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Othello News August 2017


​Brian Rose wins US National Othello Championship

​Location: New York, US
Date: August 26th - 27th
Format: 6 swiss rounds, top 4 play double round robin on final day
Link: USOA FB page, LiveOthello

Results Day 1

1 Rose, Brian 5 
2-3 Rose, Joseph 4 
        Tamaki, Tomoyasu 4 
4-5 Platt, Jared 3.5 3
        Rockwell, David 3.5 
6-7 Rose, Yoko 3 
        Bishop, Robert 3 
8-9 Hurst, Christina 2 
        Rose, Julia 2 

Jared Platt defeated David Rockwell in the play-off for the 4th spot to play on day 2 of the tournament. Report says it was a pretty difficult match. 
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The practice is paying off. I played the game of my life against Othello legend Brian Rose in the US Championship today - falling two disks short when I failed to find the win in this position. I had eight minutes on the clock and just couldn't find it,. I'm still very proud of this game.

David Rockwell


ROCKWELL David 31-33 ROSE Brian
New York Othello Tournament

A double round robin was played on day 2 by the best 4 of day 1. The US champion after 2 days of tournament...... former World Othello Champion Brian Ros (2001).  Brian won the US Nationals 12 times, his first National title dates  back to  1981. The other wins were in 1983, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2015 and this one in 2017.
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Final results day 2:
1. Brian Rose 5
2. Jared Platt 3.5
3. Joseph Rose 2
4. Tomoyasu Tamaki 1.5


ROSE Brian 22-42 PLATT Jared
US Championship, day 2, round 3



ROSE Joseph 49-14 PLATT Jared
US Championship, day 2, round 4



PLATT Jared 28-36 ROSE Brian
US Championship, day 2, round 6


Final stage of European Grand Prix 2017

This weekend in Paris the final stage of the 2017 EGP. All 4 contenders for the European Grand Prix Champoinship are present at this tournament. Who will win this year? We will know tomorrow at the end of this two-day tournament. News will be posted on our EGP Paris page.

Links:
  • ON EGP Paris page
  • FNGO website
  • Murakami blog
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​Takuji Kashiwabara European Champion 2017

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EGP Champions 1986 - 2017

Yusuke Takanashi wins 1st Incheon Open

Location: Incheon, South Korea
Date: August 26th
Format: 7 rounds, 3/4 playoff and final (1 game)
Link: LiveOthello

Quite a number of top Japanese Othello players travelled to Korea to attend the 1st Incheon Open. Yusuke Takanashi, World Champion in 2009, 2010. 2012 and 2015 won this well attended tournament after qualifying for the final with 6.5 wins. Second place for Takashi Yamamoto who scored 6 wins and lost 20-44 against Yusuke in the final. Tetsuya Nakajima (5 wins) won the playoff for 3rd/4th place against Hiroki Nakamori (5 wins and a draw). Top 4 of this tournament were all players from Japan but the best Korean player Joung-Mok Oh came close to get a spot in the 3/4 playoff, he finished the rounds with 5 wins, same as Tetsuya Nakajima. 

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YAMAMOTO Takashi 20-44 TAKANASHI Yusuke
1st Incheon Open, final



NAKAMORI Hiroki 15-49 NAKAJIMA Tetsuya
1st Incheon Open, 3/4 playoff


Paul Smith wins Othello event at Mind Sports Olympiad

This year’s Mind Sports Olympiad runs from August 20 to 28 in London (UK). There’s something for all ages from a free "learn to play" room to competitions ranging from Dominoes, Carcassone,  Backgammon and Chess to Speed Reading, a Quiz for teams of two, and the Creative Thinking World Championship. There are medals for adults and juniors and everyone is welcome!
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The Othello event took place on the first day of the Olympiad and it was won by Paul Smith with a perfect score of 5 wins out of 5 games.
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​Jun Takemoto wins X Copa de Othello

Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Date: August 20th
Format: 5 rounds
Link: FBO website, LiveOthello

Another win for Jun this week. He won an online tournament organised by the FBO on Thursday and now an on the board win. Congrats Jun!
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Hidekazu Nagasaki wins the 32nd Sea of Japan

​Location: Niigata, Japan
Date: August 20th
Format: 6 rounds and final
Link: JOA page

Masaki Takizawa (World Othello Champion 1985, 1994) won all his games in the swiss rounds but he lost the final 27-37 against Hidekazu Nagasaki who won 5/6 in the qualifying rounds. Third place for  Hisakazu Sato.


