Othello News May 2013
Top 4 at EGP Oslo
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David Beck (GBR) wins European Grand Prix, Oslo, NorwayAn exciting tourney over 11 rounds + finals on May 25 - 26
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Daniel Olivares, Max Seifert, Alejandro Coello, David Nakasone, Marcelo Lisnovsky, Sebastián Thierer, Maximiliano Axel Pellizzari and Mercedes Cohen.
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Maximiliano Axel Pellizzari wins Abierto de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentine, May 19th
Maximiliano and Daniel have qualified for the Argentine Championship. Next tourney to qualify is the "Torneo 30 Aniversario" on August 18th. 1: Maximiliano Axel Pellizzari 5 points 2: Daniel Olivares 4 points 3: Max Seifert 3 points 4: David Nakasone 2 points Marcelo Lisnovsky 2points Alejandro Coello 2 points 7: Sebastián Thierer 1 point Mercedes Cohen 1 point |
Sido Helmes wins 8th Antwerp OpenAntwerp, Belgium, May 19th
Tourney Format: 7 rounds division A, 5 rounds division B Sido started the tourney with a loss against Marcel Peperkamp but for the rest of the tourney only gave a half point away in a draw against Jarl Ilbrink in round 5. Marcel Peperkamp and Jan de Graaf were in the lead after round 6 with 5 points, followed by Sido Helmes with 4.5 points. Sido won his last game against Jan de Graaf and Marcel Peperkamp lost to Nick Reunes (33-31) missing the draw required for tournament victory at move 56... report by Tom Schotte (in Dutch) DIVISION A: 1: HELMES, Sido, NLD, 5.5 points 2: HOBO, Roel, NLD, 5 points PEPERKAMP, Marcel, BEL, 5 points DE GRAAF, Jan C., NLD, 5 points REUNES, Nick, BEL, 5 points 6: VAES, Dimitri, BEL, 4 points 7: VAN DAMME, Brecht, BEL 3.5 points SCHOTTE, Tom, BEL, 3.5 points ILBRINK, Jarl, NLD, 3.5 points 10: FRANSEN, Martin, NLD, 3 points SNEEK, Marcel, NLD, 3 points MAY, Michael, BEL, 3 points 13: HELMES, Jiska, NLD, 2.5 points 14: VAN DE ZANDE, Josbert, NLD, 2 points DE BOER, Rosalinde, NLD, 2 points VAN DAMME, Jan, BEL, 2 points 17: STEENTOFT, Benkt, SWE, 1.5 point 
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Nick Reunes 33 - 31 Marcel Peperkamp 8th Antwerp Open 2013, round 7 Jan Van Damme wins 8th Antwerpen Othello Open B tournamentDIVISION B:
1: VAN DAMME, Jan, BEL, 5 points 2: VAN DAMME, Frank Ivo, BEL, 4 points 3: VAN DEN BRANDT, Joke, BEL, 3 points 4: VAN DER VEKEN, LIEVE, BEL, 2 points 5: VAN PEER, VINCENT, BEL, 1 point 6: DONCKERS, STEPHANIE, BEL, 0 points
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Imre Leader 41 - 23 Iain Barrass Oadby Regional 2013 |
Imre Leader wins Oadby RegionalOadby, Great Britain, May 18th
Tourney format: 5 rounds On May 4th, the top 4 of this Oadby tourney, played at the Cambridge regional. That tourney was won by Iain Barrass, though Iain and Imre had the same amount of wins. The key game at this tourney in Oadby was ofcourse the game between Imre and Iain, Imre won 41 - 23. Results after 5 rounds: 1: Imre Leader 5 pnts 2: Iain Barrass 4 pnts 3: Ben Pridmore 3 pnts 4: Roy Arnold 2 pnts 5: Steve Rowe 1 pnt Britsh Grand Prix 2013: Ben Pridmore is winner of the British Grand Prix 2013. He won in Burton-upon-Trent (only 3 players), a 3rd place in Cambridge and also a 3rd place in Oadby. Second place at the British Grand Prix 2013 for Imre Leader, who only participated in the last 2 tourneys. |
Tetsuya Nakajima
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Tetsuya Nakajima wins 81st Chiyarenshi OpenJapan, May 11th
Division A: 8 players 1: Tetsuya Nakajima 8 DAN 5 points 225 2: Takumi Ozawa 4 DAN 4 points 205 3: Hiroyuki Iwata 5 DAN 3 points 211.5 Division B: 11 players 1: Yuta Mabuchi 2 DAN 5 points 249 (promoted to 3 DAN) Division C: 12 players 1: Ryuchi Okamoto New 5 points 257 
tourney results (japanese)
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Tom Schotte (Belgium) wins 66th Dutch Othello OpenBussum, Netherlands, May 12th 2013
Tourney format: 7 rounds swiss Tom Schotte and Nicky van den Biggelaar both finished with 5 points. They played against each other in round 2 and Nicky won that game 51 - 13. Nicky lost 2 games: 22 - 42 against Mark van Heere in round 5 and 43 - 21 against Jan de Graaf in round 6. Tom lost in the last round against Erwin van den Berg 43 - 21.
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List of honour Kyoto Open
2012: Ryota Kameda 2011: Yusuke Takanashi 2010: Takashi Yamakawa 2009: Yusuke Takanashi 2008: Hiroki Nakamori 2007: Hideshi Tamenori 2006: Hideshi Tamenori ... 1997: Hideshi Tamenori 
tourney results (japanese)
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Takahiro Sugase wins 25th Kyoto OpenKyoto, Japan May 5th 2013
Tourney format: 7 rounds (57 players) It seems the Othello World Cup was not a 1-time comeback for Hideshi Tamenori who won the Meijin 3 times ( 1988 , 1989 and 1990 ), seven-time champion of Japan ( 1986 , 1988 , 1989 , 1990 , 1995 , 2004 and 2005 ) and seven-time world champion ( 1986 , 1988 , 1989 ,1990 , 1995 , 2005 and 2006 ).
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Iain Barrass wins Cambridge Regional 2013Cambridge, Great Britain, May 4th 2013
Tounrey format: 5 rounds At the Cambridge Regional, Iain Barrass lost only to Imre Leader, and Imre lost only to Ben Pridmore. Ranking of the 6 players after round 5: 1: 4 pts [298] BARRASS Iain (2047) {GB} [289] LEADER Imre (79) {GB} 3: 3 pts [324] BECK David (6437) {GB} [260] PRIDMORE Ben (4019) {GB} 5: 1 pt [212] LIGHTMAN Marie (100004) {GB} 6: 0 pt [252] ARNOLD Roy (2006) {GB} 
Iain Barrass at WOC 2012
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Imre Leader 35 - 29 David Beck Cambridge Regional 2013 
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Kazuki Okamoto wins 8th Hyogo OpenKobe, Japan, May 4th
Tourney format: 6 rounds, 8 players The winner of the 7th Hyogo open in 2012 was Kohachi Fukunaga. He was runner-up at the 34th Meijin-Sen. This year the Hyogo winner is Kazuki Okamoto, who won the 34th Meijin-Sen in March. Third place for Takahiro Sugase, winner of the 25th Kyoto Open of May 5th.
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Kazuki Okamoto
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