Alexei Chizhov
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Alexei Chizhov. The city is an important industrial center,...
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Udmurtia
The Udmurt Republic , or Udmurtia is a federal subject of Russia . Its capital is the city of Izhevsk. Population: -History:...
, Russian SFSR) is a Russian who has been the ten-time world champion in international draughts
International draughts
International draughts is a board game, one of the variants of draughts. It is played on a 10×10 board with alternatingly dark and light squares, of which only the 50 dark ones are used. There are two players on opposite sides, with 20 pieces each, light for one player and dark for the other...
. His first world champion title was in 1988 and his most recent was in 2005. He has won more world championships than any player since Isidore Weiss (including) almost a century ago. In 2003 he headed the World Draughts federation.