Woldouby's Biography, Extraordinary Senegalese Checkers Player During His Stay in France 1910 - 1911.

ISBN-13: 9781326472917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 236 str.

Govert Westerveld

Opis

Every checkers player knows about Woldoubysfamous position. This 21 year-old Senegalese drew a lotof attention in Paris in 1910 when he won against allchallengers in his store located in the Senegalesevillage of the Exposition of Jardin dAcclimatationzoologique.No one understood how this player could win all thegames that fast. After Amadou Kandie Woldouby wasthe second African who participated in a checkerstournament in Paris since he became the citychampion in 1911. In 1911 he left France and no one knew his whereabouts since then. In this biography we show that Weiss golpe (shot) actually was Woldoubys golpe, since he won against Isidore Weiss with it. On the other hand we want to show that Woldouby returned to Senegal in 1911 to take the place of a checkers runner-up in 1913.His biography deserves a worthy place in the history ofcheckers, as he was the prominent predecessor of thefamous Senegalese checkers player Baba Sy.