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Othello News January 2015


Hiroto Nagao wins Niigata District Masters tounament

Location: Niigata, Japan
Date: January 30th

Master for Niigata district 2015 :Hiroto Nagao
Master of elementary school students for Niigata district 2015:Shiho Umezawa
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Hiroto Nagao
Final results:

  1. Hiroto Nagao
  2. Masaki Takizawa
  3. Hidekazu Nagasaki
  4. Syunjiro Kobayashi
  5. Shigeaki Aihara
  6. Shiho Umezawa
  7. Michio Hanari
  8. Yoshihiro Kanda
  9. Yoshinori Umezawa
  10. Hiroto Obara
  11. Kano Kobayashi
  12. Takashi Shinbo
  13. Riho Umezawa
  14. Keiko Horiuchi

Martin Ødegård wins Oslo Othello Open

Location: Oslo, Norway
Date: January 31st
Tourney format: 7 rounds, games on Liveothello

The winner of the Oslo Open in 2014 was Jostein Danielsen, this time the win was for Martin Ødegård, who also won in 2013. It was a nice tourney with a lot of very close games and a couple of draws.
Martin started the tourney with a draw against Vidar Albrigtsen. In the second round Martin lost to Robert Berg 21 - 43. But he managed to win 5 more points in the next games. Also 5.5  points for Jostein Danielsen who played a draw against Jan Kristian Haugland in round 3 and lost against Martin 14 - 49 in round 5.
Robert Berg was in the lead after the 5th round but had to leave early to catch the train back home. 
Ranking of the 9 players after round 7:

  1. 5.5 pts [430] ODEGARD Martin (2560) {NOR}
  2. 5.5 pts [397] DANIELSEN Jostein (2583) {NOR}
  3. 4.5 pts [375.5] HAUGLAND Jan Kristian (1868) {NOR}
  4. 4. pts [395] -BERG Robert (1993) {NOR} (played only 5 rounds!)
  5. 4. pts [339.5] SKOGEN Tor Birger (1802) {NOR}
  6. 3. pts [357] TVEDT Sverre (140031) {NOR}
  7. 3. pts [295.5] OLSEN Pal Tore (2511) {NOR}
  8. 2.5 pts [364] ALBRIGTSEN Vidar (2570) {NOR}
  9. 1. pt [248.5] ORBECK-NILSSEN Kim Andre (140048) {NOR}



ØDEGÅRD Martin 21 - 43 BERG Robert
Oslo Othello Open, round 2



HAUGLAND Jan Kristian 32 - 32 DANIELSEN Jostein
Oslo Othello Open, round 3



DANIELSEN Jostein 15 - 49 ØDEGÅRD Martin
Oslo Othello Open, round 5


Now online the offcial European Othelllo 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.





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click on image to go to European Federations EGP website



MARCONI, Francesco 30 - 34 DI MATTEI Alessandro
Città di Roma 2015, round 4

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Alessandro Di Mattei wins 1° Città di Roma 2015

Location: Rome, Italy
Date: January 25th
Tourney format: 5 rounds

The first stage of the Città di Roma 2015 was attended by 13 players, among them three rookies. The tourney was won by Alessandro Di Mattei, who won all his 5 games. Runnerup with 4 points, Franceso Marconi and Michele Diodati. Leonardo Caviola was the best of the players of Category A, Ennio Pantani best player category B and Alessandro Cacciatore best rookie.
Alessandro Di Mattei won all 5 Città di Roma 2014 tourneys, will any of the other players succeed in stealing a victory this year?

More pictures of the tourney that took place in a fantasy setting can be found here.


