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Othello News March 2012


Arnaud Delaunay wins Tournoi Ile De France 1

Paris, 24th  March

Five rounds were played. Arnaud Delauney won all his games. Arthur only lost his game against Arnaud. Marc and Thierry both lost 2 games, against Frédéric and  Arnaud. Frédéric lost his games with Arnaud and Arthur and Gilles lost against Thierry and Serge.

Merci Marc Tastet for the update

rank
1
2
3
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-
-
7
-
-
-
11
12
player
DELAUNAY Arnaud {F}
JUIGNER Arthur {F}
TASTET Marc {F}
AUZENDE Frédéric {F}
CLUZON Gilles {F}
LEVY-ABEGNOLI Thierry {F}
LECAT Monique {B}
KLEINER Alexis  {F}
BETIN Dominique {F}
RUBIO Céline {F}
BENOIT Serge {F}
OVION Jacques {F} 
pnts 
5
4
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
0

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Arnaud Delauney
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Miłosz Cupiał wins second tourney Polish Grand Prix 

Katowice, March 17th

Miłosz Cupiał won the second stage of the Polish Grand Prix. He leads the GP but the runner-up, Sury  Bartłomiej, is right at his heels. Third place Paweł Pęczkowski. All three of them collected 7 points. Robin Tomei (NL) won 6 games and took 4th place. Roman Kraczyk also had 6 points. The last tournament of the Polish Grand Prix series promises to be very exciting.

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Robin Tomei
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the players

              
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Skåne Open 

Only 3 players showed up for the Skåne Open on March 17th
Next tourney in Sweden: Greve Cup April 16th.

1. Daniel Rignell 4
2. Robin Ragnarsson 2
3. Sandra Månsson 0 

Ito Junya wins 80th Shinagawa Open 
第80回品川シーサイドオープン 

March 10th

Top 7: 

1. Junya Ito (6 DAN) - 6/6
2. Takashi Yamakawa (7 DAN) - 5/6
3. Takeshi Murakami (9 DAN) - 5/6
4. Tetsuya Nakajima (8 DAN) - 4/6
5. Masayuki Komagata (5 DAN) - 4/6
6. Makoto Suekuni (9 DAN) - 4/6
7. Hiroto Nagao (6 DAN) - 4/6 

Yuji Miyazaki wins 285th Kyoto Open
第285回京都オセロクラブ定例会 

March 11th

Top 3:
1. Yuji Miyazaki (5 DAN) - 6/6
2. Kazuki Okamoto (8 DAN) - 5/6
3. Ysuke Oshima - 5/6
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Francesco Marconi wins Udine Open

Udine, March 11th

ranking after 7 rounds:

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2
3
4
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6
7
8
-
player 
Marconi Francesco 
Ilacqua Gianluca 
Alami Carlo 
Chiarulli Giuseppe 
Strada Fabio 
Honsell Furio 
Carpignano Marino 
Nardin Loris 
Carbonini Luca Ilario

pnts 
7
6
5
4
4
3
2
1
1
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Marino Carpignano, Francesco Marconi, Gianluca Ilacqua, Furio Honsell, Giuseppe Chiarulli, Fabio Strada, Luca Ilario Carbonini and Carlo Alami.

MARCONI F. - ILACQUA G.
round 3, Udine
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KASHIWABARA T. -TASTET M.
Final game 2 Q. de Rennes

Takuji Kashiwabara wins Préqualificatif de Rennes 

March 10 - 11

Only five players at this French tourney. They played 8 rounds on saturday and 2 more rounds plus finals on sunday. Takuji Kashiwabara won all his games  in the preliminary rounds and played the final against Marc Tastet. They played against each other in round 4 (31 - 33) and round 9 (42-22).

