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Othello News January 2013


 

News on World Othello Championship 2013

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Bo Chao Alex Koh, Junya Ito and Tor Birger Skogen
Dear all Othello-players!

The Othello World-Cup (OWC) has just finished in Tokyo, Japan. The tournament was a big success with lots of good and exciting games between many of the top Othello players in the world. It has been decided that OWC 2014 will be played in Singapore, and World Othello Federation (WOF) will support the tournament in collaboration with Megahouse.

Anjar and Megahouse together with WOF have organized the World Othello Championship (WOC) for many years. Because of an ongoing conflict between Anjar and Megahouse (which does not involve the WOF), WOF have decided that as long as the conflict last WOF alone will be responsible for organizing WOC. That means that neither Anjar nor Megahouse will be sponsoring WOC the next years. Both Anjar and Megahouse support this decision.

WOF intend to organize WOC in the same way that it has been organized all years. That means that when OWC invite only selected top players, WOC will still be a Championship with players from all Othello nations which are members of WOF and organize qualification tournaments. In this way WOF want to carry on the tradition from the first WOC arranged in 1977.

WOF intend to announce the time and venue for WOC 2013 within 1-2 months.

Best regards,
Tor Birger Skogen
President WOF
30 - 1 - 2013


 

Martin Ødegård wins Flight AY074 Transcontinental Othello tourney

Tokyo - Helsinki at 10.000 meter, 28 January
Tourney format: 5 rounds and final

First ever intercontinental Othello tournament at 30.000 feet. Sweden had a strong team with 3 players but the victory went to Norway as Martin Ødegård beat David Hand 26 - 38 in a thrilling final game. Results images and games of this Finnair tourney can be found on the SOF website !

Final results

1: Martin Ødegård (NOR)
2: David Hand (GBR)
3: Caroline Odsell (SWE)
4: David Beck (GBR)
5: Borja Moreno Fernández (ESP)
6: Jiska Helmes (NLD)
7: Mateusz Sosnowski (SWE)
8: Veronica Stenberg (SWE)
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Martin Ødegård - David Hand
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Table judge: Tilon Sosnowski

 

Dongsung Gim wins 8th Korea Othello Yipdan 

Seoul, Korea, 27 January 2013
Tourney format: 5 rounds, beginners level

1: GIM, Dongsung, KOR,  5 pts
2: KIM, Younggun, KOR,  3 pts
3: LEE, Wonjae, KOR,  3 pts
4: HONG, Hyungbum, KOR,  2 pts
5: KIM, Wangnyeon, KOR,  1 pnt
6: SHIN, Youngja, KOR,  1 pnt


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More Othello News from Korea:
1st Korea Children's Othello Championship 
제1회 전국 어린이 오델로 대회 - 고학년부
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Dongsung GIM and Joungmok OH

Junya Ito (JPN) wins Othello World Cup 2013
Joanna William (IDN) wins Ladies Final
Best Junior is Yugo Toki (JPN)

Tokyo, Japan, 26th January

Kazuki Okamoto played a perfect tourney. He won all his games in the preliminary rounds.But he met his match in the final. Junya Ito won both final games. Junya received his trophy at the victory dinner and shouted for joy. Everybody was very happy for him. His next goal........ to win the All Japan Championship!!!

Mr Masato Koide also announced that there will be a next OWC in 2014 in Singapore. I have heard a rumour that it will not be such a big event as this, maybe just 16 players, time will tell. 

The Othello World Cup was at first presented as a one-time event, to celebrate the 40th birthday of Othello. But most of the Othello players had a feeling the organisation had plans to set up a rival worldwide tourney. For the World Cup, with Megahouse as sponsor, money is not an issue. The World Othello Federation has limited funds, but it's World Campionship has a 36 year old history. There is quite a discussion about it on Facebook. I hope the WOF will soon make an announcement about the next 37th World Championship.

More OWC news........
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Kazuki Okamoto, Junya Ito, Seiya Kurita
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Othello World Cup 2013 winner Junya Ito, second place Kazuki Okamoto, third place Seiya Kurita. Best European player Arnaud Delaunay from France 4th place

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4th place: Arnaud Delaunay (FRA)



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Joanna William (IDN) Lady Champion, Mei Urashima runner-up



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Voting for candidates World Othello Federation Council

The Othello federations received an email last week, sent by Tor Birger Skogen about the vacancies for secretary and sponsor manager.

Dear all,
As you know, there was no candidates for the secretary and sponsor manager in WOF at the voting at last WOF meeting. Therefore, all nations was asked to propose candidates for these positions.

2 candidates have been proposed, Roman Krazcyk (Poland) as secretary and Roger Gehrke (Sweden) as sponsor manager. Roman should be well know for many of you, he has participated in a lot of WOC and EGP tournaments for many years. For those of you who are travelling to Tokyo next week for the Othello World Cup, it will also be a possibility to meet him there.

Roger is probably more unknown in Othello world, so here is a little presentation of him:
Roger has played Othello since the middle of 1980´s. He worked with Othello from 1989 to 2006 when he worked for ALGA AB, the Othello licensee in Sweden. He´s last Othello tournament was Stockholm EGP in 2012.
 Roger have worked with games, arrangement of Games events and sponsoring of games since January 1984. He have since 1984 learned many companies all over the world and know many of them personal. He also have had much events together with companies outside the Othello and Games sphere. Today he is working with he´s own company who works with Games companies and social media .and events. He travel much all over the world to toys and games events and are well known in the game world.
Roger have cooperated with Anjar and Megahouse since 2002 and know them both well, and they know him. Roger worked hard for Othello 2002 - 2006 and helped Swedish Othello to their boom 2002-2008. Alga sponsored the Swedish Othello federation 1978-1992 and 2001 - continuing.
 Roger know that the Sponsor Manager is a new role in the World Othello Federation. He want to use his experience to build up an good working position for the manager, create an Sponsor group, build up many useful contacts international and national and learn up interested people in WOF and in federation how the sponsor world is working and how to use it and get good sponsors and contacts.  Rogers goal is that the day he decide to go forward the Sponsor managers will stand at their own and work good.

