Vladimir Vigman

Vladimir Vigman (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Вигман; Latvian: Vladimirs Vigmans; born (1952-05-10)May 10, 1952 in Riga) is a Latvian draughts player in International draughts and Draughts-64.

At the third championships in 1989 Vladimir Vigman had the same result as Alexander Schwarzman, but became second place again because at that moment there was a rule which gave preference to the current world champion.

As a sports journalist, he began to work in the journal «Шашки» in 1971 (Riga) and later became its Chief Editor.

In 1986 Vigman wrote a book about draughts named Радость творчества.

Vigman invented a variant of draughts in which each player have 24 pieces (two full sets) – one on the white squares, the other on the black.