From: DANERUD MARTIN comhem se> Date: 4 aug 2004 Subject: Results from the Swedish Shogi Team Championship 2004 Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a Great Credit Card for You Today=20 You can find a credit card to fit your credit needs.=20=20 All types of credit cards -- 0% APRs, Rewards, & Bad Credit. http://click.topica.com/= caacvgua2i6YsbnuqMaa/411Web ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear shogi friends, This year, 28 shogi players were gathered at Horsalsparken in=20 Norrkoping (200 km south of Stockholm) to play the Swedish Shogi Team=20 Championship. Never before, so many Swedes have participated in a shogi=20 tournament. Six teams participated: Trollhattan and Vastervik with four=20 players each, and Goteborg 1, Goteborg 2, Stockholm, and Norrkoping,=20 which rotated five players in the teams. We played outdoors in all=20 rounds, except the fourth round on Sunday morning, when there was a=20 Christian music concert at the outdoor stage. Then we played in the=20 cafeteria. Before start, the local newspaper made interviews and took=20 photos. Before round 1, G=F6teborg 1 was favourites. The team was ruling=20 champions and it had the highest average rating. Vastervik with the=20 second highest average rating and strengthened with Peter Kaneko,=20 seemed to be the strongest challenger. =20 Round 1 Vastervik - Norrkoping 3-1 Peter Kaneko - Ulf Dahlqvist 1-0 Niklas Alexandersson - Henrik Hellberg 1-0 Mikael Hansson - Xerxes Ranby 1-0 Thorbjorn Lund - Jonas Haden 0-1 Somewhat surprising, Ulf lost quickly to Peter. Ulf had gained a lot of=20 respect last year with several good games, but in this round there was=20 a quick loss. It was more expected that the winner of the younger group=20 at Beginner shogi tournament 2 at the Swedish Chess Championship=20 recently, Jonas Haden, would be able to win against Thorbjorn. The last=20 boards were expected to become and became the weakness of Vastervik. Stockholm - Trollhattan 3-1 Farhad Rouhani - Robert Soderberg 1-0 Jan Rabe - Daniel Wredenberg 1-0 Tord Juntti - Bo Flood 0-1 Ronny Lindkvist - Daniel Ivarsson 1-0 Stockholm also started with three points. The team also had an expected=20 weakness on the last boards. Ronny made a fine come back in shogi,=20 winning against the Swedish Junior Champion Daniel. Goteborg 1 - Goteborg 2 4-0 Carl Johan Nilsson - Mikael Jansson 1-0 Martin Danerud - Rikard Skotnicki 1-0 Jonas Ahlqvist - Robin Johansson 1-0 Rikard Nordgren - Anders Dessmark 1-0 The two beginners, Robin and Anders, played well already in round 1.=20 However, the ruling champions showed strength from start. There have to=20 be very good games from the opponents, if any points are to be lost for=20 Goteborg 1. The concentration is good, and no points are wasted. The=20 team also shows determined faces and has great fun together between the=20 rounds. Jonas and Rikard are players who perform a little extra, when=20 they are part of a team. Round 2 Vastervik - Stockholm 2-2 Peter Kaneko - Farhad Rouhani 1-0 Niklas Alexandersson - Jan Rabe 1-0 Mikael Hansson - Tord Juntti 0-1 Thorbjorn Lund - Magnus Benzein 0-1 This match showed clearly that none of these teams was a championship=20 candidate for 2004. The most spectacular event was Mikael Hansson=20 promoting on the fourth row against Tord. Magnus Benzein, who lost all=20 three games in the older