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Othello News July 2014


Jan de Graaf wins 72nd Dutch Othello Open

Location: Lent, Netherlands
Date: July 20th

Final result after 7 rounds:
  1. Jan de Graaf, 6.5 points 
  2.  Roel Hobo, 5.5 points   
  3.  Martin Fransen, 4 points 
  4.  Marcel Sneek, 3 points 
  5.  Frauke van de Moortel, 2 points 



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awards 72nd Dutch Othello Open

GRAAF Jan de 32 - 32 HOBO Roel
72nd Dutch Open, round 3


HOBO Roel 31 - 33 GRAAF Jan de
72nd Dutch Open, round 6


Jingmin Qin wins 9th Guangzhou Open

Location: Guangzhou, China
Date: July 20th

The Guanzhou Open in 2013 was won by Yan Song and Zhen Dong was the best female player.  In January this year they won the title King and Queen of Othello at the OWC in Singapore. This year the Guangzou winner is Jingmin Qin. In 2012 she finished 4th, last year she lost the ladies final against Zen Dhong, this year she was best of all! She defeated Yuebo Li in the semifinal and had a glorious victory against Randy Fang in the final.  We hope to see the Guangzhou Champion at the WOC in Bangkok!

I received a message that the last moves of the final game as originally posted on Liveothello ( 14 - 50) were incorrect, the final result was 23 - 41. Luckily we had a picture of the final board, thanks to Emmanuel Lazard for reconstructing the last moves! 

Top 4:
  1. QIN Jingmin (Crystal)
  2. FANG Randy
  3. ZHAO Hongguang (Ray)
  4. LI Yuebo (Dazhu)
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Final game 23 - 41
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FANG Randy 52 - 12 ZHAO Hongguang
9th Guanzhou Open, semifinal 2

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FANG Randy 23 - 41 QIN Jingmin
9th Guanzhou Open, final


Imre Leader wins Doncaster Regional
Roy Arnold winner 2014 British Grand Prix

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FotoRoy Arnold
Location: Doncaster, Great Britain
Date: July 19th
Tourney format: 7 rounds

Imre leader won the Doncaster regional and added another 200 points to his British Grand Prix total, but the winner of the 2014 British Grand Prix is Roy Arnold. 


Doncaster standings:
  • Imre Leader, 6 points
  • Iain Barrass, 5 points
  • Ken Stephenson, 4 points
  • Roy Arnold, 3 points
  • Iain Forsyth, 3 points


 

Piyanat Aunchulee wins Thailand Othello Open, Nida Pattarakul is Female Champion

Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Date: July 13th
Number of players: 35

Top 4 players:
  1. AUNCHULEE Piyanat
  2. HEMPIJIT Woramet 
  3. PATTARAKUL Nida
  4. IAMCHIRANGKUN Sitthichai
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HEMPIJIT Woramet 24 - 40 AUNCHULEE Piyanat
Tailand Othello Open, final game 1

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Kazuki Okamoto wins 42nd All Japan Championship
Yukiko Tatsumi is All Japan Ladies Champion

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: July 13th

The 42nd Japan Othello Championship had 64 participants and 32 participants for female division.

The 2011 All  Japan Champion did it again! Kazuki Okamoto won his second All Japan title. Kazuki Okamoto defeated  the 2014 Meijin Champion Makoto Suekuni (All Japan Champion 1997) in the final.
The Ladies Championship went to Yukiko Tatsumi for the 4th time! She won the final with a draw-win game against Hisako Kinoshita who won the All Japan Ladies title in 2002 and 2004.

The  semifinals:
Yasushi Nagano 21 - 43 Kazuki Okamoto
Makoto Suekuni  41 - 23 Yuta Esaki

Nice pictures of the winners and final games on Othello Graph website
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岡本 一樹 九段 優勝!
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All Japan 2014 semifinals
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Final game 42nd All Japan Championship: Kazuki Okamoto vs Makoto Suekuni

OKAMOTO Kazuki 37 - 27 SUEKUNI Makoto
42nd All Japan, final


TATSUMI Yukiko 32 - 32 KINOSHITA Hisako
42nd All Japan, ladies final


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ITO Junya 25 - 39 TAKANASHI Yusuke
42nd All Japan

Another interesting game between two strong Japanese players. Junya Ito, how great it was to see him win the OWC in 2013 in Tokyo. I was also in Leeuwarden at the WOC in 2012 when Yusuke Takanashi won his third WOC title. And for both young players, I think the best is yet to come!

 

Ben Seeley wins 2014 USA National Othello Open

Location: Chicago, USA
Date: June 12 - 13
"Ben Seeley went through the double round robin field without losing a game.  For his efforts, he has qualified to represent the USOA at WOC in Thailand this autumn.  Ed Yiu overcame a slow start finishing second.  Ed finished by winning 10 of 11 games after losing his first three. Tom Wiencek and I only played one day each."

