Othello News February 2015
Jeroen Everts wins Örebro Othello Open
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Location: Örebro, Sweden
Date: February 28th Tourney format: 7 rounds, 11 players Congratulations to Jeroen and his first tournament win on Swedish soil (if we don't count the Christmas XOT friendly las december). Oskar played his first tournament of the year and took a second place after a tight battle with Daniel. The next tournament is the Lund Open March 14th! |
Final result after 7 rounds
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Tom Schotte wins Louvain-la-Neuve Othello Open
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Date: February 22nd
Tourney format: 7 rounds, 6 players
Tom Schotte won the first Belgian Grand Prix tournament of the season. He had a score of 6/7. The only game he lost was in round 5 against Michel May.
No Dutch players at this tournament. In fact, this was the first Belgian tournament in 10 years with only Belgians!
Date: February 22nd
Tourney format: 7 rounds, 6 players
Tom Schotte won the first Belgian Grand Prix tournament of the season. He had a score of 6/7. The only game he lost was in round 5 against Michel May.
No Dutch players at this tournament. In fact, this was the first Belgian tournament in 10 years with only Belgians!
Arnaud Delaunay and Thierry Lévy-Abégnoli win Ile de France 2
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Location: Paris, France
Date: February 21st Tourney format: 5 rounds Two players with 4 points after 5 rounds: Arnaud Delaunay and Thierry Lévy-Abégnoli. Bintsa Andriani won against Thierry in the first round. Arnaud lost a point when Thierry defeated him in the fourth round. Next tournament in France; - tournament IDF 3 on saturday 28th of March. - préqualificatif de Reims; 11 and 12 April, 11 rounds plus final match. Standings of the 7 players after 5 rounds: 1: 4. pts [217] DELAUNAY Arnaud [195] LEVY-ABEGNOLI Thierry 3: 3. pts [174] ANDRIANI Bintsa [151] CORBINEAU Georges 5: 2.5 pts [165] BENOIT Serge 6: 2. pts [107] YONNET-LONDONO BAENA 7: 1.5 pts [151] TOUCHENE Foued |
Arnaud lost his game against Thierry
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ANDRIANI Bintsa 35 - 29 TOUCHENE Foued Ile de France 2 |
DELAUNAY Arnaud 21 - 43 LEVI-ABEGNOLI Thierry Ile de France 2 |
LEVI-ABEGNOLI Thierry 16 - 48 ANDRIANI Bintsa Ile de France 2 |
National Othello Champions 1974 - 2014
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Tom Schotte does not stop at European data, he recently sent me an enormous spreadsheet containing all the National Othello Champions since 1974 (Japan). Part of the spreadsheet is shown below (4 national titles or more) and you can download the rest of the data in PDF format. The 2014 champions are marked in green.
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A total of 549 registered national championships since 1974 to crown a countries best player. 34 countries organised these tournaments, of which 7 had championships in the 70ies. Japan, where Goro Hasegawa introduced Othello held its All Japan tournament for the 42nd time in 2014.
We have to agree that becoming national champion in certain countries is far more easy than in other. In Japan, for example, 18 players have 'only' one national title. Takeshi Murakami has won more World Championships (3) than All Japan tournaments (2). But becoming a national champion is something everyone must have dreamed about. 243 different players are now listed as 'national champion'.
Karsten Feldborg is not only record holder in most World Championship participations, but he is also 16 time Danish champion. Matthias Berg is closing in, illustrated by his 13 German titles the last 14 years. He is also the one with the most consecutive titles (7).
Another impressive fact is the period between two national titles: Emmanuel Lazard had to wait for 24 years (1985-2009), Henrik Vallund for 17 years (1987-2004), Masaki Takizwa for 15 years (1994-2009), Marc Tastet for 13 years (1991-2004) and Torben Vallund for 12 years (1993-2005).
Makoto Suekuni won in three different countries the national championship: Japan, Singapore (as resident) and Thailand (as visitor).
We look forward to see the changes for 2015!
Tom Schotte, February 20th 2015
Everything you always wanted to know about European Grand Prix Othello (but were afraid to ask)
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Tom Schotte's EGP Statistics pages have been updated. Latest addition is a page with "special statistics".
Did you know?
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Wendy de Graaf wins 2nd school Othello Tourney at "De Burijn"
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Location: Alkmaar, The Netherlands
Date: February 18th Last weekend Dutch Othello player Jan de Graaf played very well at the EGP in Prague where he finished 5th with 8/11. On wednesday his daughter Wendy proved she could do better than her dad, she come come with the #1 trophy. Congrats Wendy, well done! |
1. 4 pnts, Wendy de Graaf
2. 3 pnts, Anne Dorbeck 3. 3 pnts, Wouter Evers 4. 3 pnts, Anouk Evers 5. 2 pnts, Liz Evers 6. 2 pnts, Anouk de Vries 7. 2 pnts, Angela Snijder 8. 2 pnts, Isa Goosen 9. 2 pnts, Sulaika Groendijk 10. 1 pnt, Jiske de Vries 11. 0 pnts, Tineke Goosen 12. 0 pnts, Sil Kok |
Yusuke Takanashi wins 27th Sea of Japan
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Location: Niigata, Japan
Date: February 15th Final: Makoto Suekuni ×-○ Yusuke Takanashi Preliminary Top 5 Players (out of 18 players) 1. Yusuke Takanashi 2. Makoto Suekuni 3. Hidekazu Nagasaki 4. Shigeaki Aihara 5. Hisakazu Sato 
link to results (in Japanese)
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Makoto Suekuni - Yusuke Takanashi, 27th Sea of Japan
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Some more Japan Othello news: Yosuke TAKAGI won Osaka Regular Meeting. Yuka SAKURAI won Okayama open.
Miroslav Voracek, winner of EGP Prague 2015
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Miroslav Voráček wins European Grand Prix 2015 in Prague
The first stage of the EGP 2015 was played in Prague on February 14 - 15.
Results and pictures can be found on Othello New's special EGP Prague page. Tom Schotte's EGP Statistics pages have been updated, have a look. The European Othello Confederation's website on EGP can be found here. Top 4 EGP Prague:
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EUROPEAN GRAND PRIX 2015
click on image to go to European Federations EGP website
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Now online the offcial European Othello Federation's European Grand Prix site.Comment by Francesco Marconi, Europe Othello Confederation representative at the World Othello Federation:
The ranking for 2015 is of course still empty, but you can see the 2014 and 2013 ranking. In the near future the rankings for all the others years will be added. For the recent years it is not a big problem to find the results but it gets harder as we go back in time. Please, I ask to everyone who has some data, especially for the very past years, to send them to me privately so I can fill the appropriate grids. Any suggestions to make the site more beautiful and useful are well-accepted. |
