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Champions of the
20th Century
Don Morgan Lafferty
Edwin Hunt
Willie Ryan
Asa Long
Walter Hellman
William Edwards
Sam Levy
Sam Gonotsky
Dr. Marion Tinsley
Derek Oldbury
Elbert Lowder
Leo Levitt
Richard Hallett
African
Checker Champions
1st International Match
In Barbados
Checkers in The
West Indies
The International
Checkers Stage
“Men Only”
Checkers in The News
Checkers Pool
Checkers Champions
Of The Netherlands
Jannes van der Wal
Ton ‘Teunis’ Sijbrands
Checkers Champion
Harm Wiersma
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Former Pool Checkers Champion
Momodou Faal
- Born in Gambia, West Africa; has lived in several American cities such as New York, Atlanta and New Orleans.
- Came to the US as an exchange student sometime in the early 1970’s and fell in love with American Pool Checkers, and the checkers game took precedence over his studies.
- Momodou and Elton Williams were the main challengers against Carl Smith’s dominance at the checkerboard in the 1980’s, after the surprise retirement of Vladimir Kaplan in 1979.
- One of his most memorable conquests at the checkerboard was his defeat of Elton Williams in Flint, Michigan in the mid 1980’s, which concluded with a final score of 3-0 for Faal in a 14-games match.
- Momodou Faal played both International checkers on the 100-square checker board and regular American and Pool checkers on the 64-square game board.
- Not many checkers players become proficient in both styles, but end up choosing the style that the player likes the best.
- In 1991 there was an International checkers tournament in Jackson, Mississippi, which brought together an assemblage of International and American checkers players from across the U.S. and the West Indies such as Iser Kuperman, Vladimir Kaplan, Carl Smith, and Momodou Faal as well as two players from Haiti at the time living in New York.
- This tournament would have been a contest between Kuperman, Kaplan, Smith, and Momodou, who had all played in the European International checkers circuit at the Championship Grandmaster level.
- Kuperman won the tournament, Momodou finished in a tie with Vladimir Kaplan for 2nd, and Carl "Buster" Smith finished 4th, only two points behind the leaders; the two Haitians players finished 5th and 6th and Charles ‘Pecan’ Thompson placed 7th out of a field of thirteen champion checkers players.
- Momodou placed 2nd with Kaplan because Thompson and Kuperman in a final game of the tournament played to a draw, giving Kuperman first place.
- Faal won or tied for the APCA championship in at least 3 years and placed 2nd and 3rd numerous times in approximate 15 years of tournament play.
- Momodou Faal died a tragic death while travelling somewhere in Texas, but the details have never been made clear; however, Pool Checkers one of its strongest Grandmaster players with Faal’s sudden demise
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