Othello News July 2011

Nicky van den Biggelaar wins European Grand Prix Gent Belgium
Tom Schotte is Belgian Champion

Final:
Nicky van den Biggelaar 39 - 25 Takuji Kashiwabara
Takuji Kashiwabara 27 - 37 Nicky van den Biggelaar

3/4 Playoff:
Marc Tastet 27 - 37 Imre Leader
Imre Leader 12 - 52 Marc Tastet
Imre Leader 12 - 52 Marc Tastet

Results per round on website of Belgian Othello Association

Marcel Peperkamp and Tom Schotte played 3 games to determine who would be Belgian Othello Champion 
2011. Tom Schotte won with 2 games to 1.
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Nicky van den Biggelaar
Ranking of the top 15 players after round 11: 

1: 10. pts     [885] VAN DEN BIGGELAAR Nicky (5105) {NL} 
                      [860] KASHIWABARA Takuji (839) {FR} 
3: 8. pts       [864] LEADER Imre (79) {GB} 
4: 7.5 pts     [840] TASTET Marc (2) {FR} 
5: 7. pts       [821] DELAUNAY Arnaud (3518) {FR} 
                      [762] FRONMARK Marcus (1454) {S}E
7: 6. pts       [815] VAN DEN BERG Erwin (5198) {NL} 
                      [810] KORTENDIJK Albert (5012) {NL} 
                      [803] HELMES Jiska (5287) {NL} 
                      [765] PEPERKAMP Marcel (2799) {BE} 
                      [693] CHIARULLI Giuseppe (40006) {IT} 
                      [682] FRANSEN Martin (5239) {NL} 
13: 5.5 pts   [820] AUBROECK Patrick (5155) {NL} 
                      [784] HOBO Roel (5071) {NL} 
                      [772] SCHOTTE Tom (2795) {BE}
16: 5. pts     [762] DE GRAAF Jan C. (4012) {NL} 
                      [729] REUNES Nick (5900) {BE} 
                      [715] ILBRINK Jarl (5010) {NL} 
                     [652] STEENTOFT Benkt (1301) {SE} 
                      [645] SNEEK Marcel (5083) {NL} 
21: 4. pts     [606] VAES Dimitri (2785) {BE} 
                      [604] DE BOER Rosalinde (5214) {NL} 
23: 2.5 pts   [486] REMUE Jan (270010) {B} 
24: 2. pts     [592] *MAY Michael (5905) {B} 
                      [536]  *SCHOTTE Bram (4090) {B} 
                      [509]  *POLIAKOFF Pierre (2750) {BE} 
27: 1.5 pts   [447] FLOCKMAN Annie (5919) {BE}

Michele Borassi wins Gran Maestro Italy 2011

Roma July 24th
1: Michele Borassi
2: Francesco Marconi
3: Alessandro Di Mattei

Other players were: Roberto Sperandio, Donato Barnaba, Stefano Certo, Massimo Di Pietro and Pierluigi Stanzione.

Michele Borassi won the Gran Maestro in 2007, 2009 and 2010. Roberto Sperandio won the title in 2008 and Michele finished second that year.
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Michele Borassi - Biagio Privitera

Piyanat Aunchulee wins Sosuco Thailand Othello Open 24 July 2011
Duangkamol Sokankate wins Womens Final

Piyanat Aunchulee was runner-up at the Thailand Othello Championship this year and reached the 3rd place by beating Imre Leader 39-25 in the World Othello Championship 2010, held in Rome (Italy)

Final games:
KOH, Bo Chao Alex 23 - 41 AUNCHULEE, Piyanat
AUNCHULEE, Piyanat 44 - 20 KOH, Bo Chao Alex

3rd Play Off:
KOH, Bo Xiang 48 - 16 FAKFANG, Sakda

Women's Final:
NG, Lee Yen 25 - 39 SOKANKATE Duangkamol

WOC Woman Qualification:
SOKANKATE Duangkamol 28 - 36 PATTARAKUL Nida
PATTARAKUL Nida 37 - 27 SOKANKATE Duangkamol
Top 10 of 31 players after 8 rounds:

1. AUNCHULEE , Piyanat 8
2. KOH, Bo Chao Alex 6 ** SGP Player
3. FAKFANG , Sakda 6
4. KOH, Bo Xiang 5.5 ** SGP Player
5. CHEW , Ching Wuen 5.5 ** SGP Player
6. HONGTHONG , Anon 5
7. HURAPHAN , Wachiraphan 5
8. SOKANKATE, Duangkamol 5
9. IAMCHIRANGKUL, Sitthichai 5
10. OOI, Stanley 5 ** Malaysia Player



Link to pictures of Sosuco Thailand Othello Championship 2011

Kazuki Okamoto is Japanese Champion 2011

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Kazuki Okamoto - Yusuke Takanashi, judge Mr. Goro Hasegawa
Picture
From our Japanese correspondent, Masato Koide

The 39th Japan Othello Championship was held in Tokyo on July 17.
In Japan this is the most prestigious Othello tournament with a great tradition.

Kazuki Okamoto defeated Yusuke Takanashi (world champion 2009 and 2010) in the final game and won the title of Japanese Champion 2011.
He will participate in WOC 2011 as a one of the representatives from Japan.

