26th World Othello Championships

Amsterdam (Holland), 2002/11/7-9, 52 players from 19 countries
Tournament director: Jan C. de Graaf

Official 2002 WOC website

Final standings

1. David Shaman (NED)
2. Ben Seeley (USA)
3. Imre Leader (GBR)
4. Takuji Kashiwabara (FRA)

• Final
Seeley 28-36 Shaman
Shaman 26-38 Seeley
Seeley 24-40 Shaman

• 3rd/4th playoff
Kashiwabara 31-33 Leader

• Semi-finals
Seeley 41-23 Kashiwabara & Shaman 45-19 Leader
Kashiwabara 28-36 Seeley & Leader 29-35 Shaman

• Playoff match for 4th place
Kashiwabara 33-31 Kitajima

• Final standings after the swiss-system

  1:  10.5 pts [1160]   SEELEY Ben (4043) {USA}
  2:  10.  pts [1081]   LEADER Imre (79) {GBR}
  3:   9.5 pts [1062]   SHAMAN David (178) {NED}
  4:   9.  pts [1073]   KITAJIMA Hideki (651) {JPN}
               [1063]   KASHIWABARA Takuji (839) {FRA}
               [1034]   CASPARD Emmanuel (355) {FRA}
               [1033]   ROSE Brian (177) {USA}
  8:   8.  pts [1086]   KOMANO Tatsuya (5503) {JPN}
               [1055]   HANDEL Michael (324) {GBR}
               [1035]   SCHREIBER Raphael (887) {USA}
               [1024]   BARNABA Donato (407) {ITA}
               [1020]   KRZYWONOS Tim (4002) {CAN}
               [1005]   HOEHNE Andreas (5300) {GER}
                [994]   ROMANO Benedetto (2851) {ITA}
 15:   7.5 pts [1115]   FELDBORG Karsten (92) {DEN}
               [1062]   BERG Matthias (5301) {GER}
 17:   7.  pts [1025]   SPERANDIO Roberto (2844) {ITA}
               [1022]   TASTET Marc (2) {FRA}
               [1012]   ANDERSSON Goran (1483) {SWE}
                [982]   KORTENDIJK Albert (5012) {NED}
                [942]   KINOSHITA Hisako (5504) {JPN}
                [932]   CLAASSEN Mathijs (4005) {NED}
                [917]   SHIFMAN Benyamin (879) {ISR}
                [906]   QVIST JESSEN Claus (95) {DEN}
                [887]   ANDRIANI Bintsa (45) {MDG}
 26:   6.5 pts  [983]   CORDY Alexandre (482) {BEL}
                [951]   ENG Martin (1492) {SWE}
                [906]   SZYMANSKI Remigiusz (4047) {POL}
 29:   6.  pts [1017]   HAUGLAND Jan Kristian (1868) {NOR}
                [945]   FU Jacky (4001) {CAN}
                [913]   VORACEK Miroslav (4501) {CZE}
                [891]   BERNER Johan (1303) {BEL}
                [883]   BRAUN Holger (5069) {GER}
                [870]   SHIFMAN Ilya (885) {ISR}
                [866]   BERNER Nils (1302) {SWE}
                [860]   POYSTI Markku (1603) {FIN}
 37:   5.  pts  [856]   HUBBARD Geoff (804) {AUS}
                [833]   BOE Alexander (1878) {NOR}
                [825]   SZYSZKO Lukasz (4046) {POL}
                [817]   SHIFMAN Leonid (880) {ISR}
                [815]   VAN DE ZANDE Josbert (4030) {NL-2}
                [806]   VALLUND Henrik (96) {DEN}
                [800]   DUPONT Frederic (2784) {BEL}
                [776]   AAGAARD-HANSEN Jens (1019) {KEN}
                [742]   KRACZYK Roman (4048) {POL}
 46:   4.5 pts  [822]   LEVANEN Harri (1622) {FIN}
                [782]   CORIO Marc (4013) {CAN}
 48:   4.  pts  [865]   STASTNA Jan (4502) {CZE}
                [758]   RYBARIK Ivo (4510) {CZE}
 50:   3.  pts  [839]  -EDMEAD Garry (2052) {GBR}
                [619]   LANGFJAERAN Line Mette (1932) {NOR}
 52:   2.5 pts  [618]   OTIENO NYAMBEDHA Erick (4041) {KEN}

• Teams standings

 1. USA         27.5 pts
 2. FRA         25   pts
 3. JPN         24   pts
 4. NED         23.5 pts
 5. ITA         23   pts
 6. GER         21.5 pts
 7. GBR         21   pts
 8. DEN         19.5 pts
 9. SWE         19.5 pts
10. CAN         18.5 pts
11. ISR         18   pts
12. BEL         17.5 pts
13. POL         16.5 pts
14. CZE         14   pts
    NOR         14   pts
16. FIN         10.5 pts
17. KEN          7.5 pts
18. MDG          7   pts
19. AUS          5   pts