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Othello World Cup 2013, Tokyo, Japan


 

Othello News in Tokyo

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Tokyo, Japan, 21 January 2013

I was invited  by the World Othello Federation to come to the World Othello Championship in Leeuwarden, November last year. That sort of set a trend, cause then I got invited by Megahouse to come to Tokyo to be there at the Celebration in honour of the 40th anniversary of Othello. I met mr. Masato Koide of Megahouse this afternoon and had a short interview with him. if you have an interesting tourney, please feel free to invite me too :)

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the win on draw cube

January 23rd, welcome party and 1st round pairings

 
Welcome party & first round pairings of OWC 2013. Othello World Cup has started!!!!!!!

Date : January 23, 2013
Time : 6:30pm ~ 9:00pm
Venue : GRACE BALI UENO

The welcome party was great, perfectly organised and at a great location.  Old friends and new friends have come to Tokyo to for the love of the game Othello. Mr Gorou Hasegawa was present with his wife and there were a lot of associates from Megahouse and Bandai-Namco Group. Mr. Masato Koide held a speech and so did Mr Iwao Okuyama, president of Megahouse. The dinner was great and the entertainment was a lot of fun, There was an Othello speed-flip tourney which was won by Seiya Kurita. So the first winner of this OWC is from Japan!!!!  After that it was back to business with the pairings.  

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January 24th, round 1 - 7

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Borja Fernandez looked puzzled in his game against Yugo Toki
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David Hand won against Jiska Helmes, round 1
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interview with Yusuke Takanashi, interpreter Takeshi Murakami
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Hideshi Tamenori
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judge-meeting
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Registration started a little after 10 this morning. Everybody was very impressed with the venue so near the Skytree Tower. The tournament room is very spacious and has all sorts of special OWC decorations.

Mr. Koide welcomed the players and also explained about the special OWC rules. The toss of a coin will decide which player gets to decide whether he/she wants to choose colour or win in case of a draw. Another rule...., if your cellphone rings, you loose the game. Maybe this rule will give the foreign players a bit of an advantage, cause I heard many people complain that their phone does not work here in japan.

Also present today mr Gorou Hasegawa, the inventor of the Othello game. 

Games on Liveothello..........Livestream 1 and 2...........Results per round

results and standings round 1:
Not any real great surprises. The WOC 2012 Top 3, Yusuke Takanashi, Kazuki Okamoto and Seiya Kurita, all won their games. Nicky van den Biggelaar (NLD), 4th at the WOC 2012, lost his game against Dominik Nowak (POL). 
I caught Patrick Aubroeck and Takuji Kashiwabara (FRA) in the lobby as they were analyzing their game. They opened with a tiger variation that some people call the German Tiger, because Matthias Berg from Germany plays it a lot. It was an opening that Patrick and Takuji had played many times before. Takuji made an error in the endgame and Patrick won the game.  
Table 1: Yun Miyazaki 43 - 21 Tom Schotte
Table 2: Tan Kinpiow 30 - 34 Mei Urashima

results and standings round 2:
14 players with 2 wins, among them 2 ladies, Mei Urashima (JPN) and Linda Praseptyo (NLD).
Borja Moreno Fernandez was impressed by the strong game of his  opponent Yusuke Takanashi. Borja got 22 discs, it could have been a bit more if the midgame had been better, but Borja was at a disadvantage from early on in the game. During the lunchbreak I had an Interview with Brian Rose.
Table 1: Mei Urashima 50 - 14 Tsoi Chun Yip
Table 2: Tetsuya Nakajima 41 - 23 Dong Zhen
results and standings round 3:
One very interesting game in round 3 was Hidayat - Kashiwabara. They had played before years ago at European Grand Prix tournaments. Romy had won the toss and choose to play white. The game ended in a draw, too bad Romy won't get a half point, but yes, we are in Japan, so we play by Japanese rule. Seven players with 3 points: Makoto Suekuni (JPN), Tetsuya Nakajima (JPN), Yusuke Takanashi (JPN), Kazuki Okamoto (JPN), Yan Song (CHN) and  Mei Urashima (JPN).
Table 1: David Hand 22 - 42 Tetsuya Nakajima
Table 2: Makoto Suekuni 34 - 30 Matthias Berg