group at the Beginner Shogi Tournament 2 at=20 the Swedish Chess Championship recently, but still showed talent and=20 passion for the game, won his first game in championship shogi. Goteborg 2 - Trollhattan 3-1 Mikael Jansson - Robert Soderberg 0-1 Rikard Skotnicki - Daniel Wredenberg 1-0 Peder Gedda - Bo Flood 1-0 Robin Johansson - Daniel Ivarsson 1-0 In round 2, two teams met who had experienced adventures just before=20 the event. Peder had missed the gathering in Goteborg on the morning,=20 had taken a bus to Norrkoping, and had now come in time for round 2.=20 Trollhattan was a little bit late driving in their car, tried a speed=20 above 130 km per hour, was stopped by the police, had to pay their=20 fine, and were half an hour delayed for round 1. Maybe those events=20 affected the results in this match? Robert started, as usual, the game against Mikael badly. An edge attack=20 was hardly stopped and it seemed to be a matter of time before Goteborg=20 2 would win the game. But Robert is good when his king escapes across=20 the board, when he is in byo-yomi, and sort of finds himself free from=20 rook and bishop. He works better with tokin. Wredenberg, who was=20 driving the car in too high speed, lost to Skotnicki, who played good=20 shogi in all rounds. Peder had a game of inspiration after his=20 adventurous journey, and Robin showed that he could win from a bad=20 position. Goteborg 1 - Norrkoping 4-0 Martin Danerud - Charlie Akerblom 1-0 Jan Palmgren - Xerxes Ranby 1-0 Jonas Ahlqvist - Henrik Hellberg 1-0 Rikard Nordgren - Jonas Haden 1-0 Goteborg 1 played its first match ever without Carl Johan Nilsson. The=20 victory was easy. Norrkoping had rotated out its best player did not=20 stand a chance. Round 3 Vastervik - Goteborg 2 3-1 Peter Kaneko - Rikard Skotnicki 1-0 Niklas Alexandersson - Peder Gedda 1-0 Mikael Hansson - Robin Johansson 0-1 Thorbjorn Lund - Anders Dessmark 1-0 Rikard played well against Peter, but it was not enough. Mikael could=20 not find his tsume against Robin, who instead counter attacked and won=20 an important game. Thorbjorn was awarded for his will to attack Anders,=20 but Anders should have both defended and attacked better than he did. Stockholm - Norrkoping 2-2 Farhad Rouhani - Ulf Dahlqvist 0-1 Jan Rabe - Charlie Akerblom 1-0 Ronny Lindkvist - Xerxes Ranby 1-0 Magnus Benzein - Jonas Haden 0-1 Ulf played stable and composed against Farhad. On board four, Jonas=20 showed that he is a real shogi talent, just as one could see at the=20 Swedish Chess Championship recently. Goteborg 1 - Trollhattan 4-0 Carl Johan Nilsson - Robert Soderberg 1-0 Jan Palmgren - Daniel Wredenberg 1-0 Jonas Ahlqvist - Bo Flood 1-0 Rikard Nordgren - Daniel Ivarsson 1-0 For the first time ever outside the Goteborg 1 team, I could see my=20 team mates work almost clinically. Wredenberg had something going on=20 against Jan, who would not have won his position against a strong=20 player, but maybe Daniel was still afraid of the police. Round 4 Vastervik - Trollhattan 2-2 Peter Kaneko - Robert Soderberg 1-0 Niklas Alexandersson - Daniel Wredenberg 0-1 Mikael Hansson - Bo Flood 1-0 Thorbjorn Lund - Daniel Ivarsson 0-1 Daniel x 2 scored for Trollhattan. After a night at youth hostel and=20 now playing at the cafeteria, everything worked for them. Wredenberg=20 won against the Swedish Championship Challenger finalist