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Othello News November 2012


 

OWC players team Japan show their skills


Othello News Japan correspondent Tom Schotte keeps track of the achievements of Team Japan players. Four of them competed in a tourney last weekend

 231st Kawagoe Games
 (12 players) - 23/11/2012
 
1. Ryota Nagamatsu (3DAN) 5/6
2. Tomoya Toda (7DAN) 4.5/6 (*)
3. Akira Ishikawa (4DAN) 4/6
4. Yuji Miyazaki (5DAN) 4/6 (*)

19th Inuyama Open 
(12 players) - 24/11/2012
 
1. Yuta Esaki (6DAN) 5/6 + 1/1 (*)
2. Naoki Shimizu (4DAN) 6/6 + 0/1
3. Suganuma Yoshiyuki (3DAN) 5/7
Star Camp 2012 
(12 players) - 24/11/2012
 
1. Masaki Takizawa (9DAN) 5/6 (*)
2. Hiroto Nagao (6DAN) 4.5/6
3. Takanori Oshimizu (5DAN) 4.5/6 


5th Chukyo Open 
(19 players) - 25/11/2012
 
1. Yuta Esaki (6DAN) 6/6 +1/1 (*)
2. Hiroto Nagao (6DAN) 5/6 + 0/1
3. Keisuke Kanou (no DAN) 5/7

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Othello boards in Tokyo toyshop

Candidates for WOF council and changes in WOC rules‏

Because no candidates were proposed to the positions as secretary and sponsorship manager/treasurer before the WOF meeting, it was decided to give an extended deadline to propose candidates. If you want to propose yourself or other persons to one of the vacant positions (secretary and sponsorship manager), please send an e-mail to WOF President Tor Birger Skogen  by 10th December. After the deadline there will be an election among the candidates by e-mail, where all WOF nations are allowed to vote.

At the WOF annual meeting 2012 it was also decided that the WOC rule committee should revise the rules before next WOC. How to count women's score for team score, handling of persons with disability and penalty for not making transcript has been mentioned as some of the topics that should be considered changed. If you have other topics/proposals that you think should be revised, please send your ideas to the rule committee. Please send your mail to Emmanuel Lazard  and Tor Birger Skogen by December 10th. The rule committee will publish proposals in January / February 2013. Afterwards there will be an opportunity to discuss the proposals before it is planned to conduct a voting via e-mail during March / April 2013.

Best Regards,
Tor Birger Skogen

more on WOF council on this page

Ludica Roma, FNGO promotes Othello at game exhibition

Rome, Italy, November 23 - 25

The Italian Othello Federation  was present at the Ludica Roma 2012 game exhibition with a large space dedicated to the promotion of Othello. 
Representatives of FNGO taught rules, basic strategic principles and tactics to beginners and all those who wanted to engage in this unique "sport of the mind". Enthusiast and experienced players were invited to challenge the "teachers".

On Sunday morning, the tournament  Città di Roma, registration open for all. Swiss system, 5 rounds.


 

Marc Tastet wins Tournoi Ile De France 5

Paris, France, November 24th
Tourney format: 5 rounds

This tournament marked the return of several players: Quentin Volvert, who had not played since 2009, Hong Duc Vo, away from tournaments since 2002 and David Barbeau who has not been to any tourney since 2001. The FFO hopes to see them more often, especially since
they showed they still know how to play.

It seems Arnaud Delaunay did not learn any tricks at the WOC that Marc does not know how to counter.


