There are all games of record of Ton Seibrands (the Netherlands)
Thanks to Piet Lauwen and his email-journal "Damnieuws". You can to subscribe
on this journal. Read our news from 03 December below.

After 5 rounds leaders:
1. KLOOSTERZIEL, M., Holland  -  7 (+2-0=3)
2. ANIKEEV, J., Ukraine  -  7 (+2-0=3)
3. TOMASS, V., Latvia  - 7 (+2-0=3)
4. MESSEMAKER, B., Holland  -  7 (+2-0=3)
5. TOLCHIKAU, A., Belarus - 7 (+3-1=1)
You can to see moves THERE
(Information from site http://www.boomspeed.com/damclubadc/wkjun/eindex.html)

The results:
1. R.Varik (Estonia), 2 - R.Misans (Latvia), 3 - B.Derkx (Holland).
Blitz-tournament:
1 - R.Misans (Latvia), 2 - D.Slotboom (Holland), 3 - E.Zeynalov (Azerbaidjan). 

T.Tansykkuzhina won first set of the match:
   1st set. Z.Golubeva (Latvia) - T.Tansykkuzhina (Russia) : 1-1, 1-1, 1-1, 0-2
Look at site http://viktors.balticom.lv/match2002.htm

Tournaments start: 15-01-2003.
     The tournament is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding grandmaster
V. I. Abaulin from Tula, who would be 70 on August 29, 2003.
     The tournament is organized by the Draughts Federation of Tula (Russia).
The chief arbiter is Boris Oksman (arbiter of the republican category).
The chief secretary is Vladimir Shulyupov (arbiter of the first category).
     This tournament is one of the semi-finals of the 2nd E-mail World
Championship. Three winners of this tournament will get to the final. Besides
that the best three candidates, who didn’t get the right to take part in the
final of the 4th Open E-mail Russian Championship (according to the results of
RC02) will be awarded this right. All draughts-players who have the first grade
and higher are invited to take part in this tournament, with the exception of
those who quitted the e-mail tournaments two or more times without valid
reasons.
     The official site of the tournament is the site of Nikolay Stepanyuk:
http://www.is.svitonline.com/nickst. 
The current information about the tournament, the table, and the texts of the
games will be placed at the page
http://www.is.svitonline.com/nickst/emailbase/am03.htm.

The rules of tournament: 

1. The applications should be sent till January 5, 2003 to the e-mail address
shulyupov@tula.net and a copy should be sent to nickst@svitonline.com.
The application should contain: last name, first name, (middle name) – it is
advisable to give Russian, English and national variants (if the latter is
different from the first two); grade, rating, date of birth, mailing and e-mail
(main and reserve) addresses; languages, in order of priority, that can be used
in communication with the board of judges and other participants (Russian and
English are obligatory). You can give any additional information and send your
photo. All information will be placed on the draughts players database on the
site of N. Stepanyuk.
2. The tournament will be held by Round Robin tournament according to
Shashechniy Code of USSR (1986 year edition). The board of judges has the right
to change the system in case of a great number of applications.
3. Before the beginning of the tournament the drawing of personal numbers is
carried out. Each of them is assigned a personal number starting from 01. Then
each game is assigned the number composed from the personal number of players,
first of white, then of black (for example, 0712).
4. To notify the opponent about the move, the player sends the letter to his
e-mail address. In a field “Cc” you should write shulyupov@tula.net. The field
“subject” should contain the code of tournament, the number of the game (for
example, AM-03 0712). The field “message” should contain: the code of
tournament, the number of the game, the names of players, all the moves made
before, the next move (it is advisable to mark it out), the forced moves of the
opponent and the answers to them. If you wish you can offer some variant (in
brackets) in the form: “if – then”, “on – answer”, or “suggest a variant”. It is
recommended to mention the total time, spent by both partners.
5. Time limit for all the games: 50 days for the first 10 moves, 30 days for
the second 10 moves, 20 – for the third 10, and 10 days for the next every 10 
moves with the summing up of the time. The readout of time starts from the date
of the sending of the opponent’s last move. The date is defined by Moscow time
(+3:00 GMT). In case of an argument the time of sending is defined by the time
of receiving the e-mail by an arbiter. However, if the player has less than 5
days before the limit of time, in case he gives an answer in less than 12 hours,
it means that he spent 0 days, even if the next day has already started.
6. In (the first!) case of failing to send an answer in time, the DEFEAT can be
assigned to the player by the board of judges, if his opponent notified him and
the judges about this possibility in no less than 5 days. If the player made an
impossible (or inadmissible) move, he gets 3 DAYS PENALTIES added to the time
he had spent. If the player didn’t get an answer in 10 days (without preliminary
warning), he has to repeat his last e-mail to both addresses (to his opponent
and to the arbiter). In case the player has received the automatic message from
the post mail-robot about failure of mail sending, he has to inform the arbiter
about it.
7. Each player has the right to take one or more breaks of 20 days of total
duration. The player should notify all the participants and arbiters about this
break beforehand. The break cannot start before the next day after its
declaration. Other players have to answer to the player who took a break as
usual. For the other players the time is not stopped. In exceptional cases, an
extra break can be given to the players by the board of judges, if the reason is
valid (illness, urgent business trip, etc.).
8. For a victory in each game the player gets 2 points, for a draw – 1 point,
for a loss – 0 points. The player with the best score (number of points) is
declared the winner of the tournament. In case two or more players have got an
equal score, the places will be distributed according to: 1) coefficient; 2) the
result of personal games of these participants; 3) quantity of victories.
9. The tournament fee is 5$. The way of payment will be declared additionally.
The tournament fees will be used to form the prize fund, taking into account the
mailing expenses (to 3 winners in proportion 3:2:1). 
 

