Don Lafferty
British draughts player
title: "Don Lafferty" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["american-checkers-players", "players-of-english-draughts", "1933-births", "1998-deaths", "western-kentucky-university-alumni", "20th-century-american-people"] description: "British draughts player" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lafferty" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary British draughts player ::
Don Lafferty (1933–1998) was a Grandmaster checkers (British English: draughts) player. In 1982 he defeated Derek Oldbury for the World GAYP (Go as you please) championship with a score of 1-0-23. He was challenged for the championship in 1984 by Paul Davis, winning easily 5-0-15. In 1986 he defended his title again by drawing James Morrison with a score of 0-0-24 and in 1989 he defeated Elbert Lowder 4-3-16.
He contested for the 3-move restriction title twice in his career but never succeeded. In 1987 he failed to defeat Marion Tinsley, losing by a score of 2-0-36. In 1996 he tried again, this time against Ron King, but he only managed a 5-5-30 draw.
In his matches with Chinook he had 8 wins, 7 losses and 109 draws.
Personal life
He received his degree from Western Kentucky University. This served him well in his primary career as a high-school math and physics teacher until he retired in 1988.
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