Othello-DM 2013

18. August 2013

Kelbra, Germany, August 17th – 18th
Tourney format: 7 rounds and finals

Not a big surprise that Matthias Berg won the German National Championship, but it was not an easy victory like in 2012. He lost 2 games on Saturday, against Daniel Rossler and Gunnar Bach. He would not have made it to the final if Gunnar Bach  had not overlooked a swindle in his game in round 7 against Frank Zimmermann. Then the final would have been played between Daniel Rossler and Gunnar Bach. In the final (best of 3) on Sunday Matthias beat Daniel Rossler 2 to 1, Daniel won the first game but Matthias won the next two games and scured his 12th German National Othello Champion title. He won the championship every year since 2001, except for 2008, when Andreas Höhne won his second Champion title. 

Matthias will play at the WOC 2013 in Stockholm. Gunnar Bach has already cancelled. The rest of the players will evaluate in the next couple of weeks, but Matthias is confident that Germany will send 3 players to WOC this year. No female player has been selected yet.

Ranking of the 8 players after round 7:

1:   6.  pts [282]   ROSSLER Daniel (70002) {DEU}
2:   5.  pts [298]   BERG Matthias (5301) {DEU}
                   [233]   ZIMMERMANN Frank (5338) {DEU}
4:   4.5 pts [238]   BACH Gunnar (70015) {DEU}
5:   4.  pts [265]   GAERTNER Joerg (5343) {DEU}
6:   2.5 pts [210]   BEYER Guenther (70003) {DEU}
7:   1.  pt  [157]   MURAWSKI Stefan (5324) {DEU}
8:   0.  pt  [109]   RENNEKAMP Billy (20026) {USA}

Final:
Matthias Berg 2 – 1 Daniel Rossler

Play-off 3rd / 4th place: 
Gunnar Bach 1 – 0 Frank Zimmerman

Matthias Berg (at OWC)

Frank Zimmermann – Gunnar Bach

„It was a wild endgame which lost many disks for me, but I had extreme time pressure: only 1 minute or so left (with flipping) for my last 7 moves after move 47 and I was totally confused and could not think. I was lucky I made it at all. “ 

Gunnar Bach’s comment on his game in round 2 against Matthias Berg

Quelle: https://othellonews.weebly.com/august-2013.html

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