Othello News August 2015
Daisuke Kamikura wins 15th Shinagawa Super LeagueLocation: Shinagawa, Japan
Date: August 30th Tourney format: 7 rounds Link: JOA website Daisuke Kamikura won the tourney with 5 wins. Also 5 wins for Tetsu Satani, Makoto Suekuni and Tetsuya Nakajima. |
Shohei Takasaki wins 94th Kanagawa open
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Date: August 30th Tourney format: 6 rounds Link: JOA website Shohei Takasaki won the 94th Kanagawa tourney with 6 wins. A perfect sore! Second place for Kento Urano with 5 wins. |
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Vidar Albrigtsen wins Norwegian Championship 2015Location: Oslo, Norway
Date: August 29th Links: LiveOthello, NOF FBpage Vidar Albrigtsen won his first Norway Cup in what was perhaps the all-time fastest championship final (approximately 12 minutes). He defeated Jostein Danielsen 46-18. In the initial 7 rounds Jostein was the only player to win against Vidar (54-10). Vidar got his revenge in the final. With this victory Vidar is ready to take on his opponents at the World Championship. Ranking of the 12 players after round 7: 1: 6. pts [423.5] ALBRIGTSEN Vidar (2570) {NOR} 2: 5. pts [425.5] DANIELSEN Jostein (2583) {NOR} [411.5] HAUGLAND Jan Kristian (1868) {NOR} [356.5] BERG Robert (1993) {NOR} 5: 4. pts [369] SKOGEN Tor Birger (1802) {NOR} 6: 3.5 pts [344.5] ODEGARD Martin (2560) {NOR} [324.5] HOEL Adrian Eckbo (2510) {NOR} 8: 3. pts [367.5] OLSEN Pal Tore (2511) {NOR} [342.5] BOE Alexander (1878) {NOR} [310.5] TVEDT Sverre (140031) {NOR} 11: 1. pt [271.5] ORBECK-NILSSEN Kim Andre (140048) {NOR} 12: 0. pt [211] KLEVEN Silje (140049) {N} Final: Vidar Albrigtsen 46-18 Jostein Danielsen |
ALBRIGTSEN Vidar 45-19 HAUGLAND Jan Kristian Norway National Championship 2015, round 4 |
ALBRIGTSEN 46-18 DANIELSEN Norway National Championship 2015, final |
Mind Sports Olympiad ArgentinaLocation: Buenos Aires, Argentine
Date: August 29th Results of the Othello tournament: Gold Medal: Maximiliano Axel Pellizzari Spinetto Silver Medal: Daniel Olivares Bronze Medal: Marcelo Lisnovsky 1) Maximilian Pellizzari 6 points 299 discs 2) Daniel Olivares 5 points 242 discs 3) Marcelo Lisnovsky 4 points 249 discs 4) Alejandro Coello 4 points 237 discs 5) David Nakasone 4 points 223 discs 6) Paula Iturbide 4 points 211 discs 7) Germán Vazquez 3,5 points 205 discs 8) Liliana Rondina 3 points 240 discs 9) Max Seifert 3 points 205 discs 10) Matías Alloatti 3 points 196 discs 11) Mercedes Cohen 3 points 195 discs 12) Ariel Blatman 3 points 193 discs 13) Pablo Coll 3 points 190 discs 14) Leonardo Chaufan 2,5 points 137 discs 15) Melanie Pellizzari Spinetto 2 points 159 discs 16) Diego Olivares 2 points 151 discs 17) Fede Ferro Escariz 2 points 143 discs 18) Silvia Liliana Salgado Allaria 2 points 127 discs 19) Pedro Perovich 1 point 159 discs 20) Nilda Carmen Spinetto 0 point discs |
Rikard Fahleson wins Swedish Championship for BeginnersLocation: Stockholm Sweden
Date: August 30th Results of the junior division: 1. Julie 2. Fanny 3. Blenda Semifinal: Blenda - Julie 29-35 Final: Julie - Fanny 44-20 |