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Roel Hobo wins 73rd Dutch Othello Open

Location: Alkmaar, Netherlands
Date: January 24th
Tourney format: 6 rounds, tourney for advanced players and beginners

The Dutch Othello Grand Prix 2015 started well for Roel Hobo. He won the tourney with 5 wins and 1 draw (against Jan de Graaf). A very nice number of beginners at this double tournament, thanks to the series of Othello lessons at "De Burijn".
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link to NOV website, results per round
 Final result 10 players after 6 rounds: 

  1.   Roel Hobo, 5.5 points
  2.   Patrick Aubroeck 5 points 
  3.   Jan de Graaf, 4.5 points
  4.   Marcel Sneek, 3 points 
  5.   Frauke Van de Moortel (BE), 2 points
  6.   Bowien van den Heuvel, 1 point    
        Jiske de Vries, 1 point 
        Anouk de Vries, 1 point 
        Judith Blankendaal, 1 point 
 10.  Isabella van den Heuvel, 0 points 
 Final result 11 players (beginners) after 5 rounds:  

1.    Anouk de Vries, 5 points 
 2.   Jos Limbach, 4 points
 3.   Esmee Limbach, 3 points 
 4.   Bowien van den Heuvel, 2 points
       Erik van der Meer, 2 points
       Jiske de Vries, 2 points
       Judith Blankendaal, 2 points
       Linda Limbach, 2 points
 9.   Wendy de Graaf, 1.5 point
        Isabella van den Heuvel, 1.5 point
11.  Jasmijn de Graaf, 0 points



AUBROECK, Patrick 27 - 37 HOBO, Roel
73rd Dutch Othello Open, round 2



GRAAF, Jan de 32 - 32 HOBO, Roel
73rd Dutch Othello Open, round 3



AUBROECK, Patrick 35 - 29 GRAAF, Jan de
73rd Dutch Othello Open, round 4

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Hiroaki Iwakura wins 49th Tatebayashi Open

Location: Tatebayashi, Japan
Date: January 18th
Tourney format: 6 rounds, 12 players

Two players finished with 5 points, Hiroaki Iwakura and Kazuto Nagashima.

In Mito they held the 11th Mito parent-child tournament. Could someone please be so kind to inform me about the rules of this tournament? Send an email to Othello News.
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link to results (in Japanese)

Roman Neuzil wins Czech Grand Prix Othello 1

Location: Prague, Czech Reublic
Date: January 17th
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Arnaud Delaunay wins Ile de France 1

Location: Paris, France
Date: January 17th
Tourney format:  5 rounds

Arnaud Delaunay won all 5 rounds. Great performance by two young players Marc Bertrandias and Foued Touchene.

Final result after 5th round:

  1:   5 pts [206]   DELAUNAY Arnaud 
  2:   4 pts [206]   TASTET Marc
  3:   3 pts [200]   BERTRANDIAS Marc
                  [200]   LEVY-ABEGNOLI Thierry
                 [186]   TOUCHENE Foued 
                 [174]   LAZARD Emmanuel 
  7:   2 pts [153]   CLUZON Gilles 
                 [143]   ANDRIANI Bintsa 
                 [137]   BENOIT Serge
                 [116]   BUSUTTIL Michel
 11:   1 pt   [79]   TASTET Remi 
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Rémi Tastet watches the game Marc Tastet - Arnaud Delaunay

Jens Aagaard-Hansen wins 2nd Rørby Othello Open 2015

Location: Rørby, Denmark
Date: January 17th
Tourney format:  7 rounds

Last year the Rørby Othello Open had only 6 players, this year there were 12!

Jens Aagaard won for the 2nd time with a total of 6 points. He lost a point in round 6 against Palle Badsted. Mikael Maartensson best amateur, Karen Jensen best debutant and Kristian Frederiksen best junior player.

Final result after 7 rounds:
1. AAGAARD-HANSEN Jens, 6 points
2. VALLUND Henrik, 5 points
3. BADSTED Palle, 5 points
4. MAARTENSSON Mikael, 5 points
5. STOKKE Solrun, 4 points
6. MICHAELSEN Peter, 4 points
07. JENSEN Karen, 4 points
08. PALUDAN Berit, 3 points
09. HANSEN Ruthie, 3 points
10. FREDERIKSEN Kristian, 1.5 points
11. FREDERIKSEN Andreas, 1 point
12. ANDREASEN Mathias, 0.5 point

Djordje Stevanovic wins 2nd Serbian Youth Othello Championship

Location: Zlatibor, Serbia
Date: January 12th - 13th
Tourney format: 5 rounds + final

Djordje Stevanovic started the tourney with a loss against Marko Markovic but from then on went undefeated. He won the next four games in the Swiss rounds and the final. 