   Guntis Valneris wrote:
The first set (of three) of the Match for Women’s World Title starts
in Riga (Latvia) on Sunday. The next 2 sets will be carried out in Ufa
(the capital of the autonomic republic of Bashkortostan) in March 2003. 
The schedule for Latvian part is as follows:
15. December (Sunday) 12.00. (Latvian time – GMT +2) – Opening ceremony
16. December (Monday) 11.00. First game
17. December (Tuesday) 11.00 Second game
18. December (Wednesday) 11.00. Third game
19. December (Thursday) 11.00. Fourth game
If necessary: 20. December (Friday) 11.00. Barrages
21. December (Saturday) 12.00. Closing ceremony
You can follow the competition on the website that partly represents Latvian
Federation, namely:
http://viktors.balticom.lv 

   Nina Hoekman-Yankovskaja is winnner after 7 rounds!
   There is special page of the Dutch woman Championship below:
holl02w.htm

   Piet Lauwen wrote:
Dear checker player, 
Almost 12 years ago whe started with the magazine Damnieuws (Checkernews).
Then nobody thought about E-mail and internet. But times changed. Now it is
possible to send messages to a lot of people very quick. 
Next year (2003) we will start with an E-mail version from Damnieuws. 
If there are enough people who want to receive it. 
Damnieuws will be published weekly, but when there are important tournaments
daily. The subscribers will receive the last news from the checkerworld with
games, problems etc. 
It must be very interesting for organisators to send their messages quick to
a lot of lovers from our game. The same when somebody publish a new checkerbook.
 When you like it to solve checkerproblems: you will get every week some
positions to solve and we will make a contest of it. Maybe we will also organise
 a big internatonal tournament by E-mail. But maybe you have also other ideas:
please let us know. 
This month everybody will receive Damnieuws for free. We ask you to send this
E-mails to all your checkerfriends. Starting in 2003 you have to pay for a
subscription for 1 year a small amount: 10 euro or dollar. 
We only start when there are enough subscribers. If you want to make a
subscription starting with 1-1-2003 please send an E-mail to
dn2003@denksportboeken.nl 
Waiting for your answer 
Piet Lauwen 

Results Open Dutch championship Rapid Polish Draughts
01-December 2002, Culemborg, The Netherlands.
1. Buggy 16; 
2. Damage 13; 
3. Dios 12; 
4. Napoleon 10; 
5. Dam2.2, Tornado 9; 
7. J Draughts 7; 
8. GWD 6; 
9. Cerberus, TD King 4.
   Info from Piet Lauwen.

