From: Thomas Pfaffel hotmail com> Date: 18 jul 2005 Subject: European Shogi Championship 2005, result and final game Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Need Emergency Cash? Get Up To $500 Now!=20 No Credit Checks, Easy & Fast Approval=20 Cash in you account Overnight! http://click.topica.com/= caadHk3a2i6YsbnuqMaa/911PaydayAdvance ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear shogi-friends, With Artem Kolomiyets from Ukraine we have a new European Shogi Champion.= =20 But let me present you some details. This weekend (15th - 17th July 2005) the 21st European Shogi Championship= =20 was played as an integral part of the ESC/WOSC 2005 event in Parduvice,=20 Czech Republic. The best 32 European players (players with European=20 citizenship) competed in a knockout tournament for the European championshi= p=20 title. Already the first 2 rounds brought some surprises. So for example Anthony= =20 Stebbings (3k) managed to win against Richard Bjerke (1d) and Gert Schnider= =20 (3d) in the first 2 rounds and Andreas Pietz (4k) knocked out Frank=20 Roevekamp (3d). 1st round: Cheymol- Dreblov 1-0 Schaefer- Ostryakov 0-1 Pottier - Pinto 1-0 Boekschoten - Hammond 0-1 van Oosten - Olufsen 1-0 Pfaffel - Weimann 1-0 Schnider - Stuifbergen 1-0 Bjerke - Stebbings 0-1 Drechsler - Nguyen 0-1 Roevekamp - Pietz 0-1 Danerud - Shevchuk 1-0 Mirnik - Sinelnikov 1-0 Zapara - Faldon 0-1 Theeuwen - Haaksma 1-0 Christofferson - Neumaier 1-0 Kolomiyets - Rabe 1-0 2nd round: Cheymol - Ostryakov 1-0 Pottier - Hammond 1-0 van Oosten - Pfaffel 1-0 Schnider - Stebbings 0-1 Nguyen - Pietz 0-1 Danerud - Mirnik 0-1 Faldon - Theeuwen 0-1 Christofferson - Kolomiyets 0-1 In the quarter-finals the remaining favourites managed to win their games.= =20 The French duel between Cheymol and Pottier was won by Eric Cheymol, and th= e=20 German duel between Pietz and Mirnik was won by Boris Mirnik. Surprise=20 Anthony Stebbings lost against Arend van Oosten and Artem Kolomiyets knocke= d=20 out Marc Theeuwen. Quarter-finals: Cheymol - Pottier 1-0 van Oosten - Stebbings 1-0 Pietz - Mirnik 0-1 Theeuwen - Kolomiyets 0-1 In the semi-finals Kolomiyets won against Mirnik and van Oosten won against= =20 Cheymol. Semi-finals: Cheymol - van Oosten 0-1 Mirnik - Kolomiyets 0-1 In the final Artem Kolomiyets won against Arend van Oosten and become for= =20 the first time European SHogi Champion. He is also the first European Shogi= =20 Champion from Ukraine and also from Eastern Europe. In the match for 3rd place Boris Mirnik emerged as the winner. Final: van Oosten - Kolomiyets 0-1 Match for 3rd place: Cheymol - Mirnik 0-1 Final results - European Shogi Championship 2005 Pardubice, Czech Republic:= Winner: Artem Kolomiyets, Ukraine Runner-up: Arend van Oosten, The Netherlands 3rd: Boris Mirnik, Germany You will find attached the final game between Kolomiyets and van Oosten.= =20 This game was also topic of the shogi lecture from Mr. Ono-san before the= =20 prize giving ceremony. Probably someone could provide us with some comments= =20 on the game. Best regards, Thomas Pfaffel ***************************************************************************= Black: Kolomiyets Artem 3d White: van Oosten Arend 4d European Shogi Championship 2005 - Final 1.P2g-2f 2.P8c-8d 3.P7g-7f 4.P8d-8e 5.B8h-7g 6.P3c-3d 7.S7i-8h 8.G4a-3b 9.G6i-7h 10.B2bx7g+ 11.S8hx7g 12.S3a-2b 13.S3i-3h 14.S2b-3c 15.P4g-4f 16.S7a-7b 17.S3h-4g 18.P7c-7d 19.P3g-3f 20.S7b-7c 21.G4i-5h 22.K5a-4b 23.N2i-3g 24.G6a-5b 25.K5i-4h 26.S7c-6d 27.R2h-2i 28.K4b-3a 29.P1g-1f 30.P1c-1d 31.P2f-2e 32.P4c-4d 33.P9g-9f 34.P9c-9d 35.P6g-6f 36.G5b-4b 37.K4h-3h 38.P7d-7e 39.P7fx7e 40.S6dx7e 41.P*7f 42.P8e-8f 43.P8gx8f 44.S7ex8f 45.P*8c 46.R8bx8c 47.B*6a 48.R8c-8b 49.S7gx8f 50.R8bx8f 51.P4f-4e 52.P*8h 53.N8i-7g 54.P8h-8i+ 55.P4ex4d 56.+P8ix9i 57.S*4c 58.S3cx4d 59.S4cx4b+ 60.K3ax4b 61.P2e-2d 62.P2cx2d 63.P*4c 64.K4b-3c 65.B6a-5b+ 66.G3bx4c 67.G*2c 68.K3cx2c 69.+B5bx4c 70.B*5e 71.G5h-4h 72.G*3a 73.R2ix2d 74.K2cx2d 75.P*2e 76.K2d-2c 77.G*2d 1-0 _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! 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