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Othello News October 2014


 

Georgios Mitsis wins Greek Othello Championship 2014

Location: Athens, Greece
Date: October 25th
Tourney format: 3 rounds and final

The runner-up of the Greek Championship in 2013 succeeded in winning the title this year. Only four players at this tourney, Andreas Litsas won all his games in the three rounds, but was defated by Georgios Mitsis in the final.

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Takuji Kashiwabara and Georgios Mitsis at EGP Athens 2013

LITSAS, Andreas 22 - 42 MITSIS Georgios
2014 Greek Championship, final

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Greek Championship 2014, results after 3 rounds

 
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Arnaud Delaunay

Arnaud Delaunay wins Ile de France 5

Location: Paris, France
Date: October 25th
Tourney format: 5 rounds

The FFO was very happy to welcome 4 new players, Ruben YONNET-LONDONO BAENA,  Laurent LIN, Georges CORBINEAU and Nicolas LONGUET. 
Arnaud Delaunay will represent France at the WOC in Bangkok. The two other players for the French team are Takuji Kashiwabara and Sarah Bentolila. A picture of Sarah, taken by Bintsa Andriani at the IdF3 in 2007, was used for the poster of the 36th WOC 2012.

Final results:

1:   5 pts [246]   Arnaud DELAUNAY 
2:   4 pts [212]   Frédéric AUZENDE 
3:   3 pts [184]   Serge BENOIT 
               [160]   Jacques OVION 
               [153]   Gilles CLUZON 
6:   2 pts [155]   Ruben YONNET-LONDONO BAENA 
               [147]   Laurent LIN 
               [142]   Georges CORBINEAU 
9:   1 pt   [81]     Nicolas LONGUET 

LiveOthello goes Java-free!

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The Java machine keeps crashing your browser?

Now introducing the latest LiveOthello website, entirely in Javascript!
The client webpage has been completely rewritten in Javascript and will run on all recent browsers (but you need at least IE 10 if you stick with Internet Explorer - try Firefox or Chrome instead).

Features are more or less the same, some are still missing in the chat (smileys and sound).
Certified logins are working but need you to reenter your password (if you have forgotten it, please drop me a mail). If you have trouble loading the new site, empty the browser cache.

There are probably bugs left, do not hesitate to mail me if you find some!

Emmanuel Lazard
October 23rd, 2014


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Emmanuel Lazard at WOC 2012

Outdoor Othello Simul in Sendai, Japan

This simultaneous Othello exhibition, in a busy shopping street in Sendai, drew a lot of people on 18 and 19 October. A fine chance to challenge the 3-time World Othello Champion Yusuke Takanashi (2009, 2010 and 2012). Other players present at the Othello demonstration were: Takanori Oshimizu, Hisakazu Sato, Tatsuro Akagi, Hisashi Takahashi, Shu Ogurosawa and Shina Furuta.

 

Borja Moreno Fernández wins Spanish Othello Championship 2014

Loaction: Spain
Date: October 18th

Borja Moreno Fernández won the Spanish Championship for the 4th time.

  1. Borja Moreno Fernández, 4 points
  2. Ricardo Budiño, 2 points
  3. Javier Martín, 0 points





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Borja Moreno Fernández

MORENO, Borja 51 - 13 BUDINO, Ricardo
2014 Spanish Championship


MARTIN, Javier 20 - 44 MORENO, Borja
2014 Spanish Championship


 

OSHIMIZU, Takanori 35 - 29 AKAGI,Tatsurou
73rd Sendai Open

Takanori Oshimizu wins 73rd Sendai Open

Location: Sendai, Japan
Date: October 12th
Tourney format: 6 rounds
Number of players: 16

Top 4:
  1. Takanori Oshimizu, 6 points
  2. Yusuke Sawaki, 5 points
  3. Kazu Satohisa, 4 points
  4. Toshie Miura, 4 points



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link to results (in Japanese)

 

Maximilian Axel Pelizzari is Argentine Othello Champion 2014

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentine
Date: October 11th
Tourney format: 5 rounds

What an amazing result, five players from Argentine tied with 3 points. 2014 champion is Maximilian Axel Pelizzari, he prolonged the title he also won in 2013.

Maxi Pellizzari, 3 points 193 discs
Germán Vazquez, 3 points 184 discs
Daniel Olivares, 3 points 174 discs
Alejandro Coello, 3 points 171 discs
Marcelo Lisnovsky, 3 points 166 discs
Max Seifert, 0 points, 72 discs

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Maxi Pellizzari

OLIVARES, Daniel 31 - 33 COELLO, Alejandro
Argentine Championship 2014, round 2


PELLIZZARI, Maxi 30 - 34 OLIVARES, Daniel
Argentine Championship 2014, round 3


PELLIZZARI, Maxi 43 - 21 LISNOVSKY, Marcelo
Argentine Championship 2014, round 4


Introducing Othello at "De Burijn" in Alkmaar

Jan de Graaf and Marcel Sneek went to elementary school "De Burijn" in Alkmaar with a huge pile of Othello boards. After a short introduction the kids flipped their first discs. A great initiative of the Nederlandse Othello Vereniging that was met with great enthusiasm by kids and teachers alike. Lots of fun, lots of question and we hope Jan and Marcel inspired the children with the love of the game.

