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Othello News July 2012


Watchiraphan Huraphan wins Sosuco Thailand Othello Open
Duangkamol Sokunkate Woman Champion and overall 3rd place

Bangkok, Thailand, 29 July

Final Results
1. Huraphan, Wachirapan
2. Aunchulee, Piyanat
3. Sokunkate, Duangkamol
4. Kralkokit, Thammatorn

Woman Champion
1. Sokankate, Duangkamol
2. Pattarakul, Nida 

Final
Huraphan, Wachirapan 34 - 30 Aunchulee, Piyanat 
Aunchulee, Piyanat  43 - 21 Huraphan, Wachirapan  
Huraphan, Wachirapan 40 - 24 Aunchulee, Piyanat  

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Watchiraphan Huraphan
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Duangkamol Sokunkate
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Michele Borassi wins European Grand Prix Othello Krakow

Krakow, Poland, July 28 - July 29 

16 players at this last EGP stage in Krakow. Among them  5 players with EGP ranking after 5 stages:  Takuji Kashiwabara (1),  Michele Borassi (4), Marc Tastet (5), Francesco Marconi (6) and Marcus Fronmark (20).

More information see our EGP Krakow Page.

Takuji Kashiwabara is European Othello Champion


Uladzimir Khelbnikau wins 3rd Belarusian Championship

Gomel, Belarus, 28 July 2012

1. KHLEBNIKAU, Uladzimir, BLR, 6
2. LAMAZKI, Andrei, BLR, 4 
3. KRYVASHEYEU, Andrei, BLR, 3
4. KRYVASHEYEU, Pavel, BLR, 2
5. LAPKO, Mikalai, BLR, 1
6. KULAHIN, Ryhor, BLR, 0



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Uladzimir Khlebnikau, winner
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LAMAZKI Andre - KHLEBNIKAU Uladzimir
Belarus Championship 2012 Final Game
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ready to start the 3rd Belarusian Championship

Tihon Dubov wins 1st RFO Saint Petersburg / Санкт-Петербург

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Saint Petersburg, Russia, 28 July 2012

Tourney format: 6 rounds, no final

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Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Kang Le wins Shanghai Othello Open / 冠军:蝙蝠(康乐) 

Shanghai, China, July 22nd 

The 16 players played 7 rounds to qualify for the semifinals. Two players had 5.5 points after 7 rounds, KANG Le and WANG Zhen. 

Semi-finals:
ZHAO Jing 32 - 32 KANG Le
FENG Ling 39 - 25 WANG Zhen

3rd / 4th playoff: 
ZHAO Jing 19-45  WANG Zhen   

Final: 
FENG Ling 23 - 41 KANG Le 

Final standings TOP 4:
  1. KANG Le (Bat))
  2. FENG Ling (Ghosters)
  3. WANG Zhen (Rogger)
  4. ZHAO Jing (Gomugomu)

Great site for information on Othello in China: Soongs Othello Sky. On that page  you will also find a crosstable of this Shanghai tourney in english.

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黑白棋吧

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players and staff Shanghai Othello Open 2012
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WANG Zhen (3rd), KANG Le (winner), ZHAO Jing (4th) and FENG Ling (2nd)

standings after round 7

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International Othello Summer Camp, 15 - 22 July
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Emmanuel Caspard wins Open de Fournols

Fournols, France, July 21st

The 2012 edition of the international Othello summercamp was held in Fournols Auvergne. 
 
Othello program has tended to lighten without disappearing completely. We have spent four to five half-days to study the game, with very educational presentations by Marc Tastet and Stéphane Nicolet. One of them, based on real games taken from the Thor database, was devoted to the endgame blunders.
 
There was also a  Blitz tournament, an endgame tournament  (software Happy End) and the traditional end of the course tournament (which is also a selection in the championship of France).  At the end of the 5th round, three players had four points, but the victory was for Emmanuel Caspard. The one game that Emmanuel lost  was against Thierry Lévy-Abégnoli. 

Next year, we will probably change location, maybe go to the Vosges. We will try to give this summercamp workshop a more international dimension.

from report by  Thierry Lévy-Abégnoli on FFO website

1: 4 pts   [227] CASPARD Emmanuel {FRA}
                [221] TASTET Marc (2) {FRA}
                [218] LEVY-ABEGNOLI Thierry  {FRA}
4: 2 pts   [113] CLUZON Gilles  {FRA}
5: 1 pnt   [136] DOUAY Elodie  {FRA}
6: 0 pnt   [45] TASTET Rémi {FRA}


 

Yusuke Takanashi wins 40th All Japan Championship
Mami Yamanaka is Female Champion

第40回オセロ全日本選手権

Tokyo, Japan, July 16th

The 40th Japan Othello Championship had 64 participants. Yusuke Takanashi  from 8th to 9th DAN and qualified for the Japanese  World Othello Championship team. Yusuke Takanashi won the World Othello Championship in 2009 and 2010. Will he also win the 2012 edition?  Reiko Sato was winner of the female division, runner-up was Mami Yamanaka.  The ladies had a play-off to determine female No.1 of Japan, and  Mami Yamanaka won. 

