Othello News April 2017
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Alessandro Di Mattei wins 6° Torneo Città di FerraraLocation: Ferrara
Date: April 30th Tourney format: 7 rounds Alessandro Di Mattei won the tournament with 7 wins. Runner-up was Gianluca Ilaqua. Best lady was Maria Serena Vecchi. Extra trophy for best costume was awarded to Alessandro by Othello News. |
Bintsa Andriani wins Tournois d'Albert
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Location: Albert, France
Date: April 30th Tourney format: 5 rounds A total of eight players at this tournament. Last year the first Albert tournament was won by Bintsa Andriani and he won again this year, this time with 4 instead of 5 wins. Runner-up was Dominique Bétin who also scored 4 points. A very good result for Rémi Tastet, son of Marc Tastet, he finished 3rd. Final results: 1: 4 pts [242] Bintsa ANDRIANI {MDG} [194] Dominique BÉTIN {FRA} 3: 3 pts [169] Rémi TASTET {FRA} 4: 2 pts [169] Jacques OVION {FRA} [142] Jean-Louis TIMMERMAN {FRA} [135] Jacky BRUIANT {FRA} [117] Sophie TASTET {FRA} 8: 1 pt [64] Alix-Anne OVION {FRA} |
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Gabriel Marden wins Brazil Othello Championship 2017 |
Gabriel Marden, Brazil Othello Champion 2017
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Yan Song wins 7th Tianjin Othello OpenLocation : Tianjin, China
Date : April 29th Tourney format: 7 rounds + Semi-Finals + Finals + 3rd & 4th Playoff Yan Song, finalist at the WOC 2016, won the 7th edition of the Tianjin Open. There were 8 players at this tournament. Champion: SONG Yan Runner-up: YU Tao 2nd Runner up: DIAN Da Shan Female Champion: LIU Ya Qing |
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28-36 YU Tao Tianjin Open, semi-final |
DIAN Da Shan 16-48 SONG Yan Tianjin Open, semi-final |
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DIAN Da Shan 33-31 Tianjin Open, 3/4 playoff |
YU Tao 10-54 SONG Yan Tianjin Open, final |
Maximiliano Pellizzari wins Torneo Otoño 2017
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Location : Buenos Aires, Argentine
Date : April 29th Tourney format: 5 rounds It was the first tournament of the year, and more importantly, went to interview us and take pictures for a production that will be out in the supplement spot of daily bugle. There was a reporter from a daily newspaper and luckily it coincided with the return of Maximiliano Pellizzari to tournaments. He did what he often did in the past, he won the tournament undefeated. Runner-up was Daniel Olivares with 4 points and third place for Germán Vazquez. Final result: Maximiliano Pellizzari, 5 points 221 discs Daniel Olivares, 4 points 223 discs Germán Vazquez, 4 points 221 discs Max Seifert, 2 points 164 discs Liliana Rondina, 2 points 154 discs Paula Iturbide, 2 points 126 discs Ram Schnaider, 1 point 108 discs Diego Olivares, 0 points 63 discs |
Maximiliano Axel Pellizzari
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Tetsu Satani wins 5th Tokyo Open
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Location : Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Date : April 29th Torney format: 6-round Swiss, 20 minutes per player Report by: Takeshi Murakami 59 players gathered in Shinagawa to compete. Makoto Suekuni and Tetsu Satani stayed undefeated to face each other in the decisive 6th round, which was won by Satani. Six players had five wins, notably Ryouya Kitajima, the son of Hideki Kitajima. He beat his father 33-31 in the second round and his only loss was to Satani, who barely managed a 34-30 win against this brilliant new player. Results top 7: 1. Tetsu Satani 6 wins 2. Masami Inoue 5 wins, 1 loss 3. Takeshi Murakami 5 wins, 1 loss 4. Makoto Suekuni 5 wins, 1 loss 5. Yoshinori Ohike 5 wins, 1 loss 6. Hikaru Ishikawa 5 wins, 1 loss 7. Ryouya Kitajima 5 wins, 1 loss |
INOUE Masami 41-23 MURAKAMI Takeshi 5th Tokyo Open, round 4 |
Hana Vuong wins Kfar-Saba Children's Grand Prix, GP6
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Location: Kfar-Saba Israel
