World championship Frisian draughts, Leeuwarden, 3 - 10 August 2018



Location: Leeuwarden Town Hall
Orange Room - WC Frisian Draughts
New Room: Analysing/public room
Adres: Hofplein 38, 8911 HJ Leeuwarden

Sponsor flyer: Queen of all Mindsports

Programme: Tournament book

Schedule qualifying tournament: (16 players)
Friday 3 August - Tuesday 7 August: 9 rounds Swiss system

Schedule pre liminary finale: Groenveld, Kooistra, Tiemensma and Walinga
Tuesday 7 August: 3 rounds

Schedule finalists: Georgiev, Wiersma, Tiemensma and Walinga, extra activities
Wednesday 8 August: round 1A and 2A
Tournament Czech draughts

Thursday 9 August: round 2A and round 2B
Tournament Italian draughts

Friday 10 August: round 3A and round 3B and final
Tournament FRYSK!

Tournamentschedule and games: Toernooibase

Participants:

1. Alexander Georgiev, Saint Petersburg (Russia)
2. Folkert Groenveld, Jutrijp (the Netherlands)
3. Václav Křišta, Prague (Czech Republic)
4. Davide Zhou, Aosta (Italy)
5. Jelle Wiersma, Wommels (the Netherlands)
6. Foeke Tiemensma, Franeker (the Netherlands)
7. Taeke Kooistra, Hartwerd (the Netherlands)
8. Tsjerk Wijbenga, Arum (the Netherlands)
9. Fedde Wiersma, Easterein (the Netherlands)
10. Hans Jansen, Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
11. Vasyl Ivanchuk, Lviv (Ukraine)
12. Jean Marc Ndjofang, Yaoundé (Cameroon)
13. Renaud Braye, Liege (Belgium)
14. Marten Walinga, Waaksens (the Netherlands)
15. Hein de Vries, Leeuwarden (the Netherlands)
16. Kees Tijssen, Reduzum (the Netherlands)


Extra activities:

Wednesday 8 August: Czech Draughts tournament
Thursday 9 August: Italian Draughts tournament
Friday 10 August: FRYSK! tournament

Tournament rules:


Teams as well as individual players are free to enter one, two or all three of the tournaments.
Each day, there will be prizes for both the best individual player and for the best team.
Each tournament will consist of nine Swiss rounds, with ample breaks to follow the finals of the World Championships between rounds.
Playing time: 10 minutes plus 10 seconds per move (Fischer).

Prize money:
For each tournament, there is a maximum prize money of € 500.

Rules of Czech Draughts:


Czech Draughts, or Česká Dáma, is one of several variations of draughts played on a 64-square board.
It is similar to Spanish Draughts with one significant difference, viz. the obligation of capture by a king if both a king and a piece can make a capture.
The game was brought to the Czech territories probably by the Habsburgs in the seventeenth century.
It is played in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and Austria. Official rules for competitions were only drawn up by the Czech Federation of Draughts at the end of the twentieth century. Official competitions started to be organised at the same time. They include individual (since 1998) and team (2000) championships, youth competitions and many local tournaments. Series of school tournaments have been organized in Prague since 1997. Hundreds of school children participate each year. Czech Draughts was played during the Mind Sports Olympiad in London and Giochi Sforzeschi in Milan. Together with Frisian and Italian Draughts, it was played during some matches between four countries in Prague in 2003 and 2010. Slovakia has organised its own international championships since 2011. Matches between the Czech Republic and Slovakia are played every year.

* White starts the game.
* Pieces may only move and capture forwards.
* Kings may move and capture along any number of fields both backwards and forwards.
* Capture by a king is mandatory; otherwise, there are no rules if there are several capture options.
* If the same position occurs three times in a game, or if no capture has been made in the course of 15 moves, the game will end in a draw.

You can play online on the free website https://www.hry.cz/hra/dama . In order to play, click ‘Hrat’ and in the next screen ‘Hraj hned’.
There is also the very strong programme Gigant 8.2 for PCs (Windows only), which can be downloaded for free from the website of the Czech Draughts Federation, www.damweb.cz

Rules of Italian Draughts:


The Italian Draughts game, or Dama Italiana, is very old. The first sources that mention it date back to at least 1500.
It has been played for centuries in Italy, and in 1924 the Italian Draughts Federation was founded in Milan.
This Federation is the umbrella organization for 93 draughts clubs with over 60,000 members.
Italian draughts is played on a 64-square board and has the peculiarity that a normal piece cannot capture a king.
This gives the Italian draughts endgame a unique charm all of its own.

* The first move is made by white.
* Pieces may only move and capture forwards and cannot capture kings.
* Kings may move and capture backwards as well as forwards, but only one square at a time. Kings may only capture pieces on adjacent fields.
* The rules of capture are more or less the same as those for Frisian draughts: it is mandatory to capture the maximum number of pieces; if the number of pieces to be captured is equal in two or more options, capturing the king (or the greatest number of kings) is mandatory; if both the number and the nature of the pieces to be captured is equal, capture by a king is mandatory.
* In the endgame, when both players have at least one king, a decision must be reached in 40 moves otherwise the game will end in a draw.

Italian Draughts can be played on the Checkers or Checkers 3D Pro apps (Android only).


