Patricia Breen (draughts player)
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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. In 2001 she became the first woman player to represent Britain and Ireland in a Senior International Match against the United States
. She has contested the Women's World Title four times and is currently the Women's Champion. It has been claimed she is the highest ranked female player ever, but currently she is outranked by Amangul Durdyyeva
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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...
. She became Irish Women's Champion at 12 and at seventeen she defeated the women's world champion. In 2001 she became the first woman player to represent Britain and Ireland in a Senior International Match against the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. She has contested the Women's World Title four times and is currently the Women's Champion. It has been claimed she is the highest ranked female player ever, but currently she is outranked by Amangul Durdyyeva
Amangul Durdyyeva
Amangul Durdyev is an English draughts and International draughts champion from Turkmenistan. 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 and was praised...
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See also
- Amangul DurdyyevaAmangul DurdyyevaAmangul Durdyev is an English draughts and International draughts champion from Turkmenistan. 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 and was praised...
- Jan MortimerJan MortimerJan Mortimer is a draughts or checkers player who entered the game late in life. In 2002 she went to the United States to compete in the U.S. National Championship and won. She later competed at the world level facing Patricia Breen for the women's champion in 2003, then in 2004 won the World...
- Judit PolgárJudit PolgárJudit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.Polgár was ranked No...