers prodigy, who by the age of 19 was already a champion player in the Soviet Union. During his early checkers career, Iser won numerous tournaments and five national championship titles in Russia and was considered to be the strongest draughts/checkers player in the Soviet Union at that time. Although he was an engineer by profession, his hobby and ‘second occupation’ was checkers and he spent a lot of time enjoying this career to its fullest. Iser Koeperman was definitely a legendary figure in the checkers arena, for he paved the way for many young checkers players from the Soviet Union to cross into Western Europe to contest against high calibre opponents, specifically in the Netherlands. In 1958, in his first World Championship challenge against Canadian Marcel Deslauriers, the reigning World Champion in International checkers, Iser was the also the first player from the Soviet Union to enter into the western sphere of ‘dammen’ and international competitive play. ![]() ![]() Iser Koeperman ~ 1958 World ChampionThe title match took place in Den Haag (The Hague) ~ Pulchri Studio in the Netherlands and the strategic play quickly established Koeperman’s checkerboard techniques that would gradually become a good representation of Iser’s personality.During the match, the ‘new kid on the block’ or rather, checkers master from the Soviet Union displayed his unique and unfamiliar ‘offensive’ style of game play, which was quite a culture shock for the traditional checkerists at that time. This championship match against Deslauriers subsequently resulted in a defeat for the Canadian master checkers player and the first World Championship title for Iser Koeperman. That same year the FMJD created the term ‘Grandmaster’ for top checkers players and after his display at the checkerboard, Iser was the first checkers master to be awarded this title of Grandmaster of International Draughts by the FMJD/WFDY in 1958. Once Koeperman had entered the European checkers scene and opened the door between the East and West for other Russian checkerists such as Anatoli Gantwarg, Alexei Tsjizjov and Harm Wiersma in International tournaments and the World Championship, Iser immersed himself in many competitions. In 1959, the Soviet Grandmaster defended his World Championship title in checkers against Geert van Dijk from the Netherlands and succeeded in defeating the challenger and thus retaining the World title. ![]() Iser Koeperman vs Geert van Dijk 1959 The following year, Iser was back at the World Championship checkerboard defending his World title against various notable challengers. He defeated Freek Gordijn at the WC in Amsterdam, but was not able to master a final win against a fellow Russian, Wjatsjeslav “Slawa” Sjitsjogoljev, to maintain his title. In 1960 WC competition, Slawa defeated the defending Champion to win the World title.
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