 

AUZENDE Frédéric 25 - 29 TASTET Marc
Ile de France 5, 2012
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Arnaud Delaunay 41 - 23 Wachiraphan Huraphan round 7 WOC 2012

 

Yusuke Takanashi wins 84th Shinagawa Open

Tokyo, Japan, November 17th
32 players
 
1. Yusuke Takanashi 9DAN 6/6 (*)
2. Daisuke Kamikura 3DAN 5/6
3. Ryota Nagamatsu 3DAN 5/6
4. Yuji Miyazaki 5DAN 4/6 (*)
5. Ryosuke Tsuchiya 5 DAN 4/6
6. Takashi Kurihara no DAN 4/6 
7. Junya Ito 6 DAN 4/6 (*)
...
10. Tetsuya Nakajima 8 DAN 4/6 (*)
11. Yugo Toki 3 DAN 4/6 (*)
21. Jun Shinohara no DAN 3/6 (*)
26. Ryo Shinohara no DAN 2/6 (*)

(*) has been selected for Japan Othello World Cup Team











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tourney results

Seiya Kurita wins 230th Kawagoe Games 

Kawagoe, Japan, November 18th
12 players
 
1 Seiya Kurita 7DAN 6/6 (*)
2. Daisuke Kamikura 3DAN 5/6
3. Takayuki Kurachi 4DAN 5/6
4. Shinpei Matsuya 4DAN 3.5/6

(*) has been selected for Japan Othello World Cup Team


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tourney results
Back in Japan after their succesful World Othello Championship in the Netherlands, WOC Champion Yusuke Takanashi and WOC #3 Seiya Kurita  both won a tourney last weekend. I am sure everyone tried their best to steal a point from these two top players, but they both won with a perfect score 6/6.
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Yusuke Takanashi, WOC 2012 semifinal against Seiya Kurita
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Seiya Kurita - Tom Schotte at WOC 2012

 

Bo Chao Alex Koh wins 7th Singapore Othello Open

Singapore, November 18th 2012
Tourney format: 6 Rounds Swiss Pairings
Time Control: 15 minutes per player per round

1: Koh, Bo Chao Alex 5 pnts
    Leong, Chee Kit 5 pnts
    Wu, Jinfeng 5 pnts
4: Chua, Ziwei 3 pnts
    Low, Wee Hao Eddie 3 pnts
6: Lim, Wee Kiat 1 pnt
    Tan, Yan Shao 1 pnt
    Set, Zhi Wei 1 pnt

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link to OOS website
 

WU Jinfeng 42 - 22 SET Zhi Wei
7th Singapore Othello Open
 

KOH Bo Chao Alex 48 - 16 LOW Wee Hao Eddie
7th Singapore Othello Open

 

WOF annual meeting November 10th 2012

The newly selected president of the World Othello Federation is Tor Birger Skogen. The minutes of the annual meeting that Tor sent to the confederations can be downloaded here.  Read what has been decided on and what issues are still to be resolved in the nearby future, There are still a couple of vacancies in the council. Maybe you are interested?
The newly elected WOF council :

  • President: Tor Birger Skogen (Norway) 
  • Secretary: vacant
  • Sponsorship Manager/ Treasurer: vacant
  • WOC representative: Benkt Steentoft (Sweden)
  • Europe: Francesco Marconi (Italy)
  • Americas: Lucas Cherem de Camargo (Brazil)
  • Asia/Pacific: Piamrat Kraikokit (Thailand)
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Tor Birger Skogen at WOC 2012
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The new WOF council will ask for candidates to the empty seats, Secretary and Sponsorship Manager / Treasurer. An e-mail about this should be sent during November 2012. After this there will be an election by e-mail.

 

Othello World Cup 2013 qualification / OWC2013代表決定

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Tokyo, Japan, November 11th 2012

OWC 2013 Japanese players qualification. Eleven more Japanese players will be selected. I am sure among them will be the players from the Japanese team at the WOC, because they had a fabulous result.: number 1, 2 and 3 and female finalist

Open Class:
Makoto Suekuni (winner)
Tetsuya Nakajima
Tomoya Toda
Masaki Takizawa
Yuji Miyazaki
Katsuhiko Kozuka
*Open: 6 players
Girl’s Class:
Misato Tanizawa
Toshie Hayasaka
*Girl’s: 2 players

