Development of E-Dama.net has started in 2007 and its goal was to provide draughts players with large archive of games, to connect with players from different countries and to provide place for playing correspondence games with world's strongest players.
First official tournament, "The first championship of the world on international draughts on electronic correspondence without the account of the spent time", ws held from 2010. to 2011. and was organized by The Academy of Chess and Draughts from St. Petersburg.
After that tournament there were many strong tournaments on E-Dama:
- 8 World Championships,
- 1 European Championship,
- 10 National and Regional Championships (Netherland, Brazil, Lithuania, Croatia-Serbia-Slovenia-Italy),
- 4 Team Championships,
- 14 Open E-Dama Tournaments in International, Brazilian and Russian draughts,and
- about 20 other very strong tournaments.
We have also organized about 2000 smaller open tournaments with 5 to 9 players in different variants of draughts game.One of my favourite competition is so called Unplugged League which is played twice in a year and players are asked to play without use of computers for analysis. Until now we had 16 rounds of this competition
During all this period the whole site is programmed and maintained by my brother Čedomir Igaly. He will continue to maintain the site but is unable to pay all expenses of E-Dama by himself. In order to keep E-Dama going, we need 40 EUR per month (approximately 9.25 EUR per week) and we kindly ask you to help us with your financial support. If you are willing to give your contribution, you can do this via PayPal:
We will list all of your contributions at Donations page. There will be listed your name, date of donation and amount. If you want your name not to be listed, please let us know and we will show only the amount donated. On this page there will be shown total funds collected and date until which this amount will be enough to keep E-Dama going.
Final word
On E-Dama we don't have many members and our members are pretty old in average. But, we are proud to have the world's strongest correspondence players and also that many of them participate on E-Dama tournaments from the beginning.
Number of active draughts players on E-Dama by the year of registration
Unfortunately, the number of active players is not growing as can be visible from the following graph:
So, if you know somebody who is interested in playing correspondence games, everybody is welcome on E-Dama!
I hope that, with your support, we will be able to keep E-Dama going in the future and to keep providing place for playing our favourite game.
Best regards,
dr. Goran Igaly
