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Othello News June 2015


Top 10 WOF Ratinglist

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Yusuke and Makoto prefer sushi over Othello discs

Nicky van den Biggelaar wins 76th Dutch Othello Open

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Location: Lexmond, The Netherlands
Date: June 28th
Tourney format: 7 rounds
NOV website: results per round

Eight players traveled to Lexmond for the 76th Dutch Othello Open, Frauke even travelled all the way from Belgium. 

Not a great surprise that Nicky won the tourney with 7 wins. Erwin van den Berg was runner-up with 6 points and Patrick Aubroeck and Marcel Sneek shared the third place. It was overall a very good tourney for Marcel Sneek with 4 wins. He won against Trees (a revenge for EGP Den Hoorn), Frauke, Jan and a fabulous 54-10 win against Patrick Aubroeck.

Dorpshuis Het Bosch in Lexmond is always a very nice location for a tourney, we had not expected that there would be live-music in the afternoon. I think the music gave the tourney that real summer feel, especially the etnic music from Southeast Asia.


Lari Pihlajapuro wins Nordic Championship 2015

Location: Åland Islands, Finland
Date: June 27th - 28th
Tourney format: This year the Nordic championships will be an open tourney. All players will participate in a swiss tourney from which the top 4 Nordic players will continue to the finals and fight for the title of Nordic Champion.
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Thirty years ago, Henrik Vallund from Denmark organised the first Nordic Championship. Henrik won the Championship in 1998. At this 31st edition in 2015, 6 previous Nordic Champions participated (must be a record). 
This year the tourney organisation was in the hands of Lari Pihlajapuro and Lari won his second Nordic title. I had hopes that this year we'd have our first lady champion, it did not quit happen, but Katie made it to the top 4. 

It was a very tough competition with 20 of the best Nordic players. Oskar Eklund was ahead and unbeaten after the seven rounds of the first day. The second day of tournament was not his best. He collected just 1 more point but that was enought to make it to the final. He lost the final against Lari with 2-0. Martin Ødegård won the playoff for 3rd place against Katie Wu. The Swedish team won the team competition.

Johannes Ødegård, Martin's younger brother, took pictures and we are happy to have such great photo's of the players to show you. More pictures by him are posted on Facebook.
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individual results after round 11
Top 4 after final and playoff:
  1. Lari Pihlajapouro (Finland)
  2. Oskar Eklund (Sweden)
  3. Martin Ødegård (Norway)
  4. Katie Wu (Finland)
Team standings after round 11:
Sweden1, 20.5
Norway, 20
Finland1, 19.5
Sweden2, 18.5
Finland2, 16
Denmark, 9.5
Sweden3, 6

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ØDEGÅRD Martin 20-44 MAKKONEN Olli
Nordic Championship 2015, round 3


VALLUND Henrik 35-29 JOHANSSON Erik
Nordic Championship 2015, round 4


ASPENRYD Henry 29-35 ALBRIGTSEN Vidar
Nordic Championship 2015, round 6


ØDEGÅRD Martin 29-35 WU Katie
Nordic Championship 2015, round 7

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ØDEGÅRD Martin 51-13 WU Katie
Nordic Championship 2015, 3/4 playoff

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PIHLAJAPURO Lari 35-29 EKLUND Oskar
Nordic Championship 2015, final game 1

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EKLUND Oskar 30-34 PIHLAJAPURO Lari
Nordic Championship 2015, final game 2

pictures posted on Facebook by Johannes Ødegård

Arnaud Delaynay wins Finale du Grand Prix de France

Location: Paris, France
Date: June 27th - 28th
Tourney format: double round robin and final
Games on LiveOthello
Report on FFO website

Results after 10 rounds:
1: 8 pts [369] DELAUNAY Arnaud (3518) {FRA}
2: 6 pts [395] TASTET Marc (2) {FRA}
              [350] LAZARD Emmanuel (11) {FRA}
4: 5 pts [344] KASHIWABARA Takuji (839) {FRA}
5: 4 pts [294] ANDRIANI Bintsa (45) {FRA}
6: 1 pt [168] TOUCHENE Fouad (9025) {DZA}

Arnaud Delaunay won the final against Marc Tastet with 2 wins and a draw. Congrats Arnaud and see you at the WOC in Cambridge!

