The 21st European Shogi Championship (ESC) and

the 7th Worldwide Open Shogi Championship (WOSC)

Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 July 2005
Duhova Arena,  Sukova trida 1775, Pardubice, Czech Republic

Contents: [Information and Specification] [Blitz Championship] [ESC 2005] [WOSC 2005]


Information and specification

The ESC/WOSC 2005 is part of the Czech Open 2005.
The detailed tournament specifications can be found here.

Open European Shogi Blitz Championship 2005

With  the Open European Shogi Blitz Championship 2005 the shogi tournaments started on Thursday, 14th July 2005 in Pardubice, Czech Republic.
It was a great honour that Mr. Miyata-san (7 Dan professional) and Mr. Ono-san (6 Dan professional) participated in the blitz tournament. So this was a chance for some players to play an even game against a professional. Of course the first 2 places of the tournament were well known in before the tournament.

The first 3 places were:
1. Yaichio Ono, Japan   7
2. Toshio Miyata, Japan 6
3. Manabu Terao, Japan  5

Best European player in the blitz tournament was Artem Kolomiyets, Ukraine, with 5 points on place 5.

European Shogi Championship 2005 (ESC 2005)

With Artem Kolomiyets from Ukraine we have a new European Shogi Champion.

The 21st European Shogi Championship was played as an integral part of the ESC/WOSC 2005 event in Parduvice, Czech Republic. The best 32 European players (players with European citizenship) competed in a knockout tournament for the European championship title.

Already the first 2 rounds brought some surprises. So for example Anthony Stebbings (3k) managed to win against Richard Bjerke (1d) and Gert Schnider (3d) in the first 2 rounds and Andreas Pietz (4k) knocked out Frank Roevekamp (3d).


1st Round
Cheymol - Dreblov 1-0
Schaefer - Ostryakov 0-1
Pottier - Pinto 1-0
Boekschoten - Hammond 0-1
van Oosten - Olufsen 1-0
Pfaffel - Weimann 1-0
Schnider - Stuifbergen 1-0
Bjerke - Stebbings 0-1
Drechsler - Nguyen 0-1
Roevekamp - Pietz 0-1
Danerud - Shevchuk 1-0
Mirnik - Sinelnikov 1-0
Zapara - Faldon 0-1
Theeuwen - Haaksma 1-0
Christofferson - Neumaier 1-0
Kolomiyets - Rabe 1-0
 

2nd Round
Cheymol - Ostryakov 1-0
Pottier - Hammond 1-0
van Oosten - Pfaffel 1-0
Schnider - Stebbings 0-1
Nguyen - Pietz 0-1
Danerud - Mirnik 0-1
Faldon - Theeuwen 0-1
Christofferson - Kolomiyets 0-1
In the quarter-finals the remaining favourites managed to win their games. The French duel between Cheymol and Pottier was won by Eric Cheymol, and the German duel between Pietz and Mirnik was won by Boris Mirnik. Surprise Anthony Stebbings lost against Arend van Oosten and Artem Kolomiyets knocked out Marc Theeuwen.


Quarter-Finals
Cheymol - Pottier 1-0
van Oosten - Stebbings 1-0
Pietz - Mirnik 0-1
Theeuwen - Kolomiyets 0-1
In the semi-finals Kolomiyets won against Mirnik and van Oosten won against Cheymol.
 
Semi-Finals
Cheymol - van Oosten 0-1
Mirnik - Kolomiyets 0-1
In the final Artem Kolomiyets won against Arend van Oosten and become for the first time European SHogi Champion. He is also the first European Shogi Champion from Ukraine and also from Eastern Europe.
In the match for 3rd place Boris Mirnik emerged as the winner.

Final
van Oosten - Kolomiyets 0-1

Match for 3rd Place
Cheymol - Mirnik 0-1

Final results - European Shogi Championship 2005 Pardubice, Czech Republic:

Winner:    Artem Kolomiyets, Ukraine
Runner-up: Arend van Oosten, The Netherlands
3rd:       Boris Mirnik, Germany

You will find here the final game between Kolomiyets and van Oosten

Worldwide Open Shogi Championship 2005 (WOSC 2005)

The WOSC 2005 in Pardubice, Czech Republic (15th-17th July 2005) had 64 participants. This was a significant increase compared to last year (53). The most participants came from Ukraine (17).
Last year's winner Tsukasa Sera managed to win again this year, but this year he lost against Hideki Tashiro in round 4 and finished with 8/9. Second became Yuji Kikuta with also 8 points (only loss against Sera).
With 7 points followed 3 players, Hideki Tashiro, Manabu Terao and the best European player, Gert Schnider. Schnider was lucky with the Swiss pairing system, as he lost 2 times in early rounds and thus could score 4 wins in the last 4 rounds without playing against one of the strong Japanese players.
The group of the players with 6 points (ranging from place 6 to 16) was lead by the new European Champion Artem Kolomiyets, who only lost against the strong Japanese players.

There were special prices awarded to the best young players and best female players. Best under 18 years old was Victor Zapara (6 points, place 16), best under 14 Andriy Malinovskyy (4 points, place 40), best under 10 Sofiya Shevchuk (3 points, place 57) and best female player Kateryna Ivantsiv (3 points, place 55).

Check here the rating results for the tournament, Asle Olufsen did the calculations just before the prize giving ceremony. Some players showed a big improvement, Peter Gedda (Sweden, +269 elo points), Rikard Skotnicki (Sweden, +153) and Daniel Toebbens (Germany, +117).