Othello News November 2015
Yura Abe wins 165th Nagareyama OpenLocation: Nagareyama, Japan
Date: November 29th Tourney format: 6 rounds Swiss Link: JOA website, Takeshi Murakami blog Twenty-four players at the 165th Nagareyama open. Winner with 5 wins and 1 loss was Yura Abe. Also 5 wins for the runner-up Takeshi Murakami and third place for Masaki Isobe with 4 wins. |
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ISOBE Masaki 39-25 MURAKAMI Takeshi 165th Niigata Open, round 4 |
HISHIYAMA Yuichi 26-38 MURAKAMI Takeshi 165th Niigata Open, round 6 |
News from Othello Organisation Singapore
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WOC 2016 Qualification Announcement:
In view of the expected high demand of local players looking to represent the nation for the 40th anniversary World Othello Championship 2016 in Mito, Japan, we will announce the qualification for WOC 2016 today (30-11-2015). Apart from the 9th Singapore National Othello Championship 2016 (SNOC 2016) to be held in June 2016, the 5th Singapore Othello Masters Series 2015 (SOMS 2015) will also be a qualifying tournament. The three players will be selected according to the following priority: 1) SOMS 2015 Div One Champion 2) SNOC 2016 Champion 3) SNOC 2016 First Runner Up 4) SOMS 2015 Div One First Runner Up 5) SNOC 2016 Second Runner Up 6) SNOC 2016 Third Runner Up 7) Players thereafter will be selected as per SNOC 2016 rankings The female representing player will still be selected based on SNOC 2016. |
Singapore Othello Masters 2015:
The 5th year end Singapore Othello Masters 2015 will be held on 20th December at Kampong Kembangan cc room 03-02 from 9am to 6pm.
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Vitor Correia wins Nova Odessa Othello Tournament
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Location: Nova Odessa, Brazil
Date: November 28th Tourney format: 5 rounds Swiss Link: website Brazil Othello Twenty players at this tournament In Nova Odessa and a lot of awards per category. Vitor Correia won the tournament with 5 wins. Runner-up was Moisés Correira Jr. with 4 wins and third place for João Carlos Martins who also scored 4 points. |
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Kano Kobayashi wins Elementary School Othello WorkshopLocation: Niigata, Japan
Date: November 28th Tourney format: 4 rounds Swiss     |
KOBAYASHI Kano 34-30 TANABE Tomoki Niigata Othello Workshop, final |
Othello at school in ThailandLocation: Bangkok, Thailand
Date: November 26th Othello practise and tournament at the Assumption Convent Silom School in Bangkok.
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Longest game ever?
I'm sitting in a coffee house, getting ready to send off my Othello move to my 80 yr old aunt. We've been playing the game of Othello through the mail since 1978! Just this one game, so far...most of the time we forget to play. (Her last move was April 2014; my last move was 21 years before that.) But I'm winning now; I might start increasing the amount of letters I write to her this year. If you feel like starting a game with your aunt, with your Othello hero, or with the Othello News editor, here are two email Othello sites:
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Takashi Yamakawa wins Tohoku Open
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Location: Tohoku, Japan
Date: November 22nd Tourney format: 6 rounds + final Link: JOA FB, JOA website Yusuke Takanashi and Makoto Suekuni, the two finalists of the 39th WOC, met as early as round 2 in the Tohoku Open. Yusuke won that game 40 - 24. The top 4 players played a semifinal and final in round 6 and 7 Takashi Yamakawa won the tourney undefeated, well done!! Yusuke finished second, third place was for Daisuke Kamikura and 4th place for Hisashi Takahashi. Makoto Suekuni finished 5th with 4 wins out of 6. |
Latest Othello Graph interview (in Japanese):
"I want to produce a world champion" says Yoshita Taisaku (3 dan) of Tohoku Block |
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TAKAHASHI Hisashi 30-34 YAMAKAWA Takashi Tohoku Open, semifinal |
YAMAKAWA Takashi 51-13 TAKANASHI Yusuke Tohoku Open, final |
Chiaki Wada, Masaki Wada and Shun Matsunaga
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On Saturday before the main tournament there was a tournament for elementary school students.
The two Wada brothers finished 1st and 2nd place, 3rd pace for Shun Matsunaga. Link to results on JOA website |
Oskar Eklund wins Örebro Othello Open
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Location: Örebro, Sweden
Date: November 21st Tourney format: 7 rounds Link: SOF website The Swedish Grand Prix Othello 2016 started with the Örebro Open. For those who want to be part of Swedish team for the WOC in Japan 2016, it's was a good plan to start early and collect points! :-) Oskar Eklund won the Örebro tournament with 5.5 points. Second place for Jeroen Everts and Daniel Turunen with 5 points. The second tournament will be played in Stockholm 12/12. I never thought I would win after my loss against Tintin in first round or after my draw against Niklas in third round. My game against Daniel Turunen in round 5 was an important victory for me and after my win in round 6 against Marcus Frönmark I was in the lead with 0.5 pts before the last round. I won the last round against Benkt and won the tournament! So I am really happy today :) |
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TURUNEN Daniel 26-38 EKLUND Oskar Örebro Open, round 5 |
EKLUND Oskar 33-31 FRÖNMARK Marcus Örebro Open, round 6 |
Marc Tastet - Brian Rose, first round WOC 2015
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WOC, it's not over until the next one starts
Recently Marc Tastet posted an interesting article about the World Othello Championship in Cambridge on the FFO website (in french).
