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Othello News February 2016


Tom Schotte won stage 2 of the 2016 European Grand Prix in Cambridge 27-28 February

Francesco Marconi won the first stage in his home town Rome. Imre Leader collected collected his first 2016 EGP points at his own Trinity college, but he failed to lay his ands on the full 200 points. Tom Schotte won the tournament after an unnerving final against Takuji Kashiwabara. Third place for Marc Tastet and fourth place for Roel Hobo. Read more on the Othello News Cambridge EGP page.

​More links:
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EGP Federation 
EGP Cambridge FB 
BOF website
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Tom Schotte - Roel Hobo
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EGP 2016 standings after 2 stages

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Play at the Thailand Othello Championship 2016

The Thailand Othello Championship will take plase March 27th. Foreign players are welcome.

How to register? - Send Thailand Othello Association a message on Facebook including:
1. Your firstname-lastname
2. Your World Ratings
3. Your email

Deadline for registration 25th March 2016, register fee = 100 THB 

In case a foreign player becomes champion of this tournament, such player can't be the representative player of Thailand team for WOC2016.

Chunyi Chang wins Taiwan Othello Championship 2016

Location: Tainan, Taiwan
Date: February 24th
​Link: FB event page
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Tourney format: 7 rounds and final

Chunyi Chang won all his games in the Swiss rounds. The other qualifier for the final was Enoch Wang who had 5 wins and a bye in the first round. 

Chunyi maintained his perfect score in the final:
Chunyi Chang 39 - 25 Enoch Wang 
Enoch Wang 22 - 42 Chunyi Chang
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CHANG Chunyi 39-25 WANG Enoch
Taiwan Othello Championship 2016, final game 1



WANG Enoch 22-42 CHANG Chunyi
Taiwan Othello Championship 2016, final game 2



Students play Othello in Nova Odessa

Fifty five students played Othello at the  Silvania Aparecida Santos school in Nova Odessa Brazil on February 23rd.

Liz Evers wins 8th Burijn Tournament

Location: Alkmaar, Netherlands
Date: February 23rd
​Link: NOV website, Burijn FB
Tourney format: 5 rounds

Liz Evers won the 8th tournament at the "Burijn".  Up till the very last round, there were several conteders for the victory. But Liz won with 4.5 points, Anouk de Vries and Wouter Evers finished 0.5 point behind her. 
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8th Burijn tournament: final results
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Liz Evers, winner 8th Burijn tournament

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Kwangwook Lee wins 25th Korean Othello Championship

Location: Seoul, South Korea
Date: February 21st
​Link: Korea Othello Association website
Tourney format: 5 rounds


A delegation of the Japan Othello Association landed in Seoul South Korea at the invitation of the Korean Othello Association. The delegation included World Champion Yusuke Takanashi  who was quick to find an opponent after lunch (see picture).

It was a great opportunity for the Othello players in Korea to see the World Champion in action and maybe even get a chance to play against him.

The tournament started with a shock. Nobody had expected Takanashi 's defeat in the first round of the tournament against Chunae Lee. 
Yusuke won the next 4 games, but it was a pitty he did not get to play against the winner Lee Kwangwook. ​

Final ranking of the 24 players

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1:   5.  pts [206]   LEE Kwangwook (4087) {KOR}  
2:   4.  pts [238]   TAKANASHI Yusuke (5537) {JPN}               
                  [226]   OH Joungmok (4074) {KOR}  
4:   3.5 pts [206]  IKARASHI Toshiyuki (10075) {JPN}               
                   [188]   KWON Younghwa (4063) {KOR}  
6:   3.  pts [175]   KIM Seongchan (30036) {KOR}               
                  [173]   KIM Jungsoo (30037) {KOR}               
                  [167]   YOON Taegyoung (30100) {KOR}               
                  [162]   LEE Chunae (7568) {KOR}                       
                               NAM Sungwoo (30043) {KOR}               
                  [151]   AHN Hwimin (35099) {KOR} 


12:   2.5 pts [165]   KIM Daeil (30016) {KOR}               
                      [161]   KIM Donghyeon (35086) {KOR}               
                      [156]   HONG Hyungbum (30009) {KOR} 
15:   2.  pts [155]   HA Seungsup (7573) {KOR}               
                     [154]   LEE Soonju (30101) {KOR}               
                     [151]   LEE Mikael (35089) {KOR}               
                     [122]   KIM Donggyu (35088) {KOR}               
                     [117]   KIM Wangnyeon (30005) {KOR} 
20:   1.5 pts [164]   KIM Dongil (35084) {KOR} 
21:   1.  pt  [115]   JEON Gunsoo (30033) {KOR}                
                      [99]   KIM Yerin (35129) {KOR} 
23:   0.5 pt  [115]   KIM Gyejin (30024) {KOR}               
                     [112]   KIM Taehwa (35085) {KOR}


