Ludmilla Meijler-Sochnenko

Ludmilla Meijler-Sochnenko (born in Minsk, Belarus) is a female draughts player. She was the women's world champion in 1979.[1]

Start of draughts career

Meijler-Sochnenko started playing Draughts at the age of 14, later than most professional players. Nine years later, in 1979, she became the women's world champion. She also participated in the world championships in 1980 and 1981, where she finished second in both the years, and again in 1987 she was placed third. She also won the draughts women's championship of the Soviet Union in 1979, and finished second in the same tournament in 1977 and 1982. At that time she was quite a fanatic competitor, and she gets training five or six hours every day in the preparation for tournaments.[2] Her trainer Michael Kats had a large influence on women's Draughts, and his disciples included world champions Ludmilla Sochnenko, Zoja Golubeva and Elena Altsjoel.[3]

Decline of draughts career

In 1985 she competed for the last time at the women's Soviet Union draughts championship. She ended only as 14th of 16 competitors. She began studying psychiatry, and could not spend enough time training anymore. After finishing psychiatry, she had to decide whether to continue playing draughts. During five years she did not play at all.[4]

End of draughts career

Ludmilla Meijler-Sochnenko is married to a Dutchman and since 1990 she lives in the Netherlands. Starting in the Netherlands she could not perform her profession without reasonable fluency in Dutch language. This was the reason she started playing draughts again. She participated a couple of times (1991, 1992 and 1994) in the Dutch draughts women's championships. Her best performance there was third place in 1992.

Music

She also published some albums with instrumental music, such as "Семейный альбом / Familie album" (Family album)[5] and "Грезы / Dagdromen" (Daydreaming).[6]

External links

References

  1. ↑ "World Championships Women; 1979 tournament in Sneek, followed by barrage in Minsk" (PDF). Daminator (Poland). Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ "In "Our Village Life" the sacred fire did not return". NRC.nl (Netherlands). Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ (French)"Livre Jeu de Dames: La Boussole de la stratégie tome II". Draughts club Sens (Frankrijk); November 17, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  4. ↑ (Dutch)"Ook in 'Ons Dorpsleven' keerde het heilig vuur niet terug". NRC Handelsblad; June 5, 1991. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  5. ↑ (Russian)"Семейный альбом (Familie album)". Publishing company Amalfea (Belarus); 2005. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ (Russian)"Грезы (Dagdromen)". Publishing company Amalfea (Belarus); 2006. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, February 29, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.