Othello News June 2013

Takuji Kashiwabara wins BERLIN stage European Grand Prix

Top 4 European Grand Prix Berlin:

1: KASHIWABARA Takuji (FRA) WINNER!

2: BERG Matthias (DEU)

3: MARCONI Francesco (ITA)

4: LEADER Imre (GBR)

Read all about it on our special Berlin EGP page

Takuji Kashiwabara, EGP champion in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 and 2012

COBRA

Othello! JAPAN for スマートフォンオープン！ / Othello! JAPAN for Android and Smartphone

ようやくですが、スマートフォン版の COBRA を公開できるところまできました。

ガラケー時代のCOBRA（またはオセロ道場）を知っている人ならそれのスマホ版と思って下さい。知らない人はぜひ、下のサイトを見てみて下さい。

とにかくですね、オセロが強くなるために必要なアプリがそろってる感じです。

基本Webアプリとして作ってますので、AndroidでもiPhoneでも。

Free to play till July 12th

There are three web applications available. You can play a game against the Cobra computer (5 levels) or improve your endgame skills with the endgame-trainer. The site also offers an app for gameanalysis. It's all in Japanese, but I managed to register with the help of Google translator. My favourite app..., the endgame trainer.

Marc Tastet wins Grand Prix de France

Saclas, France, June 22 - 23
Tourney format: 10 rounds + final

The final of the Grand Prix de France took place this in Saclas. The players enjoyed the hospitality of the Juigner family. Seven rounds were played on Saturday and three more rounds and final on Sunday. Marc Tastet won the final against Arnaud Delaunay in 3 games. Takuji Kashiwabara finished 3rd, Arthur Juigner 4th, Bintsa Andiani 5th and Eric Margarit 6th.

DAY 1:

Results round 1:
1 KASHIWABARA Takuji -- ANDRIANI Bintsa 49/15
2 DELAUNAY Arnaud -- TASTET Marc 27/37
3 JUIGNER Arthur -- MARGARIT Eric 29/35

Results round 3:
1 KASHIWABARA Takuji -- JUIGNER Arthur 23/41
2 TASTET Marc -- MARGARIT Eric 45/19
3 DELAUNAY Arnaud -- ANDRIANI Bintsa 45/19

Results round 5:
1 KASHIWABARA Takuji -- DELAUNAY Arnaud 25/39
2 TASTET Marc -- JUIGNER Arthur 36/28
3 MARGARIT Eric -- ANDRIANI Bintsa 14/50

Results round 7:
1 KASHIWABARA Takuji -- TASTET Marc 41/23
2 DELAUNAY Arnaud -- MARGARIT Eric 41/23
3 JUIGNER Arthur -- ANDRIANI Bintsa 35/29

Results round 2:
1 TASTET Marc -- KASHIWABARA Takuji 15/49
2 MARGARIT Eric -- DELAUNAY Arnaud 31/33
3 ANDRIANI Bintsa -- JUIGNER Arthur 22/42

Results round 4:
1 JUIGNER Arthur -- DELAUNAY Arnaud 24/40
2 MARGARIT Eric -- KASHIWABARA Takuji 20/44
3 ANDRIANI Bintsa -- TASTET Marc 14/50

Results round 6:
1 TASTET Marc -- DELAUNAY Arnaud 38/26
2 ANDRIANI Bintsa -- KASHIWABARA Takuji 27/37
3 MARGARIT Eric -- JUIGNER Arthur 20/44

Standings after 7 rounds:
1: 5 pts [268] KASHIWABARA Takuji {FRA}
[251] DELAUNAY Arnaud {FRA}
[244] TASTET Marc {FRA}
4: 4 pts [243] JUIGNER Arthur {FRA}
5: 1 pt [176] ANDRIANI Bintsa {FRA}
[162] MARGARIT Eric {FRA}

DAY 2:

Results round 8:
1 JUIGNER Arthur -- KASHIWABARA Takuji 34/30
2 MARGARIT Eric -- TASTET Marc 21/43
3 ANDRIANI Bintsa -- DELAUNAY Arnaud 31/33

Results round 10:
1 JUIGNER Arthur -- TASTET Marc 21/43
2 DELAUNAY Arnaud -- KASHIWABARA Takuji 42/22
3 ANDRIANI Bintsa -- MARGARIT Eric 48/16

Results round 9:
1 DELAUNAY Arnaud -- JUIGNER Arthur 32/32
2 TASTET Marc -- ANDRIANI Bintsa 56/08
3 KASHIWABARA Takuji -- MARGARIT Eric 40/24

