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35th World Othello Championship, Newark USA 2011

Check out our special WOC picture page


Hiroki Nobukawa (JAPAN) wins World Othello Championship 2011

Final games:

Hiroki Nobukawa 45 - 19 Piyanat Aunchulee
Piyanat Aunchulee 38 - 26 Hiroki Nobukawa
Piyanat Aunchulee 14 -  50 Hiroki Nobukawa


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Piyanat Aunchulee (THA), Hiroki Nobukawa (JPN), Nicky van den Biggelaar (NED)






 

Hiroki Nobukawa 45 - 19 Piyanat Aunchulee
WOC Final Game 1

Hiroki's games on day 1 and day 2: 10 wins out of 13 games


1st round: Mark van Heere 30-34 Hiroki Nobukawa
2nd round: Hiroki Nobukawa 36-28 Matthias Berg
3rd round: Kunihiko Tanida 09-55 Hiroki Nobukawa
4th round: Le Kang 23-41 Hiroki Nobukawa
5th round: Hiroki Nobukawa 25-39 Nicky van den Biggelaar
6th round: Yohanes Chitra 26-38 Hiroki Nobukawa
7th round: Hiroki Nobukawa 33-31 Wachiraphan Huraphan



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Link to Japan Othello Association News

 8th round: Piyanat Aunchulee 27-37 Hiroki Nobukawa
 9th round: Hiroki Nobukawa 24-40 Tim Krzywonos
10th round: Tomoya Toda 19-45 Hiroki Nobukawa
11th round: Hiroki Nobukawa 41-23Francesco Marconi
12th round: Hiroki Nobukawa 33-31 Arnaud Delaunay
13th round: Kazuki Okamoto 43-21 Hiroki Nobukawa





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The 2011 Othello Champions: Hiroki Nabukawa (JPN) - Jian Cai (USA)




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Jian's games on day 1 and 2: 7 wins and 1 draw


1st round: Jian Cai 32-32 Palle Badsted
2nd round: Yvette Campbell 10-54 Jian Cai
3rd round: Jian Cai 22-42 Le Kang
4th round: Tomáš Douda 27-37 Jian Cai
5th round: Jian Cai 27-37 Roman Kraczyk
6th round: Jian Cai 36-28 Jin Feng Wu
7th round: Robert Berg 38-26 Jian Cai


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  8th round: Jian Cai 34-30 Patrick Aubroeck
  9th round: Imre Leader 28-36 Jian Cai
10th round: Jian Cai 40-24 Kunihiko Tanida
11th round: Matthias Berg 34-30 Jian Cai
12th round: Jian Cai 22-42 Arthur Juigner
13th round: Scott Hughes 22-42 Jian Cai

Jian Cai (USA) is 2011 Women's Othello Champion


Yoko Sano 24 - 40 Jian Cai

 

Yoko Sano - Jian Cai
Women's Final

Nicky van den Biggelaar (NED) wins
 playoff 3rd / 4th place

Matthias Berg 12 - 52 Nicky van den Biggelaar

 

Matthias Berg - Nicky van den Biggelaar
Playoff 3rd / 4th place
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Jian Cai with tourney director David Parsons
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Nicky is waiting for his opponent

Semi-final games

Matthias Berg 31 - 33 Piyanat Aunchulee
Piyanat Aunchulee 26 - 38 Matthias Berg  
Piyanat Aunchulee 44 - 20 Matthias Berg 


 

Matthias Berg - Piyanat Aunchulee
semi-final 1, 1st game
Hiroki Nobukawa 36 - 28 Nicky van den Biggelaar
Nicky van den Biggelaar 20 - 44 Hiroki Nobukawa



 

Hiroki Nobukawa -Nicky v.d. Biggelaar
semi-final 2, 1st game
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semifinal Matthias Berg - Piyanat Aunchulee. picture by Masayuki Amano
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semi-final Hiroki Nobukawa - Nicky van den Biggelaar. picture by Masayuki Amano

The Semi Finalists

Nicky van den Biggelaar (Netherlands)

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WOC participations: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 2008, 2009, and 2011. Best 3 results: 5th place in 2010, 6th in 2009 and 7th in 2008.He is number 24 on the World Othello rating list (16 oct. 2011).
Good luck Nicky!!!!! The WON editor lives in The Netherlands :)

Matthias Berg (Germany)

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Runner-up in the WOC 2009.
Reached the 3rd place on two occasions: 2007 and 2008.
Played at WOC in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and now in 2011.
He is number 31 on the World Othello rating list (16 oct. 2011).

Piyanat Aunchulee (Thailand)

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Reached the 3rd place by beating Imre Leader 39-25 in the World Othello Championship 2010, held in Rome (Italy).
Played at WOC in 2008, 2010 and 2011.
He is number 24 on the World Othello rating list (16 oct. 2011).

