From: Pieter Stouten SHOGI NET> Date: 16 apr 2000 Subject: Cristiano Garbarini wins Italian/Swiss/Austrian qualifier! Cristiano Garbarini has won the Italian/Swiss/Austrian qualifying tournament for the Shogi World Championship - Amateur Overseas Championship in Armonk, New York on May 19-21, 2000. In total 13 players participated. Austria and Italy each had 6 player tournaments. The winner of the Italian tournament played against the only Swiss participant, John Kewley. The final was contested on Shogi Dojo by Gert Schnider, the Austrian champ, and Cristiano Garbarini, the Italian/Swiss winner. The detailed results are as follows: Austria, April 8, 2000 ---------------------- Name S SB rounds 1 Schnider, Gert 5 10 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 6+ 2 Pfaffel, Thomas 4 6 1- 5+ 3+ 6+ 4+ 3 Aschenbrenner, Robert 2 3 6+ 1- 2- 4+ 5- 4 Schmid, Wolfgang 2 2 5+ 6+ 1- 3- 2- 5 Hingley, Peter 1 2 4- 2- 6- 1- 3+ 6 Lukas, Wolfgang 1 1 3- 4- 5+ 2- 1- Italy, April 8, 2000 -------------------- Name S B rounds 1 Garbarini, Cristiano 4 7 5+ 3+ 2+ 4+ 2 De Leo, Maurizio 3 7 6+ 4+ 1- 3+ 3 Taldo, Ivano 2 9 4+ 1- 5+ 2- 4 Lago, Vitaliano 1 9 3- 2- 6+ 1- 5 Pasquini, Andrea 1 6 1- 6+ 3- -- 6 Marcoli, Paolo 0 5 2- 5- 4- -- S = score, B = Bucholtz score (sum of opponents' scores), SB = Sonneborn-Berger score (sum of defeated opponents' scores). Italy/Switzerland, April 9, 2000 -------------------------------- Cristiano Garbarini (Italy) - John Kewley (Switzerland) 1-0 Italy/Switzerland/Austria, April 15, 2000 ----------------------------------------- Cristiano Garbarini (Italy/Switzerland) - Gert Schnider (Austria) 1-0.