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Othello News August 2015


Daisuke Kamikura wins 15th Shinagawa Super League

Location: 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 at WOC 2014
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Vidar Albrigtsen wins Norwegian Championship 2015

Location: 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 Argentina

Location: 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
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Rikard Fahleson wins Swedish Championship for Beginners

Location: 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."
Benkt Steentoft
"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."
Arvid Kjellberg
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Fanny, Julie & Blenda.
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.

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Mirosac Voráček (2nd), Takuji Kashiwabara (winner), Francesco Marconi (3rd)

EGP 2015 was decided in Paris, August 29th and 30th
Takuji Kashiwabara is European Champion 2015!

Top 4 EGP Paris:

  1. Marc Tastet (FRA)
  2. Takuji Kashiwabara (FRA)
  3. Roel Hobo (NLD)
  4. Arnaud Delaunay (FRA)

Top 3 EGP 2015:

  1. Takuji Kashiwabara (FRA)
  2. Miroslav Voráček (CZE)
  3. Francesco Marconi (ITA)


read more on our EGP Paris page
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EGP Champions 1986 - 2015
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EGP 2015

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Roy, Vidar and Julia

Mind Sports Olympiad 2015

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London UK, August 23rd - 31st

The Mind Sports Olympiad is an Olympics for the mind with over 60 different board game competitions ranging from classics like Othello, Chess, Scrabble and Go to newer games, including Settlers of Catan, 7 Wonders, Dominion, Magic the Gathering and Carcassonne. Card games figure too, with an amateur poker world championship and bridge, along with a general knowledge quiz, stratego, shogi, and dominoes. Unique events include Tetris (video game) and a Computer Programming Championship, in addition to over a dozen world championships such as Memory, Mental Calculations and Creative Thinking. The most prestigious title is the Pentamind World Championship, which is awarded to the competitor who has the best results from five different competitions. 

The Diving Chess World Championship took place earlier this month. Hmmmmm......., Diving Othello, as a new event at the WOC?

Results of the MSO Othello event on Wednesday 26th:

Gold medal: Vidar Aas
Silver medal: Roy Arnold
Bronze medal: Julia Hayward




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.


 

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.


AIHARA Shigeaki 31 - 33 NAGASAKI Hidekazu
Sea of Japan 2015, final


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final Sea of Japan: Hidekazu Nagasaki (l) - Shigeaki Aihara (r)

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.
  1. Riho Umezawa 
  2. Tomoki Tanabe 
  3. Kano Kobayashi
  4. 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. 
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cross table day 1
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.

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link to results per round on NOV website
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.
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Daniel, Matthias and Gunnar
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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:
  1. Ben Seeley, 15 pnts
  2. Yohanes Chitra, 10 pnts
  3. Sarah Bentolila, 9 pnts
  4. Richie Gilliland, 6.5 pnts
  5. Stephen Ross, 4.5 pnts
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Richie Gilliland, Ben Seeley, Sarah Bentolila, Stephen Ross and Yohanes Chitra
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XOT - random position openings
Hi All,

We had a surprisingly fun tournament in LA, considering there were 3 work-related cancellations and in the end we only had 5 players. The venue was fun and the food was great. Mo Li and his wife Sarah Bentolila were excellent  hosts.


Everyone won at least 1.5 games, and my biggest scare of the tournament was in a game with Stephen Ross, in his first tournament!  Richie Gilliland was also a new tournament player. And this was Sarah Bentolila's first American tournament.


It looks like an Othello club is starting up for the LA area, with maybe monthly meetings. Discussions will start soon, email me if you or someone you know wants to be kept in the loop.

It turned out that when I mentioned that players could play XOT in a game if both players wanted to, nobody preferred the classic starting
configuration. Everyone preferred to play XOT in every game. That was fun.

Posted by Ben Seeley at NAOthello Tourneys Yahoo Group


SEELEY Ben 50-14 CHITRA Yohanes
Los Angeles Open 2015, final


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final game Ben 50 - 14 Yohanes
Pictures from FB event page

 
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Defeat the foreign people one after another, with the aim to become World Champion!

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 Open

Location: 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  

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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!

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Oskar at EGP Ghent 2015

Göteborg Othello Open: only two players

Location: 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:
Round 1: Eklund-Ribguth 47-17
Round 2: Ribguth-Eklund 23-41
Round 3: Eklund-Ribguth 40-24
  1. Oskar Eklund 3 pts
  2. Michael Ribguth 0 pts
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.

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.

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).
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Takeshi Murakami at summercamp


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.................

  • The Ghent European Grand Prix tournament was the best attended Belgian tournament ever (41)
  • The Netherlands broke a record that stood for 27 years? United Kingdom attended the Paris EGP in 1988 with 13 players, while the Netherlands had 19!!! representatives in Ghent 
  • The record of most EGP victories present a tournament has been broken? (60), beating the Cambridge 2014 record of 59. Of course this record will be broken many times in the future, but now Ghent holds it for at least 4 weeks...
  • The Juigner brothers - nearly- broke the record of won games in the Swiss. They collected 14 points, while the record is 14.5. I bet one day they will break this record.
  • Takuji Kashiwabara is the first to score more than 10000 EGP points? (10152), he crossed this barrier in Athens EGP
  • Nicky van den Biggelaar has won his last 4 EGP tournaments he played (2014-2015)? Michele Borassi won 6 consecutive tournaments he played (2008-2009) and Emmanuel caspard 5 (1998-1999)
  • Nicky van den Biggelaar reached the top 3 in the last 12 EGP tournaments he played and won 6 of them. 
  • Adding the 41 players of Ghent, it seems we are heading towards the best attended EGP season in 6 years! (~21 players / tournament)

Posted by Tom Schotte

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European Grand Prix 2015, 6 tourneys played, 1 more to go

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Rating European Grand Prix, 1 more tourney to go
Top 4 EGP Ghent
  1. Nicky van den Biggelaar
  2. Jeroen Everts
  3. Arthur Juigner
  4. Niklas Wettergren

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
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EGP tourney winners at EGP Ghent 2015. A total of 60 wins!
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41 players at EGP Ghent

Keisuke Fukuchi wins Elementary School Grand Prix Othello

Location: 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
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winner second time in a row: Keisuke Fukuchi

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

Location: Singapore
Date: August 2nd
Tourney format: 7 rounds semifinals and final

The final top ranking in SNOC 2015:

Champion - Koh Bo Xiang
1st Runner Up - Roy Lin
2nd Runner Up - Koh Bo Chao
3rd Runner Up - Romy Hidayat
Top Female Player - Jolin Ng
Top Primary School Player - Shivakumar Aravind

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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
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standings round 7
More great photo's by Chu Chee Chin on OOS facebook


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!

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The top WOC tourneys with regard to number of players:
  • Mito 2006 (JPN), 84 players, 
  • Ghent 2009 (BEL), 70 players
  • Athens 2007 (GRE), 68 players
  • Leeuwarden 2012 (NLD), 66 players
  • Rome 2010 (ITA) and Bangkok 2014 (THA), 64 players
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
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The British team has a trick up it's sleeve for the next WOC. Leonardo Caviola (ITA) spotted this super-secret training camp within the walls of the Cambridge University.

Team Netherlands will rap it's way to the final. Let us know how your team prepares for WOC 2015. 


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