"I have been a table judge in many world championships and other major tournaments. But the semi-final was the absurd funniest thing I have been through as a table judge. I was doubled over with laughter, not because of the game but because of remarks of the three girls. And to hear one nine year old player with 7 empty squares say "oh, I should probably hurry thinking, now I just have 9 minutes left." "If you believe that math, physics, chemistry or life is hard then I got a challenge for you. Try taking transcript of an Othello game between two 8-9 year old girls that barely know the rules. Laughters, random comments, flipping errors and much more whilst playing at the speed of light." |
Ranking of the 13 players after round 5:
1: 5. pts [335] FAHLESON Rikard 2: 4. pts [282] ERNANDER Fredrik 3: 3. pts [293] GEHRKE Roger [286] HELLGREN Bo [270] EKMAN Anders [237] EDLUND Sara 7: 2.5 pts [212] PIHL Fanny 8: 2. pts [215] BLOMBERG Sofia [204] NYMAN Maria [200] PERSSON Simon 11: 1.5 pts [204] BEWING Julie [183] HALLQUIST Elisabeth [179] HALLQUIST Blenda |
Congratulations to Rikard Fahleson who won the Beginners Championship 2015!
There were 13 participants in the tournament that was open for all with less than 1000 points In the Nordic Othello Ranking. Rikard won all five games in the qualifying rounds. In the semifinal he defeated Bo Hellgren. Bo fought bravely but was defeated by 40-24. The second semifinals between Beginners Champion 2013 Fredrik Ernander and #3 of the same year Roger Gehrke was a thriller game. The match ended 32-32 and Roger won as Fredrik had chosen the color. The play-off for third place was won by Fredrik 39-25. In the finals, Richard defeated Roger with 39-25. |
EGP 2015 was decided in Paris, August 29th and 30th
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Kosuke Takenobu wins 47th Sapporo Open
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Date: August 23rd
Tourney format: 6 rounds
Links: JOA website
Kosuke Takenobu won the tournament with a perfect score of 6 wins. Runner-up was Sohei Sasaki with 5 wins.
Date: August 23rd
Tourney format: 6 rounds
Links: JOA website
Kosuke Takenobu won the tournament with a perfect score of 6 wins. Runner-up was Sohei Sasaki with 5 wins.
Hidekazu Nagasaki wins 28th Sea of Japan
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: August 23rd
Tourney format: 6 rounds plus final
Links: JOA website, FB Niigata block
Three players finished with 5 wins: Hidekazu Nagasaki, Shigeaki Aihara and Masaki Takizawa. Hidekazu Nagasaki and Shigeaki Aihara qualified for the final. Both players made it to the final of the Sea of Japan two times before, but never succeeded to win. Third time lucky, for one of them. The final was a very close game: Shigeaki Aihara 31 - 33 Hidekazu Nagasaki. Fourth place for Makoto Suekuni with 4 wins.
Date: August 23rd
Tourney format: 6 rounds plus final
Links: JOA website, FB Niigata block
Three players finished with 5 wins: Hidekazu Nagasaki, Shigeaki Aihara and Masaki Takizawa. Hidekazu Nagasaki and Shigeaki Aihara qualified for the final. Both players made it to the final of the Sea of Japan two times before, but never succeeded to win. Third time lucky, for one of them. The final was a very close game: Shigeaki Aihara 31 - 33 Hidekazu Nagasaki. Fourth place for Makoto Suekuni with 4 wins.
Elementary school Othello workshops & tournament
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: August 22nd
Twenty young players at this workshop / tournament. The top 4 went to meet and challenge the players at the Sea of Japan tournament the next day.
Date: August 22nd
Twenty young players at this workshop / tournament. The top 4 went to meet and challenge the players at the Sea of Japan tournament the next day.