Now that you've all returned home from Cambridge, why not send us your own personal WOC report. Analyse your best or worst game or comment on the issues that came up during the tournament and/or the WOF meeting (transcripts, wrong table-judge report etc). Game analysis can be found on Takeshi Murakami's blog Round 1 - 7, Yusuke Takanashi Round 1 - 7, Yoko Rose Round 8 - 13 and final, Yoko Rose |
Two videos of Italian Championship 2015
This weekend Biagio Privitera posted two videos of the Italian Championship 2015 that took place in Rome September 5-6. Great work Biagio!
It would be great if we could have such videos for all the major tourneys, WOC, Meijin, All Japan, EGP tourneys etc. Othello sponsors, we need a video budget!
It would be great if we could have such videos for all the major tourneys, WOC, Meijin, All Japan, EGP tourneys etc. Othello sponsors, we need a video budget!
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Takashi Izumi wins 94th Mito regular meetingLocation: Mito, Japan (where all Othello players want to be next year for the 40th WOC)
Date: November 15th Tourney format: 6 rounds, 10 players Link: JOA website A perfect score for Takashi Izumi as he finished undefeated with 6 wins. Runner-up was Takao Kinoshita who scored 4 wins. I am not quite sure if my webtranslator got it right, but I think it was Izumi's 23rd victory out of 94 Mito meetings! |
Tatebayashi Azalea Park
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Makoto Matsumoto wins 54th Tatebayashi OpenLocation: Tatebayashi, Japan
Date: November 8th Tourney format: 6 rounds Link: JOA website Makoto Matsumoto won the tournament with 5 wins and 1 loss. Runner-up Akira Ishikawa also scored 5 points. It was a fairly small tournament with only 8 players. |
Albert Kortendijk wins 1st Ghent XOT Handicap Tournament
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Location: Ghent, Belgium
Date: November 7th Tourney format: 6 rounds Link: BOA website I play almost exclusively XOT-games at PlayOk, it would have been fun to attend an XOT tournament but Tom Schotte scheduled it on my birthday. Albert Kortendijk (NLD) won the 1st Ghent XOT handicap tournament with 5.5/6. A total of 16 players attended and played 1 up to 6 rounds. Sander Schotte (5 years old) and Lander de Wael (7 years old) played their first two semi-official games. Sander defeated his father Tom (35-29). Sander had +39 handicap. Sander is the youngest player in Belgian Othello history. 
Sander Schotte
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Roy Lin wins the 12th Singapore Open!Location: Singapore
Date: November 1st Tourney format: 6 rounds Three players finished with 5 points but there can only be 1 winner and that is Roy Lin. |
LIN Roy 33-31 LEE Choon Foong 12th Singapore Open |
Keisuke Fukuchi wins 95th Kanagawa Open
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Date: November 1st
Tourney format: 6 rounds
Link: JOA website, Murakami's blog
At the World Othello Championship young Arthur Juigner impressed with his Othello skills. In Japan, young Keisuke Fukuchi won the Kanagawa Open with 5.5 wins.
1st runner-up is Takeshi Murakami with 5.0 wins. 2nd runner-up is Kyotaro Tamaki with 5.0 wins.
Date: November 1st
Tourney format: 6 rounds
Link: JOA website, Murakami's blog
At the World Othello Championship young Arthur Juigner impressed with his Othello skills. In Japan, young Keisuke Fukuchi won the Kanagawa Open with 5.5 wins.
1st runner-up is Takeshi Murakami with 5.0 wins. 2nd runner-up is Kyotaro Tamaki with 5.0 wins.
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YAMAMOTO Takashi 32-32 MURAKAMI Takeshi 95th Kanagawa Open, round 2 |
MURAKAMI Takeshi 32-32 FUKUCHI Keisuke 95th Kanagawa Open, round 6 |
World Othello Champion for the 4th time: Yusuke Takanashi. Female champion: Yoko Sano Rose
World Othello Champion: Yusuke Takanashi. Female Champion: Yoko Sano Rose
Yusuke Takanashi (JPN) won the 2015 World Othello Championship. He won the final in two games against the defending champion Makoto Suekuni (JPN). This was the fourth time that Yusuke competed at the Worlds and the fourth time he won the World Championship. He previously won in 2009, 2010 and 2012. Makoto Suekuni (JPN) won the WOC in 1997 and 2014, this year he had to be satisfied with second place. A third place for Nicky van den Biggelaar (NLD) and fourth place for Michele Borassi (ITA). Yoko Sano Rose (USA) won the title of Ladies Champion for the first time. She was runner-up in 2011 (playing for Japan). Nida Pattarakul (THA) played her first WOC final. Best team is Japan, for the 13th time and the 11th time in a row. |
Michele Borassi 4th, Makoto Suekuni 2nd, Yusuke Takanashi 1st, Nicky vd Biggelaar 3rd
World Othello Championship,
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round 1-7
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round 8-13
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semi's and finals
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links to results and reports
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Message by Benkt Steentoft
We are ready for W.O.C. 2015!! Are you?? Dear all Othello friends! Today 06:00 PM (London time) the Reception for the World Othello Championship 2015 will start. It will me some welcome speech and after that the traditional first round pairings. You will find some of it online. Check all live-channels and informations at the official World Othello Federation's WOC website . Tomorrow the games will start. Who is your favourites to win? Who will be best team? Can any team beat the Japanese team this year? Will the four highest rated players also be the semi-finalists? What do you think? As head Tournemant director I will welcome all players and crews to the W.O.C. 2015. But I also want to welcome you all to W.O.C. 2015 in Cambridge. Where ever you are in the world, you welcome, to check LiveOthello and comment there, check games, discuss W.O.C. with friends, and hope your teams players will be good! OthelloNews will do all they can to update you with all you need and want to know, Do you have any wishes what we should write about; tell us! Link to Othello News WOC page and Othello news Twitter account. We are ready for W.O.C. 2015!! Are you?? |
a pre-WOC meeting was held on the rooftop of the Great Gate at Trinity College
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