From: DANERUD MARTIN comhem se> Date: 24 nov 2005 Subject: Report from Goteborg Open 2005 by Carl Johan Nilsson Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Is your computer freezing up or slowing down? Repair corrupt files and harmful errors - protect your PC Take a 2-minute PC health check-up at no charge! http://click.topica.com/= caaedmqa2i6YsbnuqMaa/PC PowerScan ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear shogi friends, Below, please find a report from Goteborg Open 2005 by Carl Johan=20 Nilsson, quickly translated into English by myself. Enjoy! Goteborg Open was played November 19 to 20 at the Goteborg Chess=20 Center. The latest three years, the tournament has only attracted 12=20 participants, but this year 16 players fought for the 6 prizes.=20 Especially interesting was to follow Emil Hermansson, Ulf Dahlqvist,=20 and Robert Soderberg. Emil is a strong chess player (International=20 Master) and he has recently spent a lot of time on shogi, supported by=20 his "sensei" Ulf Dahlqvist. Emil told us that Ulf has "taugth him=20 everything that he knows about shogi". Ulf also plays a lot at www. shogidojo.com and showed a high potential strength when he won against=20 the Swedish Champion Christer Hartman at the Swedish Team Shogi=20 Championship this summer. Robert returned recently from a three weeks=20 visit to Japan, where he practiced shogi a lot over the board against=20 Japanese players. Could that have improved his shogi shape? The first round saw some usual sensations. At the first board, Ulf=20 Dahlqvist won a brilliant attacking game against me. Also Jonas=20 Ahlqvist lost to a very much lower rated player, and that was Mikael=20 Hansson. It could also be noted that Emil had big problems against=20 Daniel Wredenberg, but he succeeded to turn a lost position into a win. In the second round, Emil played against his sensei, Ulf Dahlqvist.=20 Emil won after a tough battle. Jan Rabe, who has recently added a good=20 attacking game to his traditionally good defence, won against Terje=20 Christoffersen. Thereby, two of the three highest rated players had had=20 to note their first losses already during the first two rounds. This=20 seemingly opened the path for Richard Bjerke, who has been close to win=20 this tournament many times without success. As late as last year, he=20 had practically won the tournament, but he lost after forgetting to=20 promote his bishop in his final move of the final game. Richard=20 seemingly played stable shogi during his first rounds. Emil Hermansson,=20 Jan Rabe, and Richard Bjerke shared the lead after two rounds with Jan=20 Palmgren. Before round 3, the traditional mulled wine and ginger cookies were=20 served, which seemed suitable in the darkness and winter cold. A nice=20 tradition, if I may say so myself... Strenghtened by the mulled wine, Richard Bjerke won against Jan=20 Palmgren and Emil won against Jan Rabe. Thereby, Richard and Emil could=20 feel satisfied with their first day. Further back in the field, Ulf=20 succeeded to win against Terje in a strange game. Ulf had to give up a=20 silver general and got an unfriendly promoted rook close to his sitting=20 king. Ulf, however, succeeded to defend and counter-attacked. Suddenly,=20 Terje resigned, since he thought he saw a tsume attack by Ulf, but that=20 was a ghost. One more gold general in hand would have been needed for=20 Ulf... Thus, Terje was not a realistic candidate to win the tournament=20 any more. Sunday morning 08.30, the clocks were started for the fourth round=20 with a final game between Emil and Richard. Emil succeeded to win after=20 strong defence, and it looked like Richard should have to wait one more=20 year to win this tournament. In the 11 to 15-kyu group, there was a=20 final game between Jan-Olof and Therese, playing her first ever shogi=20 tournament. The game was won by Jan-Olof. In the rating group 6 to 10- kyu, the two rating rockets of the WOSC 2005, Peder Gedda and Richard=20 Skotnicki, played against each other. Richard won. In the rating group=20 1 to 5-kyu, Ulf won against Jan P., while Jonas won against Jan R.=20 Thereby, Ulf was in the lead of that rating group. In round 5, Emil had to play against sincerely yours, who had fought=20 his way back after losing in the first round. Emil went a little wrong=20 in the opening, and could not turn the tables. Richard won against=20 Jonas and Ulf won against Niklas Alexandersson, the 2004 Swedish=20 Championship Challenger finalist. Those results gave the following situation before the final round:=20 Emil was going to win the tournament if he won against Jonas. If that=20 failed, the winner would instead be the winner between Richard and Ulf.=20 Emil blundered and lost a rook against Jonas. Thus Richard could cruise=20 to victory by winning against Ulf. It seemed fair that Richard finally=20 could win the tournament. Sincerely yours played brilliantly against=20 Terje (an illegal move in an unclear position...), and could thereby=20 secure the runner-up position. Emil was third. Ulf was the tournament=20 rating rocket (+120 points) was number four and got promoted to 4-kyu.=20 He also won the rating group 1 to 5-kyu. Mikael Hansson was the winner=20 in the group 6 to 10-kyu, and the last tin cup was won by Jan-Olof=20 Helm. The tournament director wishes to thank everyone for showing interest=20 in our tournament and wants to see you again next year. Sincerely yours, Carl Johan Nilsson Nr Name Nat Grade ELO 1 2 3 4 5=20=20=20 6=20=20 Pts Kval +/- 1 Bjerke Richard NO 1 Dan 1698 10+ 8+ 9+ 3- 5+=20=20 4+ 5 21 +5 2 Nilsson Carl Johan SE 2 Dan 1814 4- 13+ 10+ 8+ 3+=20=20 7+ 5 19 -10 3 Hermansson Emil SE 1629* 13+ 4+ 6+ 1+ 2-=20=20 5- 4 24 4 Dahlqvist Ulf SE 5 Kyu 1297 2+ 3- 7+ 9+ 8+=20=20 1- 4 23 +120 5 Ahlqvist Jonas SE 3 Kyu 1408 11- 14+ 12+ 6+ 1-=20=20 3+ 4 20 +5 6 Rabe Jan SE 4 Kyu 1318 15+ 7+ 3- 5- 9+=20 12+ 4 18 +34 7 Christoffersen Terje NO 1 Dan 1651 12+ 6- 4- 13+ 10+=20=20 2- 3 22 -41 8 Alexandersson Niklas SE 4 Kyu 1328 16+ 1- 11+ 2- 4-=20 14+ 3 18 -8 9 Palmgren Jan SE 2 Kyu 1404 14+ 11+ 1- 4- 6-=20 16+ 3 17 -28 10 Soderberg Robert SE 2 Kyu 1281 1- 16+ 2- 11+ 7-=20 15+ 3 17 +0 11 Hansson Mikael SE 7 Kyu 1048 5+ 9- 8- 10- 15+=20 13+ 3 16 +30 12 Skotnicki Rikard SE 7 Kyu 1151 7- 15+ 5- 14+ 16+=20=20 6- 3 13 -10 13 Wredenberg Daniel SE 7 Kyu 1087 3- 2- 16+ 7- 14+=20 11- 2 16 -12 14 Gedda Peder SE 10 Kyu 909 9- 5- 15+ 12- 13-=20=20 8- 1 16 -23 15 Helm Jan-Olof SE 378* 6- 12- 14- 16+ 11-=20 10- 1 14 16 Jernberg Ther=E9se SE 1* 8- 10- 13- 15- 12-=20=20 9- 0 16 Best regards,=20 Martin (still in Tokyo) Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- FREE DVR And up to 3 additional standard receivers! 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