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Chess, draughts (checkers in the US), dominoes and warri are played to a high standard. Join a rum shop match at your peril. Even the Prime Minister is a keen dominoes player. The best ’slammers’ compete in a league and the national team has won the world championship several times. Barbados has a world champion draughts player, Suki King. The island’s Sports Person of the Year 2001 was the first Barbadian chess player to reach the rank of International Master, 34 year old Kevin Denny. Warri is a board game which has been around since time immemorial and has been traced to the ancient Kush civilizations on the Upper Nile. It is believed to have come over to the Caribbean with the slaves.
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