Ron "Suki" King' (born 1956) is a checkers player from Saint George, Barbados. He has won United States titles and twelve World Championship Titles at the game and is considered one of the strongest players of the game. He has been honored by his homeland being named Barbados's Sportsman of the Year in both 1991 and 1992. He also made it into Guinness World Records in 1998 for playing against 385 players simultaneously and beating them all. He has been called the Muhammad Ali of the checkers world for his "trash-talking."
World Championship titles[]
- 3 time world champion (Three-move): 1994, 1996, 1997
- 9 time world champion (GAYP, go as you please): 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2006, 2008
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Adapted from the Wikipedia article, Ron King, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_King, used under the GNU Free Documentation License.