Date: April 29th Tourney format: 5 rounds Report by: Leonid Shifman Michael Shifman made a big mistake in his game with Asaf Fabian and thought about it until the end of tournament... In last round he lost to Hana Vuong (CZE) 3:61... Congratulations to Hana for the tournament victory, she joined the tourney online! Guy Fabian took the second place - he is only 8 years old! In the last round he won against his oldest brother saf. |
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Final results:
VUONG, Hana, CZE, 4.5, 239 FABIAN, Guy, IL, 4, 200 YOSIFOVICH, Danielle, IL, 3.5, 220 FABIAN, Asaf, IL, 3, 177 SHIFMAN, Michael, IL, 3, 165 SHIFMAN, Shani, IL, 3, 161 CHERESHNYA, Yaron, IL, 3, 132 PRESENTE, Nimrod, IL, 2, 152 MONASTYRSKI, Shay, IL, 2, 139 ASULIN, Noam, IL, 2, 147 YOSIFOVICH, Amit, IL, 2, 109 MONASTYRSKI, Dan, IL, 1, 125 ASULIN, Avner, IL, 1, 115 KLIMBERG, Itay, IL, 1, 66 |
Online match junior teams Czech Republic 5-11 Netherlands
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On April 4th two junior teams from Israel and the Czech Republic played an online match that resulted in an 8-8 tie. It was a very nice initiative from the Czech and Israel Othello Federations and I was sure many more such tournaments would follow. I did not have to wait long, another online match was played on Monday April 24th, this time the Dutch team challenged the Czech players.
The Dutch team won 11-5. Top scorers in the Dutch team: Wendy de Graaf and Anouk de Vries, both won 4 games. Top scorers on the Czech team: David Tran and Hana Vuong, they both scored 2 wins.
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team Netherlands
team Czech Republic
Jacky Fu is Canadian Champion 2017
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Miroslav Voráček wins Czech Grand Prix 5Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Date: April 22nd Another GP win for Miroslav Voráček, he has won 4 out of 5 now. Next GP6 will be played May 27th. Number two in the GP 2017 rating, Tomáš Douda was absent. He played at the European Grand Prix in Barcelona. |
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Othello at Kungsträdgården and Armémuseet (Army Museum)
By the looks of it, it was a cold day Saturday 22nd in Stockholm, but here was quite a crowd at Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Temporary exhibition at the Army Museum: War Games
"Go on a trip to the world of war games – from medieval knight´s chess to tabletop science fantasy miniature wargames of today. See how the games were used in military training and how it has influenced important events in history. On display 24 Feb 2017 – 7 Jan 2018."
"Go on a trip to the world of war games – from medieval knight´s chess to tabletop science fantasy miniature wargames of today. See how the games were used in military training and how it has influenced important events in history. On display 24 Feb 2017 – 7 Jan 2018."
Takuji Kashiwabara wins EGP BarcelonaTop 4 EGP Barcelona:
Marc Tastet, Takuji Kashwabara and Matthias Berg
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semifinals: Matthias Berg - Marc Tastet, Roel Hobo - Takuji Kashiwabara
Results, more pictures and games on our special EGP Barcelona page.
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Anouk de Vries wins 14th Burijn Othello OpenLocation: Alkmaar, Netherlands
Date: April 18th Tourney format: 5 rounds Link: NOV website Anouk de Vries won the tournament with 5 wins, runner-up was Wendy de Graaf with 4 points and Anne Dorbeck finished third place, also with 4 points. 
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Tom Schotte wins Ghent Easter TournamentLocation: Ghent, Belgium
Date: April 17th Tourney format: 7 rounds, 15 minutes Link: BOA website, LiveOthello A clear win for Tom Schotte, second place for Nick Reunes with 6 wins. Best foreign (Dutch) player was Jan C. de Graaf who finished third place with 5 wins. There ws the come-back of Pierre Poliakoff after 3 years and the first appearence of Wout Schotte at the age of 5! He also managed to play a draw along the way so he will be ranked in the next rating list update. In total there were 18 players, of which 7 juniors and 9 'promising players'. A great success and an even better atmosphere! 