- Riho Umezawa
- Tomoki Tanabe
- Kano Kobayashi
- Rion Ooshima
Brian Rose wins USA National Othello Championship
Location: New York, USA
Date: August 22nd - 23rd Tourney format: 7 rounds day 1, top 4 players play double rond robin on day 2 Links: FB event page, LiveOthello The previous edition of the US National Championship was won by Ben Seeley, but he decided to remain at the West Coast. Body surfing in the ocean. 10 players at this Silvia Petric Memorial tournament, fighting for the title of US Champion and a spot on the US WOC team. Less hazardous than the waves at Santa Barbara. Jerry Hai won 6 games on day 1, only lost his game against Brian Rose. The top 4 players played 6 more rounds on the second day of tournament. Brian Rose was sure of his victory after his win against his son Joseph in round 12. Brian made a bad move in the endgame and for a moment it looked like Joseph would take the game, but it ended 31-33 in favour of Brian. The second place was decided in round 13, Jerry was at 3 points and Joseph had 2 points, Jerry won the game 41-23 and took second place. |
First day results:
1 Hai, Jerry 6 points 2-5 Rose, Brian 5 points Sano Rose, Yoko 5 points Rose, Joseph 5 points Parsons, David 5 points 6 Chitra, Yohanes 3 points 7-9 Platt, Jared 2 points Rose, Julia 2 points Cai, Jian 2 points 10 Plummer, Eugene 0 points |
round 8
Brian 35-29 Jerry Joseph 34-30 Yoko round 9 Jerry 45-19 Yoko Brian 41-23 Joseph round 10 Joseph 11-53 Jerry Yoko Black 21-43 Brian |
round 11
Jerry 29-35 Brian Yoko 20-44 Joseph round 12 Yoko 22-42 Jerry Joseph 31-33 Brian round 13 Jerry 41-23 Joseph Brian vs Yoko - Brian defaulted |
Second day results:
Brian Rose - 5 points Jerry Hai - 4 points Joseph Rose - 2 points Yoko Rose - 1 point |
ROSE Joseph 41-23 ROSE Brian US National Championship 2015, round 4 |
CHITRA Yohanes 29-35 ROSE Brian US National Championship 2015, round 6 |
ROSE Joseph 39-20 SANO Yoko US National Championship 2015, round 8 |
HAI Jerry 29-35 ROSE Brian US National Championship 2015, round 11 |
ROSE Joseph 31-33 ROSE Brian US National Championship 2015, round 12 |
HAI Jerry 40-23 ROSE Joseph US National Championship 2015, round 13 |
Nicky van den Biggelaar wins 77th Dutch Othello Open
Location: Alkmaar, The Netherlands
Date: August 23rd Tourney format: 7 rounds Link: FB event, LiveOthello Location of the tourney is the school where Jan de Graaf and Marcel Sneek give Othello lessons to the pupils. Quite a number of kids showed up to challenge the best Dutch players. |
Final result after 7 rounds:
1. Nicky van den Biggelaar, 7 pnts 2. Jan de Graaf, 6 pnts 3. Roel Hobo, 5 pnts 4. Erwin van den Berg, 4 pnts 5. Frauke Van de Moortel (BE), 3 pnts 6. Marcel Sneek, 2 pnts Anne Dorbeck, 2 pnts Jiske de Vries, 2 pnts 9. Anouk de Vries, 1 pnt Judith Blankendaal, 1 pnt 11. Wendy de Graaf, 0 pnts |
Final result beginners after 5 rounds:
1. Anouk de Vries, 5 pnts 2. Anne Dorbeck, 4 pnts 3. Wendy de Graaf, 3.5 pnts 4. Domique Oudhoff, 2 pnts Judith Blankendaal, 2 pnts 6. Jiske de Vries, 1.5 pnts 7. Daniele Schoenmakers, 1 pnt Rick Wolzak, 1 pnt results per round beginners on NOV website |
Matthias Berg wins German National Othello Championship
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: August 22nd - 23rd Tourney format: double round robin Link: LiveOthello Matthias Berg won the German National Othello Championship for the 14th time since 2001. Congrats to a great Champion! Mattias only failed to win the 2008 Championship. That was the year of Andreas Hoehne's comeback. Matthias Berg played very well all tourny but lost the best of three final 1-2. Take a look at Tom Schotte's table of multiple champions. Matthias is runner-up behind Karsten Feldborg from Denmark. Ranking of the 6 players after round 10: 1: 9. pts [429] BERG Matthias (5301) {DEU} 2: 7. pts [412] ROSSLER Daniel (70002) {DEU} [405] BACH Gunnar (70015) {DEU} 4: 4.5 pts [267] GAERTNER Joerg (5343) {DEU} 5: 2.5 pts [246] ZIMMERMANN Frank (5338) {DEU} 6: 0. pt [161] MURAWSKI Stefan (5324) {DEU} Disccount as Tiebreak -> Daniel Rössler is runnerup, Gunnar Bach takes 3rd place. Most likely the top 3 players will be the German WOC team for Cambridge. |
