Welcome to the Official Site for the 2004 World Othello Championships.

SUPER SEELEY IS WORLD CHAMPION
Ben Seeley (pictured below) of the USA successfully defended his World Championship by beating Japan's Makoto Suekuni 36-28, 35-29.


ROSE THIRD
The 3rd/4th place play-off was won by Brian Rose, who beat Andreas Hoehne 39-25. The games are being shadow played on the GGS. A GUI client (Windows) can be found here

SEELEY AND SUEKUNI IN FINAL (AGAIN)
The 2004 World Championship Final will be contested by Ben Seeley of the USA and Makoto Suekuni of Japan and is therefore a repeat of last year's Final. Seeley however is strong favourite to retain his crown after demolishing Germany's Andreas Hoehne in a very-much one-sided semi-final. Suekuni showed the same distinct lack of ruth in his semi-final against American Brian Rose.

Semi-final results:
BRIAN ROSE (USA)         21 17
MAKOTO SUEKUNI (Japan)   43 47

ANDREAS HOEHNE (Germany) 10 11
BEN SEELEY (USA)         54 53 

USA TAKE TEAM TITLE.
Team USA consisting of defending World Champion Ben Seeley, former World Champion Brian Rose and Eddie Williams have won the World Team Championship with one round to spare, thus ensuring their fourth title in five years.

Ranking of the 62 players after round 13:

  1:  11.  pts [1175]   SEELEY Ben (4043) {USA}
               [1105]   ROSE Brian (177) {USA}
  3:  10.  pts [1156]   SUEKUNI Makoto (698) {J}
  4:   9.5 pts [1093]   HOEHNE Andreas (5300) {D}
  5:   9.  pts [1150]   TAMENORI Hideshi (300) {J}
               [1087]   BERG Matthias (5301) {D}
  7:   8.5 pts [1091]   NICOLET Stephane (433) {F}
               [1028]   SPERANDIO Roberto (2844) {I}
               [1018]   BARNABA Donato (407) {I}
 10:   8.  pts [1047]   VORACEK Miroslav (4501) {CZ}
                        LAZARD Emmanuel (11) {F}
               [1031]   FELDBORG Karsten (92) {DK}
               [1009]   LEADER Imre (79) {GB}
                [991]   ENG Martin (1492) {S}
                [924]   HANDEL Michael (324) {GB}
                [919]   HAUGLAND Jan Kristian (1868) {N}
 17:   7.5 pts [1041]   FU Jacky (4001) {HK}
                [949]   VAN DEN BIGGELAAR Nicky (5105) {NL}
                [897]   KAMPHUIS Leon (5121) {NL}
 20:   7.  pts [1016]   KIM Kwan Soo (4035) {ROK}
               [1013]   BRIGHTWELL Graham (73) {GB}
                [992]   SHIFMAN Benyamin (879) {IL}
                [979]   ZIEBA Arkadiusz (4064) {PL}
                [973]   CASPARD Emmanuel (355) {F}
                [944]   FRANSSON-JOHNSSON Joel (1509) {S}
                [922]   SHAMAN David (178) {NL}
                [919]   BRAUN Holger (5069) {D}
 28:   6.5 pts  [963]   MADRONA Mario (4850) {E}
                [961]   FU Velma (4073) {HK}
                [959]   HUHTAMAKI Riku (1633) {FIN}
                [951]   PIHLAJAPURO Lari (1625) {FIN}
                [900]   DOUSSE Stephane (4051) {CH}
                [890]   BERG Robert (1993) {N}
 34:   6.  pts [1003]   KINOSHITA Hisako (5504) {J}
                [967]   VALLUND Henrik (96) {DK}
                [954]   ANDERSSON Goran (1483) {S}
                [947]   PECZKOWSKI Pawel (5700) {PL}
                [921]   GREGERSEN Jonas Lindholt (1046) {DK}
                [918]   WILLIAMS Eddie (4061) {USA}
                [893]   KRACZYK Roman (4048) {PL}
                [854]   KOPPINEN Jussi (1627) {FIN}
                [850]   PEPERKAMP Marcel (2799) {B}
                [843]   ANDRIANI Bintsa (45) {MDG}
 44:   5.5 pts  [935]   STANZIONE Pierluigi (2843) {I}
                [908]   SCHOTTE Tom (2795) {B}
                [781]   SHIFMAN Leonid (880) {IL}
 47:   5.  pts  [862]   OH Joung-Mok (4074) {ROK}
                [854]   STASTNA Jan (4502) {CZ}
                [832]   HUBBARD Geoff (804) {AUS}
                [819]   CORDY Alexandre (482) {B}
                [806]   CORIO Marc (4013) {CDN}
                [795]   SERRANO Miguel Angel (4851) {E}
                [783]   PRIDMORE Ben (4019) {GB2}
                [782]   YE Liya (5322) {CN}
                [779]   ORTIZ George (148) {AUS}
                [769]   DOUDA Tomas (4617) {CZ}
 57:   4.5 pts  [689]   BUDINO Ricardo (4852) {E}
 58:   4.  pts  [849]   BOE Alexander (1878) {N}
                [731]   RADZIVILOVSKY Pavel (4028) {IL}
 60:   3.5 pts  [689]   BOARDMAN Lisa (4070) {AUS}
 61:   2.  pts  [720]   CHUNG Jihoon (4075) {ROK}
 62:   0.  pt   [553]   DANTAS Daniel (4071) {BR}

Ranking of the 25 teams after round 13:

  USA         28   pts
  D           25.5 pts
  J           25   pts
  F           23.5 pts
  GB          23   pts
  I           22.5 pts
  NL          22   pts
  S           21   pts
  DK          20   pts
  FIN         19   pts
  PL          19   pts
  N           18.5 pts
  CZ          18   pts
  B           16.5 pts
  IL          16.5 pts
  E           16   pts
  HK          14   pts
  ROK         14   pts
  AUS         13.5 pts
  CH           6.5 pts
  MDG          6   pts
  CDN          5   pts
  CN           5   pts
  GB2          5   pts
  BR           0   pts