Researching Baba Sy
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Records of Baba Sy on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Baba Sy and the Sy Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sy Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sy family tree.
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Sy Genealogy Databases
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Sy Forums
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Some Famous People called Baba Sy
Baba Sy
Baba Sy was an African international draughts player and the first world champion from Africa.
He is said to have been "discovered" by an American player visiting Dakar in 1959.
In 1962 Germany organized a "big game/party", he was the only Senegalese and only African. He played against 150 players simultaneously spending few seconds per table. Several champions are part of the "big game/party" and he is declared the winner. By some accounts he is said to have beat each of the 150 players, in other accounts the results were 122 wins, 33 draws, and 5 loses. In either case, a remarkable achievement.
During the 1963–64 World Championship, a controversial dispute arose between him and Iser Kuperman, and the final match was not played. The championship title for this competition remained unresolved at the time of Baba Sy's death (car accident) in 1978. He was posthumously declared the victor in 1986. The matter caused some debate over the years.
He is sometimes seen as a pioneer who paved the way for other African players.
Source: Baba Sy, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Sy
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