Final:
Petrovic, Andrija 27 - 37 Stevanovic, Djordje

Top 3:
  1. Stevanovic, Djordje
  2. Petrovic, Andrija 
  3. Markovic, Marko
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results Swiss rounds

Tatsuro Akagi wins 75th Sendai Open

Location: Sendai, Japan
Date: January 11th
Tourney format: 6 rounds

An undefeated victory for winner Tatsuro Akagi at this small tourney with 13 players.
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link to results (in Japanese)

Shiho Umezawa wins Othello Elementary School Tournament in Niigata Prefecture 

Location: Sanjō, Niigata, Japan
Date: January 10th
Tourney format: 4 rounds

The first Othello tournament of 2015 in the Niigata Prefecture, was a tournament for kids at Sanjō. The tournament was won by Shiho Umezawa.
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report in local newspaper

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Yusuke Takanashi - Narumi Hisatoshi
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link to results (in Japanese)

Yusuke Takanashi wins 91st Kanagawa Othello Open

Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Date: January 4th 2015
Tourney format: 6 rounds

Three players finished with 5 wins: Yusuke Takanashi, Tetsu Satani and Daisuke Kamikura.

Satoshi Koide recently interviewed Yusuke Takanashi (WOC in 2009, 2010 and 2012) for Othello Graph, you can find the interview (in japanese) here. Satoshi's final question, "Please tell us your future goals". I can tell you, Yusuke sets his goals very high, both for Japanese tournaments and the World Championship. He would like to win the WOC 2015 undefeated with 17 consecutive victories! 

I digged into the WOC files to see Yusuke's results in the years he became World Champion.
  • In 2009 Yusuke got 9.5 points in the Swiss rounds and lost no game in the semifinal against Masaki Takizawa and the final against Matthias Berg.
  • In 2010 he had 10.5 points in the Swiss rounds, won the semifinal in 2 games against Piyanat Aunchulee, but lost 1 game in the final against Michele Borassi.
  • In 2012 Yusuke  had 12 points in the Swiss rounds, he only lost his game against Kazuki Okamoto. He took a loss in the semifinal against Seiya Kurita but won the final in 2 games against Kazuki Okamoto.

Daisuke Asou wins 11th Shinagawa New Year's Cup

Location: Shinagawa, Japan
Date: January 3rd 2015
Tourney format: 7 rounds

report by Takashi Yamakawa on FB January 4th

Yesterday, I participated in the Shinagawa New Year's Cup. It is said that the victory of this tournament would bring further good results that year. This is obvious by seeing recent winners (2012: Yusuke Takanashi, 2013: Junya Ito, 2014: Makoto Suekuni) who also won the WOC or OWC that year. 
This year, the tournament is competed by 65 players. After round 6, Makoto was the only one with 6.0 points. However, in round 7, Makoto was defeated by Daisuke Asou. After all, 5 players including me were with 6.0 points and Daisuke won the tournament by the BQ. I suppose he would be qualified for the WOC this year!

I was terribly beaten in round 6 by Makoto, and 3rd place with 6.0 points. The picture at the right shows a position from the match. I was white, and white to play. First, I considered C8B8C7G4G7E1B2. However, after that, black can cut the diagonal by A7, so I was not confident in this line. (Actually, this was the best and +4 for white.) So I decided to play C7C8B2G4G7 so that black cannot cut the diagonal by A7. However, black played D1 after that, and then there wasn't left a comfortable move for white. Thus gaining a tempo by C8B8C7 in the bottom edge was more important than preventing A7.
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