   Piet Lauwen wrote:
At the end of 2002 we offer you a solving contest from draughts/checker
problems. We not only hope you will enjoy this, but we will also make from this
contest the contest with the greatest score of participants in the history. 
What we ask: 
try to find the solutions from (at least one of) the three problems and send
them to us. And please also send this E-mail to all your draughts/checker
friends and ask them also to participate. 
There are ten prizes to win.
Good luck and please send your solutions before 1-1-2003 by E-mail to:
oploswedstrijd@denksportboeken.nl 
Problem 1:
(white) 22, 24, 27, 29, 33, 34
(black) 8, 11, 13, 16, 18, 28
Problem 2;
(white) 17, 22, 27, 33, 39, 43, 48
(black) 8, 9, 12, 20, 24, 28, 30
Problem 3
(white) 16, 21, 30, 32, 33, 36, 42
(black) 8, 9, 12, 18, 19, 20, 27
White to move and win!

   20-29 December.
   Juniors World Championship will be in Alphen aan den Rijn.
You'll can full information about this event on site :
http://www.boomspeed.com/damclubadc/wkjun/eindex.html (english)
http://www.boomspeed.com/damclubadc/wkjun/index.html (dutch)

   02-11 December.
   On site http://home.tiscali.nl/adbouwens/NKVR2002.html you can see
information about Dutch Woman Championship. Hot-results are on dutch-teletekst.

This is letter from CPI FMJD President S.Yushkevitch:
Dear Sirs, 
The CPI FMJD presents the advertisement of the First Personal World Championship
of Problemism (PWC), which is run in accordance with the RI. 
The CPI asks you take part for involving to this competition all draught
players, all problemists and all amateurs of draught in your countries.
This Championship is open to everybody.
Welcome to the First Personal World Championship of Problemism !
There is official Reglament (WinWord file)

Final results:
1. Alexander Schwartsman, Russia
2. Alexander Georgiev, Russia
3. Gerard Jancen, Netherlands
4. Guntis Valneris, Latvia
5. Anatoliy Gantwarg, Belarus
6. Edward Boujinskiy, Lithuania
7. Auke Scholma, Netherlands
8. Rob Clerc, Netherlands
Look at site - http://www.home.zonnet.nl/AdBouwens/EK2002-1.html

For 1 place:  A.Shwartsman (Russia) - A.Georgiev (Russia)  1-1  1-1  1-1  1-1 (will
be short-time games)
For 3 place:  G.Valneris (Lat) - G.Jansen (Neth)  0-2  1-1
For 5 place:  E.Boujinskiy (Lit) - A.Gantwarg (Bel)  0-2  0-2

A.Shwartsman (Russia) - A.Georgiev (Russia)  1-1  1-1  (more 2 games)
E.Boujinskiy (Lit) - G.Valneris (Lat)  1-1  1-1  (continue with short-time control)
G.Jansen (Neth) - A.Gantwarg (Bel)  1-1  1-1  (continue with short-time control)
A.Scholma - R.Clerk (both -Neth)  1-1  2-0

A.Shwartsman and A.Georgiev (both - Russia) will play for 1 place.
Winners of the matchs :
E.Boujinskiy (Lit) - G.Valneris (Lat)
G.Jansen (Neth) - A.Gantwarg (Bel)
will play for 3 place.
Match for 7-8 places : 
A.Scholma - R.Clerk (both -Neth)

   You can download moves of WC Brazilian Draughts - wcbraz02.zip (zip, doc, 34 Kb)
Many thanks to Ademar Rodrigues da Silva.

1/2 final (17-18 November):
A.Gantwarg (Bel) - A.Georgiev (Rus)  1-1  1-1
A.Schwartsman (Rus) - G.Valneris (Lat)  1-1  1-1
for 5-8 places:
A.Scholma (Neth) - E.Bouzhinskiy (Lit)  1-1  1-1
R.Clerc (Neth) - G.Jansen (Neth)  1-1  1-1

   Brazilian Draughts Tournament Braz02 almost finish.
Winners:
1. Nick Stepanyuck, Ukraine  (+2-0=8) (koeff.=+21)
2. Romeu Faria Castro, Brazil (+2-0=8) (+16)
3. Ademar Rodrigues da Silva, Brazil (+2-0=8) (+14)