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EGP Paris 2015
winner: Marc Tastet
European Grand Prix Champion 2015: Takuji Kashiwabara


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Miroslav Voráček (2nd), Takuji Kashiwabara (winner), Francesco Marconi (3rd)
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More info about the tourney at the FFO website, the European Federations EGP website and on the Othello News EGP Paris pages: info and subscriptions.
Pictures thanks to François Juigner who was kept very busy with pictures and LiveOthello.

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Results after 7 rounds:

1: 7. pts [486] TASTET Marc (2) {FRA}
2: 5. pts [445] DELAUNAY Arnaud (3518) {FRA}
               [406] TAKIGAWA Mitsuaki (10919) {JPN}
4: 4.5 pts [451] MARCONI Francesco (36) {ITA}
                 [434] KASHIWABARA Takuji (839) {FRA}
6: 4. pts [432] HOBO Roel (5071) {NLD}
               [422] VORACEK Miroslav (4501) {CZE}
               [411] KORTENDIJK Albert (5012) {NLD}
               [400] DE GRAAF Jan C. (4012) {NLD}
               [388] ANDRIANI Sandry (46) {FRA}
               [385] JUIGNER Arthur (50030) {FRA}
              [346] JUIGNER Félix (50067) {FRA}
13: 3. pts [403] PUZZO Luigi (43) {ITA}
                 [362] LECAT Monique (2788) {BEL}
                 [345] LEVY-ABEGNOLI Thierry (3598) {FRA}
                 [331] TOUCHENE Fouad (9025) {DZA}
                 [306] BENOIT Serge (3600) {FRA}
18: 2. pts [322] PRASEPTYO Linda (5159) {NLD}
                 [307] VAN SEGGELEN Trees (5045) {NLD}
                 [279] BUSUTTIL Michel (228) {FRA}
21: 1. pt [235] BOURGOIN Léonard (50078) {FRA}


The tourney started on Friday with a pre-tourney session at the Jardin de Luxembourg. It was a great setting, the palace, the garden, the sun, the chess and bridge players. Jaques Ovion was so kind to give me a little tour of this mind games playground. I noticed there were mostly men at chess and go, the ladies seemed to stick at bridge.
I played some nice games against Marc Tastet, beat him 43-21 before two narrow losses 30-34 and 31-33. Marc claimed this practice inspired him to his undefeated victory. I don't mind at all taking the credit for that :). Roel Hobo did more of a training session with me, his explanations about the ins and outs of certain moves were really great.

On Saturday all eyes were on Miroslav Voráček and Takuji Kashiwabara, but Marc Tastet took the undefeated first place. Behind him with 5 points Arnaud Delaunay and Mitsuaki Takigawa. Takuji had 4.5 points and Miroslav had 4.
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round 1


KASHIWABARA Takuji 28-36 VORACEK Miroslav
EGP Paris 2015, round 3




TASTET Marc 34-30 VORACEK Miroslav
EGP Paris 2015, round 4




TAKIGAWA Mitsuaki 33-31 MARCONI Francesco
EGP Paris 2015, round 7



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Results after 11 rounds:

1: 11. pts [888] TASTET Marc (2) {FRA}
2: 7.5 pts [835] KASHIWABARA Takuji (839) {FRA}
3: 7. pts [851] DELAUNAY Arnaud (3518) {FRA}
               [848] HOBO Roel (5071) {NLD}
               [839] KORTENDIJK Albert (5012) {NLD}
6: 6.5 pts [812] MARCONI Francesco (36) {ITA}
7: 6. pts [811] JUIGNER Arthur (50030) {FRA}
               [806] VORACEK Miroslav (4501) {CZE}
               [784] TAKIGAWA Mitsuaki (10919) {JPN}
               [782] PUZZO Luigi (43) {ITA}
               [774] DE GRAAF Jan C. (4012) {NLD}
               [756] ANDRIANI Sandry (46) {FRA}
               [698] LEVY-ABEGNOLI Thierry (3598) {FRA}
               [668] JUIGNER Félix (50067) {FRA}
15: 5. pts [670] LECAT Monique (2788) {BEL}
                 [650] TOUCHENE Fouad (9025) {DZA}
17: 4. pts [644] PRASEPTYO Linda (5159) {NLD}
                 [567] BENOIT Serge (3600) {FRA}
                 [563] BUSUTTIL Michel (228) {FRA}
20: 3. pts [604] VAN SEGGELEN Trees (5045) {NLD}
21: 1. pt [462] BOURGOIN Léonard (50078) {FRA}
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Final :
Marc Tastet 39-25 Takuji Kashiwabara
Takuji Kashiwabara 26-38 Marc Tastet

Playoff 3rd / 4th place :
Roel Hobo 38-26 Arnaud Delaunay
Miroslav Voráček won only 2 more points in the 4 rounds on Sunday and did not secure a spot in the top 4. Despite his great performances in Prague, Madrid and Berlin, it was just not enough for the EGP Championship. 
Takuji won 3 more points and with a total of 7.5 points he made it to the final and was certain of winning the European Championship, for the 9th time! Bravo, what a great European Champion. 
Marc Tastet won another 4 games and qualified for the final undefeated. Marc won both final games and secured his undefeated victory of the Paris EGP. He scored 13/13, which he had never done before at the EGP. In fact, according to Marc, he had done it only twice before, in Lyon in 1996 and in Strasbourg in 1997. 
There was a message on the FFO mailinglist by Emmanuel Lazard in which he requested a doping test for Marc. Francesco Marconi will be very interested to hear this bit of news. He told me that Othello News needs a special Othello gossip column. Maybe he will help me out and start a column, "Everything you always wanted to know about the Othello players, but were afraid to ask"?
Arnaud Delaunay and Roel Hobo qualified for the playoff, which was won by Roel Hobo.



Top 4 EGP Paris:

  1. Marc Tastet (FRA)
  2. Takuji Kashiwabara (FRA)
  3. Roel Hobo (NLD)
  4. Arnaud Delaunay (FRA)

Top 3 EGP 2015:

  1. Takuji Kashiwabara (FRA)
  2. Miroslav Voráček (CZE)
  3. Francesco Marconi (ITA)


HOBO Roel 38-26 DELAUNAY Arnaud
EGP Paris 2015, 3/4 playoff




TASTET Marc 39-25 KASHIWABARA Takuji
EGP Paris 2015, final game 1




KASHIWABARA Takuji 26-38 TASTET Marc
EGP Paris 2015, final game 2


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Takuji Kashiwabara: 9 times European Champion, 22 EGP victories

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