From: DANERUD MARTIN <martin.danerud <at> TELIA <dot> COM>
Date: 7 may 2001
Subject: SV:      2nd Austrian Shogi Championship

Dear shogi friends,

Congratulations, Austria! 13 participants is a giant step in 
the right direction. Keep up the good work!

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Martin Danerud

Vice president of FESA

>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
>
>
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