From: DANERUD MARTIN comhem se> Date: 1 dec 2004 Subject: The results from Goteborg Open 2004 Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a Holy Bible for FREE! http://click.topica.com/= caacTFua2i6YsbnuqMaa/PermissionData ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear shogi friends, Goteborg Open, November 27 to 28, 2004 Final standings No Name N R ELO 1 2 3 4 5 6 P SoS SD +/- 1 Martin Danerud S 2d 1583 7+ 2- 4+ 6+ 9+ 3+ 5 20 16 +37 2 Carl Johan Nilsson S 2d 1823 8+ 1+ 3+ 4- 5- 7+ 4 23 15 -23 3 Richard Bjerke N 1d 1752 6+ 5+ 2- 9+ 4+ 1- 4 22 13 -10 4 T. Christoffersen N 1d 1661 10+ 11+ 1- 2+ 3- 8+ 4 19 10 -2 5 Jan Palmgren S 2k 1422 12+ 3- 6- 11+ 2+ 10+ 4 15 8 +5 6 Jan Rabe S 5k 1313 3- 12+ 5+ 1- 7- 9+ 3 19 7 +4 7 Daniel Wredenberg S 10k 853 1- 8+ 9- 12+ 6+ 2- 3 17 7 +108 8 Robert Soderberg S 2k 1347 2- 7- 11+ 10+ 12+ 4- 3 15 4 -29 9 Jonas Ahlqvist S 3k 1411 11- 10+ 7+ 3- 1- 6- 2 18 5 -52 10 Rikard Skotnicki S 9k 925 4- 9- 12+ 8- 11+ 5- 2 15 2 -1 11 Peder Gedda S 15k 488 9+ 4- 8- 5- 10- 12- 1 16 2 +29 12 Anders Dessmark S 688 5- 6- 10- 7- 8- 11+ 1 16 1 -13 Promotions: Daniel Wredenberg to 9-kyu och Anders Dessmark to 14- kyu. Goteborg Open gathered this year, like the last two years, only twelve=20 participants. But what a nice time we had! The tournament director Carl=20 Johan Nilsson treated us with mulled wine (gl=F6gg) and ginger cookies,=20 between the rounds we went to restaurants together, and the atmosphere=20 was very friendly. Our Norwegian guests contributed to this, and they=20 arrived, like most of the travellers, already on Friday evening. The three top players received the famous engraved tin cups. Similar=20 tin cups were also awarded to Jan Palmgren, the best player with 1-kyu=20 to 5-kyu, Daniel Wredenberg, the best player with 6-kyu to 10-kyu, and=20 Peder Gedda, the best player with 11-kyu to 15-kyu. One obvious tendency in this tournament was that the lower ELO rated=20 players kept their games under good control. It was not just the dan=20 players who displayed whole board perception. In shogi tournaments one=20 can always see a difference in style between players who like to take=20 the initiative to attack first in the games, the active players, and=20 players who rather wait for the opponent to take the first attacking=20 initiative, the reactive players. Together with Carl Johan Nilsson, we grouped the player in the=20 following subjective way: The active players: Bjerke, Danerud, Wredenberg, and Gedda. The reactive players: Christoffersen, Soderberg, Rabe, and Dessmark. Players who mix action and reaction: Nilsson, Palmgren, Ahlqvist, and=20 Skotnicki. None of these styles is the best. The players in the different groups=20 scored approximately the same amount of total points. An active player=20 can also defend and a reactive player can also attack, if necessary. However, these differences or similarities in style affected the key=20 games of each round, which were also the games where the ELO difference=20 was maximum in each round between the loser and the winner. Round 1: Gedda went for an active crusade against Ahlqvist, who wasted=20 a general and lost. Round 2: Wredenberg, who has played unbelievable 5000 games at=20 shogidojo.com, attacked Soderberg as usual. Robert did not succeed with=20 the reaction, since Wredenberg now seems to have learnt not only to=20 attack and also to avoid the unsound openings. Round 3: Palmgren attacked first against Rabe, but the reaction=20 triumphed, when Rabe could rush in with his mukaibisha rook without=20 meeting any resistance, and Palmgren simply did not stand a chance. Round 4: Carl Johan got the initiative and put pressure on=20 Christoffersen. Terje however defended skilfully, and the Swedish=20 Champion 2004 was lost. Round 5: Still suffering the loss to Christoffersen, Nilsson=20 immediately phased a third file rook attack from Palmgren, which=20 resulted in a lost knight. Nilsson, who had moved the rook to the=20 fourth file, got a tokin as a compensation. Jan, who now succeeded to=20 beat Carl Johan for the first time ever in an ELO game, did then not=20 make any essential mistakes and won the game. Round 6: The two only players with four points out of five played each=20 other in a real final game. It resulted in a tremendous fight between=20 two active players and between Sweden and Norway, when Martin played=20 Richard. After an initial positional struggle, when Martin played=20 nakabisha and Richard ibisha, Richard threatened a subway rook attack=20 on his left hand lance file, which was however blocked. Instead Martin=20 could, again with his rook on the central file, start what looked like=20 a decisive attack. However, Richard counter attacked in the centre and=20 forced Martin=B4s king to escape from his right hand side to his left=20 hand side of the board. After that, the game changed back and forth.=20 Both players aimed for a tsume in raging attacking waves, but the kings=20 danced away with the smallest possible margin. Finally, the game=20 finished suddenly, when Martin first missed a one move tsume and=20 dropped a checking pawn instead, which Richard could have captured with=20 a bishop including promotion, which had given him a probably won=20 position. However, Richard capture the pawn but miraculously did not=20 promote the bishop. Martin checked the position once again and suddenly=20 found the one move tsume which existed again in this position. This was=20 his first victory of the G=F6teborg Open tournament. The next big event in Sweden will be the Swedish Shogi Championship=20 tournament, April 2 to 3, 2005, in Goteborg. There will be wonderful=20 prizes, and the main focus will be on which players who will qualify=20 for the Swedish team for the 3rd International Shogi Forum in Tokyo,=20 October 22 to 23, 2005.=20 Sincerely yours,=20 Martin Danerud, a happy and lucky shogi player and=20 President of the Swedish Shogi Federation Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Win a Lexus RX330! Class and beauty rolled up in an SUV! Drive=20 your family this winter in style. Make it yours! 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