Results Czech draughts, 8 August 2018

1. Filip Kareta (6½)
2. Jiri Sysel (6)
3. Vaclav Krista (6)
4. Elia Cantatore (5)
5. Jean Marc Ndjofang (4½)
6. Hans Jansen (4½)
7. Jan Adema (4)
8. Renaud Braye (4)
9. Davide Tamborin (3½)
10. Francesco Zappia (3)
11. Lumir Gatnar (3)
12. Davide Zhou (2½)
13. Vasyl Ivanchuk (2)
14. Herbert Tulleken (1½)

Teams
1. Team Czech Republic: Kareta, Sysel, Křišta, Gatnar, Ivanchuk (4.28 pts.)
2. Team International: Ndjofang, Jansen, Adema, Braye (4.25 pts.)
3 Team Italy: Cantatore, Tamborin, Zappia, Zhou (3.5 pts.)


Results Italian draughts, 9 August 2018

1. Davide Zhou (6½)
2. Filip Kareta (5½)
3. Jiri Sysel (5½)
4. Elia Cantatore (5)
5. Franceso Zappia (5)
6. Davide Tamborin (4½)
7. Vaclav Krista (4½)
8. Auke Zijlstra (4½)
9. Jan Adema (4½)
10. Vasyl Ivanchuk (4)
11. Renaud Braye (4)
12. Hans Jansen (4)
13. Lumir Gatnar (4)
14. Jean Marc Ndjofang (3½)
15. Peter Leijenaar (3½)
16. Jappie de Jong (2)
17. Peter Michaelsen (1½)
18. Herbert Tulleken (0)

Teams
1. Team Italy: Zhou, Cantatore, Zappia, Tamborin (5.4 pts.)
2. Team Czech Republic: Kareta, Sysel, Krista, Ivanchuk (4.7 pts.)
3. Team International: Adema, Braye, Jansen, Ndjofang (4 pts.)
4. Team Fryslân: Zijlstra, Leijenaar, De Jong, Michaelsen (2.875 pts.)


Results FRYSK!, 10 August 2018

1. Taeke Kooistra (7) + 1½
2. Folkert Groenveld (7) + ½
3. Hein de Vries (5½)
4. Dicky van der Meer (5)
5. Bauke Dykstra (5)
6. Davide Zhou (4½)
7. Renaud Braye (4½)
8. Jappie de Jong (4½)
9. Jiri Sysel (4½)
10. Erwin Heslinga (4½)
11. Tsjerk Wijbenga (4)
12. Filip Kareta (4)
13. Davide Tamborin (4)
14. Elia Cantatore (4)
15. Vasyl Ivanchuk (4)
16. Cor Kooistra (3½)
17. Vaclav Krista (3½)
18. Jean Marc Ndjofang (3½)
19. Lumir Gatnar (3½)
20. Hans Jansen (3)
21. Theo Wolters (2½)
22. Francesco Zappia (2½)
23. Douwe Namminga (2)

Teams

1. Team Skearnegoutum: Groenveld, C. Kooistra, De Jong, Dykstra, Van der Meer (5 pts.)
2. Team Hartwert: Namminga, T. Kooistra, De Vries, Wijbenga (4.625 pts.)
3. Team International: Heslinga, Jansen, Braye, Ndjofang(3.875 pts.)
4. Team Italy (Zhou, Tamborin, Cantatore, Zappia (3.75 pts.)
5. Team Czech Republic: Ivanchuk, Krista, Gatnar, Sysel, Kareta (3.7 pts.)

WC Qualification tournaments:

Dutch Championship, Harlingen, 4 - 13 April 2018

Programme: Tournament book and Book with games

Results: Toernooibase

1. Folkert Groenveld (Qualified for the WC 2018)
2. Marten Walinga (Qualified for the WC 2018)

Fryslân Open 2018, Franeker, 27 February - 3 March 2018

Results: Toernooibase

Grandmasters (all qualified for the WC 2018)
1. Taeke Kooistra (2½)
2. Foeke Tiemensma (1½)
3. Jelle Wiersma (1)
4. Tsjerk Wijbenga (1)

Masters (all qualified for the WC 2018)
1. Alexander Georgiev (3)
2. Vasyl Ivanchuk (2)
3. Jean Marc Ndjofang (1)
4. Renaud Braye (0)

Frisian Championship, Fryslân, 2 - 16 February 2018

Results: Toernooibase

1. Jelle Wiersma (5) (Qualified for the WC 2018)


Czech Championship Frisian Draughts, Praghue, 11-12 November 2017

Results:

Final group A
1. Václav Křišta (2) + 1 (Qualified for the WC 2018)
2. David Kotin (2) + 0
3. Petra Dušková (1)
4. Jiří Sysel (1)

Final group B
1. Martin Plesnivý (3)
2. Marcel Švejkar (2)
3. Lumír Gatnar (1)
4. Hana Kotinová (0)


European Championship, Amsterdam, 19-22 Ocober 2017

Programme: Tournament book
360 stream: Youtube
Results: Toernooibase

1. (6,5 pts. +1) Alexander Georgiev (6½) + 1 (Qualified for the WC 2018)
2. (6,5 pts. +0) Folkert Groenveld (6½) + 1
3. (5,5 pts +1) Sjoerd Couperus (5½) + 0
4. (5,5 pts. +0) Kees Tijssen (5½) + 0
5. Hans Jansen (4)
6. Losseni Savané (4)
7. Auke Zijlstra (4)
8. Piet Sikma (3½)
9. Herbert Tulleken (3½)
10. Renaud Braye (3)
11. Patrick Casaril (3)
12. Leo van Dorp (3)