Results after 10 rounds:

Takuji Kashiwabara 10 pts
Marc Tastet 7 pts
Emmanuel Lazard 5 pts
Pierre Butin 5 pts
Serge Poirier 3 pts

Finals:

Marc Tastet  23  -  41 Takuji Kashiwabara
Takuji Kashiwabara 40  -  24 Marc Tastet

Link to updated Classement Grand Prix de France


Tom Schotte wins 61st Dutch Othello Open

Lexmond, March 10th

There were 22 players at the Dorpshuis Het Bosch in the beautiful village Lexmond for the 61st Dutch open. Tom  Schotte won 6 games in a row and only lost his last game against Albert Kortendijk. 
Runner-up was Nicky van den Biggelaar, he also had 6 wins.  
Tom Schotte is the first Belgian to win a Dutch A-tournament. 
It was a nice tourney with good games and tasty "kroketten".

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Tom Schotte (BE), winner


SCHOTTE Tom - BIGGELAAR Nicky vd
round 4

ranking after 7 rounds:

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3
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-
6
-
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-
-
-
player 
Tom Schotte (BE)
Nicky van den Biggelaar
Mark van Heere 
Roel Hobo
Albert Kortendijk
Remko Zillig
Patrick Aubroeck
Ben van der Wagt
Erwin van den Berg
Jiska Helmes
Jan de Graaf  
pnts 
6
6
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
rank
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
19
-
21
22
 player 
Linda Praseptyo
Marcel Sneek
Martin Fransen
Akke-Lien de Boer (BE)
Anja van Gimst 
Michael May (BE)
Trees van Seggelen
Jarl Ilbrink
Jan van der Wagt 
Bauke Kortendijk 
Elena Sahinidou (GR)
pnts 
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
1
0

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Imre Leader

Imre Leader wins Oadby Regional

Oadby, March 10th

ranking after 7 rounds:

rank
1
2
3
4
-
-
7
player 
Imre Leader
Garry Edmead 
Iain Barrass 
Andrew Burgess
Roy Arnold
Steve Rowe 
Robert Calladine   
pnts 
7
6
5
4
4
4
1

 

Kazuki Okamoto wins Meijin-Sen
Mami Yamanaka wins Meijin (females)
Akinori Nakaoka wins Meijin (youth)

Tokyo, 3 - 4 March

The Meijin was organised in a different way this year. The players were divided into 2 groups of 70 players and they played 7 rounds. The best of each group played against each other in the final. Kazuki Okamoto (group B) played white against Ito Junya  (group A) and won with 42-22. The 17 year old Kazuki is promoted to 8th DAN and  Ito to 6th DAN. Third place was for Hiroki Nakamori and fourth place Yuta Esaki. Best foreign player was Martin Ødegård from Norway, he was awarded 3rd DAN. Martin won 5 games. 

Mami Yamanaka (JPN) won the female final against  Jiska Helmes from the Netherlands with 36 - 28.  Third place: Toshi Hayasaka.  
22 players competed in this competition.The preliminaries were played in 2 groups of which the winner proceeded to the final. 

36 children did their best to win the Junior Meijin. Akinori Nakaoka  (JPN) was up against Arthur Juigner (FRA) in the youth final and they played a draw. Arthur Juigner had had the choice of colour and according to Japanese tourney rule, the title went to Akinori Nakaoka. 
Third place: Satoshi Kurahashi.   

Seven foreign players  played in Tokyo: WOC 2010 Female Champion Jiska Helmes (NL), Arthur Juigner (FR), Benkt Steentoft (SE), Martin  Ødegård  (NO), Alex Koh (SG), Kelvin Yang (HK) and Jacky Fu (CA). 

Here is a link to the playerslist (in Japanese). 



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the final game at Meijin-sen, Ito Junya - Kazuki Okamoto


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Kazuki Okamoto - 優勝 岡本


JUNYA Ito - OKAMOTO Kazuki
Final Meijin
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link to Japan Othello page
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YAMANAKA Mami - HELMES Jiska
Final Females Meijin


NAKAOKA Akinori - JUIGNER Arthur
Final Youth Meijin

pictures by  Masayuki Amano

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Arthur Juigner in a Japanese paper

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