Hiroki Nobukawa (Japan)

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A WOC debutant. He qualified for the japanese team by winning the Meijin-Sen in May. He ended in 3rd place at the 23rd  Kyoto open in that same month. That tourney was won by last years WOC champion Yusuke Takanashi. 
He is number 28 on the World Othello rating list (16 oct. 2011).

The Ladies Finalists

Jian Cai (USA)

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WOC participations: 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011. In Rome 2010 she ended at 45th place as sixth best lady.
At the US open in March she won the first round against Kunihiko Tanida and made it to the semi-finals.
 She is number 596 on the World Othello rating list (16 oct. 2011).

Yoko Sano (Japan)

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Japanese 5th dan player. Best Japanese women championship: winner in 1998, 1999, 2009 and 2011. Best Feminine Meijin: winner in 2004. Best Ouza-sen: 54th in 2007 and 2009). 
WOC participations:1998, 1999, 2011. She is number 533 on the World Othello rating list (16 oct. 2011).

Source: Othello Wiki Book Project.


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Japan is team winner

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Standings after 13 rounds

Two players with 11 wins, Nicky van den Biggelaar (Netherlands) and Piyanat Aunchulee (Thailand). The other two semi-finalists are Matthias Berg (Germany) and Hiroki Nobukawa (Japan). Two of the three seeded players made it to the semifinals (Aunchulee and Berg). The other seeded player, Imre Leader, started  out well on day 1 with 5 wins, but won only 2 games on day 2. 
Arthur Juigner, the 9 year old player from France played a fantastic tourney. He showed some amazing othello skills and we look forward to see his othello career develop over the years.

Best Lady is Jian Cai (USA). She will play the ladies final against Yoko Sano (Japan). 


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Standings after 7 rounds

Piyanat Aunchulee (Thailand) leads with 7 wins. Great job!! The other two seeded players Mathias Berg and Imre Leader both have won 4 games. So did Nicky van den Biggelaar, who was added to the list of seeded players by WON.

The Japanese team leads the team ranking at the end of the first day of the Othello World Championship. Two Japanese players on second place with 6 wins, Tomoya Toda and Hiroki Nobukawa, Kazuki Okamoto (4 wins) on 4th place and Yoko Sano (2 wins) 45th.

Best female player is Nida Pattarakul from Thailand (4 wins), Jian Cai (USA) is only half a point behind her.
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World Othello Federation


Seeded players

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Links and downloads

Results and standings 
Crosstable after round 13
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Only three players are listed as seeded players on the WOF website:

Matthias Berg (Germany)
Runner-up in the WOC 2009.
Reached the 3rd place on two occasions: 2007 and 2008.
Played at WOC in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and now in 2011.

Imre Leader (United Kingdom)
He was runner-up in the WOC in 1983, and has reached the
semi-finals on five other occasions. He was on the UK team that
won the World Team Championship in 1988. 
Played at WOC in 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010 and now in 2011. 

Piyanat Aunchulee (Thailand)
Reached the 3rd place by beating Imre Leader 39-25 in the World Othello Championship 2010, held in Rome (Italy).
Played at WOC in 2008, 2010 and 2011.

World Othello News would like to add:

Nicky van den Biggelaar (Netherlands)
WOC participations: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 2008, 2009, and 2011. Best 3 results: 5th place in 2010, 6th in 2009 and 7th in 2008.
Good luck Nicky!!!!! The WON editor lives in The Netherlands :)

Who else should be on the list? Email the editor via the link on our homepage.

source WOF website and Othello Wiki Book Project

​Last years Othello champions Yusuke Takanashi (Japan) and Jiska Helmes  (Netherlands) will not be in Newark to defend their title. Who will be the new champion? 

But this year we also have a lot of WOC debutants. Among them some very strong players like Hiroki Nobukawa (Japan), Tomoya Toda (Japan), Wachiraphan Huraphan (Thailand) and the 9 year old  Arthur Juigner (France).

Another young debutant is Kelvin Yang, age 14 from Hong Kong. He played at the 6th Guangzhou open in August. It is nice to see so many young people interested in playing on the board tournaments.

Galo Carrera Hurtado wrote about Kelvin: "He is the first player to make a WOC with a complete loss of vision. He plays on a special board and he is the nicest player I have had the pleasure to meet"

Tournament Schedule


Wednesday, November 2nd
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception

Thursday, November 3rd
09:30 - 19:00 Round 1 - 7

Friday, November 4th
09:30 - 17:45 Round 8 - 13
18:00 - 19:00 Semifinalist playoff (if required)


Saturday, November 5th
09:30 - 13:20 Semi-finals 
14:10 - 15:30 Final game 1 and 3rd / 4th place Playoff
15:40 - 17:00 Final game 2 & Ladies Final 
17:10 - 18:30 Final game 3 (if required) 
19:00 - Cocktail Reception and Victory Dinner

Benkt Steentoft - Head Tournament Director
David Parsons - Tournament Director
Emmanuel Lazard - Technical Tournament Director


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