 

Yusuke Takanashi wins 25th Kansai Championship Class A

Location: Osaka, Japan
Date: October 5th
Tourney format: 7 rounds
Number of players: 33

Yusuke Takanashi, Othello World Champion in 2009, 2010 and 2012, won the 25th Kansai Championship with 6 points (5 wins, 2 draws). Second place for Kohachi Fukunaga, also with 6 points (5 wins, 2 draws). World Champion 2013, Kazuki Okamoto, scored 5.5 points and took 3rd place.

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link to results (in Japanese)
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Yusuke Takanashi

TAKANASHI, Yusuke 32 - 32 FUKUNAGA, Kohachi
25th Kansai Championship, round 5


OKAMOTO, Kazuki 32 - 32 TAKANASHI, Yusuke
25th Kansai Championship, round 6


 

Yan Song wins 3rd Beijing Open

 
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Location: Beijing,China
Date: October 3rd
Tourney format: 7 rounds, semifinals, final

Tourney starts at 9:30 AM Beijing time, that's 3:30 AM Western European time and 9:30 PM October 2nd New York time.

Live Webcam (Table 1) @ QQ Group 246905779
All are welcome to watch by:
1) Signing up a QQ account. 
2) Download QQ International: 
3) Adding Group 246905779 (reason for joining: Beijing Open)

QQ International is available for both desktop and mobile platforms in many languages such as English, French, Japanese, Spanish, German and Korean.

Yan Song, the winner of the 2nd Beijing Open succeeded in defending his title. He won the 1-game final 29 - 35 against Yingchong Hu. Earlier this year Yan Song won the Othello World Cup in Singapore

Top 3 and best female player:
  1. Yan SONG
  2. Yingchong HU
  3. Yuqi FANG
          Yaqing LIU (best female)



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players 3rd Beijing Othello Open

HU, Yingchong 29 - 35 SONG, Yan
3rd Beijing Open, final

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Final 3rd Beijing Open: Yingchong Hu - Yan Song

 
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Tim Krzywonos wins 2014 Canadian  Championship

Location: Toronto, Canada
Date: September 28th
Tourney format: double round robin
This tournament is the qualifier for WOC and the top 3 ranked Canadian players will be qualified to represent Canada at the World Championship in Thailand in November 2014.

report by Jacky Fu:

Tim has done it again. He has once again become the Canadian Champion. Four players showed up and a double round robin was played. The results are as follows:
  1. Tim Krzywonos 5 wins, 1 loss
  2. Jacky Fu 5 wins, 1 loss
  3. Adham Mroueh 2 wins, 4 losses
  4. Taj Maharaj 6 losses

Jacky and Tim won against each other 33-31 apiece, but Tim won by overall disc count. Congratulations to Tim for once again becoming the Canadian Champion.


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KRZYWONOS, Tim 33 - 31 FU, Jacky
Canadian Championship 2014, round 1


FU, Jacky 33 - 31 KRZYWONOS, Tim
Canadian Championship 2014, round 4


 

Fabrício Silva wins Brazil National Othello Championship

Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Date: September 28th
Tourney format: double round robin, playoff 3rd / 4th place and final (best of 3)
Number of players: 4


Final result:
  1. Fabrício Silva
  2. Marcos Paulo Briante Pires
  3. Lucas Cherem
  4. Daniel Dantas

 

Kenneth Paw wins 11th Singapore Open

Location: Singapore
Date: September 27th
Tourney format: 6 rounds

The 11th Singapore Open attracted a lot of of new players like Lim Xin Yi, Chua Woon Yang, Kevin Hamijoyo, Lim Wee Kiat and Wilson Ong. They perfomed very well and managed to beat some of SG top players. Lim Xin Yi  finished 3rd with 4 out of 6. Among her victories a very smart win against Alex Koh Bo Chao. Lim Xin Yi is a rising star in SG Othello, her first tournament was the SG nationals this August where she finished 14th/20th with 3/6 wins At the previous Singapore Open this September she finished 3rd/19th with 4/6 wins. 
Winner of the tourney: Kenneth Paw. He won 5 games and lost only 1 game to the runnerup Koh Bo Xiang who also finished with 5 points (lost to Chua Woon Yang). 
Thanks to Roy Lin for all the info!
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EGP Krakow top 3: Takuji Kashiwabara (2nd), Miłosz Cupiał (1st) and Marc Tastet (3rd)
Final stage European Grand Prix in Krakow

Miłosz Cupiał (POL) wins EGP Krakow in a 2-game final against Takuji Kashiwabara. Takuji Kashiwabara is winner of the European Grand Prix for the 8th time. Read more on the Othello News EGP Krakow page.

Takuji's results in EGP 2014: 

1st in Copenhagen
2nd in Krakow
3rd in Stockholm
4th in Rome
5th in Cambridge
6th in Den Hoorn

In 1992 Marc Tastet was 1st in Milan, 2nd in Paris, 3rd in Cambrdige, 4th in Brussels, 5th in Copenhagen. I know Takuji is very fond of number sequences, I bet he is very happy he did even better than that.

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