Amangul Durdyev is an English draughts

English draughts

English draughts or checkers , also called American checkers or straight checkers or in Israel damka, is a form of draughts board game. Unlike international draughts, it is played on an eight by eight squared board with twelve pieces on each side...

 and International draughts

International draughts

International draughts is a board game, one of the variants of draughts. It is played on a 10×10 board with alternatingly dark and light squares, of which only the 50 dark ones are used. There are two players on opposite sides, with 20 pieces each, light for one player and dark for the other...

 champion from Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

. All five of her siblings, and her father, play the game at a professional level. She is currently women's world champion in Go-As-You-Please draughts. In 2007 she defeated Patricia Breen

Patricia Breen (draughts player)

Patricia Breen is an Irish draughts player and among the leading women in the game. This is primarily in variants other than International draughts. She became Irish Women's Champion at 12 and at seventeen she defeated the women's world champion...

and was praised by Turkmen state news for this. In 2009 she was ranked 19th in the world regardless of gender and number 1 among females.

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