David Rockwell
Standings after Day 1:
  1. Ben Seeley  - 7
  2. Yohanes Chitra - 5
  3. Dal Yu - 5
  4. Edmund Yiu - 4
  5. Frank Armatys - 4
  6. Robert Bishop - 1.5
  7. Tom Wiencek - 1.5
  8. Jason Wisnewski - 0
David Rockwell didn't play on day 1 so that they had a perfect round robin of eight.  He replaced Tom Wiencek on the second day.  


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2014 USA National Othello Open
Final standings after Day 2: 
  1. Ben Seeley - 14
  2. Ed Yiu - 10
  3. Yohanes Chitra - 9
  4. Frank Armatys - 8.5
  5. Dal Yu - 8
  6. Robert Bishop  - 3
  7. David Rockwell - 2
  8. Tom Wiencek - 1.5
  9. Jason Wisnewski - 0
crosstables and replayable games will be uploaded asap

CHITRA Yohanes 26 - 38 SEELEY Ben
USA National Othello Open, round 1

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Ben Seeley

SEELEY Ben 42 - 22 ARMATYS Frank
USA National Othello Open, round 14


 

Roberto Sperandio wins Italian Grand Master 2014

Location: Rome, Italy
Date: July 6th
Link to FB photoalbum

Now that the Italian Grand Prix is concluded, the Italian Othello players have their annual Grand Master tourney, reserved for Masters and Candidate-Masters. Invited are 8 players (sorted by rating) who have participated in at least one stage of the Italian Grand Prix 2014 or in the last Italian Championship.

Officially invited: Michele Borassi, Alessandro Di Mattei, Roberto Sperandio, Francesco Marconi, Donato Barnaba, Beppi Menozzi, Carlo Alami and Domenico Palladino. Reserves: George Ortiz and Gianluca Ilacqua.

Alessandro di Mattei won his first Grand Master tourney in 2013. A hard task  to win again this year cause among his opponents these three formidable GM winners: Francesco Marconi (9x GM, first win in 1988),  Roberto Sperandio (6 x GM, first win 1996) and Michele Borassi (5 x GM, first win 2007). For more past results check the FNGO page.

Before the final 7th round, 4 players in the lead with 4 points: Francesco Marconi, Roberto Sperandio, Alessandro Di Mattei and Michele Borassi. Michele and Alessandro played against each other and Michele lost 35 - 29. Francesco won his game against Domenico Palladino 21 - 43 and Roberto won against Gianluca Ilacqua 37 - 27. The tourney finished with 3 players with 5 points: Roberto Sperandio (winnner), Alessandro Di Mattei (2nd), Francesco Marconi (3rd). 

Roberto earned a spot on the Italian team at the WOC in Thailand in November.

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Alessandro, Roberto, Francesco
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Round 7: 4 players at 4 points at the start of this final round. The video by Biagio Privitera focusses on the game Borassi - Di Mattei. But the winner sat at another table. It was not Francesco Marconi who was in the lead of the top 4 after round 6, it was Roberto Sperandio. Bravo!

DI MATTEI Alessandro 35 - 29 BORASSI Michele
Italian Grand Master 2014, round 7


 

Tetsuya Nakajima wins 93rd Shinagawa Seaside Open

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: July 5th
Tourney format: 6 rounds

Tetsuya Nakajima was undefeated at this tourney with a total number of 15 players. Runnerup was Daisuke Kamikura who won 5 games. On the latest World Othello Federation ratinglist, Tetsuya Nakajima is # 12 and Daisuke Kamikura is # 76.

The very prestigious All Japan Championship will be held on Sunday 13th, all the Japanese Othello players now focus on this upcoming event. Good luck to al!!!

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upcoming next weekend: 42nd All Japan Championship
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link to results (in Japanese)

NAKAJIMA Tetsuya 35 - 29 KAMIKURA Daisuke
93rd Shinagawa Seaside Open, round 3


 





PANASIUK, Aliaksandr 17 - 47 KHLEBNIKAU, Uladzimir
Belarus Othello Championship, final

Uladzimir Khlebnikau wins 5th Belarus National Othello Championship

Location: Brest, Belarus
Date: July 3rd

Last year Aliaksandr Panasiuk won the 4th Belarus Championship, but this year the victory was for Uladzimir Khlebnikau. It seems Uladzimir likes even years, he won the championship in 2010, 2012 and now in 2014. Who will win the tourney next year? I say, go Sviatlana!

KHLEBNIKAU Uladzimir, 4 + 1
PANASIUK Aliaksandr, 3 + 0
KRYVASHEYEU Andrei, 1
PANASIUK Sviatlana, 1
KRYVASHEYEU Pavel, 1
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The participants of the fifth Belarusian Championship Brest-2014

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