20th World Othello Championships

Tokyo (Japan), 1996/11/8-10, 22 players from 10 countries
Tournament director: Hiroshi Inoue

Final standings

1. Takeshi Murakami (JPN)
2. Stéphane Nicolet (FRA)
3. Garry Edmead (GBR)
4. Joel Feinstein (GBR)

• Final
Murakami 51-13 Nicolet
Nicolet 29-35 Murakami

• 3rd/4th playoff
Feinstein 28-36 Edmead

• Semi-finals
Feinstein 30-34 Nicolet & Murakami 31-33 Edmead
Nicolet 30-34 Feinstein & Edmead 26-38 Murakami
Nicolet 45-19 Feinstein & Edmead 29-35 Murakami

• Final standings after the swiss-system

 1. Takeshi Murakami (JPN)    11/13
 2. Joel Feinstein (GBR)      10
 3. Stéphane Nicolet (FRA)     9.5
    Garry Edmead (GBR)         9.5
 5. Guy Plowman (GBR)          8
    Roberto Sperandio (ITA)    8
 7. Karsten Feldborg (DEN)     7.5
    Tatsuya Mine (USA)         7.5
    David Shaman (BEL)         7.5
    David Parsons (USA)        7.5
11. Brian Rose (USA)           7
    Dominique Penloup (FRA)    7
13. Marc Tastet (FRA)          6
    Takashi Nishimura (JPN)    6
    Erik Lund Jensen (DEN)     6
16. Bintsa Andriani (MDG)      5
    Masaki Ohyanagi (JPN)      5
    Serge Alard (BEL)          5
19. Elisabetta Vecchi (ITA)    4
    Hugo Calendar (SWE)        4
21. Alain Daix (BEL)           1
    Gabor Molnar-Saska (HUN)   1

• Teams standings

 1. GBR  27.5
 2. FRA  22.5
 3. JPN  22
    USA  22
 5. DEN  13.5
    BEL  13.5
 7. ITA  12
 8. MDG   5
 9. SWE   4
10. HUN   1