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all 6 players of the GP de France 2015

DELAUNAY Arnaud 36-28 LAZARD Emmanuel
Finale du GP de France 2015, round 2


TASTET Marc 30-34 KASHIWABARA Takuji
Finale du GP de France 2015, round 3


TOUCHENE Fouad 33-31 LAZARD Emmanuel
Finale du GP de France 2015, round 3


KASHIWABARA Takuji 29-35 DELAUNAY Arnaud
Finale du GP de France 2015, round 5


TASTET Marc 38-26 ANDRIANI Bintsa
Finale du GP de France 2015, round 6


DELAUNAY Arnaud 32-32 TASTET Marc
Finale du GP de France 2015, final game 1


TASTET Marc 12-52 DELAUNAY Arnaud
Finale du GP de France 2015, final game 2


TASTET Marc 30-34 DELAUNAY Arnaud
Finale du GP de France 2015, final game 3


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The WThor Database is a database of Othello transcripts created by the FFO.

763 games played in 2014 and 2015 have recently been added. Total number of games 1977 - 2015 is 114871.

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Anouk de Vries wins end of year 2014-2015 "De Burijn" schooltournament

Location: Alkmaar, The Netherlands
Date: June 24th
Tourney format: 7 rounds

Jan de Graaf and Marcel Sneek organised a final tournament just before the start of the summer holiday. It was an exciting tournament, the winner was not decided untill the last game was played.
Anne and Isa  were in the lead after round 2. Isa defeated Anne in round 3 and took the lead but she lost against Liz in round 4. Standings after 4 rounds: Liz, Anouk de V. and Isa all three scored 3 points. In the last round Liz played against her sister Anouk E. and she won 45 - 19. Anouk de Vries won her final game against Isa with 51-13 and with that score also won the tournament.

Have a nice summer break!


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Ranking of all 8 players after round 5:

  1.  4       436  Anouk de Vries   
       4       376  Liz Evers     
  3.  3       404  Isa Goosen     
       3       363  Anne Dorbeck   
       3       331  Wendy de Graaf   
  6.  2       345  Jiske de Vries   
  7.  1       314  Sterre Le Fèbre  
  8.  0       311  Anouk Evers      

The new generation Othello players

Othello Elementary School Grand Prix 2015 Hokkaido block tournament was held June 20th. The Japan Othello Association wishes the 3 finalists good luck in the national competition. Another junior Othello event at Kamisu Hiraizumi Community Center,  on June 21st


Tintin Eng wins Stockholm Barbeque Open

Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date: June 14th
Tourney format: 7 rounds

 Jan Zemelka played 3 draw games. The tournament director is curious to know if any player ever had 3 draws in a 7 round tournament. Maybe it is some kind of "record".
Only 1 draw for Tintin Eng (against Marcus Frönmark in round 2), 5 wins and 1 loss (in round 5 against Daniel Turunen). He was the winner of this very nice Swedish Othello event.
After 6 rounds Tintin and Daniel both had 4,5 points and the exact same mbq! Tintin played against Benkt in round 7 and Daniel played against Erik. Tintin managed to get 5 more discs from his opponent.

It was a memorable tournament, with over flying helicopters (royal wedding), bagpipe players, Hare Krisna chanters, mewing cats and the normal hum of tourists in Västerlånggatan.

