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Othello News Editor, Trees van Seggelen
Othello News Editor, Trees van Seggelen
Erik Lund Jensen wins 35th Danish Championship
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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!
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)
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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 |
WOC 2017 team Japan: Fukunaga, Sugawara, Takahashi, Kurita and Takanashi
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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
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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. 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
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Takuji, Marc, Takeshi, Thierry and Matthias
Top 5 EGP Paris:
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World Othello Championship 2017 |
