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2015 World Draughts Championship
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Draughts tournament
November 2025
2015 World Draughts Championship File:Alexander Georgiev, Roel Boomstra - Draughts World Championship 2015 02.jpg Alexander Georgiev and Roel Boomstra Emmen, Netherlands 8 November 24 November FMJD Round-robin tournament Hotel ten Cate Alexander Georgiev Jan Groenendijk 2015 (match) 2016
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The 2015 World Draughts Championship in international draughts was held from 8–24 November, 2015 at the Hotel ten Cate in Emmen, Netherlands. The championship was played under the auspices of the International Draughts Federation (FMJD) as a round-robin tournament with 20 players (19 rounds). The total prize money for the tournament was 25,000 euros.
Alexander Georgiev became World Draughts Champion for the ninth time.
Participants
NumberTitleNameCountryQualification path1 GMI Alexander Georgiev World Champion2 GMI Jean Marc Ndjofang 2nd place in World Championship 20133 GMI Roel Boomstra 3rd place in World Championship 20134 GMI Alexander Baljakin Organisation place5 MI Wouter Sipma Sponsor place6 GMI Freddy LokoDemocratic Republic of the Congo Africa #17 GMI N'Diaga Samb Africa #28 GMI Joel N'cho Atse Ivory Coast Africa #39 GMI Leopold Kouogueu Kouomou Africa #410 GMI Dul Erdenebileg Asian #111 GMI Ganjargal Ganbaatar Asian #212 GMI Allan Igor Moreno Silva America #113 MI Frants Forbin America #214 GMI Ainur Shaibakov Europe #115 GMI Arnaud Cordier Europe #216 GMI Alexei Chizhov Europe #317 GMI Ron Heusdens Europe #418 MI Jan Groenendijk Europe #519 GMI Raimonds Vipulis Europe #620 GMI Artem Ivanov Europe #7
Rules and regulations
The games were played with the official FMJD classical time control: 80 minutes plus a 1-minute increment per move. FMJD regulations prohibited players from agreeing to a draw before each had completed 40 moves; doing so required the referee to award both players 0 points.
The final rankings were determined by total points. If two or more players finished with the same score, the following tiebreaks were applied:
Number of wins.
Results in the direct encounters between the tied players.
Results obtained against opponents in order of their final ranking.World Championship 2015 Rules and Regulations https://www.fmjd.org/downloads/news/921/2015_11_Emmen.pdf FMJD 29 November 2025
Results
Worldchampionship Emmen KNDB 2015 https://toernooibase.kndb.nl/opvraag/standen.php?taal=1&kl=46&Id=4579&jr=16&afko=&r= Toernooibase 29 November 2025
PlaceNameCountryTitleRating1234567891011121314151617181920PointsWinsDrawsLosses1 Alexander Georgiev GMI 2419 *1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 25 6 13 02 Jan Groenendijk MI 2343 1 *0 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 12 2 1 1 2 2 24 6 12 13 Roel Boomstra GMI 2411 1 2 *1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 24 5 14 04 Artem Ivanov GMI 2371 1 1 1 *1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 23 4 15 05 Alexei Chizhov GMI 2388 1 1 1 1 *1 11 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 22 3 16 06 Alexander Baljakin GMI 2390 1 11 1 1 *1 11 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 122 3 16 07 Joel N'cho Atse Ivory Coast GMI 2329 1 1 1 1 1 1 *1 1 1 0 1 1 1 22 1 1 1 221 3 15 18 Wouter Sipma MI 2359 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 *1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 11 1 221 2 17 09 Jean Marc Ndjofang GMI 2370 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 *1 1 1 1 2 11 1 1 1 2 20 2 16 110 Allan Silva GMI 2288 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 *1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 2 20 1 18 011 N'Diaga Samb GMI 2302 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 *1 2 0 11 1 1 1 2 19 3 13 312 Arnaud Cordier GMI 2369 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 *1 1 1 1 2 1 1 219 2 15 213 Freddy LokoDemocratic Republic of the Congo GMI 2336 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 *1 2 0 2 1 1 1 17 2 13 414 Ainur Shaibakov GMI 2351 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 *1 1 1 1 1 117 1 15 315 Raimonds Vipulis GMI 2284 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 *1 1 2 1 2 16 2 12 516 Ron Heusdens GMI 2334 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 1*1 1 1 2 16 2 12 517 Dul Erdenebileg GMI 2269 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 *2 1 1 16 1 14 418 Ganjargal Ganbaatar GMI 2265 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 * 1 1 15 0 15 419 Leopold Kouogueu GMI 2301 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 *1 15 0 15 420 Frants Forbin MI 2282 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1* 8 0 8 11
See also
List of Draughts World Championship winners
References
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