World Othello Championship
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The Garden Mito
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Othello reflections 30th World Othello Championships 2006 - Mito, Japan
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Ben Seeley - Hideshi Tamenori
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World Othello Championship
The World Othello Championship (WOC) is held annually at the end of October or beginning of november.
The tournament is three days long, the location changes every year. . The first two days are a 13 rounds swiss tournament to determine the top four players who will proceed to the finals on the third day. Each country can send three representatives, own citizens as well as residents, to the World Championship - unless there is an odd number of players, in which case the host country can enter a fourth player. Since 2005 each country is allowed to send one additional female player in addition to the top 3 qualifiers (male or female).
There is an individual World Championship and a team championship. The individual champion needs to win through a best of 3 semi-final and a best of 3 final, but, to be eligible for this "top four", both BQ and departage may be needed.
The team champions are declared at the end of the second day of play based on the total number of wins in the swiss (if the host country has four players, only the top three scores are counted). After the individual final, there is the victory dinner.
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The first WOC was held in 1977 in Tokyo, winner was Hiroshi Inoue from Japan, second place Thomas Heiberg from Norway. More pictures can be found here.
Emmanuel Lazard at WOC 2012
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World Othello Championship HistoryEmmanuel Lazard has recreated all his WOC websites and used the old Papp files to create new full websites for former WOC's. If he did not have the Papp files, static pages give the standings.
All results, standings, crosstables AND replayable individual games can be found here. Great job Emmanuel, thanks! |
