Editing International draughts (section)

==Sport==
The first [[List of Draughts World Championship winners|world championship]] was held in international draughts in 1894. It was won by Frenchman [[Isidore Weiss]], who held the title for eighteen years with seven world championship titles. Then, for nearly sixty years, the title was held by representatives from either France or the Netherlands, including [[Herman Hoogland]], [[Stanislas Bizot]], [[Marius Fabre]], [[Ben Springer]], [[Maurice Raichenbach]], [[Pierre Ghestem]], and [[Piet Roozenburg]]. In 1956, the hegemony of the French and the Dutch was broken: the champion was Canadian [[Marcel Deslauriers]]. In 1958, the USSR's [[Iser Kuperman]] became the world champion, beginning the era of Soviet domination in international draughts, a feat which would mirror their domination at [[chess]] around this time.

The official status of the world championships are held under the auspices of the [[World Draughts Federation]] (FMJD) since 1948. In 1998, the first World Championship was held in the format of the blitz. The first [[List of women's Draughts World Championship winners|Women's World Championship]] was held in 1973. The first women's champion was [[Elena Mikhailovskaya]] from the Soviet Union. A World Junior Championship has been contested since 1971; the first winner was [[Nicholay Mischansky]].

In addition to the World Championships, there is also a European Championships since 1965 (men) and 2000 (women).

The World Draughts Federation maintains a ranking.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.fmjd.org/?p=rating | title=FMJD - World Draughts Federation }}</ref> {{As of|2022|01|01}}, the men's list is headed by [[Alexander Georgiev]] from Russia, and the women's list is headed by [[Natalia Sadowska]] from Poland.