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Result:
1 – Vincent Grizzo (France)
2 – Matthieu Walraet (France)
3 – Timur Dugin (Russia)
4 – Tessa Sprunken (Netherlands)
…and a grand Hourra for all participants:
everyone made at least one victory !!
• Detailed
results
• Commented game:
Vincent Grizzo Vs Matthieu Walraet
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• More pictures:http://matthieu.walraet.net/go/tuchola2004/page6.html
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| Please, do not eat too many
pieces before last round !
Gounki 1st World championship was held
on Tuesday August 3, 2004 as a side event
of the Tuchola European Go Congress.
18 players from 9 different nationalities
competed for the title.
A congress with more than six
hundred talented go players was the ideal place to introduce a hard
thinking game like Gounki.
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Most of the tournament competitors
learned about the game for the first time during Tuchola Go congress.
Some of them like Steve Hertecant, Jan Milian and Timur Dugin trained
a lot to challenge Matthieu Walraet, Internet champion and Gounki
Players Association president.
The tournament used a swiss system with 5 rounds, 15 minutes per
player and no byoyomi. Overwhelmed by such a big affluence, organizers
had to improvise extra game sets. They went to the shop around the
corner to buy round and square shaped colored candies.
After 3rd round, Asian representatives Hirobumi Ohmori and Masanori
Tsukuda from Japan could not prevent anymore a European player to
be world champion. Andre Engels, one of the favorites due to his
good performance during free games had lost twice against Tessa
Sprunken and Olivier Baeten. It was hot everywhere and the candies
started to stick.
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Between the games, dedicated players replayed
and commented their games. First of them being Piers Shepperson who
noted each of his games for further study.
Two players had 4 points before last round, both from France: Matthieu
Walraet and Vincent Grizzo. The air was almost solid. Tension grew
up after first moves. Timur Dugin ate all the candies he could catch
while Marcel Van Herck finally lost by time his fingers stuck on melted
pieces. Then silence came on table 1: Vincent had won the first Gounki
World Championship. He later declared in an interview he would use
the money prize to travel a lot and challenge Gounki players all around
the world. |
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Commented game
Gounki World championship 2004 in Tuchola
: Round 5
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White: Vincent Grizzo
Black: Matthieu Walraet
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White |
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Black |
| 1 |
h1 - g2+ |
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a8 - b7+ |
| 2 |
h2 - g2+ |
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a7 - b7+ |
| 3 |
g2 - e4 |
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h8 - g8+ |
| Classic white opening: gain control
over the center. |
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| 4 |
d1 - e2+ |
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g8 - f7+ |
| g8 – f7 creates a triple
piece while keeping a solid defensive square structure. |
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| 5 |
b1 - c2+ |
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b7 - d5 |
Black is trying to take back the
center.
Might be overplay because as white begins,
black can not be too offensive so early. |
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| 6 |
c1 - c2+ |
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c8 - d7+ |
| 7 |
e1 - e2+ |
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d7 * e6, f5 |
After black’s deployment,
white can exchange e4 for d5
and keep the triple piece in f7 out of the center. |
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| 8 |
e4 x d5 |
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e6 x d5 |
| 9 |
c2 - a4 |
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e8 - d7 |
| 10 |
a4 - a5 |
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c7 - b7 |
| Black defensive structure prevents
white a5 triple piece to go through by itself. Having a piece
at d7 (move 9) avoids winning deployment a5 * b6, c7, d7. |
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| 11 |
e2 - d3 |
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f7 - g6 |
| White a5 is calling for support
from another triple piece. Black f7 enters the race but is one
move behind. |
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| 12 |
d3 - b5 |
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g6 - g4 |
| After 12, White has a winning
position |
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