Alexandersson,=20 who also had some problems with the surprises and strange moves of=20 Wredenberg at the Swedish Championship tournament at Stockholm in April. Goteborg 2 - Norrkoping 4-0 Mikael Jansson - Ulf Dahlqvist 1-0 Peder Gedda - Xerxes Ranby 1-0 Anders Dessmark - Charlie Akerblom 1-0 Robin Johansson - Henrik Hellberg 1-0 Mikael impressed by winning against Ulf, who has the potential to=20 become a good player. With this game, Robin had won against the=20 historically two best junior players in Swedish shogi. Both Robin and=20 Jonas will challenge Ivarsson and Hellberg for the Junior title in 2005. Goteborg 1 - Stockholm 4-0 Carl Johan Nilsson - Farhad Rouhani 1-0 Martin Danerud - Jan Rabe 1-0 Jan Palmgren - Tord Juntti 1-0 Rikard Nordgren - Magnus Benzein 1-0 Jan Rabe was the loser who showed the best resistance. The game was in=20 the balance for a while, but then Martin could make it 9 to 1 in mutual=20 games. With the results in this round it was already now a fact that=20 Goteborg 1 was to become the Swedish Team Champions 2004. Vastervik,=20 Stockholm, and Goteborg 2 had to fight for the silver and bronze medals. Round 5 Trollhattan - Norrkoping 2-2 Robert Soderberg - Ulf Dahlqvist 0-1 Daniel Wredenberg - Henrik Hellberg 1-0 Bo Flood - Charlie Akerblom 1-0 Daniel Ivarsson - Jonas Haden 0-1 The match to decide fifth place was even. Norrkoping scored a new=20 record of points, and Ulf and Jonas are two real shogi talents. The=20 other players are also capable, but in this tournament their score was=20 zero. Stockholm - Goteborg 2 3-1 Farhad Rouhani - Mikael Jansson 1-0 Jan Rabe - Rikard Skotnicki 1-0 Tord Juntti - Peder Gedda 1-0 Ronny Lindkvist - Anders Dessmark 0-1 The bronze match was won by Stockholm. Anders showed his growing shogi=20 talent, which he can use successfully in the future. Thereby, Ronny was=20 kept at two victories in his successful come back. Goteborg 1 - Vastervik 3-1 Carl Johan Nilsson - Peter Kaneko 0-1 Martin Danerud - Niklas Alexandersson 1-0 Jan Palmgren - Mikael Hansson 1-0 Jonas Ahlqvist - Thorbjorn Lund 1-0 The final board were easily won by Goteborg 1 in this supposed gold=20 match. The two top games were the best games in this Championship. Most=20 people thought that Carl Johan had won the game, when he disarmed two=20 bishops which on the same diagonal pointed towards his king. Two lances=20 also attacked on one file. But it is difficult to beat Peter. Now, he=20 succeeded to find a tsume after all in this game, where he seemingly=20 had lost the opening as well as the middle game. Martin played his best=20 game since the Challenger final against Christer Hartman in 2003. He=20 now has 13 straight victories in the Team Championship, and he is the=20 only players who has participated in all Team Championships and won all=20 his games. Final standings: 1. Goteborg 1 19 2. Vastervik 11 3. Stockholm 10 4. Goteborg 2 9 5. Trollhattan 6 6. Norrkoping 5 After the third consecutive gold medals at the Team Championship,=20 Goteborg has won 52 out of 56 games. There is a winning culture in the=20 team with big concentration during the games and a relaxed spirit=20 between the rounds. The Goteborg Shogi Society is also a well organized=20 club, which uses sponsor money for their participation in the Team=20 Championship. As expected, Vastervik had problems on the last boards. There were=20 several mistakes, which is not sufficient for the Team Champioship=20 gold. But the team deserved to win the silver medals, and the team has=20 some talent to build a future champion team. Stockholm used its players=20 well and won the bronze medals. The team has won medals at all Team=20 Championshis. Individual results (No is not a position, since this was not an=20 individual tournament. The players only have numbers in order to give a=20 readable table and to calculate ELO changes. 