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Kongxinshu (CHEN Xu) wins 4th Tianjin Othello OpenTianjin, China, April 30th
Touney format: 7 round and finals Final top 4:
Final: Kongxinshu (CHEN Xu ) 39 - 25 255 (HU Yingchong) 3rd/4th playoff: Yuqilin 29 - 35 Heibai Conan Semi-finals: Yuqilin 23 - 41 255 (HU Yingchong) Heibai Conan 27 - 37 Kongxinshu link to crosstable of 7 rounds |
Kongxinshu (CHEN Xu) 39 - 25 HU Yingchong Final 4th Tianjin Open |
Maximiliano at WOC 2011
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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 8: 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... 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: Kou 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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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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Nicky van den Biggelaar leads Dutch Open List of HonourThanks to Tom Schotte we can show you this interesting list of Dutch Open trophy winners. The first and third Dutch open have not been included in this list as they were actually Dutch Championships. Nicky van den Biggelaar, World Othello Championship 3rd place in 2011 and 4th place in 2012, leads the list with 19 victories, 9 second places and 5 third places. On second place David Shaman, World Othello Champion in 1993, 1999 and 2002. He was runner up at the WOC in 1982, 1992 and 1995. He finished third in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1991. He was 4th in 1989. David lived in the Netherlands for some years and he played for the Dutch team when he won his1999 and 2002 WOC title. I played against him once and he read a magazine during the opening. Only about halfway the game he got a bit more interested. Interested enough to kill me :) Third place for Andreas Hoehne, who won the 3rd place at the World Championship in 2003 and 4th place in 2004. Not so long ago the Dutch Othello tourneys were very well attended and Andreas Hoehne, Matthias Berg and Romy Hidayat would drive all the way to NL to show their Othello skills. Trees van Seggelen |
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 
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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 at WOC 2012
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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} |
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Imre Leader 35 - 29 David Beck Cambridge Regional 2013 |
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World Othello Federation Ranking Top 20
Updated by Emmanuel Lazard, April 30th, 2013
Yusuke Takanashi still on first place. Only 3 non-japanese players in the top 20: Michele Borassi (ITA), Nicky van den Biggelaar (NLD) and Eddie Williams (USA). The Japanese players are still the best in the world. I Look forward to see some of them play at the 37th World Othello Championship in Stockholm.
Yusuke Takanashi still on first place. Only 3 non-japanese players in the top 20: Michele Borassi (ITA), Nicky van den Biggelaar (NLD) and Eddie Williams (USA). The Japanese players are still the best in the world. I Look forward to see some of them play at the 37th World Othello Championship in Stockholm.
best player: Yusuke Takanashi
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link to WOF Ratinglist
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World Othello Federations World Othello Championship 2013
We are pleased to announce that the 37th World Championship will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, October 23-26, 2013.
The tournament will be arranged by the World Othello Federation and our hosts will be the Swedish Othello Federation. The WOF-C 2013 homepage will be online with all information latest May 15th. There you will find qualifications rules, how to find cheap travels & hotels and a lot more! Do you have any questions before May 15th, please contact Benkt Steentoft.
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