TAKANASHI Yusuke 30-34 LEE Chunae
25th Korean Championship




LEE Kwangwook 35-29 OH Joungmok
25th Korean Championship




OH Joungmok 52-12 LEE Chunae
25th Korean Championship



Takuji Kashiwabara wins Milan Othello Open

Location: Milan, Italy
Date: February 21st
Link: FNGO website, LiveOthello
Tourney format: 7 rounds, 9 players 
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Takuji Kashiwabara won the tournament with 6 wins and 1 loss. Luca Colao and Paolo Tormene finished with 5 wins. Gianluca Ilacqua won against Takuji in round 5 but did not win enough games to make it into the top 3.
Best Categoria: Giuseppe Chiarulli
Best lady: Maria Serena Vecchi

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Takuji Kashiwabara


KASHIWABARA Takuji 35-29 TORMENE Paolo
Milan Open, round 1




KASHIWABARA Takuji 31-33 ILACQUA Gianluca
Milan Open, round 5



Masaki Takizawa wins 29th Sea of Japan

Location: Niigata, Japan
Date: February 21st
Link: JOA website
Tourney format: 6 rounds and final


World Othello Champion 1985 and 1994 Masaki Takizawa, won the 29th Sea of Japan. Runner-up Yoshinori Umezawa lost 29-35 in the final against this formidable opponent.
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Winner: Masaki Takizawa
Runner-up: Yoshinori Umezawa
3: Hisakazu Sato, 4 points
4: Hidekazu Nagasaki, 4 points
5: Hiroto Nagao, 3 points
6: Hiroto Obara, 3 points
7: Shigeaki Aihara, 3 points
8: Shiho Umezawa, 3 points
9: Kano Kobayashi, 3 points
10: Katsunori Fukuchi, 2 points
11: Yutaka Kobayashi, 1 point
12: Riho Umezawa, 0 points
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Masaki Takizawa (l) and Yoshinori Umezawa (r)


UMEZAWA Yoshinori 29-35 TAKIZAWA Masaki
29th Sea of Japan, final



Gleber Ribeiro wins III Copa Othello 

Location: Nova Odessa, Brazil
Date: February 20th
Link: FB event
Tourney format: 5 rounds 

​Gleber Ribeiro won the Othello Cup III, he was the best of 23 players. Jesualdo Tubero was the winner of Category + 60 and Vitor Correia was the under 18 winner. Best female player was Katy Pimenta.

Great achievement by Gleber Ribeiro who finished 21st at Othello Cup II in January with only 1 win. Took him not a lifetime to master :)
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Moises Correira Jr, Emerson Pimenta, Carlos Venancio and Gleber Ribeiro

Albert Kortendijk wins Marche-en-Famenne Open 2016

Location: Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium
Date: February 20th
Link: BOA website
Tourney format: 6 rounds 

Two players finished with 5 wins, but the tourney victory went to Dutch player Albert Kortendijk. Well deserved second place for Brecht Van Damme who also scored 5 points. 


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Ivo Rybárik wins Czech GP Othello II

Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Date: February 20th
Link: Czech federation FB page
Tourney format: 7 rounds 

Ivo Rybárik won all his games at the second stage of the Czech Grand Prix Othello 2016. Second place was for the winner of the first stage in January,  Miroslav Voráček, with 6 wins. Third place for Tomáš Douda. 
Comment by Ivo: Magic moment... This is the first time when I beat 
Mirek Voráček andTomáš Douda at same match day and won the Czech Othello tournament.
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Othello promotion at Niigata Nishikko Winter Festival

Lots of people got a taste of Othello at this festival in Japan. Full report on Othello Graph website and Niigata block Facebook page

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 Kazuki Okamoto wins 37th Kinki Hokuriku Championship

Location: Japan
Date: February 14th
Link: JOA website
Tourney format: 7 rounds 

Kazuki Okamoto, World Othello Champion in 2013, won the tournament with 6 wins and 1 loss. Runnerup was Yuji Miyazaki, who also scored 6 points.
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World Othello Federation Office, get in touch with the WOF

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Dear Othello world!
The W.O.F. Office is online at Facebook for chat two days a week.
Office hours (GMT +1:00): 
Mondays 8:30-11:30 AM 
Thursdays 7:30 - 11:30 PM

If you want direct answers from the Office and W.O.F. you are welcome to write at the Facebook page or send messages or emails. You can also contact us by phone, Skype and other ways:

World Othello Federation Office
Västerlånggatan 56, Inre gården 1tr.
111 29 Stockholm - SWEDEN

Email: office@worldothello.org
Phone, Whatsapp & Line: +46 720 16 52 22
Skype: Knebts


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Roel Hobo

Roel Hobo wins 79th Dutch Open

Location: Lexmond, Netherlands
Date: February 13th
Link: NOV website
Tourney format: 7 rounds 

Roel won the tournament with a perfect score of 7 wins. Roel and Jan will both play at the EGP in Cambridge. Good luck to both!