results and standings round 4:
4 players with 4 wins: Makoto Suekuni, Mei Urashima, Kazuki Okamoto and Yusuke Takanashi.
Table 1: Yusuke Takanashi 36 - 28 Tetsuya Nakajima
Table 2: Kazuki Okamoto 39 - 25 Hideshi Tamenori

results and standings round 5:
I sat next to table 2 to watch the game between Yusuke and Kazuki. They played in the final of the World Othello Championship 2012. The game started very quick and then there was a sort of stare-down for a couple of minutes. I think Yusuke was affected by the high temperature in the tourney room and he told me later that that was the case. 
Two players with 5 wins: Makoto Suekuni and Kazuki Okamoto
Table 1: Makoto Suekuni 44 - 20 Mei Urashima
Table 2: Kazuki Okamoto 40 - 24 Yusuke Takanashi

Round 7 will be played tomorrow. There was a judge-meeting that took almost an hour about time-out at table 4 in the match between Tetsuya Nakajima (JPN) and Chen Kai (CHN). The judges reproduced the game at move 59, where the Nakajima had 3 seconds and 9 discs to flip. The player was unable to flip the remaining discs in time and thus lost the game. At move 30 Makajima had only 1 minute left on the clock so time was an issue at this game almost from the start.
results and standings round 6:

For the dutch a crucial game between Nicky van den Biggelaar and Patrick Aubroeck. Patrick won this game and with 4 wins after the 6 rounds of the first day he is the best Dutch player. But I am sure Nicky will come back strong on the second day.
Table 1: Makoto Suekuni 26 - 37 Kazuki Okamoto
Table 2: Yusuke Takanashi  45 - 19 Chen Kai
Leader with 6 wins is Kazuki Okamoto. There are 5 players with 5 wins: Makoto Suekuni, Yuta Esaki, Yusuke Takanashi, Martin Ødegard (NOR) and Matt Vinar (AUS) 


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Mei Urashima


KASHIWABARA Takuji 25 - 39 AUBROECK Patrick
Othello World Cup 2013, round 1
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Patrick Aubroeck and Takuji Kashiwabara

KASHIWABARA Takuji (winner) 32 - 32 HIDAYAT Romy
Othello World Cup 2013, round 5
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Romy Hidayat

KAI Chen (winner)- NAKAJIMA Tetsuya
Othello World Cup 2013, round 5
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Chen Kai

January 25th, round 8 - 13

results and standings round 8:
Table1: Yuta Esaki 26 - 38 Makoto Suekuni
Table 2: Kazuki Okamoto 39 - 25 Seiya Kurita
Kazuki leads with 8 wins and 7 wins for Makoto

