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King Me
2013 · Film · 80 min
Directed by Geoff Yaw
King Me explores the surreal world of competitive checkers play as seen through the eyes of South African township resident, Lubabalo Kondlo. With the help of some sympathetic Americans and under the radar of oppressive forces in his homeland, Kondlo, traveled to the U.S. to compete in the U.S. National Championship of Checkers.
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A great recent documentary on Checkers is King Me (trailer here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh8wyKabQiY). I say that as someone who is terrible at the game and doesn't enjoy playing it.
One of the players it features is Ron King, who is currently one of the strongest Checkers players. He holds the record for playing (and beating) 385 people simultaneously, though I believe he was beaten by Tinsley. Also his trash talking is fantastic.