Report of the first euro-ivoire tournament

Sorry for the bad quality of pictures, they have been taken by a phone.

There are the results of the 1st Euro-Ivoirian Web Tournement, which was held the 4-5 September 2010 on Playok : Classement by point : 1re : Oneye 9 points 2e : Mellart 7 points 3e : Alex94s 5 points 4e ex-aquo : bakashogi / nivlinch / harmandoyass 4 points. Classement by game played with people far away (> 5000 km) 1er : duhammel 9 parties 2e ex-aquo : drikwer / legaullois / kageman68 6 parties 5e ex-aquo : mellart / nanachou / oneye / ericherve / harmandoyass 5 parties. This tournement had been the occasion for ivoirian player, who can not easily come to european, asian or american tournement for many reasons, to play with shogi player form different country (France, Italie, Polon, St Barth). In the same way, western player have discover new player and create new relationship with passionate people. Even if there was some trouble (organisation, time fusel, communication, sickness of some players), it had been a great moment. Ivoirian player can have played with players of their strenght and even beat some of them. One of the aim of this tournement was to settle a layer of stranght between european and african people. This goal has been achieved and globally, their are above 15 kyu FESA. This level must be see with all the condition : since the creation of the first club, 1 year ago, their has been no master to teach them theory, and they learn only by playing together and reading some stuff on the web. Finally, this tournement has attracted many people (above 25 players on the sapporo room during the tournement) and some of them very famous : oneye (who had participated), linkuei, racine (81-ou) and takodori, the well known japanese strong amateur who spread the shogi all around the western world. Hopefully, this tournement will bring more courage to their members and recognition from the international scene.

Report made by Benjamin Briffaud of Shôgi France

58e OUZA title-match

I watched today my first in live Shôgi game which faced Yoshiharu Habu to Takeshi.Unfortunately, due to the bad quality of connexion in the cyber i'm used to, I have not been able to begin the game, but I watched the last moves. After the last move of Yoshiharu, I was surprised (smile) it was written on my screen that black won...So I asked to DemonikOu on 81dojo how it comes that the game finished since Takeshi could still drop a piece to protect his king, but he said to me that in Professional games, sometimes when a player knows he will certainly be mate, he give up before the mate.So I understood that surely Habu would have won the game.I'm so excited to have watched for the first time a so important game in live. Thanks to sir Manabu Terao who published the link on his facebook.Congratulations to the two players and Shôgi banzai.

I'm back

Sorry to have been missing a so long time, I was a little busy this time, because many activities to do this month of september, with the preliminaries of the euro-ivoire Shôgi tournament, and the tournament on playok, and also the translation into french of the preface of "Habu and modern Shôgi " a wonderfull book, I advice you to read.To myself I still not have finished to read it but the first pages are so interesting...
Let's continue with news after I will back with the process of setting up Shôgi in Africa, the tournament and other information.
Two weeks ago I had a meeting with the headmaster of a private school called "le nippon".The main plan of this meeting was to set up a partnership so as to permit Ivory coast shogi federation to have a sit for his meetings and ceremonies and so one.
And after a candid discussion about shogi, the headmaster agree his school to be the sit of the shogi federation.And he is willing to help us on promoting shogi in other private schools, since he has been fond of it too.So that's good news because, we have now a place we can meet so often without any pay of money.

Each day I'm discovering furthermore, the philosophy of shogi.It is a so interesting world, I'm so happy to work in spreading of such a game.When I get up each morning I think about shogi, and all the day too.I think now that no difficulty could never makes me give up.Shôgi is now a part of my live...And to see the presence of great shogi player such as Tadokori, Fabien Osmont, Benjamin Briffaud..I realised that Shôgi is not the same as another sports or game, necause people are here like family, and whatever the strenght of a player, whatever famous he is, he is able to be approach by new players so as to advice them and encourage them at work.I'mso proud and happy, even if I have been seriously ill during that tournament, I will give you more details after...

Pictures of preliminaries, just before the tournament

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