results and standings round 9:
Table 1: David Hand  26 - 38 Kazuki Okamoto
Table 2: Tomoya Toda 14 - 40 Makoto Suekuni
Kazuki Okamoto is still undefeated, Makoto Suekuni has 8 wins (only lost his game to Okamoto). Two players with 7 wins: Yusuke Takanashi and Dominik Nowak (POL). Best lady with 6 wins is Mei Urashima. 
results and standings round 7:
Leader with 6 wins after the 6 rounds on day 1 is Kazuki Okamoto. There are 5 players with 5 wins: Makoto Suekuni, Yuta Esaki, Yusuke Takanashi, Martin Ødegard (NOR) and Matt Vinar (AUS). I talked with Matt before the start of round 7.  We played online Othello games at VOG a long time ago, nice to finally meet each other here in Tokyo. There are not many on the board players in Australia, at the national championships there are usualyy just 2 opponentn that give Matt any competition. Matt said that here at the OWC it is really very different. The players are all very very strong and that makes this tourney such a great event. Five wins out of six was more than Matt had expected, the win against Hadeshi Tamenori in round 6 (35 - 29).
I talked with Choon Foong Lee from Singapore, he lost his game in round 7 against Ryo Shinahara. Choong said he played a bad game and the young boy played very well and took advantage of all his opponents mistakes. The Singapore players play and practise a lot, but according to Choong they lack international experience. The Othello World Cup offers them a great opportunity to play against the best of the world.
There was a group of 15 schoolchildren that came in to watch the tourney for a moment. Some of the kids were interested so see  that some kids were playing in the tourney too.
Table 1: Matt Vinar 10 - 54  Kazuki Okamoto
Table 2: Yusuke Takanashi 29 - 35 Makoto Suekuni 
Kazuki Okamoto has 7 out of 7. Makoto Suekuni and Yuta Esaki both have 6 wins. 11 players have 5 wins. The top 14 has 8 Japanese players.
results and standings round 10:
I asked Patrick Aubroeck about his game15 - 49 game against Hideshi Tamenori.  They played book untill move 24 but then Hideshi played a variation and Patrick failed to come up with the right response. For Patrick this is a great opportunity to play against the best Japanese players. He wanted to win at least 6 games out of 13 and he allready has his 6 points. Another 3 wins? Anything can happen. Nicky van den Biggelaar, the number 3 of WOC 2011 and number 4 of WOC 2012 won 24 - 40 against Borja Fernández. He now also has 6 points.
Table 1: Dominik Nowak 25 - 39 Kazuki Okamoto 
Table 2: Makoto Suekuni 38 - 26 Yuji Miyazaki
Kazuki Okamoto has 10 points, it seems he is too strong to beat. Makoto has 9 points and Yusuke has 8. Another 6 player have 7 points. There are still a lot of players that have a chance to make it to the finals.
Kazuki Okamoto has qualified for the last 8.

results and standings round 11:
Francesco Marconi (ITA) had a very bad first day with only 1 win at round 6.  His italian friends called it an "incubo", nightmare. Francesco came out of the tourney room after round 10 with a sad face and told me he was very sorry...... his opponent lost :). He now has 5 points, so his friends can start smiling. Round 12 will be hard, he will play against Makoto Suekuni
Table 1: David Hand 27 - 37 Makoto Suekuni
Table 2: Tomoya Toda 36 - 28 Yusuke Takanashi
Kazuki Okamoto and Makoto Suekuni have qualified for the last 8. There are 4 japanese players with 8 points and 9 players with 7 points. It is very quiet in the lobby, the decision is near.

results and standings round 12:
The qualified players play at the lower tables in order to let the remaining players fight among themselves for the last 6 spot in the top 8
Table 1: Seiya Kurita (winner) 32 - 32 Yusuke Takanashi
Table 2: Tomoya Toda 35 - 29 Hideshi Tamenori 

results and standings round 13:
Table 1:  David Hand 24 - 40 Yusuke Takanashi
Table 2: Junya Ito (winner) 32 - 32 Hideshi Tamenori

Playoff between David Hand and Hideshi was won by David Hand 37 - 27

Top 8 Players that will play in the finals tomorrow:
Kazuki Okamoto JPN 
Makoto Suekuni JPN
Tomoya Toda JPN
Seiya Kurita JPN
Yusuke Takanashi JPN
Arnaud Delaunay FRA
Junya Ito JPN
David Hand GBR

Under twelve winner with 5 wins is Yugo Toki (10)
Also 5 wins for Arthur Juigner and Ryo Shinohara, it was an exciting tourney and all the boys played very well.
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Yugo Toki with his father
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Matt Vinar
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Choon Foong Lee
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Sotashi Kurahashi, Ryo and Yun Shinohara,
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Patrick Aubroeck
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visiting schoolkids
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Dominik Nowak
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Yuji Miyazaki
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David Hand - Hideshi Tamenori

TAMENORI Hideshi 27 - 37 HAND David
Othello World Cup 2013, play-off

January 26th, finals, 8stars Othello Tournament, Grand Othello Tournament and Victory Dinner