U-12 Class:
Ryo Shinohara
Yugo Toki
Jun Shinohara
*U-12: 3 players
and....... 11 more Japanese players
According to unofficial information I just reveived, these are the other eleven players. 
01. Yusuke Takanashi: 40th All Japan winner and WOC 2012 [Elite]
02. Kazuki Okamoto: 33rd Meijin winner [Elite]
03. Seiya Kurita: 7th Ouza-sen winner [Elite]
04. Mama Yamanaka: 33rd Meijin female winner [Woman]
05. Reiko Sato: 40th All Japan female runner-up  [Woman]

06. Tetsushi Kurahashi: OJG 2012 [Youth]
07. Junya Ito: 33rd Meijin runner-up [Elite]
08. Yuta Esaki: 7th Ouza-sen runner-up [Elite]
09. Hiroki Nobukawa: 2011 World Championship winner [Elite]
10. Mei Urashima: 2009 World Championship female winner  [Woman]
11. Hideshi Tamenori: Special invitation [Elite]
 

NAKAJIMA Tetsuya 36 - 28 SASAKI Sohei
OWC 2013 qualification round 3
 

TAKIZAWA Masaki 30 - 34 SUEKUNI Makoto
OWC 2013 qualification round 5

2012 World Othello Champion: Yusuke Takanashi (JPN)
Female Champion: Veronica Stenberg (SWE)

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Yusuke Takanashi - Kazuki Okamoto, final WOC
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Veronica Stenberg - Mami Yamanaka, final WOC
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Matthias Berg wins Köln International, WOC warm-up tournament

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Köln, Germany, November 3 - 4

German players: Matthias Berg,  Daniel Rößler, Günther Beyer, Leo Evers, Beate Offerzier, Stefan Murawski and Michael Schaaf.
Foreign players: Kelvin Yang (Hong Kong), Leonid Shifman (Israel), Arthur Juigner (France), Mehul Vyas (India),  Iain Barras (Great Britain), Palle Badsted (Denmark),  Ben Ruhmkorff (USA) and 4 players from the Netherlands: Jan de Graaf, Marcel Sneek, Roel Hobo and Martin Fransen.
 * name in bold: plays at 36th WOC, November 7 - 10

Jan de Graaf and Marcel Sneek are tourney directors of the upcoming World Championship in Leeuwarden. The tourney organisation takes up a lot of their time. But this weekend.......... they play!!!!! Believe it or not, the third tourney director, Bengt Steentoft, also plays at a tourney this weekend. But no Othello for him. He hopes to be the 2012 World Champion Rummikub. Or will Henrik Vallund, othello player from Denmark, grab the Rummi-CUP? The Rummykub final will be played on top of mount Etna, I'd love to see both othello players on top of the volcano.

Day 1
Matthias leads at the end of the first day. He lost only half a point in a draw game in round 3 against Roel Hobo. It looked like there would be two players at the top at the end of day 1, but Roel lost  his game in round 7 against Ben Ruhmkorff and so took second place with 5.5 points.

Day 2
Matthias lost his first game on sunday against Kelvin Yang, what a pitty that game is not online. After round 9 Matthias and Roel both had 7.5 points, followed by Ben Ruhmkorff on 3rd place with 6.5 points. Ben had to win the next games to have a chance to make it to the final, but he lost in round 10 against Iain Barrass, while both Matthias and Roel won. So even before the final round was played, Roel and Matthias had qualified for the final. Arthur Juigner won all his games on day 2, including the play-off for 3rd place against Daniel Rossler.

games are online
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Kelvin Yang 44 - 20 Matthias Berg, round 8
WOC points have been added to the table below
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Final
HOBO Roel 23 - 41 BERG Matthias
BERG Matthias 40 -  24 HOBO Roel

Playoff 3rd / 4th place
ROSSLER Daniel 29 - 35 JUIGNER Arthur

Beginners final:
Günther Beyer won the final against Beate Offerzier.


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