Every checkers player knows about Woldouby's
famous position. This 21 year-old Senegalese drew a lot
of attention in Paris in 1910 when he won against all
challengers in his store located in the Senegalese
village of the Exposition of Jardin d'Acclimatation
zoologique.
No one understood how this player could win all the
games that fast. After Amadou Kandie Woldouby was
the second African who participated in a checkers
tournament in Paris since he became the city
champion in 1911. In 1911 he left France and no one knew his whereabouts since then. In this biography we show that Weiss' golpe (shot) actually was Woldouby's golpe, since he won against Isidore Weiss with it. On the other hand we want to show that Woldouby returned to Senegal in 1911 to take the place of a checkers runner-up in 1913.
His biography deserves a worthy place in the history of
checkers, as he was the prominent predecessor of the
famous Senegalese checkers player Baba Sy.
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