January
18, 2005
Program "Project
GIPF Championship" in Cannes
As already mentioned last time: Project GIPF will be put in the
spotlight during the coming *Festival International des Jeux* in
Cannes, France. This item is a reminder of the previous item about
Project GIPF in Cannes. But it would be stupid merely to repete
what I wrote the other time, no? Better to instal a link and ask
to read the previous item again, right? Here's the link.
If you click on it your memory will be refreshed.
I'll be in Cannes from the beginning
of the activities until te end - that
is from Wednesday the 23rd to Sunday the
27th of February. On Wednesday and Thursday
I will demo the games of Project GIPF,
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday I'll run
the tournaments. For the details: go to
the Agenda!
Of course, in the first place we hope
that *many* French players will participate
at the different tournaments, but it would
be nice if it would become a bit of an
international Championship. So far 3 Belgians
and 1 German have let me know that they'll
go to Cannes - to play *and* to enjoy
the atmosphere in the South of France.
If you would also consider going there,
please contact me. The City of Cannes
sponsors the event, and as a result of
that it is possible to find good accomodation
at low prices if you don't mind sharing
an appartment with others. It would be
just great to have a few more of you there.
Yoshi Ikkai
(J) remains the strongest Gipfer
Yoshi *the Octopus* Ikkai
from Japan remains the number 1 ranked
GIPF-player. Last October he had to be
in Europe for professional reasons. He
made use of it to come to the GIPF-club
in Antwerp, Belgium, and to go the yearly
games fair in Essen, Germany. Yoshi hadn't
played an official game of GIPF any more
since August 26, 2000, the day he became
the very first GIPF World Champion. In
London, that was, during the Mind Sports
Olympiad. Since then more than 4 years
passed by and many of the strong players
from Belgium and the Netherlands were
eagerly waiting for the opportunity to
play against him again. Finally, here
was the occasion. He was challenged by
all of the top-players. André De
Laet, Patrick Van de Perre and Ad Rovers
succeeded in beating him, but they also
lost a game. Jix Demerco, Werner Dupont
and Aksel De Meester just lost. So, Yoshi
won 6 of 9 game he played and that was
enough to stay were he was: on the number
1 spot of the rankings!
New GIPF and
ZÈRTZ rankings
The last adjustments of the GIPF and ZÈRTZ
rankings are from about one year ago.
There have not been many competitions
in 2004, so there was not really a necessity
for a update. But at the end of the year
we had the World Championships in Essen
and in Eindhoven, and, of course, there
were also the games of GIPF that Yoshi
Ikkai had played. Maîte, time for
a few calculations!
Here's the GIPF top three: as written
above, the Octopus did not have too much
problems to stay in the 1st place. Also
Ad Rovers (NL) stayed were he was, namely
in 2nd place. Patrick Van de Perre had
to make room for André De Laet,
the reigning World Champion, who jumped
from the 7th to the 3rd place.
Go
to the new GIPF
and/or
the ZÈRTZ
rankings.
Results e-ZÈRTZ and ZÈRTZ
league
A bit late, nonetheless here they are:
The yearly e-ZÈRTZ+11 tournament
on Richard's
PBeM server has been won
for the second time by sharkey.
Last year he won with a clear cut, this
year he had a harder fight on his hands.
Sebastian ended with
the same score (7 wins out of 8 games),
so the results of the previous round was
used to break the tie and that turned
out to be in favour of sharkey.
The other finalists were mreits,
robrecht and djanes,
ending, respectively, in 3rd, 4th and
5th place. Gratz also to them. And I hereby
also thank the other players for their
participation.
The second season of the ZÈRTZ+11
league on Dave Dyer's boardspace.net
was played in two groups. The ZÈRTZ+11
league concerns games that are played
online in real time. The first season
learned that there often was a problem
with the time difference between North-America
and Europe and for that reason it appeared
better to play two different competitions.
Ddyer was the strongest
in the North-American group; he won all
of his games. Mreitz, the
winner of the first season, won the European
group. Maybe the two winners should play
a *best out of 7* or so?
You can find the results of all the games
played in both the e-ZÈRTZ as the
online tournament on Michael Reitz's the
ZF1
site.
BTW, Mike, thanks for having run these
tournemants again.
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