From: Thomas Pfaffel hotmail com> Date: 24 may 2005 Subject: Austrian Shogi Open 2005 Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a Free Sirius Satellite Package, don't pass on this! http://click.topica.com/= caadwPha2i6YsbnuqMaa/ProductTestPanel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Shogi friends, last weekend the Austrian Shogi Open 2005 took place in Graz. Very disappointing was the low number of participants (only 6), the lowest= =20 number ever. I had a lot of last moment withdrawals from the tournament. Thus we changed the format and played a round robin tournament with 5=20 rounds. But the quality of the field was still very good, with 3 dan players=20 (Mirnik, Schnider, Pfaffel). After 5 rounds no clear winner emerged as Mirnik, Schnider and Pfaffel=20 finished with 4/5. The decision for the first prize was done by throwing the dices! The dices decided the 1st place for Boris Mirnik, who anyway has deserved= =20 the tournament win as his only lost game (against Gert Schnider) happened,= =20 when he forgot the time in a won position (2 move tsume). The complete table with rating results: Nr Name Nat Grade ELO 1 2 3 4 5 Pts +/- 1 Mirnik Boris DE 3 Dan 2082 3+ 6+ 2- 5+ 4+ 4 -8 2 Schnider Gert AT 3 Dan 2050 6+ 4+ 1+ 3- 5+ 4 -5 3 Pfaffel Thomas AT 2 Dan 1699 1- 5+ 4+ 2+ 6+ 4 +28 4 Neumaier Andreas AT 2 Kyu 1524 5+ 2- 3- 6+ 1- 2 -2 5 T=F6bbens Daniel DE 5 Kyu 1244 4- 3- 6+ 1- 2- 1 +1 6 Schmied Horst AT 8 Kyu 1056 2- 1- 5- 4- 3- 0 -11 At the same time the tournament was also the Austrian qualifier for the 3.= =20 Shogi Forum. As there were only 4 Austrian players participating, we decide= d=20 to skip the playoff and to count for the Championship and Qualification onl= y=20 the results between the Austrian players. This was decided in Round 4 in the game between Thomas Pfaffel and Gert=20 Schnider, were Thomas for the first time managed to win a tournament game against=20 Gert. The ranking of the Austrian championship is as follows: Nr Name Nat Grade ELO Pts 1. Pfaffel Thomas AT 2 Dan 1699 3 2. Schnider Gert AT 3 Dan 2050 2 3. Neumaier Andreas AT 2 Kyu 1524 1 4. Schmied Horst AT 8 Kyu 1056 0 Greetings, Thomas Pfaffel _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!= =20 http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Take movies and games anywhere with a Free Playstation Portable! http://click.topica.com/= caadwPba2i6YsbnuqMaf/ProductTestPanel ------------------------------------------------------------------- --^---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --^----------------------------------------------------------------