From: Schnider <p.schnider <at> UTANET <dot> AT>
Date: 10 apr 2003
Subject: Re: 4th International Austrian Shogi Championship

The grades in Europe and especially in Austria, where our Association is only 3 1/2 years old, are not always reflecting a players true strenght. Some of our players are fast improving and playing much stronger than their grades. To give another player as example: Rainer Staberhofer, at that time 4kyu, won the individual tournament at the German Team Championships in Munich with 5 out of 5 beating a 1dan and a 2dan there. 
Anyway I have to congratulate Andreas Neumaier who is the first Austrian to beat me in an even game tournament and I think this clearly marks the progress our players are making.

Gert Schnider

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bogin" <bogin <at> YAHOO <dot> CO <dot> JP>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:24 AM
Subject: Re: 4th International Austrian Shogi Championship


> Congratulations on a fine tournament. The level of play must have been
> quite high for a 2k to beat a very strong 5d. Even in a handicap game that
> result would have been quite surprising but in an even game it is even more
> remarkable.  What's more this was an OTB tournament, not Interent or Email,
> so there can be no doubt about the result. It just goes to show that on any
> given day anything is possible.
> 
> I have just one question. This was the tournament was called the Austrian
> Championship, and there appears to have been a clear winner,
>  $B#M#M (Br. Schnider, with 5 out of 6. So, why is it necessary to have a playoff
> for title of Austrian Champion?
> 
> 
> Bill Gaudry
> 
>  --- Thomas Pfaffel <thomas_pfaffel <at> HOTMAIL <dot> COM>  $B$+$i$N%a%C%;!<%8!' (B
> > Dear shogi friends!
> >
> > Last weekend the 4th International Asutrian Shogi Championship took
> > place in
> > Graz. With 12 participants we had unfortunately a decrease in the
> > number of
> > participants compared to 18 participants last year. But with Vojtech
> > Hrabal
> > from Czech Republic and Jochen Drechsler from Munich we could also
> > welcome
> > two foreign players.
> > The big suprise of the tournament was Andreas Neumaier (2k). After
> > winning
> > against Jochen Drechsler in round two, he managed to win in round
> > four
> > against Gert Schnider. This was Gert's first defeat in a tournament
> > game in
> > Austria! So after 4 rounds Andreas was the single leader. But
> > unfortunately
> > Andreas lost his 2 remaining games against Marco Dietmayer and Thomas
> > Pfaffel, although he had a winning position in both games.
> > So Gert Schnider emerged again as the winner of the tournament with 5
> > points
> > out of 6 rounds. With 4 points following were Andreas Neumaier, Marco
> > Dietmayer and Thomas Pfaffel. This 4 players will compete in a
> > playoff next
> > month for the Austrian Championship Title.
> > Find below the tournament table with rating results.
> >
> > Regards
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Nr Name                 Nat  Grade  ELO    1   2   3   4   5   6  Pts
> >   +/-
> > 1 Schnider   Gert      AT   3 Dan  2096   7+  4+  6+  2-  5+  3+   5
> >  -10
> > 2 Neumaier   Andreas   AT   2 Kyu  1436   0+  5+  9+  1+  3-  4-   4
> >  +53
> > 3 Dietmayer  Marco     AT   1 Kyu  1688  10+  6-  7+  4+  2+  1-   4
> >   +7
> > 4 Pfaffel    Thomas    AT   2 Dan  1797   9+  1-  8+  3- 10+  2+   4
> >  -16
> > 5 Drechsler  Jochen    DE   2 Dan  1787   8+  2- 11+  6+  1-  7+   4
> >  -15
> > 6 Wagner     Stephan   AT   3 Kyu  1650  11+  3+  1-  5-  8+  9+   4
> >   +4
> > 7 Hrabal     Vojtech   CZ   8 Kyu  1164   1- 11+  3- 10+  9+  5-   3
> >   +6
> > 8 Schmied    Horst     AT  10 Kyu   953   5- 10+  4- 11+  6-  0+   3
> >  +11
> > 9 Gomilschak Martin    AT  11 Kyu   824   4- 12+  2-  0+  7-  6-   2
> >   -3
> > 10 Wetzl      Roland    AT  11 Kyu   829   3-  8-  0+  7-  4- 11+   2
> >   -13
> > 11 Moser      Eva       AT           400*  6-  7-  5-  8-  0+ 10-   1
> > 12 Gruber     Alexander AT           400*  0-  9-  0-  0-  0-  0-   0
> >
> > Promoting Wagner Stephan to 2 Kyu
> > Promoting Hrabal Vojtech to 6 Kyu
> > Promoting Schmied Horst to 9 Kyu
> > Promoting Gomilschak Martin to 10 Kyu
> >
> >
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