Champions of each class are as follows:

Indiscriminate class : Mr. Kazuki Okamoto (age 16)

Woman class: Mrs. Yoko Sano (age 46)

Free class: Mr. Yoshinori Oike (age 15)

Nicky van den Biggelaar wins 13th Open Dutch Championship

July 17th 2011 
   
  1.  6,5  31    1800+ 564  Nicky van den Biggelaar   5105    
  2.  5,5  24    1800+ 543  Patrick Aubroeck          5155    
  3.  5    18    1800+ 491  Ben van der Wagt          5055 
  4.  4    13    1800+ 529  Martin Fransen            5239 
      4     9    1800+ 513  Remko Zillig              5169 
      4     6    1800+ 473  Arnoud Meijer             5067 G  
      4     4    1800+ 464  Erwin van den Berg        5198 
      4     3    <1800 413  Marcel Sneek              5083 G
      4     2    1800+ 411  Jan de Graaf              4012 
 10.  3     1    1800+ 472  Roel Hobo                 5071 
      3          1800+ 441  Tom Schotte               2795 
      3        9 <1800 440  Anja van Gimst            5255 G  
 13.  2        5 <1800 404  Jiska Helmes              5287 G
      2          <1800 403  Jarl Ilbrink              5010 G
      2          <1800 309  Jan van der Wagt          5114 B
 16.  0        2 <1800 297  Corrie de Graaf           5062 B

Nicky van den Biggelaar wins the Nederlandse (Dutch) Grand Prix 2011. He won the Grand Prix every year from 2004 up till now.



Iain Barrass wins London Regional

July 16th 2011

1. Iain Barrass 2 1/2 
=. David Beck 2 1/2
3. Roy Arnold

Just 3 players attended the London Regional. Iain Barrass collected enough points to win the British Grand Prix 2011. It's his fourth BGP title. He won the British Grand Prix also in 1998, 2008, 2010. 

Ben Ruhmkorff wins USA National Open

Results of day 1: 

1: TANIDA Kunihiko 6pts
2: BISHOP Robert 5 pts
3: ARMATYS Frank 4 pts
4: RUHMKORFF Ben 3.5 pts
5: ROCKWELL David 3 pts
6: WIENCEK Tom 3pts
7: CAI Jian 2 pts
8: KATZMAN Sharon 1.5 pt

Kunihiko Tanida, Robert Bishop, Frank Armatys, and Ben Ruhmkorff advance to the National Open finals, which begin on sunday at 9 a.m. USA CDT (Chicago time). Games will be broadcasted on LiveOthello

RUHMKORFF Ben - ARMATYS Frank
Finals round 6
Results of day 2: 

BISHOP Robert 10 - 54 ARMATYS Frank 
TANIDA Kunihiko 30 - 34 RUHMKORFF Ben

RUHMKORFF Ben 49 - 15 BISHOP Robert
ARMATYS Frank 34 - 30 TANIDA Kunihiko

TANIDA Kunihiko 53 - 11 BISHOP Robert
ARMATYS Frank 26 - 38 RUHMKORFF Ben

ARMATYS Frank 37 - 27 BISHOP Robert
RUHMKORFF Ben 13 - 51 TANIDA Kunihiko

TANIDA Kunihiko 58 - 6 ARMATYS Frank
BISHOP Robert 16 - 48 RUHMKORFF Ben

RUHMKORFF Ben 45 - 19 ARMATYS Frank
BISHOP Robert 44 - 20 TANIDA Kunihiko 

1: 5 pts / Ben Ruhmkorff 
2: 4 pts / Kunihiko Tanida
3: 3 pts / Frank Armatys
4: 0 pts / Robert Bishop

Niklas Wettergren wins Västerås Open



Niklas Wettergren wins Västerås Open July 9th 2011, Sweden



Pos:	Sc:	Mbq:	Player:

1	5	298	Niklas Wettergren
2	5	291	Marcus Frönmark
3	5	260	Henry Aspenryd
4	5	224	Daniel Turunen
5	4	276	Tintin Eng
6	3	180	Veronica Stenberg
7	1	138	Benkt Steentoft
8	0	125	Jan Zemelka

Mehul Vyas wins Indian Othello Championship

Day 1, Saturday

At end of the preliminary rounds following results have been achieved:

• Ashok Choudhary – 1st place
• Somanath Panigrahi – 2nd place
• Mehul Vyas – 3rd place
• Amar Roy – 4th place
• Irshad Saifi – 5th place
• Hitesh Sharma – 6th place

Qualifier 1
PANIGRAHI Somnath 40 - 24 CHOUDHARY Ashok
CHOUDHARY Ashok 26 - 38 PANIGRAHI Somnath

Eliminator 
ROY Amar 24 - 40 VYAS Mehul
VYAS Mehul 37 - 27 ROY Amar

Day 2, Sunday

Qualifier 2 
VYAS Mehul 33 - 31 CHOUDHARY Ashok
CHOUDHARY Ashok 39 - 25 VYAS Mehul
VYAS Mehul 44 - 20 CHOUDHARY Ashok

Final: 
PANIGRAHI Somnath 26 - 38 VYAS Mehul
VYAS Mehul 35 - 29 PANIGRAHI Somnath 



VYAS Mehul - PANIGRAHI Somnath
IOC 2011, final game