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Join WOF Media group
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The WOF searches for persons who have knowledge to work with Social Network as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube. The work also include update our WOF sites.
You are a person who loves Othello. You don´t need to be an experience Othello player. You like to write in your own language and English. You want to see Othello as one of the most popular games in the world. Are you interested to be a part of the WOF Media group? Do you have ideas how to make Othello popular and well known? Do you want to join us in Belgium 30th October to 6th November and work with W.O.C.? Contact [email protected] latest 30th April, 2017 for more information. Benkt Steentoft // WOF Media group |
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Takanori Oshimizu wins 93rd Sendai OpenLocation: Sendai, Japan
Date: April 16th Tourney format: 6 rounds Link: JOA website Ten players at this tournament. Takanori Oshimizu won with 5 wins and 1 loss. Second place for Takamune Iijima who scored 4 wins and 2 losses. Third place for Ya Takahashi, who also had 4 wins and 2 losses. |
Othello Shougakusei Grand-Prix 2017 news from JOA
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The Japan Othello Association will organise a junior Othello Grand-Prix this year summer as well. The title is “Othello Shougakusei Grand-Prix 2017” in Japanese.
The tournament is open for all elementary school children. It consists of 13 district qualifications held throughout Japan＋final at Bandai building in Tokyo. First district qualification will be on May 28th in Tokai district and Kinki-Hyogo district, and the final will be on August 6th. The Champion decided at the final will be qualified to the World Othello Championship as a youth player. The application for district qualifications has just started at http://www.othello.gr.jp/syogakusei-gp/ The Japan Othello Association expects that more than 1,000 kids will join the tournament this year. It will be one of the biggest Othello tournaments in Japan. 
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World Othello Federation new Facebook pageHello all!
We wish more Othello enthusiasts and players to join our World Othello facebook page. We will for every 500 likes arrange a contest with fun and great prizes! Support us to find all Othello players! Invite your friends and all you know who like to play Othello to our NEW facebook page. Benkt Steentoft // WOF Media group |
Ben Seeley's Endgame Quiz continued
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Imre Leader sent Ben a nice email about the puzzles, he really liked seeing interesting ideas at 6 empty. So Ben came up with these puzzles at 5 empty, in case the ideas here are also fun :).
Check the Put button to enter your solution. In case you want more endgame training, check out one of my favourite Othello programs, HappyEnd. Please send your feedback to OthelloNews at [email protected] |
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Seeley's Quiz #6 white wins 31-33 |
Seeley's Quiz #7 white wins 31-33 |
Seeley's Quiz #8 white wins 31-33 |
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Seeley's Quiz #9 white wins 31-33 |
Seeley's Quiz #10 white wins 31-33 |
Seeley's Quiz #11 white wins 30-34 |
"Those are some really wonderful puzzles. My comments are designed not to spoil the puzzles (I hope) for someone reading them.
Firstly, they show how complicated positions can be with only 6 empty! And then, amazingly, with only 5 empty. And, and this is the key reason why the puzzles are so good, they are not just complicated for `counting' reasons but complicated for `ideas' reasons as well.
Secondly, I love the mix of ideas in the puzzles. Of the 6-empty ones, I especially love Problem 2, as one has to be so aware of how that complicated region to the North will play out. When Black does initiate play there, it is such fun that the various White replies to the (correct) Black move each have their own flavour and reason why they do not quite work for White! I also really like Problem 4, as it is just so complicated. That was the one that took me the longest, as one thinks `OK, if I go to X then his best response must be Y', and then one realises that in fact there are better responses than Y!
Among the 5-empty puzzles, I especially like Problem 6, as it is so `wild'. Also, Problem 9 is so clever, because once one has seen
the right thing to do then, with hindsight, it is so obvious. But before ones sees that there are many other interesting features that suggest other moves! Then Problem 8 is ridiculously cute (it made me laugh out loud), and Problem 10 is so unexpected -- again it makes such good sense, once one has worked it out, but initially it seems so odd.