Two European players in the top 8, and frenchman Arnaud Delaunay even made it to the last 4. As expected, the top 3 of the 36th World Othello Championship in the Netherlands, Yusuke Takanashi, Kazuki Okaoto and Seiya Kurita also made it to the top 8. Lots of players tipped Yusuke Takanashi as the winner at te start of the tourney but Kazuki Okamoto had not been beaten yet in this tourney. Seiya Kurita (2431*) won the quarter final against Yusuke Takanashi (2567), Arnaud Delaunay (2192) took out Tomoya Toda (2238), Kazuki Okamoto (2396) was too strong for David Hand (2208) and Junya Ito (2300) defeated Makoto Suekuni (2393). Junya Ito defeated Arnaud Delaunay in de semi-final. They had played against each other in round 1, that time Arnaud had won. In the final Junya Ito played 2 - 0 against Kazuki Okamo. They had notmet in the preliminary rounds. The OWC first winner...... Junya Ito!!!

* World Othello Federation rating 16th December 2012
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the quarter finalists: Junya Ito, Makoto Suekuni, Arnaud Delaunay, David Hand, Kazuki Okamoto, Seiya Kurita, Yusuke Takanashi, Tomoya Toda

The Quarter Finals

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Arnaud Delaunay - Tomoda Toda

DELAUNAY Arnaud 37 - 27 TODA Tomoda

HAND David 30 - 34 OKAMOTO Kazuki
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David Hand - Kazuki Okamoto
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Junya Ito - Makoto Suekuni

ITO Junya 32 - 32 SUEKUNI Makoto
Makoto lost on time, he had the right to win in case of a draw

TAKANASHI Yusuke 28 - 36 KURITA Seiya
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Yusuke Takanashi - Seiya Kurita

The Semifinals

 
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Junya Ito

ITO Junya 36 - 28 DELAUNAY Arnaud

OKAMOTO Kazuki 35 - 29 KURITA Seiya
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Seiya Kurita

Play-off 3rd 4th place


KURITA Seiya 35 - 29 DELAUNAY Arnaud
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Seiya Kurita - Arnaud Delaunay

Ladies Final

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Mei Urashima - Joanna William

URASHIMA Mei 24 - 40 WILLIAM Joanna

The Finals


OKAMOTO Kazuki 25 - 39 ITO Junya
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Junya Ito - Kazuki Okamoto
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Junya Ito - Kazuki Okamoto

ITO Junya 43 - 21 OKAMOTO Kazuki
The results of the finals
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Junya Ito won all his games on the final day. He qualified for the semifinals with a 7th place (9 wins). Check his games in round 1 - 13 here.

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Othello 8stars (results)

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Final 8star Othello: Dominik Nowak (POL) - Tetsuya Nakajima (JPN) was won by Nakajima
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Tom Schotte (BEL) battled for third place in 8star against Karsten Feldborg (DEN) and won

Grand Othello (results)

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Final Grand Othello: Matt Vinar (AUS) - Nicky van den Biggelaar (NLD)
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Takamune Iijima - Masaki Takizawa (third place)

January 27th, Othello Team Competition

Sunday 27th, last day of the tourney, there was a Team Competition, Team World against Team Japan which was won 4 -1 by Team Japan

Open Category: Yusuke Takanashi (JPN) winner - Nicky van den Biggelaar (NLD
Men : Makoto Suekuni (JPN) winner - Dominik Nowak POL)
Women: Mami Yamanaka (JPN) winner - Siew Kun Yap (MYS)
Pair: Mei Urashima / Seiya Kurita winners -  Yan Song (CHN) / Joanna William (IDN)
Under 12 : Satoshi Kurahashi (JPN) - Arthur Juigner (FRA) winner

Also on Sunday:  Mini Othello under 12 and Simultaneous Othello exhibition. 

Mini Othello 6 x 6 Champion Yugo Toki

Takeshi Murakami (World Othello Champion 1996, 1998 and 2000) and Hisako Hoshi (Female World Othello Champion 2005) played simultaneous Othello


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