Othello News October 2013

Visits to Othello News WOC pages, October 24 - 26

During the 3 tourney days, 24 - 26 October, Othello News had visitors from 46 different countries. Top country........ Japan. When we group the visitors by continent, Europe has the advantage over Asia. Thank you all very much for your support!

Kazuki Okamoto (JPN) wins World Othello Championship,
runnerup Piyanat Aunchulee (THA)

Katie Wu (FIN) wins Ladies Championship,
runnerup Caroline Odsell (SWE)

Visit our special World Othello Championship pages

Interview with Ben Seeley by Bengt Steentoft
Interview with Team Japan
Interview with Katie Wu and Lari Pihlajapuro
Interview with Tor Birger Skogen, President of the WOF
Interview with Bengt Steentoft, WOC Head TD
Interview with Martin Ødegård by Romy Hidayat
List of registered players

WOC venue: The Royal Castle, Stockholm

Othello News WOC 2013 home
Othello News WOC 2013 results
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World Othello Federation WOC 2013 website
LiveOthello
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Lucas Cherem wins Brazil Othello Championship

Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Date: October 20th, 2013
Tourney format: 2 groups round robin, semifinals and final

The 2011 and 2012 Champion Fábricio Silva did not succeed in defending his national title. He lost the final in two very close games (33-31) against Lucas Cherem. This is Lucas' third national title.

Group A - Fabrício Silva; Roberto Iglesias; Rafael Teixeira and Rose Artoni

Group B - Lucas Cherem; Daniel Dantas; Fernanda Brito and Adriana Iglesias

Round 1
Fabrício 43 - 21 Lucas
Roberto 16 - 48 Daniel
Rose 52 - 12 Adriana
Rafael 54 - 10 Fernanda

Round 3
Fabrício 58 - 06 Fernanda
Rafael 21 - 43 Lucas
Rose 10 - 54 Daniel
Roberto 48 - 16 Adriana

Semifinal Group A
Fabrício 56 - 08 Roberto
Roberto 10 - 54 Fabrício

Playoff 3rd / 4th place
Roberto 19-45 Daniel
Daniel 50-14 Roberto

Round 2
Daniel 24-40 Fabrício
Lucas 30 - 34 Roberto
Fernanda 19 - 45
Rose Adriana 21 - 43 Rafael

Round 4
Adriana 07-57 Fabrício
Fernanda 00-64 Roberto
Lucas 53-11 Rose
Daniel 37-27 Rafael

Semifinal Group B
Daniel 23-41 Lucas
Lucas 28-36 Daniel
Lucas 34-30 Daniel

Final
Fabrício 31-33 Lucas
Lucas 33-31 Fabrício

Dear Othello player,

In one week, the 37th World Othello Championship will take place in Stockholm, Sweden.

We shall try to provide live coverage of the tournament, results and standings at and transmit live games on LiveOthello and LiveOthello Mobile.
We shall also try to have a webcam available to provide a video feed if bandwidth permits it!

As there will be few table judges, we need your help to type in the transcripts. The plan is to scan the transcript sheets and to publish the pictures on flickr.
Anyone willing to help can then replay the transcript in his favorite othello program and paste the list of moves as commentary to the photo.

I hope you will all enjoy this great tournament!

for the TD-team
Emmanuel Lazard

Emmanuel Lazard at WOC 2012

link to games on LiveOthello

Martin Ødegård wins Trondheim Othello Open

Location: Trondheim, Norway
Date: October 13th, 2013
Tourney format: 5 rounds, semifinals and final

I dont know the result of Martin's game in round 1, but in the other games Martin had easy victories: 7-56, 8-56, 62-0 and 55-9.
This year's Trondheim Open had the same finalists as last year. In 2012 Jonas lost the final against Martin 13 - 51.
Ingeborg Mathisen and Martin Ødegård are both on the Norway WOC team. The other two team members, Jostein Danielsen and Vidar Albrigtsen were not present at this tourney.
Read the interview that Romy Hidayat had last week with Norways top-player Martin Ødegård.

Semifinals:
KJELLSTADLI Jonas 37 - 27 LOFTHAUG Kristoffer
MATHISEN Ingeborg 4 - 60 ODEGARD Martin

Playoff 3rd / 4th place:
MATHISEN Ingeborg 4 - 60 LOFTHAUG Kristoffer

Final:
ODEGARD Martin 59 - 5 KJELLSTADLI Jonas

MATHISEN Ingeborg 4 - 60 LOFTHAUG Kristoffer
Trondheim Open, playoff 3rd / 4th place

ODEGARD Martin 59 - 5 KJELLSTADLI Jonas
Trondheim Open, final

Marc Tastet wins Ile de France 4

Location: Paris, France
Date: October 12th
Tourney format: 5 rounds were planned but it was changed to 3 rounds because there were only 4 players. Tourney results count for the  Grand Prix de France 2013 - 2014

Results after round 3 :

1:   3 pts [182]  TASTET Marc {FRA}
2:   1 pt [78]   CLUZON Gilles {FRA}
[66]   BENOIT Serge {FRA}
[58]   BETIN Dominique {FRA}

Takashi Yamakawa

YAMAKAWA Takashi 37 - 27 FUKUNAGA Kohachi
24th Kansai Championship, round 4

Takashi Yamakawa wins 24th Kansai Championship

Location: Kansai, Japan
Date: October 6th 2012
Players: 27
Website link

Three of the four players from WOC Team Japan played at the 24th Kansai Championship.

Top 7 of 27 players:

1. Takashi Yamakawa (7 DAN) 7/7 +166
2. Kazuki Okamoto (8 DAN) 6/7 +89
3. Kohachi Fukunaga (6 DAN) 5/7 +86
4. Takahiro Sugase (6 DAN) 5/7 +84
5. Yoshihide Shimamura (4 DAN) 4.5/7 +16
6. Kanta Okada (no DAN) 4.5/7 -19
7. Yuji Miyazaki (7 DAN) 4/7 +77

List of honour:

23rd Kansai Championship (2012): Takahiro Sugase
22nd Kansai Championship (2011): Kazuki Okamoto
21st Kansai Championship (2010): Kazuki Okamoto
20th Kansai Championship (2009): Kohachi Fukunaga
19th Kansai Championship (2008): Takahiro Sugase

Group photo 2nd Beijing Open

link to crosstable of all 22 players

Yan Song wins 2nd Beijing Othello Open 【第2届】北京黑白棋公开赛

Location, Beijing, China
Date: 4 October, 2013
Format: 7 rounds Swiss system, semifinals and final

Final Results top 4:
公开组 Open Group
冠军：修罗（SONG Yan）
亚军：鬼魅（FENG Ling）
季军：佩哥（SHI Peipei）
殿军：黑白分明（ZHAO Jingtao）

女子组 Female Group
冠军：小永（LIU Yaqing）

Semifinals:
ZHAO Jingtao 14 - 50 SONG Yan
FENG Ling 33 - 31 SHI Peipei

Playoff 3rd / 4th place:
ZHAO Jingtao 21 - 43 SHI Peipei

Final:FENG Ling 28 - 36 SONG Yan

FENG Ling 28 - 36 SONG Yan
2nd Beijing Othello Open, final