BERG Matthias 24-40 RÖSSLER Daniel German National Championship, round 2 |
RÖSSLER Daniel 28-36 BERG Matthias German National Championship, round 7 |
RÖSSLER Daniel 17-47 BACH Gunnar German National Championship, round 10 |
Ben Seeley wins 2015 US Open Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Date: August 15th- 16th Tourney format: 3 round-robins, 1-game final Info: Facebook event This is a West Coast qualifier for the World Othello Championship. This tournament will rank 3rd behind the NYC and Chicago tournaments for filling team spots for the USA Team at the World Championship in Cambridge. Final results:
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Pictures from FB event page
Don't we all want to be Othello World Champion?Maruko Kozakai, a reporter for the Japanese web magazine “Daily Portal”, likes Othello. She enjoyed the game when she was a child, maybe because she used to win most of her games.
She feels herself to be talented, and one day she decides to visit Ueno Park in Tokyo and challenge as many foreigners as possible, in the hope of beating them all and so become the World Champion... at Ueno Park. One country after another is defeated by this cunning player. The Ueno Park World Champion then decides to challenge Japanese players. On page 4 she writes about her experience in Shinagawa, where she played in a tournament for the first time in her life. Lots of pictures, including those of Nakajima, Tanida, Murakami and many other players appear in this article. Have the article translated by your webbrowser, it's really fun to read ! |
Pictures from Maruko's Blog, May 28th 2015
Takanori Oshimizu wins 79th Sendai OpenLocation: Sendai, Japan
Date: August 9th Tourney format: 6 rounds Info: JOA website Three players finished with 5 wins: Takanori Oshimizu, Kazu Satohisa and Kenta Sato. There were 11 players at this tournament. |
Kenta Tominaga wins Shinagawa Seaside Challenge Cup
Location: Shinagawa, Japan
Date: August 8th Tourney format: 6 rounds Info: JOA website Winner of this tournament is Kenta Tominaga. Runner-up, Tetsu Satani. The students of Azabu Othelo Club and Takeshi Murakami took part in the Shinagawa Seeside Challenge Cup on day 5 of their Othello Summer Camp. At this tournament 57 players in three divisions (Advanced, Intermediate, and Beginners). |
TAKANASHI Yuske 35-29 MURAKAMI Takeshi Shinagawa Seaside Challenge, round 5 |
Arthur Juigner is Swiss Othello Champion, Takuji Kashiwabara won the tournament
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: August 8th Tourney format: 7 rounds Info: Swiss Othello website, LiveOthello Takuji Kashiwabara is the only Frenchman who crossed the border to face three Juigner brothers. I checked to see Takuji's result against Arthur and/or Félix at the EGP in Ghent, but he played against neither of them. Takuji won the tournament and the runner-up, Arthur Juigner, is the 2015 Swiss Othello Champion. Final results after 7 rounds: 1. Takuji KASHIWABARA, 7 points 2. Arthur JUIGNER, 6 points 3. Stéphane DOUSSE, 5 points 4. Félix JUIGNER, 3.5 points 5. Doris SCHNEIDER, 2.5 points Gaston JUIGNER, 2.5 points 7. Michelle DOUSSE, 1.5 points |
DOUSSE Stéphane 31-33 KASHIWABARA Takuji Swiss National Championship. round 3 |
JUIGNER Arthur 41-23 JUIGNER Felix Swiss National Championship. round 3 |
KASHIWABARA Takuji 34-30 JUIGNER Arthur Swiss National Championship. round 4 |
We are very proud and happy to announce the birth today of the Swiss Othello Federation, whose statutes have been approved by the general assembly.