It's such a pleasure to have so many actual ideas in puzzles that start as late as that."
Imre Leader
Ben Seeley's Endgame QuizIn my mail this week a nice surprise, 5 endgame puzzles sent to me by 2003 and 2004 World Othello Champion Ben Seeley.
Check the Put button to enter your solution. Any comments can be send to OthelloNews at [email protected] 
Ben Seeley
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Seeley's Quiz #1 black wins 33-31 |
Seeley's Quiz #2 black wins 33-31 |
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Seeley's Quiz #3 black wins 33-31 |
Seeley's Quiz #4 black wins 33-31 |
Seeley's Quiz #5 black wins 33-31 |
Just checking or just cheating, whatever you prefer :)
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Michael Shifman wins Pesakh Children's Open
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Location: Kfar-Saba, Israel
Date: April 13th Report by: Leonid Shifman We decided to hold a small tournament in honor of Pesakh. Now the children in Israel have 2.5 weeks of vacation. The only purpose was not to let the children forget how to flip the discs. For greater interest, Hana Vuong, a player from the Czech Republic, was invited to play by Internet. Micky won all his games and deservedly won the tournament. Hana defeated Danielle and took second place with 3 points. Also 3 points, but less discs then Hana, for Shay, who also defeated Danielle. Final results:
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News from the World Othello FederationOthello Bulletin 2017/1 is online now with information news about the 41st World Othello Championship in Ghent, Belgium. Read the entire bulletin here.
The World Othello Federation has signed cooperation with JK Webdesign, the Netherlands, for new WOF and WOC websites. Links: WOF on Facebook and Twitter 
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this is just the front page
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Masaki Takizawa wins 72nd Niigata Open
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Location: Niigata, Japan
Date: April 9th Tourney fomat: 5 rounds Masaki Takizawa won the tournament with 4 wins and 1 loss. Three more players with 4 wins: Shigeaki Aihara Hidekazu Nagasaki and Yoshinori Umezawa. Final result: 優勝 滝沢 雅樹 九段(Masaki Takizawa) 4勝1敗 2位 藍原 重朗 三段(Shigeaki Aihara) 4勝1敗 3位 長崎 秀和 六段(Hidekazu Nagasaki) 4勝1敗 4位 梅沢 佳紀 五段(Yoshinori Umezawa) 4勝1敗 5位 長尾 広人 六段(Hiroto Nagao) 3勝2敗 6位 神田 吉浩 四段(Yoshihiro Kanda) 3勝2敗 7位 梅澤 志帆 初段(Shiho Umezawa) 3勝2敗 8位 小原 大翔 初段(Hiroto Obara) 3勝2敗 9位 佐藤 久和 四段(Hisakazu Sato) 3勝2敗 10位 小林 学 二段(Manabu Kobayashi) 3勝2敗 11位 岩坂 龍次 初段(Ryuji Iwasaka) 3勝2敗 12位 小林 嘉野 1級(Kano Kobayashi) 2勝3敗 13位 田辺 知己 初段(Tomoki Tanabe) 2勝3敗 14位 田辺 辰雄(Tatsuo Tanabe) 2勝3敗 15位 長谷川 幸子(Sachiko Hasegawa) 2勝3敗 ←2級取得 16位 小原 宏昭 1級(Hiroaki Obara) 2勝3敗 17位 長谷川 有汰(Yuta Hasegawa) 1勝4敗 ←3級取得 18位 卯田 杏里(Anri Uda) 1勝4敗 19位 小川 杉子(Sugiko Ogawa) 1勝4敗 ←3級取得 20位 小川 太一(Taichi Ogawa) 0勝5敗 |
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Örebro Othello Open cancelledLocation: Örebro, Sweden
Date: April 8th The players from Stockholm decided not to attend this tournament because of the terror attack in Stockholm on friday. Public transport was down anyway. With just 2 players from Örebro there, what can we say........ |
Thierry Lévy-Abégnoli wins IdF 3
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Location: Paris, France