​1. Roel Hobo, 7 points
2. Nicky van den Biggelaar, 6 points
3. Jan C. de Graaf, 5 points
4. Erwin van den Berg, 4 points
5. Mireille Blijleven, 2 points
     Jarl Ilbrink, 2 points
7. Marcel Sneek, 1 point
    Frauke Van den Moortel, 1 point


HOBO Roel 35-29 BIGGELAAR Nicky van den
79th Dutch Open




BLIJLEVEN Mireille 40-24 SNEEK Marcel
79th Dutch Open



Karsten Feldborg wins Lolland-Falster Open 2016

Location: Nykøbing, Denmark
Date: February 13th
Link: LiveOthello, FB event
Tourney format: 7 rounds 

Karsten Feldborg was too strong for the rest of the players. Even for Australian Geoff Hubbard who finished second. Palle Badsted finished 3rd with 5 points.
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anking of the 10 players after round 7: 
  1:   7 pts [548]   FELDBORG Karsten (92) {DNK}
  2:   6 pts [533]   HUBBARD Geoff (804) {AUS}
  
3:   5 pts [480]   BADSTED Palle (1025) {DNK}
  4:   4 pts [516]   VALLUND Henrik (96) {DNK}
                 [484]   NIELSEN Kim J. (1045) {DNK}
                 [421]   MICHAELSEN Peter (1000) {DNK}
  7:   2 pts [475]   AAGAARD-HANSEN Jens (1019) {DNK}
                 [406]   STOKKE Solrun (1981) {DNK}
  9:   1 pt  [284]   HOEGH Daniel (220013) {DNK}

10:   0 pt  [298]   ANDREASEN Mathias (220008) {DNK}​


VALLUND Henrik 28-36 FELDBORG Karsten
LF Open 2016, round 3



Marc Tastet wins Ile de France 2

Location: Paris, France
Date: February 13th
Link: FFO website
Tourney format: 5 rounds 

Marc Tastet won the Ile de France 1 on January 30th with 4 wins and 1 draw. This time he finished with 5 wins. Thierry Lévy-Abégnoli came very close to a win against Marc, but fell 2 discs short. Marc will play at the EGP in Cambridge end of February. He seems in great form. Will the French win on British soil?



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Ranking after round 5 :

  1:   5 pts [244]   Marc TASTET (2) {FRA}
  2:   4 pts [206]   Thierry LEVY-ABEGNOLI (3598) {FRA}
  3:   3 pts [177]   Bintsa ANDRIANI (45) {MDG}
                  [162]   Fouad TOUCHENE (9025) {DZA}
  5:   2 pts [156]   Michel BUSUTTIL (228) {FRA}
                  [119]   Serge BENOIT (3600) {FRA}
  7:   1 pt  [125]   Gilles CLUZON (3734) {FRA}
  8:   0 pt   [91]   Monique LECAT (2788) {BEL}
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Thierry Lévi-Abègnoli


LEVY-ABEGNOLI Thierry 31-33 TASTET Marc
Ile de France 2, round 2




TOUCHENE Fouad 33-31 CLUZON Giles
Ile de France 2, round 5


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Giles Cluzon - Fouad Touchene

Masaki Wada wins 82nd Sendai Open Elementary School Tournament

Location: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Date: February 10th
Link: Tohoku FB, JOA website
Tourney format: 6 rounds 

Winner is Masaki Wada and second place for Shun Matsunaga. Both scored 4 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw.

Takanori Oshimizu wins 37th Tohoku Championship

Location: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Date: February 7th
Link: Tohoku FB, JOA website
Tourney format: 5 rounds and final

Takenori Oshimizu finished 2nd with 3 wins and 2 losses in the Swiss rounds. Hisakazu Sato was at the top of the list with a perfect score of 5 wins. But in the final Oshimizu proved to strong for his opponent and Sato lost 29-35.
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Othello News wishes you a Happy Year Of The Monkey 2016


World Othello Federation Othello Bulletin 355 is out!

There is a lot of info about the next World Othello Championship in Othello Bulletin 355. You can read the entire bulletin here.

World Othello Championship 2016, Mito, Japan

We are pleased to announce that the 40th World Othello Championship will be held in Mito, Japan, November 1-4, 2016.

The venue will be the Hotel Lake View, Mito
. 
Informations about venue, accomodations, WOC informations and the WOC 2016 homepage, will be sent out latest in April.

Registrations of National teams 
Last day for registration is June 30th, 2016.

There is more WOC and WOF news in the bulletin. 
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top part of bulletin 355

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visitors Othello News 2015: top 20 countries

Overview Othello News Visitors 2015

Othello players from all over the world, to be exact from 111 different countries, have visited our Othello News website in 2015.

Top country: no surprise there, Japan! 
Top continent: Europe!
Peak day: Thursday October 29th, start of the WOC in Cambridge
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