Coach’s notes.

Notes from coaches and famous draughts players about draughts. Short literary notes.

Girl’s memory, amnesia, and sclerosis? We treat it with draughts—no question about it.

12.02.2026

Artem Alyoshin

– Radio Retro, you’re on the air!
– The staff of Polyclinic No. 15 would like to request a song about amnesia and heart attacks.
– ???!!! We don’t know any such song!
– Well, how about… this one… “”позабыто всё на свете, сердце замерло в груди”.”

About ten years ago, I was at the annual draughts tournament in Yaroslavl. Everything was as usual, I played a lot of games, got a bunch of ideas, even wrote some things down. I came home and forgot everything, and I couldn’t make sense of what I had written down. I’m sure many people are familiar with this. But the most valuable episode at this tournament for me was the following story.

Read more
image/svg+xml