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winner: Hidekazu Nagasaki
Results swiss rounds:
​1位 滝沢 雅樹 九段(Masaki Takizawa) 6勝0敗 決勝戦進出
2位 長崎 秀和 六段(Hidekazu Nagasaki) 5勝1敗 決勝戦進出
3位 佐藤 久和 四段(Hisakazu Sato) 4勝2敗
4位 梅沢 佳紀 五段(Yoshinori Umezawa) 4勝2敗
5位 神田 吉浩 四段(Yoshihiro Kanda) 4勝2敗
6位 藍原 重朗 四段(Shigeaki Aihara) 4勝2敗
7位 小原 大翔 初段(Hiroto Obara) 4勝2敗
8位 大清水 崇典 六段(Takanori Oshimizu) 4勝2敗
9位 長尾 広人 六段(Hiroto Nagao) 3勝3敗
10位 小林 俊次郎 初段(Syunjiro Kobayashi) 3勝3敗
11位 小林 嘉野 1級(Kano Kobayashi) 3勝3敗


12位 古田 詩唯奈 1級(Shiina Furuta) 3勝3敗
13位 吉田 泰作 三段(Taisaku Yoshita) 3勝3敗
14位 青木 涼介(Ryosuke Aoki) 3勝3敗
15位 岩坂 龍次 初段(Ryuji Iwasaka) 2勝4敗
16位 衛藤 理壱 1級(Riichi Eto) 2勝4敗
17位 田辺 知己 初段(Tomoki Tanabe) 2勝4敗
18位 杉山 亮 初段(Ryo Sugiyama) 2勝4敗
19位 松橋 怜 1級(Ren Matsuhashi) 2勝4敗
20位 田辺 辰雄(Tatsuo Tanabe) 1勝5敗
21位 大西 薫(Kaoru Onishi) 1勝5敗
22位 林 大樹(Hiroki Hayashi) 1勝5敗
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runner-up: Masaki Takizawa

Oskar Eklund wins 33rd Nordic Championship

​Location: Greve, Denmark
Date: August 19-20th
Format: double round robin, no final
Link: FB page
Thirtytwo years ago, Henrik Vallund from Denmark organised the first Nordic Championship. Henrik won the Championship in 1998 and attented a lot of Nordic tournament but is not among the 8 players that showed up for the 33rd edition. Will we get a brand new champion or did Karsten Feldborg sign up for his 9th title?

At the end of the first day, after 8 rounds, Oskar Eklund had the best score, he won 7 games and lost against Kim Freiburghaus in round 8. Second place for 3 players with 5 points: Feldborg, Badsted and Steentoft. A two point lead for Oskar, nice way to start the second day! 
Results after 8/14 rounds:
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1: EKLUND Oskar (SWE), 7 pnts
2: FELDBORG Karsten (DNK), 5 pnts
    BADSTED Palle (DNK), 5 pnts
    STEENTOFT Benkt (SWE), 5 pnts
5: FREIBURGHAUS Kim (SWE), 4 pnts
     HUAS Knut Bjarte (NOR), 4 pnts
7: MICHAELSEN Peter (DNK), 2 pnts
8: AAGAARD-HANSEN Jens (DNK), 0 pnts
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Nordic Champions 1985 - 2016
Oskar won 5 more games on the second day and won his first Nordic title. He finished 2nd in 2015 behind Laro Pihlajapuro, but the win was his this time. Very nice second place for another Swede, Kim Freiburghaus, who started the second day at fourth place. Third place for Nordic veteran Karsten Feldborg.
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Final results:
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1: EKLUND Oskar (SWE), 12 pnts
2: FREIBURGHAUS Kim (SWE), 9.5 pnts
3: FELDBORG Karsten (DNK), 8.5 pnts
4: BADSTED Palle (DNK), 8 pnts
5: STEENTOFT Benkt (SWE), 7 pnts
6: HUAS Knut Bjarte (NOR), 5 pnts
7: MICHAELSEN Peter (DNK), 4 pnts
8: AAGAARD-HANSEN Jens (DNK), 2 pnts
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Kim, Oskar and Karsten

Tetsuya Nakajima wins the 128th Shinagawa Open

Location: Shinagawa, Japan
Date August 19th
Format: 6 rounds
​Link: JOA website

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Tetsuya Nakajima won the tournament with 5 wins and 1 loss (against Hiroki Ishiguro). Second place for Suguru Osato and third place for Hiroki Ishiguro, they also scored 5 wins and 1 loss.
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Tetsuya Nakajima

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Jun Takemoto at an otb tournament
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Jun Takemoto wins Brazil Online tournament

Location: PlayOk
Date August 17th
Format: 5 rounds and best of 3 final
​Link: FBO website

The tournament is aimed at bringing together players who, due to the Brazilian territorial extension, are unable to play in on the board events. The organisation was succesful in getting players from north to soth and east to west. Even one player from Argentina joined, Marcelo Lisnovsky (Argentina), who recently played at the PanAmerican Championship where he also finished 4th place.

