From: Thomas Pfaffel HOTMAIL COM> Date: 7 may 2001 Subject: 2nd Austrian Shogi Championship Dear Shogi Players! This weekend the 2nd Austrian Shogi Championships took place in Graz. With 13 participants we were able to more than double the number of participants compared with the last years championships. We nearly had even more participants, but some players cancelled their participation in the last days before the tournament. The tournament had one clear favourite, Gert Schnider, maybe with chances for myself. But things where much closer than expected. Especially in last round Wolfgang Lukas had great winning chances against Gert, he missed in byoyomi a probably winning lance drop. This would have resulted in 4 players having 4 points. But Gert won, so he finished the tournament with 5/5 and he is Austrias old and new Shogi Champion. He will also be Austrias representative at the Shogi WC in New York. Regards Thomas Pfaffel Pl. Name Str Co. MMS 1 2 3 4 5 Pt SOS SOSOS 1 Schnider, Gert 1d AUT 5 12+ 8+ 3+ 2+ 5+ 5 14 67 2 Pfaffel, Thomas 1k AUT 4 11+ free 4+ 1- 7+ 4 15 65 3 Wagner, Stephan *4k AUT 4 10+ 6+ 1- 9+ 4+ 4 15 64 4 Schmid, Wolfgang *4k AUT 3 13+ 5+ 2- 6+ 3- 3 15 67 5 Lukas, Wolfgang *4k AUT 3 7+ 4- 13+ 8+ 1- 3 13 65 Fahrner, Petra *7k AUT 3 9+ 3- 7+ 4- 10+ 3 13 65 7 Neubauer, Jakob *11k AUT 2 5- 9+ 6- 12+ 2- 2 13 64 8 Frosch, Ronald *10k AUT 2 free 1- 11+ 5- 12- 2 12 59 9 Gomilschak, Martin *14k AUT 2 6- 7- free 3- 13+ 2 11 63 10 Soral, Andre *10k AUT 2 3- 11- 12+ 13+ 6- 2 11 59 11 Messner, Georg *9k AUT 2 2- 10+ 8- -- -- 1 8 38 12 Ebner, Hubert *10k AUT 1 1- 13- 10- 7- 8+ 1 12 61 13 Gokl, Florian *13k AUT 1 4- 12+ 5- 10- 9- 1 11 62 (*) are estimated grades by the Austrian Shogi Federation _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.