Draughts compositions can be related to situations in real draughts games, i.e. draughts problems may also being part of or derived from real draughts games!  A
striking example is the game between Ronald van der Beek from
The Netherlandsand Thomy Lucien Mbongo from Cameroon in 2010, inwhich after 47 moves Arjen Timmer noticed the position of a draughts composition of Gerhard Bakker of 1965! Play this game (left diagram): on a certain moment you will see exactly the same position as given in the right diagram, i.e. the composition of Bakker. Switch to the problem diagram to see the solution of it, just as was the case in the real game! Game: Mbongo-van der Beek Problem: Bakker See
also the publication (in Dutch)
of
Arjen Timmer dealing with this peculiar game-problem event!
Send Arjen problem-like events during draughts games! 
Further so-called retrograde draughts problemsProblems that may arise from the 20x20 initial position of a draughts game. This is done to prove that draughts problems also may come foreward from real draughts games, as shown above. A number of examples are given on the webpage 'Retrograde'! A 'dike' of a Jan Groenendijk: 2nd place on the WC 2015! 
On October 4, 2014, this 16-years old Dutch top-talent won
from Eric van
Dusseldorp through a brilliant combination: starting with a two-offer awarding black a king, followed by a three-offer. After that, Jan could make a five-stroke and won by a virulent end game. Eric, who made many beautiful draughts compositions as draughts player, will have experienced his defeat as kind of a 'draughts-problem-nightmare'! The youth has the future, could have been Eric's thoughts upon such brilliant playing. And ... also a promise as draughts composer! Eric van Dusseldorp Jan Groenendijk Youthful game combination through a bait move! The price for the most beautiful combination during the Dutch 'Heerhugowaard Open 2014' tournament was given to the 15-years young Nick Waterink, playing with white: Stan Brink Nick Waterink 
With Nick's move 25-20!! a beautiful
bait move appeared on the board. His opponent Stan Brink had a natural suspicion, thought quite long, but couldn't find the clue of this strange move and went for 10-15 to win a white man. Nick Waterink then won the game through a brilliant combination as would it be a draughts com[position! A combination that have only been moderately arranged in draughts problems! (Hein Wilsens, De Problemist October 2014) Female draughts problem, composed during a game! During a tournament of Schiedam (The Netherlands) in 2014, Linda Schnieders and Agita Marterere played a draughts game that resulted in a beautiful sharp draughts composition. This unique result has been published in the column draughts problems of De Problemist October 2014. However, half a year later, it became clear that the draughts world had been faked: the 'game' was composed by Agita's partner Ron Heusdens and perfectly played by the two ladies. Click here! Pim Meurs Enjoy his spectacular combination in the game against Getmanskina in 2008. Unfortunately, for Pim, the game ended after 29 moves in a draw. Explosive duel Ton Sijbrands (de Volkskrant August 2015) reminded his readers of a game from 1975 between two respected draughts players from Ukraine, Alexeï Bezversjenko and Nikolaj Misjtsjanski. After a quiet and well-balanced duel upto move 32, white played 33.33-29? and was subsequently destroyed by black's very surprising and beautiful stroke combination! Herman de Jongh (1898-1985) This draughts grandmaster was one of the strongest draughts players in the first half of the twentieth century. Got wellknown by his standard book Technique moderne du jeu de dames, published in 1937 in Paris. Is still remembered by his famous opening variant, to which his name is given. Made also a number of beautiful game-like draughts compositions. L: Won with this problem the first price of the yearly composing contest, organised by the Dutch Sugar tournament in Amsterdam in1976. According to SR-problemisten the end is not sharp. However, if black plays on in this lost three-men versus one-king position, he shouldn't do that, there results a motif whereby white wins sharply. M: The 'De Jongh opening variant', that was included in the repertoire of almost all world champions of the second half of the twentieth century. This attack system, a side variant of the 'Dutch Opening', white removes with tempo win black's man 26 and leaves its own formation 45/40/34 intact. R: According to Ton Sijbrands this is the most beautiful and contentwise 'De Jongh game' played by a world champion: the duel that Sjitsjogoljev in 1970 won from Tsipes won, ending in a 7x7 end game. The given ending here was not the real one of the game. Tsipes went on for 25 moves and just gave up when Sjitsjogoljev got three kings in a secure way and had created the formation 34/35/39! Source: Ton Sijbrands, De Volkskrant October 3, 10,and 17, 2015.
Mariska Veer
Won the price for the most beautiful combination of the Dutch junior girls in Groningen, July 13-18, 2015, by her game, with white, against Mara Langeveld. In the position below, Mara played unsuspectingly 13-19, whereupon Mariska slammed with a surprising combination and won the rest of the game convincing! Source: Martijn de Jong, Het Damspel, October 2015.
Joeri Ermakov (1956)  A beautiful initial position ánd combination form the basis for his work. The Sharp Rules of the problemism, including a sharp ending, come on the second place of this Muscovite. In a tryptich, Hein Wilsens shows 21 of his breathtaking creations (De Problemist of August, October and December 2016). All are quite worthwhile to replay! Jan Groenendijk - Roel Boomstra WORLD TITLE DRAUGHTS 2016 
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