The board is as follows :
President : François Juigner (contact person)
Vice-President : Stéphane Dousse (2nd contact person)
Secretary-treasurer : Doris Schneider
The Swiss 2015 championship was held today in 7 rounds.
The Swiss federation (SwissOthello,) is happy to apply to be member of the World Othello Federation.
Best regards,
François Juigner
Good luck to the Swiss Othello Federation and welcome in the Othello community!
Göteborg Othello Open: only two playersLocation: Gothenburg, Sweden
Date: August 8th Tourney format: 3 rounds Info: SOF website and FB event This certainly was not the main Othello event of the year 2015. Only 2 players showed up. It's always hard to organise events during the summer holidays. For those who like me have been waiting for days to find out who won:
Oscar played at the EGP Ghent and finished 13th out of 41 players with 6 wins out of 11. He sure would have liked some more competition in Göteborg.
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NYC Othello Pre-tourney Meetup
On August 7th, a couple of Othello players met up at the atrium area at Rockefeller Plaza. Among them Jian Cai (WOC Ladies 2011), Brian Rose (WOC 2001), Jerry Hai and Eugene Plummer. Vlad Petric came later as did a couple of Jian's colleagues. The US National Championship will take place in New York, August 22nd - 23rd.
Jerry Hai posted these pictures on Facebook.
Jerry Hai posted these pictures on Facebook.
Takeshi Murakami wins 6th Kanagawa Cup
Location: Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
Date: August 2nd Tourney format: 7 rounds Info: JOA website and Takeshi's blog Takeshi won the tourney with 6 wins and 1 loss. He lost in round 4 against Riki Saito. Runner-up was Kenta Kiyonobu who also scored 6 points. After this tournament Takeshi was very busy with Othello Summer Camp. Read all about the camp or just enjoy the pictures: day1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5 (Sinagawa Seaside Challenge Cup). |
MURAKAMI Takeshi 31-33 SAITO Riki 6th Kanagawa Cup, round 4 |
MURAKAMI Takeshi 37-27 KAMIKURA Daisuke 6th Kanagawa Cup, round 7 |
Did you know that.................
