2015 (First edition)
Govert Westerveld
Woldouby's Biography, Extraordinary Senegalese Checkers player during his stay in France
1910-1911
Prologue
Every checkers player knows
about Woldouby's famous position. This 21 year-old Senegalese drew a lot of
attention in Paris in 1910 when he won against all challengers in his store
located in the Senegalese village of the Exposition of Jardin d'Acclimatation
zoologique.
No one understood how this player could win
all the games that fast. After Amadou Kandie Woldouby was the second African
who participated in a checkers tournament in Paris since he became the city
champion in 1911. Our famous checkers player was from Saint-Louis and had come
to Europe with a group of peasants to attend the Exhibition of the Senegalese
village in France.
In 1911 he left
France and no one knew his whereabouts since then. In this biography we show that
Weiss' golpe actually was Woldouby's golpe, since he won against Isidore Weiss
with it. On the other hand we want to show that Woldouby returned to Senegal in
1911 to take the place of a checkers runner-up in 1913.
His biography deserves a
worthy place in the history of checkers, as he was the prominent predecessor of
the famous Senegalese checkers player Baba Sy.
Govert
Westerveld
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