From: "Stouten, Pieter [R&D/0467]" PHARMACIA COM> Date: 11 dec 2002 Subject: Results 1st Italian Open Blitz Championship Hello Shogi fans, At last week's Giochi Sforzeschi (the Italian Mind Sports Olympiad) in Milan two Shogi tournaments were held. Albrecht Heeffer already released an excellent report on the 3rd Italian Open Shogi Championship (the Italian Grand Prix): . The other Shogi event was the 1st Italian Open Blitz ("Lampo") Championship, which took place on Friday evening 6 December. This event also employed Asle Olufsen's TPR (tournament performance rating) pairing program. The results are as follows: Nr Name Nat TPR S Results 1 Secelle Hans BE 2200 6 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+ 7+ 6+ 2 Stouten Pieter NL 1781 4 1- 5+ 3+ 4+ 6- 7+ 3 Christoffersen Terje NO 1612 3 4+ 1- 2- 7- 9+ 5+ 4 Heeffer Albrecht BE 1579 3 3- 7+ 1- 2- 8+ 9+ 5 Olufsen Asle NO 1533 3 7+ 2- 8+ 1- 0+ 3- 6 Mueller Martin CH 1502 4 0+ 9- 10+ 8+ 2+ 1- 7 Baggio Giuseppe IT 1436 2 5- 4- 9+ 3+ 1- 2- 8 Hrabal Vojtech CZ 1209 3 9+ 10+ 5- 6- 4- 0+ 9 Tognoni Enrico IT 1162 2 8- 6+ 7- 0+ 3- 4- 10 Sassoli Cesare IT 252 1 -- 8- 6- -- -- 0+ Ciao, Pieter