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Nordisk GoBlad No. 3-07 Nov. 14, 2007 This chromo was printed in 1896, and widely distributed in groceries in Europe. It was printed in dutch, italian, french and german. These chromos were given to custo- mers who bought Liebig products. I suspect it’s the first (color) picture of a Go board widely distributed in Europe, even though the Go board looks a little like a checker board! -- Didier Kropp Contents 2 European Go Congress in Villach, Austria 13 Norgesmesterskapet 2007 6 7 problemer 14 Fuseki Problems 7 European Student Go Championship 2007 in Stockholm 16 Preparations for EGC in Leksand 9 King the Computer 21 Goförbund i Norden 10 Løsning på forsideproblemet i forrige nummer 21 Antal på EGF:s rankinglista 10 Leksand Open 2007 21 Nordiska goklubbar Fusantane 1881, collection Erwin Gerstorfer. See originals of collection Gerstorfer- in1 - Villach during EGC2007 Nordisk GoBlad 3 / 2007 European Go Congress in Villach, Austria Markku Jantunen ...was due to begin on Saturday July 14. This year, a record number of participants from Finland was expected: 30 registered in total. On arrival in Vienna interna- tional airport at 9.40 am, the weather was already hot at 27 C. ortunately, Antti Holappa who had arrived in Vienna the day and Li Ting, both 6 dan, by Matti. After the second round, Fbefore, was waiting for us with our air conditioned rental car. three Finns were in the top eight! According to a rumor I When the second week began the Finnish winning percentage In the car were traveling also Antti Törmänen and Ilkka Mattila heard later, Pal Balogh had been very unlucky: having lost dropped as expected in a McMahon tournament after a good from Oulu, and Fredrik Blomback from Sweden. Pretty soon after his luggage on Saturday, he was left with only the clothes he start. I lost also in the seventh round after a life-and-death blunder the flatlands of Lower Austria and Burgenland around and south was wearing at the time of his arrival and had been forced costing me 15 stones. I cut down on time spent at Moby Dick and of Vienna, the terrain became mountaineous. As there was no to sleep on the gym floor without a mattress. On Wednes- started winning again. In the end, out of the eleven Finnish dan speed limit most of the time on the southern motorway A2, the day, Antti Holappa, Jaakko Virtanen, and I traveled by players who played all their games in the main tournament, two average speed of traffic was about 140-160 km/h. We stopped for train up the Drau river valley to the town of Spittal. Our won 7/10, five won 6/10, three won 5/10, and one 3/10. Vesa’s lunch in Graz, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hometown, and tried to intent was to hike to the summit of Goldeck. Just like the final position was 10th, an all-time best for a Finnish player. The find the Terminator statue erected for his honor, without luck. entire first week, the day was very hot with daily maxi- tournament winner was Hong Seok Ui from Korea. European mums hovering at about 35 C and the sun scorching at full Championship was won by Ilya Shikshin from Russia. Were it The registration procedure for the congress in Villach was not qui- power from a cloudless sky. We took a cable lift to a higher not for Park Jong Wook’s sudden lung infection and absence from te as streamlined as possible. We had to stand in line twice: once station at 1650 m above sea level (about 1100 m higher rounds 8 and 9, the results could’ve been different. Wook did not to receive a pre-filled form we were supposed to check and another than Spittal) and decided to hike to the top at 2140 m. lose a single game out of the eight he played whereas Hong Seok time to pay for our accommodation. Antti Holappa offered to The air was clearly cooler than down in the valley, maybe Ui had lost to him. take everybody’s luggage to the youth hostel, after which he was between 25 and 30 degrees. In a meadow some distance to return the car in Klagenfurt some 40 km away. Having no bag up, there were cows from a nearby village enjoying the day Overall, this year’s European Go Congress was a pleasant expe- with me, I managed to lose the receipt for my accommodation lying in the grass. There was nice gasthaus with cold beer rience. Despite the heat, which in itself made afternoons spent on payment during the welcoming party. Fortunately, I informed the just above the treeline. We arrived at the summit after 2-3 the beaches nearby or at the spa wonderful and evenings comfor- organizers who later remembered me and confirmed my payment hours of hiking. The view was magnificient. To the north tably warm, the main playing hall in the modern congress centre on the phone to the youth hostel on my arrival there. Despite mi- were a couple of snow-capped peaks somewhat higher than was cool and shady. A