Semi-finals:
Tetsu Satani 29 - 35  Seiya Kurita
YusukeTakanashi 34 - 30 Tetsuya Nakajima

Final: 
Seiya Kurita  30 -  34 Yusuke Takanashi 

Female Final between Meijin and All Japan winner
Mami Yamanaka 33 - 31 Reiko Sato




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Yusuke Takanashi and Mami Yamanaka

KURITA Seiya - TAKANASHI Yusuke
40th All Japan Championship, final game
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Third and final game at WOC 2010 between Michele Borassi and Yusuke Takanashi. Video by Biagio Privitera

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Nicky van den Biggelaar wins 62nd Dutch Othello Open

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Bussum, The Netherlands, July 15th

The 60th edition in January was won by Albert Kortendijk. he had half a point more than Nicky van den Biggelaar who ended second. The 61st tourney in Lexmond in March was won by Tom Schotte (Belgium), Tom and Nicky both finished with 6 points. The European Grand Prix in Gouda was won by Patrick Aubroeck  with a 2-0 win in the final against Takuji Kashiwabara. 

The World Othello Championship will take place in the Netherlands in November and ofcourse every player wants  to be on the Dutch WOC team. But summer vacations have started and only 13 players showed up.

Final Ranking after 7 rounds
1.    Nicky den Biggelaar 6 pts
2.    Tom Schotte  5 pts
        Albert Kortendijk  5 pts
4.    Erwin van den Berg 4.5 pts
5,    Jan de Graaf 4 pts
        Linda Praseptyo  4 pts
        Mark van Heere  4 pts
        Patrick Aubroeck  4 pts
9.     Tim Hoetjes  3.5 pts
10.   Roel Hobo  3 pts
        Martin Fransen 3 pts
12.   Marcel Sneek  2 pts
13.  Jarl Ilbrink 1 pnt  

David Rockwell wins US National Open

New York, USA, July 14 - 15

David Rockwell won the tourney and qualified for the US Worldchampionship team. In 1989, he qualifed for the World Othello Championship (WOC) but couldn't get off of work the week of the event and had to decline. For the next 22 years, he tried to qualify again without success. Now he finally earned that long-awaited spot on the US team. Well done David!!  Former World Champion Tanida Kunihiko had allready qualified for the US-team. Next qualification tourney is the US National Championship 25 - 26 August.

This tournament was a double round robin over two days. Tom Wiencek was not able to play on sunday. The continuing players had nine games a piece.
Results  day 1:

David Rockwell 5 pts
Frank Armatys 4 pts
Eric Entingh 3 pts
Ben Ruhmkorff 2 pts
Tom Wiencek 1 pnt
Sean Garber 0 pts 
Final results:

David Rockwell  7 pts
Ben Ruhmkorff 6 pts 
Eric Entingh 6 pts 
Frank Armatys 4 pts
Sean Garber 1 pnt  
Tom Wiencek 1 pnt 
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David Rockwell is also an enthusiast backgammon player

ARMATYS Frank - RUHMKORFF Ben
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Michele Borassi wins Gran Maestro Italy 

Rome, Italy, July 14th

1. Borassi, Michele 6 points
2. Sperandio, Roberto 5 points 
3. Di Mattei, Alessandro 4 points
4. Stanzione,  Pierluigi  3 points
    Scognamiglio, Paolo 3 points 
    Marconi, Francesco 3 points
7. Strada, Fabio 2 points
    Ilacqua, Gianluca 2 points


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After 6 rounds, Borassi had the lead with 5 points. He played against Di Mattei (4 points) in the 7th and final round and won. Sperandio (4 points) played against  Stanzione (3 points) in the 7th round. Sperandio won and ended second in the final standings. 
Michele Borassi won the Italian Gran Maestro 4 times in a row: 2009, 20010, 2011 and 2012. 

SPERANDIO R. - BORASSI M.
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Matthew Vinar wins 8th National Title

Melbourne, Australia, July 14th

Congratulations to Matthew Vinar, the 2012 Australian Othello Champion! He won his first National title in 2001. The other titles were won in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and now in 2012. In case you wonder who "stole Matt's title" in 2008, that was Scot Hughes, 

There was a total of 17 players and they played 5 rounds. Matt defeated former Aussie champion Phil Cairns (2000) in the final. Paul Hubbard won the play-off for third place against Robert Girardo. 

Read the report by  Robert Girardo, the new president of the Australian Othello Federation.

Semi-finals:

Matt Vinar 45-19 Paul Hubbard 
Robert Girardo 20-44 Phil Cairns

3rd place playoff:

Paul Hubbard 43-21 Robert Girardo

Final:

Phil Cairns 12-52 Matt Vinar 

George Ortiz was president of the  AOF for 15 years and got a big applause from all players.  George Ortiz won the National Title in 1996, 1998 and in 2003

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Phil Cairns - Matthew Vinar
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