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#2, April, 1998.

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   Dear friends!

   About 300 people visited the first issue! So as this magazine has own readers. Thanks to all who sent feedbacks!

   Thanks to Eddie Williams and Marcelo Lisnovsky for sending his articles. Thanks to Ola Hansson for his permission to use his work. Thanks to Elisabetta Vecchi and Bintsa Andriani for a promise to write for you!

   I repeat my request to all to join to this stuff too! And there is a warm free vacancy: Editor-in-Chief!


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Applet for showing games by Leonid Shifman

INTERVIEW

Interview with Marc Tastet

SCHOOL FOR COOL

The overevaporation technique: prelude of wipe-outs by Marcelo Lisnovsky

Lessons column by Eddie Williams

CONTEST

Find the best move! by Benyamin Shifman

OUR TOURNAMENTS

The Classic Ladder tournament

Current total standings

Tournament on IOS 12/04/98

IGP: Israel starts an offensive!by Leonid Shifman

The April Open IOS Tournament by Ola Hansson

NEWS FROM THE CASTLE OTHELLO LADDER

The best On-Line Tournament by Leonid Shifman

NEWS BY A SHORT LINE

  • From Tetsuya Nakajima:

        I am very glad to announce that I won the meijin title match again. The 19th meijin title match was held on 5th April. The previous meijin is me as you know :-), and the challenger is Masaki Takizawa. We played 4 games, and use number of discs to tie-break.

       

  • From Karsten Feldborg:

        This years Copenhagen Open was attended by only 6 playes.

        The result was a follows:

    1.  Erik Jensen, DK           5/5               (2-1)
    2.  Karsten Feldborg, DK      4/5               (1-2)
    3.  Johan Berner, SE          2/5  167      (1-0)
    4.  Marius Joudele, LIT       2/5  170      (0-1)
    5.  Torben Vallund, DK        2/5  132
    6.  Mikael Mrtensen, DK      0/5
    

        Scores in the final were 30-34, 42-22, 35-29.

       

  • From Bintsa Andriani:

         On 25 April we organised a national championship for the french clubs; six teams composed of four players. Here are the final results;

    1. LYON       7,5/10 (Sarkissian, Piau, Collay F. et S.)
    2. PARIS_2    7      (Caspard, Robin, Roch, Tesinsky)
    3. STRASBOURG 6      (Massire, Lanuit, Scherno, Bourrachot)
    4. PARIS_1    4      (Tastet/Juhem, Andriani, Abe, Ovion)
       RENNES     4      (Poirier, Stevens, Garel, Lang)
    6. GRENOBLE   1,5    (Kashiwabara, Souchet, Lacroix, Michel)
    

        This was a big success, and it will be reconducted next year. Didier Piau has stopped to play since a long time, and he has decided to compete again. He was one of the best french players in the years 1985-1990.

LINKS

The International Internet Othello Association
British Othello Federation
Australian Othello Federation
Othello Association (Singapore)
Castle Othello Ladder
VINCO Onlines Games (VOG)
Othello HomePage of Goran Andersson
Othello HomePage of Ryan Matreyek
Othello HomePage of Stephen Swolley
HomePage of Harri Levanen

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