Posted by Tom Schotte Check Tom's Statistics pages here on Othello News: Victories, Participations, Medal Mirror, Points, Age and Specials. |
European Grand Prix 2015, 6 tourneys played, 1 more to go
Top 4 EGP Ghent
The EGP Championship will be decided this August. The battle was on in Ghent and next stop is Paris. Ghent meant no extra points for Takuji, Francesco and Imre (top 4 tourneys). With Ben Seeley present at the Paris tourney, it will be a hard job to win the so much needed 200 points to defeat Miroslav Voráček. What ever happens, Paris EGP will be an exciting tournament. Othello News will be there to interview the winner and hopefully win 1/11. Link: EGP website |
Keisuke Fukuchi wins Elementary School Grand Prix OthelloLocation: Tokyo, Japan
Date: August 2nd Link: info on JOA website 696 young players participated in the qualifying tournaments. 108 kids from all over Japan qualified to play at this tourney at the Bandai Headquarters. The tourney was won by the same talented young man as last year, Keisuke Fukuchi! No wonder after his great performance at the All Japan Championship July 19th. ① 福地啓介 Fukuchi Keisuke ② 板垣玲音 Itagaki Lennon ③T 和田真幹 Wada Makoto ③T 松永 駿 Matsunaga Syun |
Maximiliano Pellizzari wins Torneo Invierno 2015
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentine
Date: August 2nd Tourney format: 7 rounds Maximiliano won the Torneo Invierno (Winter Tournament) with 7 wins. Probably because he was the only player wearing a nice warm woolen cap and a proper wintercoat. Final results: Maximiliano Pellizzari, 7 points 337 discs Daniel Olivares, 5 points 300 discs Alejandro Coello, 4,5 points 272 discs Germán Vazquez, 4 points 221 discs Marcelo Lisnovsky, 3,5 points 236 discs Paula Iturbide, 2 points 176 discs Max Seifert, 1 point 154 discs Mercedes Cohen, 1 point 96 discs The following players have qualified to play in the Argentine Championship in September: Maximiliano Pellizari, Alejandro Coello, David Nakasone, Daniel Olivares, Marcelo Lisnovsky and Paula Iturbide. |
Ko Bo Xiang wins 8th Singapore National Othello Championship
Singapore National Othello Championship 2015 (SNOC 2015) marked the 8th time Othello Organisation (Singapore) was hosting the tournament. This year a total of 30 participants including the top 20 players in Singapore graced the event. After a total of 7 rounds of Swiss Pairing , Semi-Finals 1 was contested by Koh Bo Chao (SNOC 2014 Champion) and his younger Brother Koh Bo Xiang (SNOC 2010 Champion) while Semi-Finals 2 was between Romy Hidayat and Roy Lin . The Women's Finals was contested between Jolin Ng and Xinyi Lim . Although Alex Koh was the one who Ranked first after 7 Rounds of Swiss Pairing, it was his younger brother who got the better of him and edged him 34-30 in Semi-Finals 1. Roy Lin, a former Singapore Schools Othello Champion ousted Romy Hidayat from Indonesia in Semi-Finals 2 with a score of 37-27. The Women's final was swept home by Jolin Ng with a score of 55-9 stamping her authority as a 6-time National Female Champion. The 3rd / 4th match was a close match between Alex and Romy which ended in a draw. Alex finished 3rd place ahead of Romy due to the draw win rule following the Swiss Pairing Rankings. Roy Lin being a first time SNOC Semi-finalist continued his dream run into the first finals of his Othello career to challenge 2010 Champion Koh Bo Xiang. The game was fiercely contested from start to finish only to end in a surprising manner when Roy Lin made a mistake giving the win to Koh Bo Xiang with A score of 47-17. This was the Second National Championship title Bo Xiang has won and he Joins Li Junfeng (2 titles) and Makoto Suekuni (4 titles) as the only 3 multiple National / Open Championship title holders.
Report by Koh Bo Chao on OOS Facebook page
August 4th 2015
More great photo's by Chu Chee Chin on OOS facebook
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KOH Bo Chao 30-34 KOH Bo Xiang SNOC 2015, semifinal1 |
LIN Roy 37-27 HIDAYAT Romy SNOC 2015, semifinal2 |
KOH Bo Xiang 47-17 LIN Roy SNOC 2015, final |
NG Hui Wen (Jolin) 55-9 LIM Xin Yi SNOC 2015, final |
Let's smash the top score! Play against the best of the world at the 39th World Othello Championship!
The top WOC tourneys with regard to number of players:
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39th WOC will be held October 28th - 31st in Cambridge, UK!
more WOF info to be found here: Othello Bulletin issue 350 W.O.F. homepage WOF Woc-page Email to woc 2015 |