Date: April 8th Tourney format: 5 rounds Thanks to Bintsa Andriani for info and pictures In March Thierry Lévy-Abégnoli won IdF2 with 5 points and he continued his winning streak at IdF3. But he had to fight hard, certainly no easy wins for him. Runnerup was Marc Lévy and he impressed with his great performance at his first Othello on-the-board tournament. He plays a lot at Playok, that proves you can learn a lot from your opponents online. Here included is his 33-31 win against Michel Busuttil. He won with one second left on his clock ! He still has to learn how to note his transcripts and better manage his time, but he promissed he will return for future tournaments. Also included his 33-31 loss against Thierry. To our many readers who play online but never go to on-the-board tournaments: the real battle is in the face to face match with your opponent. Much harder, but so much more rewarding. Have a look at our calender page or contact your national Othello Federation (Asia, Europe, Americas, Africa). Take the first step on your way to become National or World Othello Champion! Results after 5 rounds: 1: 5 pts [192] Thierry LÉVY-ABÉGNOLI {FRA} 2: 4 pts [171] Marc LÉVY {FRA} 3: 3 pts [137] Bintsa ANDRIANI {MDG} 4: 2.5 pts [174] Gilles CLUZON {FRA} 5: 2 pts [151] Marc BERTRANDIAS {FRA} 6: 1.5 pts [159] Michel BUSUTTIL {FRA} 7: 1 pt [136] Fouad TOUCHENE {FRA} |
Marc Lévy and Thierry Lévy-Abégnoli
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LÉVY Michel 33-31 BUSUTTIL Michel Ile de France 3 |
LÉVY-ABÉGNOLI Thierry 33-31 LÉVY Marc Ile de France 3 |
CLUZON Gilles 32-32 BUSUTTIL Michel Ile de France 3 |
David Tran wins Czech Easter Schooltournament
Location: Skuteč, Czech Republic
Date: April 6th
Twenty kids played at this elementary school tournament. The school in Skuteč received 11 players from a school in Prague. Overall winner was David Tran. Runner-up was Ondřej Bělovský and thirs place for Adéla Spáčilová.
Date: April 6th
Twenty kids played at this elementary school tournament. The school in Skuteč received 11 players from a school in Prague. Overall winner was David Tran. Runner-up was Ondřej Bělovský and thirs place for Adéla Spáčilová.
National Youth Teams Czech Republic - Israel play online
Two youth teams from the Czech Republic and Israel played an internet Othello match on April 4th. What a great initiative! I think this was the first time in Othello history that teams of schoolchildren played Othello competitively via webcams.
The Israeli team started out strong with 4 wins in round 1. Yonathan Beeri won against David Tran. That was the only game David lost in the tournament.
The Czech kids won 3 games in round 2 and both teams scored 2 points in the third round.
Team Israel was ahead with 2 points at the start of the final 4th round. The Czech team fought hard in the final round and scored 3 more points.
Final score for both teams, a well deserved 8-8. Well done both teams!!!!
Michael Shifman (ISR) and David Tran (CZE) both scored 3 points. Two points for Hana Vuong (CZE), Jan Rakušan (CZE), Danielle Yosifovich (ISR) and Or Shriebman (ISR). Yonathan Beeri (ISR) and Radek Šťastný (CZE) both scored 1 point.
The Israeli team started out strong with 4 wins in round 1. Yonathan Beeri won against David Tran. That was the only game David lost in the tournament.
The Czech kids won 3 games in round 2 and both teams scored 2 points in the third round.
Team Israel was ahead with 2 points at the start of the final 4th round. The Czech team fought hard in the final round and scored 3 more points.
Final score for both teams, a well deserved 8-8. Well done both teams!!!!
Michael Shifman (ISR) and David Tran (CZE) both scored 3 points. Two points for Hana Vuong (CZE), Jan Rakušan (CZE), Danielle Yosifovich (ISR) and Or Shriebman (ISR). Yonathan Beeri (ISR) and Radek Šťastný (CZE) both scored 1 point.
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EGP Athens: April 1-2ndFinal result top 4:
more info on our EGP Athens page |
