From: SECELLE JOHANNES F L A MINFIN FED BE> Date: 24 feb 2003 Subject: Re: Results from Trollhattan Open 2003 Well done Martin ! Congratulations !! Hans DANERUD MARTIN schreef: > Dear shogi friends, > > This weekend, Trollhattan Open was played for the second time. The > tournament attracted 15 players, and I daresay that was good in the > Swedish winter weather, which has turned snow into ice after partly > melting and freezing again. > So, as expected, the host city had the majority (nine) of the > participants, a good evidence of the fine organisational efforts done > by Robert Soderberg in this relatively small city. Three of the guests > came from Goteborg, one from Stockholm, one from Norrkoping, and one > from Oslo, Norway. > > Results (number, name, nationality, grade, ELO rating, round 1 to 6 > opponents number and results, points, SOS, SDOS, Progressive): > > 1. Martin Danerud S 2d 1545 8+ 4+ 2+ 5+ 3+ 6+ 6 22 22 21 > 2. Jonas Ahlqvist S 5k 1272 10+ 9+ 1- 7+ 5+ 8+ 5 21 15 17 > 3. T. Christoffersen N 1d 1678 7+ 6- 12+ 4+ 1- 9+ 4 22 13 14 > 4. Rikard Skotnicki S 12k 739 13+ 1- 11+ 3- 6+ 5+ 4 21 11 13 > 5. Robert Soderberg S 2k 1442 12+ 11+ 6+ 1- 2- 4- 3 24 9 15 > 6. Jan Rabe S 6k 1183 15+ 3+ 5- 9+ 4- 1- 3 21 8 14 > 7. Daniel Wredenberg S 15k 625 3- 10+ 13+ 2- 12+ 11- 3 20 8 11 > 8. Bo Flood S 15k 603 1- 15+ 9- 13+ 10+ 2- 3 20 6 10 > 9. Henrik Hellberg S 385 F+ 2- 8+ 6- 14+ 3- 3 17 5 12 > 10.Björn Tjallgren S 400 2- 7- 14+ 11+ 8- F+ 3 16 5 8 > 11.Mikael Karlsson S 400 14+ 5- 4- 10- F+ 7+ 3 15 5 9 > 12.Daniel Ivarsson S 15k 459 5- 14+ 3- 15+ 7- 13+ 3 15 5 9 > 13.David Andersson S 400 4- F+ 7- 8- 15+ 12- 2 14 1 7 > 14.Johan Wikstrom S 664 11- 12- 10- F+ 9- 15+ 2 13 1 4 > 15.Johan Ivarsson S 400 6- 8- F+ 12- 13- 14- 1 13 0 4 > > Please observe that position 11 is shared between number 11 and 12 > above. > > When reading the grades and ratings above, you may guess that the level > of the games was not so good. That is wrong. Despite the low figures, > almost all games were of good quality. A lot of games were very tough, > and this list of players contains a lot of raw shogi talent. I want to > show this by picking three players, who performed very well in this > tournament. > > Jonas Ahlqvist: a relative beginner in shogi, but he already performs > at almost dan level. I predicted before the tournament that he would > win one of the three trophies. He scored five points and was number > two. Before, he has a gold medal in the first Swedish Team Shogi > Championship, as a member of Goteborg 1. > > Rikard Skotnicki: has been active for some years now, but all the time > on a low level. He won against Jan Rabe after an illegal move, and in > the last round he showed our host no mercy in the final attack. That > gave him the rating prize for best player between 11-kyu and 15-kyu. > Before, he has a bronze medal in the first Swedish Team Shogi > Championship, as a member of Goteborg 2. > > Henrik Hellberg: a relative beginner in shogi from Norrkoping. He has > shown a lot of ambition, but previously his opening and middle games > have shown to be too soft. Now, however, Hellberg excelled with bogin > attacks, and also in the games he lost he showed good shape and good > attacking style. > > One thing that these players have in common is that they have been very > active in the tsume problem contest in our quarterly magazine, SHOGI PA > SVENSKA. This clearly helped them a lot in this tournament. > > Terje Christoffersen is a nice person and an often seen guest in the > Swedish shogi tournaments. Ask him, if he thinks that the Swedish > players are underrated or not! In his last five tournaments in Sweden > he has lost around 100 ELO points, and still I daresay that he has > played well. Terje has a good knowledge of openings and he has a solid > style. He got confused against Jan Rabe, as he failed to discover an > illegal pawn drop on the last rank. He won the third prize trophy in > this tournament. > > Jan Rabe won the rating prize as the best (and only) player between 6- > kyu and 10-kyu. > > Finally, sincerely yours, the most generous donor of ELO points to > underrated Swedish players during the last five years, succeeded to get > a perfect score in this tournament. My choice of openings in this > tournament seems to fit my style of playing well. Somehow, I also had > the necessary inspiration and energy to fight and win the close battles. > > Sincerely yours, > > Martin Danerud > > President of the Swedish Shogi Federation