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Ranking Tournament
Organization: Spielelagune Saar
Place: Schlosstheater, Ottweiler-Saar (D)
Date: December 4, 2000
Format: Swiss system, 5 rounds, 20 min. player/game
Participants: 12
Belgians controle 1st German GIPF event
Twelve Gipfers gathered in a place called Ottweiler-Saar.
Sebastion Conrad, a prominent player of the local game club, had
figured out that the local Christmas market, being the start of
the local Christmas season, would bring the players in a perfect
mood for the first GIPF ranking tournament on German soil. With
Santa Claus' bless!
3 Belgians didn't want to miss this "première" and made the trip
all the way to the cosy little village next to Saarbrücken: Kurt
Vandenbranden en the cousins Romeo and Raf Ruyters. And their appearance
didn't remain unnoticed: the Germans were playing for the 4th place...
However, the final results may suggest that it was a walk over and
that certainly wasn't the case. In particular Jochen Bedersdorfer,
Hans Decker and Joerg Steffen gave the Belgians something to sweat
about. Kurt, Raf and Romeo snatched at least one point each at the
very final moment, for no other reasons than that their respective
opponents were lacking the experience to finish a virtually won
game within the time limit. If only one of them would have been
able to hold onto to his won position, the results would have been
quite different from the results below:
Crosstable
| No |
Name |
Total |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| 1. |
Bedersdorfer, Jochen |
3 |
7:L |
6:W |
11:W |
2:W |
12:L |
| 2. |
Berger, Joshua |
1 |
8:L |
10:W |
5:L |
1:L |
6:L |
| 3. |
Cornelius, Kevin |
2 |
9:W |
11:L |
4:L |
10:W |
8:L |
| 4. |
Decker, Hans |
3 |
10:W |
8:L |
3:W |
12:L |
5:W |
| 5. |
Grimm, Roland |
2 |
11:L |
9:W |
2:W |
7:L |
4:L |
| 6. |
Kirsch, Christoph |
2 |
12:L |
1:L |
10:L |
9:W |
2:W |
| 7. |
Ruyters, Romeo |
5 |
1:W |
12:W |
8:W |
5:W |
11:W |
| 8. |
Ruyters, Raf |
4 |
2:W |
4:W |
7:L |
11:W |
3:W |
| 9. |
Scheib, Timo |
0 |
3:L |
5:L |
12:L |
6:L |
10:L |
| 10. |
Scheib, Klaus |
2 |
4:L |
2:L |
6:W |
3:L |
9:W |
| 11. |
Steffen, Joerg |
2 |
5:W |
3:W |
1:L |
8:L |
7:L |
| 12. |
Van Den Branden, Kurt |
4 |
6:W |
7:L |
9:W |
4:W |
1:W |
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