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News updates on this site stopped september 6th 2017

Thanks for all your help and support,
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​Othello News Editor, Trees van Seggelen

Erik Lund Jensen wins 35th Danish Championship
Karsten Feldborg wins Danish Grand Prix

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: September 9th
Format: 13 participants. 7 round swiss and 1 game final
Link: LiveOthello
Report by Henrik Vallund

Erik won the swiss tournament and runner-up was Karsten Feldborg.
The 2 veterans played final. Erik chose white and won 33-31.

Erik won the championship, with Karsten 2nd and Palle Badsted 3rd.
Daniel Hoegh won the junior championship.
Solrun Stokke won the amateur prize.
Kim K. Johansen won the debutant prize.
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othello pills........ the best you can get
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Erik, Karsten and Palle
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Kohachi Fukunaga wins Ouza Sen

Location: Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Date: September 3rd
Format: 6-round swiss, twenty minutes per player, 30 seconds for each move after the 20 minutes is used up. Top two played the one-game final.
Report by Takeshi Murakami

Ouza Sen, the last leg of WOC qualifiers in Japan, was played at Hulic Hall in Asakusa. Players who scored 5-2 or better at Meijin Sen, or 3-3 or better at All Japan Championships, were allowed to register in this tournament. At the end of the fierce six-round competition among the 81 expert players, two emerged undefeated: Seiya Kurita and Kohachi Fukunaga. Fukunaga secured at this point his spot on the Japanese team for WOC as Kurita had already been qualified, but they played the final anyway, Fukunaga beating Kurita to become the new Ouza (literally, the throne). In the same room where they played the final another important match was played. Mami Yamanaka (female Meijin) and Misa Sugawara (All Japan ladies champion) played a one-game match to decide the female player who will go to Belgium. Sugawara won the fuseishi (guessing of the color facing up of the disc in her opponent’s hand) and chose the win in case of a draw, giving Yamanaka the choice of color. After a close game it ended in a draw! (The game finishes a 33-31 win for black with all the moves made correctly. Apparently there was a flipping error at some point.) Thus the team Japan for this year’s WOC is; Yusuke Takanashi (Meijin), Seiya Kurita (All Japan champion), Kohachi Fukunaga (Ouza), Misa Sugawara (All Japan ladies Champion), and Akihiro Takahashi (All Japan Junior Grand Prix champion). Good luck to them all!
Final standings: (top 15, and the results of some of the players known outside Japan)
1. Kohachi Fukunaga 7 wins
2. Seiya Kurita 6 wins, 1 loss
3. Yasushi Nagano 5 wins, 1 loss
4. Kenta Kiyonobu 5 wins, 1 loss
5. Nobuaki Mitsuya 5 wins, 1 loss
6. Satoshi Kurahashi 5 wins, 1 loss
7. Akihiro Takahashi 4 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw
8. Takeshi Murakami 4 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw
9. Hiroki Nakamori 4 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw
10. Yusuke Takanashi 4 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw
11. Takashi Yamakawa 4 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw
12. Suguru Ohsato 4 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw
13. Keisuke Fukuchi 4 wins, 2 losses
14. Shoutarou Tsuchiya 4 wins, 2 losses
15. Touya Yamazaki 4 wins, 2 losses
18. Daisuke Kamikura 4 wins, 2 losses
21. Makoto Suekuni 4 wins, 2 losses
26. Tetsu Satani 3 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw
27. Masaki Wada 3 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw
28. Jun-ya Itou 3 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw
30. Mami Yamanaka 3 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw
31. Tomoya Toda 3 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw
32. Jou Nakano 3 wins, 3 losses
35. Kazuki Okamoto 3 wins, 3 losses
38. Tetsuya Nakajima 3 wins, 3 losses
39. Hideki Kitajima 3 wins, 3 losses
41. Masaki Takizawa 3 wins, 3 losses
42. Hisako Kinoshita 3 wins, 3 losses
43. Yukiko Tatsumi 3 wins, 3 losses
49. Keita Ohmori 3 wins, 3 losses
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WOC 2017 team Japan: Fukunaga, Sugawara, Takahashi, Kurita and Takanashi


FUKUNAGA Kohachi 43-21 KURITA Seiya Kurita
Ouza Sen 2017, final



SUGURAWA Misa 33-31 YAMANAKA Mami
Ouza Sen 2017, ladies final


Takuji Kashiwawara won the European Grand Prix 2017

What a great achievement, Takuji Kashiwabara won the European Championship 11 times and is now on a winning streak of 7. Congrats to a great player and I asked him this question: "it was quite a battle this year and it came down to the final stage in Paris (august 26 - 27). Any comments for your fans at Othello News?"
This year,  Matthias Berg played really well, and the competition was the toughest (among the years when I won). He finished in top 4 of all 7 tournaments he played, which is really remarkable.
Well, long time ago, there were players who won all tournaments in the  
season they played, but not as many as 7 tournaments in a single season.  So what Matthias did was a great achievement. And I am glad that I managed to end up with the first place.

I am also glad for Matthias that he didn't win the EGP because of my  
passport problem.  It was really a stupid mistake of mine, and if I had lost the EGP because of it, then I would certainly have been a bit unhappy, but after all, it would have been just one less title, and it was my own fault, so I simply would have assumed.
On the other hand, Matthias would have had to live with the fact that his first EGP  title was thanks to my administrative error. In 2013, in a quite different circumstance, I got the EGP title whereas, I think, it was Francesco Marconi who deserved to be the winner.  I have to live with this in the conscience, which is not so easy, and I don't wish anybody else to have this sort of problem.

In any case, it was, once again, really fun playing in these tournaments, and I would like to thank other players and organizers who made it possible, and wish better luck to Matthias for the next time.

​Takuji Kashiwabara
September 9th
note: check the  Paris EGP 2013 Paris page in case you are interested in the confusion about the 2013 EGP winner.
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EGP Champions 1986 - 2017
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Marc, Takuji, Matthias and Imre
​Top 4 EGP 2017:
  1. KASHIWABARA Takuji
  2. BERG Matthias
  3. TASTET Marc
  4. LEADER Imre (won a water inspired trophy)
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Takuji, Marc, Takeshi, Thierry and Matthias
Top 5 EGP Paris:
  1. MURAKAMI Takeshi
  2. KASHIWABARA Takuji
  3. TASTET Marc
  4. BERG Matthias
  5. LEVY-ABEGNOLI Thierry (is that Imre's trophy?)

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World Othello Championship 2017

Take a look at the WOC 2017 Teams page to see who has qualified
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