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Othello News February 2015



Jeroen Everts wins Örebro Othello Open

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!
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Final result after 7 rounds

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!
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Arnaud Delaunay and Thierry Lévy-Abégnoli win Ile de France 2

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 
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Arnaud lost his game against Thierry


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

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. 
othello_national_champions_1974-2014.pdf
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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
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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?
  • Marc Tastet got points in the most consecutive EGP tournaments he played (35) from Cambridge 1994 until Amsterdam 2005
  • Imre Leader got points in 59 of the 60 tournaments he played. (Brussels 2007 was the exception)
  • The best performance by two partners (17 points) was achieved by Albert Kortendijjk and Linda Praseptyo (11 + 6) during Copenhagen EGP 2006.
  • Takuji Kaswhiwabara and Miroslav Voracek are two players who have won an EGP tournament on their birthday

Wendy de Graaf wins 2nd school Othello Tourney at "De Burijn"

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!
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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

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
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link to results (in Japanese)
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Makoto Suekuni - Yusuke Takanashi, 27th Sea of Japan

Some more Japan Othello news: Yosuke TAKAGI won Osaka Regular Meeting. Yuka SAKURAI won Okayama open.


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Miroslav Voracek, winner of EGP Prague 2015

Miroslav Voráček wins European Grand Prix 2015 in Prague

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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:
  1. Miroslav Voráček (CZE)
  2. Francesco Marconi (ITA)
  3. Imre Leader (GBR)
  4. Takuji Kashiwabara (FRA)


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EUROPEAN GRAND PRIX 2015

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click on image to go to European Federations EGP website

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.






Japan Othello Association: "Welcome to Othello Meijin-sen 2015"

Links: Japan Othello Association Executive Office email, Asia and Pacific Trade Center Hall website


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