Katsumasa Egoshi - World Champion
Katsumasa Egoshi from Brazil beat Thailand's Chioki Ito in the
exciting final game of the Amateur World Championship. Both players are strong
5-dan amateurs and were among the tournament favourites.
In the consolation final Arend van Oosten 4-dan, the European
Champion beat the Dutch Champion Marc Theeuwen 4-dan to take the 3rd place.
Egoshi, 28, was already in his teens a participant of the first Amateur Ryu-O,
advancing to the best 16. Ito, 29, was the High School Champion of Tokyo.
Of the 55 players from around the world 36 competed in 9 sections of 4-player
classifier tournaments.
The two best advanced to the championship class and the 3rd and 4th joined classes
B and C. There were 19 invited players in the championship class.
-Jouni Tolonen
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Shogi Amateur World Championship starts!
In co-operation with New York Shogi Club,
Internet Shogi Dojo
will show on its tournament room live games of the Shogi World
Championship (May 19 - 21, 2000 in New York).
- The first match on May 20st, Saturday 3:15pm-4:45pm New York Time
- The final match on May 21st, Sunday 3:30pm-5:30pm New York Time.
You can join in the chat with live analysis by professionals.
New York Shogi Club homepage will be sending pictures of the tournament all day long
since May 20 Saturday afternoon New York Time.
263 shogi players from 20 countries and associations participated in the
qualifying tournaments of the Shogi World Championship. Except Brazil,
most of the regular shogi players outside Japan participated in the
tournament. In case of Brazil 20 top players participated in the
qualifying match out of total about 700 members.
Schedule:
May 20 (Saturday)
Classification Match 1st Round
Classification Match 2nd Round
Classification Match 3rd Round
Drawing for Finals
Final-1st Round (Championship Class)
Final-2nd Round (Championship Class)
May 21 (Sunday)
Final-3rd Round (Championship Class)
B, C, D Class 1st Round
Consolation 1st Round
Final-4th Round (Championship Class)
B, C, D Class 2nd Round
Consolation 2nd Round
Semifinal (Championship Class)
Semifinal (B, C, D Class)
Semifinal (Consolation)
Final (Consolation)
Final (Championship Game)
May 22 (Monday)
Four Continents Team Tournament
source: Shigeki Masui and Internet Shogi Dojo
8 May 2000
Shogi Amateur World Championship live
Believe it or not!
You can watch the Shogi World Championship at your home live on May
20th and 21st. We will broadcast on live the tournament through our own Web Site
http://www.nyshogi.com/
and the special shogi room of Shogi Dojo 24
http://www.shogidojo.com/, the two-way
New York - Japan live broadcasting.
"http://www.nyshogi.com/" will launch pictures
of the tournament from
9:00 am through 8:00 pm on May 20th and 21st, updating pictures of live
tournament every 1-10 minutes. Sitting at your home, you can see on the
screen of your PC the live scenery of the tournament and you will find
familiar faces on the screen playing shogi seriously, drinking beer or Japanese
tea with a big smile of winning or crying with full of tears losing a game because of
Nifu.
"http://www.shogidojo/" will show on its special room the "live game"
of the final match of the World Championship on May 21st, Sunday 3:00 pm
New York Time.
Pros will give comments on players' moves, which we hope to show you on
the chat. Some good games will also be seen on live on May 20th,
Saturday 4:30 pm New York Time.
Many thanks for Mr. Kume of Shogi Dojo. He has to work without sleeping
at 4:00 am Japan Time to update the score of the tournament.
We believe that this type of worldwide two-way live broadcasting through
Interenet operated solely by the club members will be the first ever in
the history of IT.
Thanks for IT, we can broadcast our tournament through the world by our
own net work. You have to change clicking both "nyshogi.com" for pictures and
"shogidojo.com" for the live play of shogi championship game.
We are very proud to be the members and the pioneer of this epoch making
live two-way broadcasting tying traditional shogi with 1,000 years of
history and the modern revolution of communication, future of
technology, Internet.
source: Shigeki Masui, Executive Director of Communication of the tournament.
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