From: "Nilsson, Carl Johan" TELIA COM> Date: 4 dec 2000 Subject: Goteborg Open Dear Shogiplayers, I sent an report from Goteborg Open a few days ago. Unfortunately I didn't realize that all subscribers cannot read attached files. Therefor I send this message with the final results and the crosstable as ordinary text instead of attached files. /Carl Johan Goteborg Open in Shogi was played during this weekend in Goteborgs Schackcentrum. 14 players (1 Japanese, 3 Norwegians and 10 Swedes) competed for the honour of being the champ and also for some very nice prices (cups shining like if they almost where made of gold). In spite of this, the atmosphere was very friendly with no incidents whatsoever. After the first day only one player, Terje Christoffersen, had 3 points out of 3. I had the doubtful pleasure of facing the strength of the Norwegian rising star Rickard Bjerke in the 1st round. In a week moment after the game, I wished that the tournament had been played with the MacMahon system instead. If that had been the case I wouldn't have to face these coming players at all. And, god forbid, if I had to anyway, and they conquer me, I would still finish above them in the end, just superb. Kenji Taguchi, Robert Soderberg, Jan Palmgren and Antje Rapmund also started pretty well with 2 points out of 3. In the 4th round Christoffersen lost a very tough game aganist me so suddenly the tournament was wide open with 5 players (Christoffersen, Bjerke, Taguchi, Rapmund and me) sharing the lead with 3 points. In the 5th round Bjerke won against Christoffersen, Rapmund lost against Soderberg and I won against Taguchi which left Bjerke and me in the lead. This was also the standing after the 6th round since there was no major upset there. After some calculations it was clear that Bjerke had a few SoS-points less than me, so he had to content himself with the next largest cup. Among the players with 4 points, Christoffersen had faced the toughest opponents so he brought the smallest cup with him back to Norway. Taguchi who played a very aestetic type of shogi finished in 4th place and one of the Swedish coming men, Paul Andersson, spurted with three straight wins to finish in 5th place. For complete results and crosstable, please view the attached files. Hope to see you all in Goteborg next year. Carl Johan Nilsson Goteborg Shogi Society Final Standings (Round 6) Goteborg Open Surname Elo Sco Sos Sdos 1 NILSSON,Carl Johan (1) . 1828 5 22 17 2 BJERKE,Rickard (8) . 1238 5 19 16 3 CHRISTOFFERSEN,Terje (2) . 1705 4 22 12 4 TAGUCHI,Kenji (3) . 1600 4 21 12 5 ANDERSSON,Paul (10) .(1000) 4 15 8 6 SODERBERG,Robert (4) . 1575 3 24 11 7 RAPMUND,Antje (7) . 1262 3 19 7 8 PALMGREN,Jan (6) . 1268 3 18 6 9 JANSSON,Mikael (12) . 815 3 15 3 10 NORDGREN,Rickard (11) . 967 3 12 4 11-12 THORNVALL,Ronny (5) . 1526 2 19 3 GAMMELGARD,Tor (9) . 1042 2 17 1 13 SKOTNICKI,Rickard (13) . (800) 1 15 0 14 JOHANSSON,Roland (14) . (400) 0 14 0 Cross Table (Round 6) Goteborg Open Surname Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sco 1. NILSSON,Carl Johan . 1828 L8 W12 W4 W2 W3 W6 5.0 2. CHRISTOFFERSEN,Terje . 1705 W9 W7 W3 L1 L8 W4 4.0 3. TAGUCHI,Kenji . 1600 W10 W6 L2 W4 L1 W5 4.0 4. SÖDERBERG,Robert . 1575 W11 W8 L1 L3 W7 L2 3.0 5. THÖRNVALL,Ronny . 1526 L12 W11 L8 L10 W14 L3 2.0 6. PALMGREN,Jan . 1268 W13 L3 W9 L7 W11 L1 3.0 7. RAPMUND,Antje . 1262 W14 L2 W10 W6 L4 L8 3.0 8. BJERKE,Rickard . 1238 W1 L4 W5 W9 W2 W7 5.0 9. GAMMELGÅRD,Tor . 1042 L2 W14 L6 L8 W13 L10 2.0 10. ANDERSSON,Paul .(1000) L3 W13 L7 W5 W12 W9 4.0 11. NORDGREN,Rickard . 967 L4 L5 W12 W14 L6 W13 3.0 12. JANSSON,Mikael . 815 W5 L1 L11 W13 L10 W14 3.0 13. SKOTNICKI,Rickard . (800) L6 L10 W14 L12 L9 L11 1.0 14. JOHANSSON,Roland . (400) L7 L9 L13 L11 L5 L12 0.0 Rating between () is estimated strength used for pairing for players without established ELO.