birth_place name sport nationals birth_date residence article_title birth_name
leningrad , ussr alexander dybman international draughts ussr -rrb- national championships : champion -lrb- 1983 -- 86 1962 netherlands alexander dybman
 Александр Борисович Дыбман
alexander dybman

alexander borisovich dybman -lrb- ; born in 1962 -rrb- was a soviet international draughts player , two-times world champion in 1986 and 1987 and four-times soviet champion in international draughts .
at the age of 17 , in 1979 , dybman won a bronze medal at the soviet championship , and in 1980 he shared a second place at the soviet championship with the former world champion , vyacheslav shchyogolev .
in 1980 and 1981 dybman won silver medals at the world junior championships , first in a tournament -lrb- with alexander baljakin taking the first place -rrb- and then after losing in the final barrage to another young soviet player , vadim virny .
the best period in dybman 's playing career started in 1983 when he won four soviet championships in a row -lrb- in 1985 he took part in the fall championships and skipped the ones in the springfinal table of the ussr first league championship , fall 1985 -rrb- .
the following year he won the world championship in groningen and was awarded a grandmaster title .
the next year he played a world championship match against anatoli gantwarg drawing all 20 games which meant that he retained the world crown for one more year .
in the late 1980s alexander dybman fell seriously ill .
the soviet medicine was not able to help him , and he moved to germany .
since then he almost does not play in rating-related tournaments .