Marc Tastet 36 - 28 Arnaud Delaunay
Final game 3 Grand Prix De France

Standings after 10 rounds:
1: 8. pts [386] TASTET Marc {FRA}
2: 7.5 pts [358] DELAUNAY Arnaud {FRA}
3: 6. pts [360] KASHIWABARA Takuji ( {FRA}
4: 5.5 pts [330] JUIGNER Arthur {FRA}
5: 2. pts [263] ANDRIANI Bintsa {FRA}
6: 1. pt [223] MARGARIT Eric {FRA}

The Final:
TASTET Marc 28-36 DELAUNAY Arnaud
DELAUNAY Arnaud 31-33 TASTET Marc
TASTET Marc 36-28 DELAUNAY Arnaud

ROMAN KRACZYK wins GP Othello Poznan

Poznan, Poland, June 22nd
Tourney format: 9 rounds

1. ROMAN KRACZYK 8pts
2. BARTLOMIEJ SURY 7pts
3. MAREK SZALANKIEWICZ 7 pts
4. BARTOSZ MARCINIAK
5. ROBERT ZANIEWSKI
6. MICHAŁ BUKA
7. GRZEGORZ ZIEBA
8. JAROSLAW NOWICKI
9. CEZARY DOMINCZAK
10. ZBIGNIEW WASIK
11. EWA LISIECKA
13. ZDZISLAW KSEPKO

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: MAREK SZALANKIEWICZ – ROMAN KRACZYK – BARTLOMIEJ SURY

Kim J. Nielsen wins 30th Greve Cup

Greve, Denmark, June 15th
Tourney format: double round robin

Kim Nielsen won the Greve Cup for the third time. Only 4 players at this tourney, but according to Solrun, it is the most beautiful tourney of all.

Final results after 6 rounds:

1. Kim J. Nielsen 5p
2. Palle Badsted 3p
3. Jens Aaagaard-Hansen 3p
4. Solrun Stokke 1p

2013 Dansk Grand Prix Othello:

Karsten Feldborg still leads the 2013 Dansk Grand Prix Othello with 400 points. Kim Nielsen is second with 320 points and Palle Badsted is 3rd with 280 points. Henrik Vallund lost his second position in the GP ranking and holds 4th place with 260 points.

Kim J. Nielsen, winner Greve Cup 2013

Roy Lin, overall champion Singapore Schools Othello Championship 2013

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Roy Lin wins Singapore Schools Othello Championship

Singapore, June 9th
Number of players: 88

A major Othello event in Singapore with 88 players. That's the future of Othello.
The Singapore Othello Organisation has very active members and all work hard to be on the Singapore OWC team in 2014. Koh Bo Chao, president of the SOO, hopes that next year's School Championship will have at least a hundred players.
There were a total of 4 categories being competed throughout the whole tournament of 7 Rounds Swiss Pairing. Primary Schools (Under-12), Secondary Schools (U-16), Junior College (U-18) and Tertiary Category (U-25).

TOP 4:
1. Roy Lin, Wei Hao - 7 points
2-4 Tan, Kai Liang - 6 points
Gabriel Cheang, Eu Howe - 6 points
Muhammad, Nur Hakim - 6 points

Congratulations to Bukit View Primary School for winning the very first Primary School Category award!

Roel Hobo wins 12th Iepen Fryske Othello Kampioenskippen

Langweer, the Netherlands, June 9th

Michiel le Comte won the Fryske Championship 3 times. Roel Hobo won in 2011 and in 2012. Wih his victory at the 2013 edition with 6 points (6 rounds) he is the latest triple champion. Well done Roel!!!

Oscar versus Albert, who won? Father or son?

winners 2002 - 2013:

2002 Michiel Le Comte
2003 Ben van der Wagt
2004 Michiel Le Comte
2005 Linda Praseptyo
2006 Michiel Le Comte
2007 Albert Kortendijk
2008 Arnoud Meijer
2009 Martin Fransen
2010 Jan de Graaf
2011 Roel Hobo
2012 Roel Hobo
2013 Roel Hobo

Alessandro Di Mattei wins Rome Othello Open

Rome, Italy June 9th
Tourney format: 7 rounds
Number of players: 10

Alessandro Di Mattei won this tourney with 7 points. Runner-up Francesco Marconi had 6 points. Third place for the player with the perfect orange Holland shirt, George Ortiz. Alessandro Di Mattei also wins the 2013 Grand Prix Italiano. Second place in the GPI for Francesco Marconi and third place Donato Barnaba.

Rank	Player	Points
1	Di Mattei, Alessandro	7
2	Marconi, Francesco	6
3	Ortiz, George	5
4	Diodati, Michele	4
5 - 7	Privitera, Biagio	3
	Chiarulli, Guiseppe	3
	Caviola, Leonardo	3
8 - 9	Carpigo, Stefano	2
	Rasconà, Maurizio	2
10	Serpe, Patrick	0

UP left to right: George Ortiz, Stefano Carpigo,Patrick Serpe, Giuseppe Chiarulli, Alessandro Di Mattei, Biagio Privitera.
DOWN left to right: Francesco Marconi, Maurizio Rasconà, Leonardo Caviola, Michele Diodati.