Ranking of the 10 players after round 7:

1: 5.5 pts [430] ENG Tintin (1492) {SWE}
                 [425] TURUNEN Daniel (1459) {SWE}
3: 5. pts [423] EVERTS Jeroen (5231) {SWE}
4: 4.5 pts [423] FRONMARK Marcus (1454) {SWE}
5: 3.5 pts [350] GARDEBRINK Christian (1505) {SWE}
6: 3. pts [367] STEENTOFT Benkt (1301) {SWE}
               [341] JOHANSSON Erik (1493) {SWE}
8: 2.5 pts [345] ZEMELKA Jan (1533) {SWE}
                  [339] KJELLBERG Arvid (1599) {SWE}
10: 0. pt [267] FAHLESON Rikard (150045) {SWE}


39th WOC will be held October 28th - 31st in Cambridge, UK!

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more info to be found here:
 Othello Bulletin issue 350
W.O.F. homepage
WOF WOC page / online latest June 30
WOF Woc-page
Email to woc 2015
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Tom Schotte wins 14th Frisian Championship

Location: Langweer, The Netherlands
Date: June 14th
Tourney format: 25 players, 6 rounds

It was once again a great cosy tournament at Langweer. No sunshine this time, but the sun will be back next year for sure! Many local players from Langweer, but also a large delegation from Alkmaar participated this competition. But at the end it was Tom Schotte from Belgium who became Frisian champion 2015.

There were quite some close matched throughout the tournament. Especially the top three could have been the other way round. Tom won 31-33 against Marcel and 34-30 against Jan, while Jan only had a narrow win of 31-33 against Marcel.

Holbe Kuperus was 'best of the rest' and won the open category, just ahead of Monique Waterlander . Anne Dorbeck was the best primary school student, runner-up was Anouk de Vries.
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Kim J. Nielsen wins Greve Cup 2015

Location: Greve, Denmark
Date: June 13th
Tourney format: 6 players, 5 rounds and one game final
 
The Greve Cup in 2014 was won by Karsten Feldborg in a 3-game final against Erik Lund-Jensen. Two different finalists this year, Henrik Vallund and Kim J. Nielsen. Henrik defeated Kim in round 3 but in the final Kim won 33 - 31.
Solrun Stokke finished as best amateur player (best player with a Nordic rating below 1100).

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From left: Daniel Rignell (3rd), Kim J. Nielsen (winner), Henrik Vallund (2nd) and Solrun Stokke (best amateur player)

NIELSEN Kim J. 27-37 VALLUND Henrik
Greve Cup 2015, round 3


NIELSEN Kim J. 33-31 VALLUND Henrik
Greve Cup 2015, final


Belgian Othello Association presents the EGP Ghent poster

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Earlier this week the Belgian Othello Association presented the official poster for the 2015 Ghent European Grand Prix Othello.
A special thanks went to Marcel Peperkamp for the design, to François Juigner for the players pictures and to the EGP Ghent sponsors. 

Othello News is not featured on the poster, but I will be there and try hard to beat my last EGP score (Den Hoorn 2014). With just the 1 point, I can totally forgive Tom Schotte for not featuring me on the poster :)

Next European Grand Prix tourney is in Athens, Greece, July 4 - 5
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Othello Elementary School Grand Tohoku block tournament

Location: Sendai, Japan
Date: June 7th
Tourney format: 41 players

Othello elementary school Grand Tohoku block tournament was held in Sendai.
Find more info here.

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the eight finalists

Michele Borassi wins Gran Maestro di Othello 2015

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Location: Rome, Italy
Date: June 7th
Tourney format: 8 invited players, 7 rounds

At the Gran Maestro 2014, three players finished with 5 points: Roberto Sperandio (winnner), Alessandro Di Mattei (2nd) and Francesco Marconi (3rd).

This year's winner is Michele Borassi who won the title with a perfect score of 7 points. Second place for Francesco Marconi with 6 points.

Michele Borassi finished 4th in 2014 and 2nd in 2013. The last time he won the Gran Maestro was three years ago, in 2012. He had a winning streak from 2009 till 2012.
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final result of all 8 players after 7 rounds
pictures of the final round and winner (FNGO Facebook)

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