Best regards,
Tor Birger Skogen
President WOF


Java Applet

I really like the LiveOthello java-applet  to display Othello games, designed by Emmanuel Lazard and Stéphane Nicolet. It always worked well  on my site and I love the classy look. But since this week's Oracle Java-update, the numerous security alerts are a big eyesore. The OWC in Japan starts next week and the Japanese organistion has been so kind to invite Othello News to Tokyo. Pictures and interviews are great stuff, but I know you also want to be able to replay interesting games. For now, I will use Hamlite v1.60 (Copyright 2009-2011 K.Kawami), a tool that is often used on Japanese Othello blogs. Hamlite has some very cool features:on board analysis of the last 17 moves, copy transcript for WZebra. Take a look at the Hamlite manual which is in Japanese, but the diagrams show it all. 

Trees van Seggelen
17 January 2013

 

Nicky van den Biggelaar wins 64th Dutch Open

Bussum, Netherlands, 12 January
Tourney format: 7 rounds

This could very well be an OWC training session. Nicky, Albert, Linda, Tom and Jiska  will all play at the OWC  main tourney in Japan. Jan and Marcel have been asked to come help as tourney staff and they will enter the 8stars competition. Good luck to all in Japan!


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Martin Ødegard wins Oslo Open

Oslo, Norway, 12 January
Tourney format: 5 rounds,  final and playoffs

Six players at this tourney. The games were shown on liveothello. Martin had a couple of easy wins but in round 4  Jostein Danielsen proved to be a strong opponent. The game ended in a draw, but Jostein timed out by 1 second and therefore lost the game. The two met again in the final and it was a very close and exciting game.
Martin wil play at the Othello World Cup in Japan, end of this month. 
round 1:
ØDEGÅRD Martin 56 - 8 SKOGEN Tor Birger
TVEDT Sverre 30 - 34 BERG Robert
DANIELSEN Jostein 17 - 47 BØE Alexander

round 2:
BERG Robert 11 - 53 ØDEGÅRD Martin
BØE Alexander 47 - 17 TVEDT Sverre
SKOGEN Tor Birger 21 -  41 DANIELSEN Jostein

round 3:
TVEDT Sverre 12 - 52 ØDEGÅRD Martin
BØE Alexander 27 - 37 SKOGEN Tor Birger
DANIELSEN Jostein 52 - 12 BERG Robert

round 4:
ØDEGÅRD Martin 32 - 32 DANIELSEN Jostein (lost on time)
BERG Robert 55 - 9 BØE Alexander
SKOGEN Tor Birger 13 - 51 TVEDT Sverre

round 5:
BØE Alexander 16 - 48 ØDEGÅRD Martin
SKOGEN Tor Birger 29 - 35 BERG Robert
TVEDT Sverre 21 - 43 

final:
DANIELSEN Jostein 31 - 33 ØDEGÅRD Martin

playoff 3 / 4:
BØE Alexander 31 - 33 BERG Robert

playoff 5 / 6:
SKOGEN Tor Birger 25 - 39 TVEDT Sverre
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Martin Ødegard at WOC 2012


Oslo Open 2013, round 4
ØDEGÅRD Martin 32 - 32 DANIELSEN Jostein


Oslo Open 2013, final
 DANIELSEN Jostein 31 - 33  ØDEGÅRD Martin 

 

Hisatoshi Narumi wins 81st Kanagawa Open 第81回神奈川オープン

Kanagawa, Japan, 6 January
Tourney format: 6 rounds, 43 players

Hitoshi Narumi, number 10 of the 80th Kanagawa open, did not lose a game in this  tourney.  Junya Ito, winner of the 80th Kanagawa open and of the Shinagawa New year's Cup that was played earlier this week, finished second with 1 loss. The other players with just 1 lost game are: Yuji Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Iwata and Daisuke Kamikura.



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link to Japan Othello results page
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Kanagawa Harbour, 1859


81st Kanagawa Open, round 4
ISHIZAKI Hikaru 40 - 24 Murakami Takeshi 

Hikaru Ishizaki finished 6th with 2 losses and Takeshi Murakami finshed 17th with 3 losses.
link to blog by Takeshi Murakami with more games and game analysis

 
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the final game at Meijin-sen in March 2012, Junya Ito - Kazuki Okamoto
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the Shinagawa Cups
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link to Japan Othello results page

Junya Ito wins Shinagawa New Year's Cup

Shinagawa, Japan, 3 January
Tourney format: swiss, 7 rounds
Participants: 58

Junya Ito won the prestigeous Shinagawa tourney with a perfect score of 7 wins.  Junya has been selected to play for team Japan at the Othello World Cup at the end of this month. Ito also won the Shinagawa New Year's Cup in 2011 and finished second in 2012,  with 1 point less than winner Yusuke Takanashi.


TOP 13 (5 wins and more):

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Shinagawa New Year's Cup 2013, round 4
ITO Junya 40 - 24 MURAKAMI Takeshi







link to blog by Takeshi Murakami more games and game analysis

村上健のオセロ日記






Shinagawa New Year's Cup 2013, round 6
SUEKUNI Makoto 28 - 36 MURAKAMI Takeshi

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