Vladimir Kaplan
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Vladimir Kaplan was a noted player of pool checkers
Pool checkers
Pool checkers, also called "American pool checkers", is a variant of draughts, mainly played in the southeastern United States.-Basic rules:...

 from Russia. His wife worked as an accountant on Wall Street to support this. He apparently had some difficulties in international competitions because he was Jewish. He immigrated to the United States
United States
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and by 1983 played for that nation in competitions.
He also wrote several books on the game.

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