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

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7
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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}

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4
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
0

Arnaud Delauney

game analysis

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.

Robin Tomei

the players

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

link to Japan Othello page

Francesco Marconi wins Udine Open

Udine, March 11th

ranking after 7 rounds:

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

pnts
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6
5
4
4
3
2
1
1

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

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".

Tom Schotte (BE), winner

SCHOTTE Tom - BIGGELAAR Nicky vd
round 4

ranking after 7 rounds:

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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
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-
-
-
-
19
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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

Imre Leader

Imre Leader wins Oadby Regional

Oadby, March 10th

ranking after 7 rounds:

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2
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4
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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).