From: Sibylle Banaschak <banasch <at> UNI-MUENSTER <dot> DE>
Date: 5 oct 1997
Subject: 1st Münster Chu-Shogi tournament

Whosoever it may concern:

The results of this historic tournament (most likely the first
over-the-board tournament for 400 years) are as follows:

1st (now official, former self-styled, European champion) Colin P. Adams
(England), 4 games, 4 wins
2nd Thomas Majewski (Germany),              4 games, 3 wins
3rd Jochen Drechsler (Germany),             4 games, 2 wins
4th (equal) Roland Marounek (Belgium),      3 games, 1 win
            Alexander Engelhardt (Germany), 2 games, 1 win
            Peter Banaschak (Germany),      3 games, 1 win
7th Hugues Vermeiren (Belgium),             4 games, no wins.

No Swedes turned up due to transport difficulties. So did the rest of
you due to inability to play the game successfully.
It might be interesting to note that Jochen Drechsler claims to have
played only one game beforehand.

We decided to shorten the time limits to 1.5hrs + 60 sec. byoyomi in
order to play one more round (because of the odd number of players).
After the tournament it was universally agreed that the original
suggestion of 2.5 hrs + 60 sec. (proposed by C. P. Adams) would have
been more appropriate. The venue, a classroom, was made available to us
due to courtesy of the Stadt Münster.

Results:
Round one:
Jochen:Colin        0:1
Thomas:Roland       1:0
Alexander:Hugues    1:0
bye: Peter

Round two:
Colin:Thomas        1:0
Jochen:Peter        1:0
Roland:Hugues       1:0
bye: Alexander

Round three:
Alexander:Colin     0:1
Hugues:Peter        0:1
Jochen:Thomas       0:1
bye: Roland

Round four:
Roland:Colin        0:1
Hugues:Jochen       0:1
Peter:Thomas        0:1
bye: Alexander (left early)

I suppose the game scores will be made available in the not too distant
future, thanks to Thomas Majewski.

Peter Banaschak

P.S. I'm looking forward to being invited to the next Chu-Shogi
tournament. We have shown it is possible to run a Chu-Shogi tournament.