International checkers world records (3)
21. Biggest difference in strongness between 2 players in a draw game. |
World
Championship 1968. White: H. Wiersma - Black: L. Reimann
Was
Reimann really so weak? Yes, he was. On the Challenge Mondial
1962 he played, with the white pieces, against the draughts clown of
Monaco Agliardi 33-28 (18-22) 39-33. Of course black won two pieces, but
coudn't win the game (draw)! |
22. Biggest difference in strongness between 2 players, but... the weakest player won. |
Maybe I.
Koeperman - P. Bebel (Guadeloupe
2000). In
this game, Bebel played extremely good and Koeperman, although he didn't
make a big mistake, lossed the game. White: I. Koeperman - Black: P. Bebel
Bebel, after the tournament, to his wife: Darling, I didn't make anything in the tournament. Draws and losses. I only won a game against former world champion Koeperman! Perhaps
a better and a more historical candidate is the game R.
Dagenais - R. Forclaz,
World Championship 1952.
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23. Biggest difference in temps in a game with the same amount of pieces for black and white. |
A. Kooimans - J. de Hei (1982, The Netherlands) on the 48th move. White has offered his king with 12-40. White: A. Kooimans - Black: J. de Hei
Black has 29 more temps (but losses the game). |
24. Biggest difference in temps in a game with the same amount of pieces for black and white. And... there was no king at all in the whole game. |
A game between A. Janse and J. Poppe (SNS tournament, 2001, Netherlands): 24 temps. White: A. Janse - Black: J. Poppe
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25. Most kings together in a game |
L. Camara - M. Jaggoe
(World Championship Youth 1985). White: L. Camara - Black: M. Jaggoe
A
game with 5 against 2 kings is more common. It's a difficult endgame; the
player with the 5 kings has a winning position, but some players don't
know how. |
26. Biggest shot |
E. Sinke (The Netherlands) beated not so long ago 9 pieces in one move. It's a world record! White: E. Sinke - Black J. van den Ouden 1. 33-29, 18-23; 2. 29x18, 12x23; 3. 31-26, 13-18; 4. 36-31, 9-13; 5. 41-36, 4-9; 6. 47-41, 20-24; 7. 34-30, 8-12; 8. 39-33, 24-29; 9. 33x24, 23-28; 10. 32x23, 18x20; 11. 44-39, 20-24; 12. 49-44, 12-18; 13. 37-32, 7-12; 14. 41-37, 2-8; 15. 46-41, 18-23; 16. 39-34, 13-18; 17. 30-25, 15-20; 18. 32-27, 17-22; 19. 43-39, 1-7; 20. 48-43, 11-17;
Black resigned (of course!). According
to Turbo Dambase (a database with more than 250.000 draughts games) there
are in world draughts history only 6 games in which a piece or a king
beats 8 pieces.
White: I. Greveraars - Black: J. de Bijl (DAVO Vos 1985)
White: H. Ladage - Black: R. van Zelst (Championship of Gelderland, Netherlands, 1990). Spectacular but... draw.
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27. Biggest shot in an artificial game |
11
pieces. (Follow the
link.) |
28. How many pieces can a piece (theoretically) beat? |
16
pieces
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29. How many pieces can a king (theoretically) beat? |
This position is wonderful. It's difficult to see how it's possible to beat 18 pieces and the endfield is a strange one. See the animation.
But... it's not a world record. 19 pieces is possible. See the animation.
Siep Korteling (Netherlands) made a composition on this theme. White plays and consequently looses(!) in only 4 moves.
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30. The most moves before playing a piece on the first row. (for white: 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, for black: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) |
1950,
P. Roozenburg - M. Raichenbach, a game between two world champions. White:
P. Roozenburg - Black: M. Raichenbach
But it's not a world record. (Perhaps a world record in a game between two grandmasters.) Patrick
Carli played against Erno Prosman
(youth championship of The Netherlands 1991) not earlier than on the 49th
move (!!) with a piece on the first row. It was not sufficient for a point.
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