minor problem was that the two rooms for nor shortcomings, I found the attitude of the general organizing 3000 m above sea level. the top players were somewhat inadequately air conditioned. The staff to be helpful and friendly. That very Saturday evening we venue being a new congress centre still by far exceeded the usual found Moby Dick, a bar across the river from the congress centre, The weekend tournament also went well for the Finns, as standards of an EGC venue, thanks to generous support from the later to become the official after-go meeting place for the congress expected. But the draw left a lot to be desired. This time, I sponsors, including the city of Villach. Also thanks are in order to participants. had to play two Finns. After my having lost to Miika Ni- the mayor of Villach who gave special permission to pubs and bars kula in the first round, they paired my up with Deni Seitz. to keep their terraces open until midnight. On Sunday morning, after a good night’s sleep, the main tour- When we asked the organizers what was up with the draw, nament started. To my dismay, I found out that I’d been paired they brushed us off telling us our problem was one of the against Javier-Aleksi Savolainen. When I asked the organisers minor ones, and that if the settings of the pairing program whether pairings of players of the same country below the McMa- were to be touched “there was going to be trouble”. We were hon top bar were intentional the reply was that one of the options left to wonder whether it was a good idea to run a 400-par- of the pairing program was set wrong before the already belated ticipant tournament using an unfamiliar pairing program. first round and that it would be corrected. I did win the game, The organizers of an international tournament should be fortunately. The first week of the main tournament went extre- thoroughly familiar with the pairing software they are mely well for the Finnish dan players. Tuomo Salo had won all his using. There were people taking part in the tournament five games and Miika Nikula, Ilkka Mattila, Pekka Lajunen, and who had traveled from abroad for the weekend tournament myself had won four games each. Vesa, Matti, and Antti Törmä- only. nen had won two of their first opponents, including Pal Balogh - 2 - Nordisk GoBlad 3 / 2007 Main-tournament Pl. Name Str Cl. MMS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pt SOS SODOS 1 HONG, SEOK UI 7d KR 33 12+ 5+ 102+ 22+ -2 27+ 3+ 23+ 7+ 10+ 9 300 267 2 PARK, JONG WOOK 7d KR 33 14+ 25+ 26+ 13+ 1+ 6+ 4+ -- -- 5+ 8 292 244 3 Cho, Seok-bin 7d KR 32 43+ 16+ 10+ 4+ -6 5+ -1 9+ 18+ 12+ 8 304 240 4 Shikshin, Ilya 6d RU 31 34+ 11+ 21+ -3 33+ 9+ -2 -5 14+ 7+ 7 303 207 5 Dinershteyn, Alexander 7d RU 31 36+ -1 48+ 8+ 21+ -3 42+ 4+ 17+ -2 7 303 205 6 Hong, Seul-Ki 7d KR 31 -15 55+ 24+ 43+ 3+ -2 -7 73+ 13+ 8+ 7 298 205 7 Li, Ting 6d CN 30 28+ -22 42+ 14+ -19 30+ 6+ 8+ -1 -4 6 300 177 8 Pop, Cristian Gabriel 7d RO 30 -21 41+ 16+ -5 43+ 13+ 12+ -7 9+ -6 6 298 177 9 Balogh, Pal 6d HU 30 23+ 15+ -22 75+ 28+ -4 11+ -3 -8 21+ 6 297 175 10 Laatikainen, Vesa 5d FI 30 17+ 44+ -3 -20 -13 86+ 27+ 32+ 23+ -1 6 297 172 22 Siivola, Matti 5d FI 29 61+ 7+ 9+ -1 -20 -12 -18 -51 72+ 57+ 5 295 144 Tormanen, Antti 4d FI 29 18+ 38+ -2 -21 -41 -25 156+ 47+ 42+ -13 5 291 141 32 Sannes, Pal 4d NO 29 -46 -42 76+ 78+ 18+ -21 45+ -10 -35 43+ 5 284 140 61 Bro-Joergensen, Ulrik 4d DK 28 -22 -13 -68 -80 -143 -137 168+ 161+ 122+ 90+ 4 271 105 62 Seuranen, Esa 3d FI 28 65+ -81 -58 -85 141+ 129+ 125+ 89+ -44 99+ 6 270 160 64 Nikula, Miika 2d FI 28 184+ 117+ 164+ 58+ -24 122+ -84 -77 87+ 81+ 7 269 186 Heshe, Thomas 4d DK 28 -- -- -- -- -- 36+ -46 123+ -22 82+ 3 254 82 76 Holappa, Antti 3d FI 27 106+ 123+ -32 89+ -51 58+ 60+ -53 -38 -56 5 278 136 86 Salo, Tuomo 2d FI 27 85+ 169+ 219+ 111+ 102+ -10 -52 -40 137+ -55 6 271 156 90 Lajunen, Pekka 1d FI 27 178+ 179+ 134+ 151+ -55 183+ 74+ 85+ -29 -61 7 267 182 95 Jantunen, Markku 2d FI 27 218+ -193 133+ 152+ 82+ -52 -63 156+ 96+ -67 6 265 156 104 Blomback, Fredrik 2d SE 27 -183 -103 255+ 150+ 177+ 88+ 58+ 83+ -45 -- 6 258 157 117 Nesterenko, Mikhail 3d SE 27 -94 -64 199+ 92+ 173+ -- -- -- -- -- 3 242 77 118 Rasmussen, Jannik 3d DK 27 -- -- -- -- -- 82+ -39 -93 176+ -- 2 240 52 132 Mattila, Ilkka 1d FI 26 205+ 231+ 130+ 98+ -84 -127 -142 213+ 143+ -93 6 259 153 160 Virtanen, Jaakko 2d FI 26 131+ -116 150+ -91 219+ -- -- -- -- -- 3 235 76 167 Ohlenbusch, Soeren 2d DK 26 -- -- -- -- -- -121 221+ 191+ 94-! -- 2 229 49 192 Heikkinen, Juho 1k FI 25 235+ 268+ -105 -222 238+ 195+ 227+ -178 189+ -149 6 247 145 207 Seitz, Deni 1d FI 25 -- -190 -197 -273 279+ 267+ 201+ 185+ -158 -- 4 235 96 218 Savolainen, J-A 2d FI 24 -95 188+ 223+ -40 -127 148-! -159 217+ -163 -173 3 259 74 260 Niinisalo, Helena 3k FI 24 365+ 363+ 305+ 304+ 221+ -- -- -- -- -- 5 193 108 271 Leppanen, Suvi 1k FI 23 -233