Autor: Günther Beyer

Vom 26. – 27. Mai wurde das Turnier in München ausgetragen. 8 Spieler nahmen teil: Der Doppelsieg von Günther Beyer (40:24 und 29:35) gegen Matthias Berg, war wohl die größte Überraschung des Turniers. Trotzdem wurde Matthias auch in diesem Turnier dt. Meister, vor Daniel Rößler und Henrik Vallund.

The main problem of the EGP in my view is the dwindling number of players that is interested to play at least 4 EGP’s in a year. This year we have Kashiwabara, Tastet, Berg and Leader. In 2016 we had just 3: Kashiwabara, Schotte and Tastet. In 2015 Kashiwabara, Voracek, Marconi, Tastet and Leader. In 2014 Kashiwabara, Tastet, Leader and Marconi. In 2013  Kashiwabara, Marconi,  Odegard, Tastet and Hobo. In…

Location: Kelbra, GermanyDate: August 13-14​Link: ​LiveOthello What a great result for Matthias Berg, he won his 15th national title with a perfect score of 10/10! Ranking of the 5 players after round 10:1: 10. pts [463] BERG Matthias (5301) {DEU}2: 7.5 pts [395] ROSSLER Daniel (70002) {DEU}3: 5.5 pts [316] JALILIFAR Morteza (390000) {IRN}4: 5. pts [274] ZIMMERMANN Frank (5338) {DEU}​5: 2. pts [232] MURAWSKI Stefan (5324) {DEU} Quelle: https://othellonews.weebly.com/august-2016.html

Location: Berlin, GermanyDate: August 22nd – 23rdTourney format: double round robinLink: LiveOthello Matthias Berg won the German National Othello Championship for the 14th time since 2001. Congrats to a great Champion!  Mattias only failed to win the 2008 Championship. That was the year of Andreas Hoehne’s comeback. Matthias Berg played very well all tourny but lost the best of three final 1-2.Take a look at Tom Schotte’s  table of multiple champions. Matthias is runner-up…

winner: Nicky van den Biggelaar Hello everyone, the Berlin EGP will be March 21/22 at Cityhostel Berlin, Glinkastr. 5-7, D-10117 Berlin. It’s right in the center of Berlin so we’ll have several options for food in nearby restaurants. For those that were here last EGP… the Chinese Restaurant we went to is really around the corner. It’s a hostel so the prices of accomodation can be quite good. I just looked up rooms for that time…

Matthias Berg wins German Othello National Championship Location: Kelbra, GermanyDate: June 14th – 15thTourney format: double round robin Matthias Berg wins the German National Othello Championship with 9/10. He only lost the game in round 8 against Daniel Rössler.  This is Matthias‘ 13th title, the first one was in 2001, only time his winning streak was interrupted was in 2008. That year the German Champion was Andreas Höhne. Second place with 7…

Kelbra, Germany, August 17th – 18thTourney 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…

At the end of the first day of the Berlin EGP, Matthias Berg leads with 6 points. Francesco Marconi and Takuji Kashiwabara both have 5.5 points. Marc Tastet, who recently won the Grand Prix De France, had a very disappointing result, only two wins out of seven. It  looks like he will win not win a lot of EGP points this time. But…… tomorrow never dies. Team Great-Britain outnumbers the…

Köln, Germany, November 3 – 4 German players: Matthias Berg,  Daniel Rößler, Günther Beyer, Leo Evers, Beate Offerzier, Stefan Murawski and Michael Schaaf.Foreign players: Kelvin Yang (Hong Kong), Leonid Shifman (Israel), Arthur Juigner (France), Mehul Vyas (India),  Iain Barras (Great Britain), Palle Badsted (Denmark),  Ben Ruhmkorff (USA) and 4 players from the Netherlands: Jan de Graaf, Marcel Sneek, Roel Hobo and Martin Fransen. * name in bold: plays at 36th WOC, November 7 – 10 Jan de Graaf and Marcel Sneek are tourney directors of the upcoming World Championship in Leeuwarden. The tourney…

Karlsruhe, Germany, 4 – 5 August Matthias Berg played a perfect tourney and won the German Championship 2012.  He won all his games in the 11 rounds and defeated Sebastian Schmidt  in the final in 2 games. The same two finalists as last year, and again 2 – 0 for Matthias, Daniel Rößler  defeated Marlis Elger in the play-off for the third and fourth place. All four have now qualified for…