Alexander Baljakin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Alexander Baljakin

Dutch draughts player

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1961

Place of Birth: Arkhangelsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Profession: draughts player

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Alexander Baljakin

  • Alexander Baljakin (born 8 April 1961) is a Dutch draughts player born in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk.
  • He is also a writer of books about draughts. Baljakin became junior World Champion when he was still performing as a member of the Soviet team.
  • In this period he became Soviet national champion in 1982, 1988 and 1989.
  • He also won a gold medal at the Summer Olympiad in 1985 and as well as a silver at the World Championships in 1986.
  • He won the Team World Cup in 1987.He moved to Minsk in 1986 and after the fall of the Soviet Union he gained Belarusian citizenship, becoming national champion six consecutive times.
  • He also won three bronze medals at the World Championships of 1992, 1994 and 1996 and was the Grandmasters Champion in 1995.
  • In 1999 he won a silver medal at the rapid draughts World Championships.In 2001 he moved to the Netherlands, gained Dutch citizenship and reached the A status which secures top sporters in the Netherlands money to live and focus on their sport.
  • As a Dutchman he won a bronze medal at the 2005 World Championship Draughts in Amsterdam, while in 2007 he won the Balt Cup in Vilnius.Baljakin has also written five books about draughts.
  • Three of those together with Harm Wiersma in Dutch, one with Anatoli Gantvarg in English and one by himself in Dutch.

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