DI MATTEI Alessandro 38 - 26 MARCONI Francesco
Round 3 Rome Othello Open

round 3: Francesco Marconi - Alessandro Di Mattei

Great pictures by Biagio Privitera, more on website

Daniel Turunen wins Stockholm Open, Othello Weekend in Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden, June 8 - 9

"The Swedish Othello Federation celebrates its 30th anniversary!
Celebrate with us in various Othello tournaments and events. Stockholm Othello barbecue will be arranged and we promise a great Stockholm and incredibly good weather!

There will be a "normal" tournament but we are also planning a Team Tournament Othello outdoors (!), maybe an XOT tournament and much more! And Imre Leader's favorite barbecue! Finally!! :-)
Welcome!"

Daniel Turunen travelled 900 km to Stockholm on the nighttrain, but the train arrived too late. He forfeited his game in the first round against Veronica Stenberg, but he won all the other games and so won the Stockholm Open 2013.

Ranking after 7 rounds:

01 TURUNEN Daniel, 6 points
02 NORGREN Cecilia, 5 points
== ASPENRYD Henry, 5 points
== STENBERG Veronica, 5 points
05 ENG Tintin, 4 points
== LJUNGQVIST Daniel, 4 points
== WETTERGREN Niklas, 4 points
== FRONMARK Marcus, 4 points
09 ZEMELKA Jan, 3 points
== KJELLBERG Arvid, 3 points
== STEENTOFT Benkt, 3 points
12 JOHANSSON Erik 2, points
13 HULTGREN Johan, 1 point
14 HELLGREN Bo, 0 points

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Niklas Wettergren 30 - 34 Cecilia Norgren
Stockholm Open 2013, round 1

Daniel Turunen, winner Stockholm Open 2013

Mito Japan 2016: 4th OWC or 40th WOC?

The inventor of Othello, Japan Othello Association (JOA) Chairman mr. Goro Hasegawa, paid a courtesy visit to City Hall in Mito, accompanied by representatives of Megahouse.

The Japan Othello Association hosted the World Othello Federation's World Othello Championship every 10th year, 76, 86, 96, 06. In 2006 it was the 30th World Othello Championship organised by the World Othello Federation and it was held in the city of Mito in honour of mr. Goro Hasegawa who was born there.

Now the JOA seems to want to continue the 10-year tradition, but not with the official World Othello Championship within the WOF, but as a continuation of the Othello World Cup that they started in January this year.

Mito city council seems willing to cooperate to help the JOA to host another Othello event. The Mayor said, "I think I would like the tourney held in Mito by all means and I would like to cooperate. Starting with the world champions, top players of Othello from across the globe. I think it is possible to send to the world the name of Mito, and lead to the bustle of the city."

I hope to get an official reaction from the WOF council. So, more to come..........

link to source

Reaction by Tor Birger Skogen, President of the WOF

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 lasts WOF alone will be responsible for organizing WOC.

WOF have announced that the WOF World Othello Championship will be played in Stockholm 23-26 October this year. WOF’s intension is to continue to organize WOC the coming years, and as long as the Othello World Cup is a tournament based on specially invited players there should be no conflict between Japan Othello Association organizing Othello World Cup and WOF organizing WOC.

Arnaud Delaunay wins Ile De France 3

Paris, France, June 1st
Tourney format: 5 rounds
Players: 7

Arthur Juigner won the Ile De France 1 and 2 in February and March but he did not play this time. My bet was on Arnaud Delaunay and.....

Ranking after 5 rounds:

1:   5 pts [222]   DELAUNAY Arnaud (3518) {FRA}
2:   4 pts [185]   ANDRIANI Bintsa (45) {FRA}
3:   3 pts [190]   LEBLANC Aurelien (3841) {FRA}
            [188]   LEVY-ABEGNOLI Thierry (3598) {FRA}
5:   2 pts [133]   LECAT Monique (2788) {BEL}
            [114]   DARCK Nancy (5908) {BEL}
7:   1 pt [128]   BENOIT Serge (3600) {FRA}

Arnaud Delaunay in Tokyo

The final stage of the French Grand Prix will be held the week-end 22nd and 23rd of June 2013.
Invited are best six players after one year of open tournaments. The winner will get a place in the French team for WOC Stockholm 2013.

The actual ranking is as follows:

Marc Tastet
Arnaud Delaunay
Arthur Juigner
Thierry Levy Abegnoli
Emmanuel Caspard
Takuji Kashiwabara

Backup players if one or more of the top 6 players can not attend:

Bintsa Andriani
Frédéric Auzende
Serge Benoit
Monique Lecat
Emmanuel Lazard