Final result:
1 hattori (Jun) 4 292.0 202.0-118.0 15.0
2 foradilma (Denis) 4 276.0 198.0-122.0 13.0
3 miib (Adegar) 4 268.0 202.0-118.0 11.0
4 everestar (Marcelo-ARG) 3 287.0 206.0-114.0 13.5
5 vicioloko, (L Silveira) 3 285.0 195.0-124.0 15.0
6 carlbarks2003,(L Cherem) 3 276.0 174.0-145.0 17.0
7 elkfrank, (Elk Frank) 3 260.0 191.0-129.0 11.5
8 meunick, (Henrique) 3 238.0 160.0-159.0 13.0
9 reversisp, (K-marão) 2 234.0 183.0-136.0 8.5
10 milkky014, (Mitsuru) 2 216.0 141.0-179.0 12.5
11 moisesjr, (Moisés) 2 192.0 126.0-193.0 11.0
12 tkg4402, (L.Pedreira) 1 207.0 135.0-184.0 12.0
13 ppd9718, (Roberto) 1 158.0 80.0-240.0 13.0
14 ricardo 123, (R.Lopes) 1 119.0 44.0-212.0 12.5

Final:
foradilma 27-22 hattori (time)
hattori 44-20 foradilma
foradilma 18-46 hattori

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EGP 2017 stage 7/8
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players Paris EGP per August 21st

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Keita Omori, Tatsuro Akagi and Takeshi Murakami

​Tatsuro Akagi wins 8th Kanagawa Cup

​Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Date: August 6th
Format: 7 rounds swiss
Report by: Yukiko Tatsumi
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Final result top 3 of 24 players:

Winner: Tatsuro Akagi 6 wins, 1 loss
2nd: Takeshi Murakami 5 wins, 2 loss
3rd: Keita Omori 5 wins, 2 losses
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Congratulations!!

Ilya Shifman wins Kfar-Saba  Ice Cream Tournament

Country: Kfar-Saba, Israel
Date: August 6
Tourney format: rounds

​Ilya Shiffman won the tournament with 5/5, his father Leonid scored 4/5. Who ate most of the ice cream? I bet it was one of the junior players.

SHIFMAN, Ilya, IL, 5, 252
SHIFMAN, Leonid, IL, 4, 220
YOSIFOVICH, Danielle, IL, 2, 145
SHIFMAN, Michael, IL, 2, 137
CHERESHNYA, Yaron, IL, 1, 120
LAUFER, Shahar, IL, 1, 86
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Akihiro Takahashi wins Othello Shougakusei Grand-Prix 

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: August 6
Link: JOA website

Also this year the top event for junior Othello players organised by the Japan Othello Association: the  “Othello Shougakusei Grand-Prix 2017”.

The tournament was open for all elementary school children. It consisted of 13 district qualifications held throughout Japan and a final tournament  with 96 players at the Bandai building in Tokyo on August 6th. The Champion qualified for the junior spot on the Japanes World Othello Championship team.

Two players qualified for the final, Akihiro Takahashi ​ and Keisuke Fukuchi. The game was a 33-31 win for Akihiro Takahashi.
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TAKAHASHI Akihiro 33-31 FUKUCHI Keisuke
Othello Shougakusei Grand-Prix, final

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​​Kenta Kiyonobu wins 119th Shinagawa Seaside Challenge Cup

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: August 5th
Format: 6 rounds swiss
Report by: Yukiko Tatsumi

15 players came to Shinagawa for the advanced division.
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Final result top 3 for advanced division:
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Winner: Kenta Kiyonobu 5 wins, 1 loss, 374pt
2nd: Daichi Kitano 5 wins, 1 loss, 335 pt
3rd: Kunihiko Tanida 4 wins, 2 losses, 352pt

Congratulations!

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World Othello Championship 2017

Take a look at the WOC 2017 Teams page to see who has qualified and registered first players have registered.
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​Join us in Ghent, Belgium!!!

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