Othello News December 2011

Paolo Scognamiglio wins Torneo di Natale

27th December, the eleventh edition of the Torneo di Natale Campano.
Ten participants were challenged with 5 rounds, random openings.
For Paolo Scognamiglio it was his first victory in an open tournament, he won all his games.

Final Standings:
Paolo Scognamiglio
Tommaso Liguori
Alessandro Di Mattei
Luigi Lamberti
Francesco Privitera
Biagio Privitera
Pierluigi Stanzione
Michele Diodati
Andrea Amirante
Giuseppe Tedesco

report by Alessandro Di Mattei

points
5
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
2
2
1
0

link to FNGO website

Paolo Scognamiglio at Italian Championship, September 2011. Pictures by Biagio Privitera

more pictures by Biagio Privitera

Takuji Kashiwabara wins Tournoi de Fin d'Année 2011

Grenoble, December 18th
Dedicated to the memory of Marie-Christine Torri.

Only 4 players attended this tourney, they played 6 rounds. Manu Lazard played a draw against Takuji. Takuji won all his other games.

1. Takuji Kashiwabara
2. Manu Lazard
3. Stéphane Michel
4. Caroline Nicolas

5,5 pts
3,5 pts
2 pts
1 pnt

Takuji Kashiwabara - Manu Lazard
Tournoi de Fin d'Année 2011

Roman Kraczyk wins Warsaw Championship

December 17th, Warsaw

The Warsaw Championship is one of the tourneys in the Polish Grand Priix. The twelve players played 9 rounds, no final games or 3rd / 4th place playoff

Player
1-2 KRACZYK, ROMAN
CUPIAL, MILOSZ
3 MARCINIAK, BARTOSZ
4-5 SURY, BARTLOMIEJ
TOROUS, MARIUSZ
6 ZANIEWSKI, ROBERT

pts
7
7
6.5
6
6
5.5

   Player
7-8 ZIEBA, GRZEGORZ
BUKA, MICHAL
9 DOMINCZAK, CEZARY
10 WEGLOREK, ARKADIUSZ
11 JAWORSKI, HENRYK
12 SOLTYSIAK, ANDRZEJ

pts
5
5
3
2
1
0

Marc Tastet wins Tournoi de Noël 2011

December 10th

1: 5 pts [200] TASTET Marc
2: 4 pts [220] BUTIN Pierre
3: 3 pts [164] JUIGNER Arthur
4: 2 pts [163] RUBIO Céline
[150] CLUZON Gilles
[144] BENOIT Serge
[119] BETIN Dominique

According to the report by Marc Tastet, it was a very nice tourney. Tangerines and cookies helped to create the Christmas setting.

Classement Grand Prix de France

Arc de Triomphe - Champs-Élysées

Niklas Wettergren - Christian Gårdebrink
round 3

Niklas Wettergren wins Uppsala Open

December 10th

In 2010 Niklas was number 2 at the Uppsala Open, which was won by Oscar Eriksson. But this year the Uppsala open trophy is his. It was a close call though. Martin Fransen (tablejudge at WOC 2011) and Marcus Frönmark (26th place at WOC 2011), also won 5 out of 7, as did Jonas Isakson (but he had a bye at round 6).

1. 5 pts Niklas Wettergren
2. 5 pts Martin Fransen (NL)
3. 5 pts Marcus Frönmark
4. 5 pts Jonas Isakson
5. 4 pts Henry Aspenryd
6. 4 pts Christian Gårdebrink
7. 4 pts Marcel Sneek (NL)
8. 3 pts Benkt Steentoft
9. 3 pts Simon Ingelman-Sundberg
10. 3 pts Mateusz Sosnowski
11. 1 pnt Johannes Sjögren

Niklas Wettergren

Link to results on SOF website

Bo Chao Alex Koh wins Singapore Othello Masters

December 4th

The Singapore Othello Masters Series tournament is held at the end of each year featuring the top 8 ranked players of Singapore based on the World Othello Federation Ranking List updated after the World Othello Championship.
Alex and Jinfeng who represented Singapore in the World Othello Championship replayed WOC games, and shared their WOC experiences. Check our WOC page to see their final WOC results.
After the Masters tourney there was a nice year end dinner party.

Final Results after 7 rounds:

1 Alex Koh, Bo Chao 7 pnts
2-3 Koh, Bo Xiang 5 pnts
Ng, Qi Han 5 pnts
4 William, Joanna 4 pnts
5-6 Wu, Jinfeng 3 pnts
Leong, Chee Kit 3 pnts
7 Ying, Ke Sin 1 pnt
8 Chua, Zi Wei 0 pnts