27th World Othello Championships

Stockholm (Sweden), 2003/10/29-11/1, 54 players from 20 countries
Tournament director: Benkt Steentoft

Final standings

1. Ben Seeley (USA)
2. Makoto Suekuni (JPN)
3. Andreas Höhne (GER)
4. Hiroshi Goto (JPN)

• Final
Suekuni 22-42 Seeley
Seeley 35-29 Suekuni

• 3rd/4th playoff
Höhne 40-24 Goto

• Semi-finals
Höhne 18-46 Seeley & Goto 18-46 Suekuni
Seeley 32-32 Höhne & Suekuni 33-31 Goto
Höhne 33-31 Seeley

• Playoff match for 4th place
Caspard 28-36 Höhne

• Final standings after the swiss-system

  1:  10.  pts [1140]   SEELEY Ben (4043) {USA}
               [1113]   SUEKUNI Makoto (698) {JPN}
               [1103]   GOTO Hiroshi (5502) {JPN}
  4:   9.5 pts [1147]   HOEHNE Andreas (5300) {GER}
               [1078]   CASPARD Emmanuel (355) {FRA}
  6:   9.  pts [1059]   KRZYWONOS Tim (4002) {CAN}
  7:   8.5 pts [1064]   SPERANDIO Roberto (2844) {ITA}
               [1029]   JUNG Taejoon (4062) {KOR}
  9:   8.  pts [1021]   YIU Edmund (4060) {USA}
                [999]   BERG Matthias (5301) {GER}
                [995]   PIHLAJAPURO Lari (1625) {FIN}
                [975]   BARNABA Donato (407) {ITA}
                [974]   VAN TILBURG Daan (5076) {NED}
                [962]   TASTET Marc (2) {FRA}
                [951]   SHAMAN David (178) {NED}
 16:   7.  pts [1046]   WILLIAMS Eddie (4061) {USA}
               [1028]   HAUGLAND Jan Kristian (1868) {NOR}
               [1019]   MAKKONEN Olli (1623) {FIN}
               [1009]   SILVOLA Andrea (305) {ITA}
                [985]   KASHIWABARA Takuji (839) {FRA}
                [982]   SHIFMAN Benyamin (879) {ISR}
                [959]   ENG Martin (1492) {SWE}
                [949]   HOBO Roel (5071) {NED}
                [939]   FELDBORG Karsten (92) {DEN}
                [913]   SZYSZKO Lukasz (4046) {POL}
                [904]   HUBBARD Geoff (804) {AUS}
                [873]   BRAUN Holger (5069) {GER}
 28:   6.5 pts  [857]   BARRASS Iain (2047) {GBR}
 29:   6.  pts  [982]   ANDERSSON Goran (1483) {SWE}
                [958]   KIM Kwan Soo (4035) {KOR}
                [947]   VORACEK Miroslav (4501) {CZE}
                [942]   YE Liya (5322) {CHN}
                [907]   YAMANAKA Mami (708) {JPN}
                [893]   HALLBERG Marcus (1510) {SWE}
                [884]   KWON Younghwa (4063) {KOR}
                [818]   KRACZYK Roman (4048) {POL}
                [762]   DOUDA Tomas (4617) {CZE}
 38:   5.5 pts  [910]   CORIO Marc (4013) {CAN}
                [870]   THEODORSEN Rune (1847) {NOR}
                [816]   LARSEN Caspar P. (1040) {DEN}
                [773]   DAS Jeremy (187) {GBR}
 42:   5.  pts  [863]   HUHTAMAKI Riku (1633) {FIN}
                [856]   ANDRIANI Bintsa (45) {MDG}
                [849]   SHIFMAN Ilya (885) {ISR}
                [800]   ROGOSZ Magdalena (4052) {POL}
 46:   4.5 pts  [878]   BERNER Johan (1303) {BEL}
                [834]   KANOVSKY Petr (4570) {CZE}
                [819]   ARNOLD Roy (2006) {GBR}
                [804]   VAES Dimitri (2785) {BEL}
                [803]   RADZIVILOVSKY Lev (4039) {ISR}
                [785]   NIELSEN Kim J. (1045) {DEN}
 52:   4.  pts  [739]   MONNOM Olivier (2753) {BEL}
 53:   2.5 pts  [713]   BERG Robert (1993) {NOR}
 54:   0.  pt   [564]   LUO Xiaolong (4059) {CHN}

• Teams standings

 1. JPN         26   pts
 2. USA         25   pts
 3. FRA         24.5 pts
 4. GER         24.5 pts
 5. ITA         23.5 pts
 6. NED         23   pts
 7. KOR         20.5 pts
 8. FIN         20   pts
 9. SWE         19   pts
10. POL         18   pts
11. DEN         17   pts
12. CZE         16.5 pts
    GBR         16.5 pts
    ISR         16.5 pts
15. NOR         15   pts
16. CAN         14.5 pts
17. BEL         13   pts
18. AUS          7   pts
19. CHN          6   pts
20. MDG          5   pts

Crosstable and round by round results/standings

• Swiss-system crosstable
• Round 1
• Round 2
• Round 3
• Round 4
• Round 5
• Round 6
• Round 7
• Round 8
• Round 9
• Round 10
• Round 11
• Round 12
• Round 13

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