0- means that the player=20 has not played that round because of team rotation. ELO rating with a *=20 to follow means that the new players have a provisional ELO rating): No Name Grade ELO 1 2 3 4 5 P +/- 1. Peter Kaneko 3-dan 1738 16+ 11+ 20+ 21+ 8+ 5 +20 2. Rikard Nordgren 7-kyu 1103 18+ 9+ 22+ 25+ 0- 4 +9 3. Martin Danerud 2-dan 1542 20+ 27+ 0- 7+ 6+ 4 +12 4. Jonas Ahlqvist 3-kyu 1406 10+ 26+ 15+ 0- 23+ 4 +5 5. Jan Palmgren 2-kyu 1417 0- 28+ 12+ 14+ 13+ 4 +5 6. Niklas Alexandersson 4-kyu 1386 26+ 7+ 17+ 12- 3- 3 -26 7. Jan Rabe 5-kyu 1251 12+ 6- 27+ 3- 20+ 3 -9 8. Carl Johan Nilsson 2-dan 1836 24+ 0- 21+ 11+ 1- 3 -13 9. Jonas Haden 921* 23+ 2- 25+ 0- 22+ 3=20=20 10.Robin Johansson 1245* 4- 22+ 13+ 26+ 0- 3=20=20 11.Farhad Rouhani 5-kyu 1321 21+ 1- 16- 8- 24+ 2 +8 12.Daniel Wredenberg 11-kyu 832 7- 20- 5- 6+ 26+ 2 +21 13.Mikael Hansson 8-kyu 1088 28+ 14- 10- 15+ 5- 2 -36 14.Tord Juntti 11-kyu 756 15- 13+ 0- 5- 17+ 2 +10 15.Bo Flood 13-kyu 605 14+ 17- 4- 13- 27+ 2 +6 16.Ulf Dahlqvist 1271* 1- 0- 11+ 24- 21+ 2=20=20 17.Peder Gedda 15-kyu 446 0- 15+ 6- 28+ 14- 2 +42 18.Anders Dessmark 688* 2- 0- 23- 27+ 19+ 2=20=20 19.Ronny Lindkvist 12-kyu 787 22+ 0- 28+ 0- 18- 2 -3 20.Rikard Skotnicki 9-kyu 916 3- 12+ 1- 0- 7- 1 +9 21.Robert Soderberg 2-kyu 1375 11- 24+ 8- 1- 16- 1 -28 22.Daniel Ivarsson 14-kyu 579 19- 10- 2- 23+ 9- 1 -7 23.Thorbjorn Lund 400* 9- 25- 18+ 22- 4- 1=20=20 24.Mikael Jansson 6-kyu 1170 8- 21- 0- 16+ 11- 1 -3 25.Magnus Benzein 635* 0- 23+ 9- 2- 0- 1=20=20=20 26.Henrik Hellberg 15-kyu 451 6- 4- 0- 10- 12- 0 -4 27.Charlie Akerblom 400* 0- 3- 7- 18- 15- 0=20=20 28.Xerxes Ranby 400* 13- 5- 19- 17- 0- 0=20=20 =20 Promotions:=20 Farhad Rouhani to 4-kyu Daniel Wredenberg to 10-kyu Mikael Hansson to 7-kyu There were several good performances. But I especially want to point=20 out the young beginners, who are important to me. Jonas Haden, Robin=20 Johansson, Anders Dessmark, Magnus Benzein, and Charlie Akerblom played=20 their first ever rating tournaments. All players tried their best and=20 learnt a lot from each game they played. The Swedish Shogi Team Championship 2005 will be played in Vasteras.=20 There we will also have the possibility to play outdoors, covered by a=20 roof. We are looking forward to new and old players and teams as well=20 as new records then. Best regards,=20 Martin Danerud, President of the Swedish Shogi Federation Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Save up to 67% on Omaha Steaks + Get 6 FREE Burgers and a=20 FREE Cutlery Set + Cutting Board! http://click.topica.com/= caacvgpa2i6YsbnuqMaf/OmahaSteaks ------------------------------------------------------------------- --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: = shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.= bnuqMa.= c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=3DTEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------