ГоБиблиотека: ГранПриЕвропы/1997/Хельсинки

Grand Prix d'Europe 1996–1997

21 Tour

Helsinki 1997

Helsinki, June 28-29, 1997
Pl.
Name
Str.
Co
Cl
MMS
Pt.
SOS
1
2
3
4
5
TPt
1
Lazarev Alexej
6D
RU
Pet
10
5
41
9+
3+
5+
2+
4+
15
2
Bogdanov Viktor
6D
RU
Pet
9
4
38
12+
8+
10+
1-
5+
11
3
Siivola Matti
5D
FI
Hel
9
4
38
10+
1-
13+
7+
8+
11
4
Laatikainen Vesa
5D
FI
Hel
8
3
40
7-
9+
6+
11+
1-
8
5
Lounela Olli
4D
FI
Hel
8
3
38
15+
14+
1-
8+
2-
6
6
Roads Francis
4D
UK
Wan
8
3
34
8-
11+
4-
14+
12+
5
7
Paatero Lauri
3D
FI
Hel
8
3
24
4+
0=
0=
3-
10+
4
8
Pedrini Enzo
3D
IT
Mil
7
2
40
6+
2-
12+
5-
3-
3
9
Gorzhalcan Vladimir
2D
RU
NN 
7
2
37
1-
4-
11-
13+
14+
2
10
Jones Alison
2D
UK
Wan
7
2
36
3-
22+
2-
12+
7-
1
11
Jantunen Markku
1D
FI
Tam
7
3
35
13+
6-
9+
4-
15+
12
Karppinen Ari 
2D
FI
Hel
6
1
37
2-
15+
8-
10-
6-
13
Li Bo
1D
CN
Pek
6
2
34
11-
17+
3-
9-
18+
14
Alanko Otso
2K
FI
Hel
6
2
33
23+
5-
15+
6-
9-
15
Jones Andrew
3D
UK
Wan
6
1
33
5-
12-
14-
16+
11-
16
Heino Jarmo
3K
FI
Hel
6
3
26
17-
23+
18+
15-
19+
17
Gavrilov Oleg
3K
RU
St P?
6
3
21
16+
13-
19+
22+
0=
18
Stepin Sergej
3K
RU
St P?
5
2
27
21+
19-
16-
20+
13-
19
Ronkko Seppo
6K
FI
Lap
5
3
25
20+
18+
17-
27+
16-
20
Torikka Mauri
6K
FI
Tur
5
3
23
19-
21+
22+
18-
24+
21
Rovio Teemu
6K
FI
Tam
5
3
22
18-
20-
25+
23+
22+
22
Kohonen Sari
3K
FI
Hel
4
1
26
26+
10-
20-
17-
21-
23
Berezin Alexandr
5K
RU
St P?
4
1
23
14-
16-
24-
21-
28+
24
Alenius Jyrki
10
FI
xxx
4
3
17
29+
25-
23+
26+
20-
25
Saarinen Mikko
14
FI
Ota
4
4
15
28+
24+
21-
29+
27+
26
Sokolov Ilja
13
RU
St P?
3
3
11
22-
0+
28+
24-
29+
27
Lampen Tapio
6K
FI
Ota
3
1
9
0=
0=
0=
19-
25-
28
Siivola Sinikka
12
FI
Hel
2
2
12
25-
29+
26-
0+
23-
29
Aleksejev Alexandr
14
RU
St P?
1
1
13
24-
28-
0+
25-
26-


Report by Vesa Laatikainen

While the rainy and cold weather was reigning the continental Europe and the British islands, the warm and sunny Finland saw the Russians, the Britons and an Italian entering Helsinki Grand Prix in the last weekend of June. Pihlajamдki school, near the local devil's churns from the iceage, was a spacious site for the 29 players in the competition.

Aleksei Lazarev hasn't lost a game in the last two years in Helsinki Grand Prix. That is a tournament winning strategy. Viktor Bogdanov and Matti Siivola both dropped a game against Aleksei and peacefully shared the second place. Vesa Laatikainen repeated his WAGC'97 loss against Lazarev in the last round, after losing the first round game against Lauri Paatero. (I would like to some time win against Aleksei but as it is, the fourth place remains.) Olli Lounela, Francis Roads, Lauri Paatero, Enzo Pedrini, Vladimir Gorzhaltsan, Alison Jones – they all followed and scored according to their ranks. We also had to promote four of the kyu players. No GP points for Oleg Gavrilov this time.

This was the first time Helsinki Grand Prix appeared as a cut-down two-day version. It might make it easier to attend but then, when are we supposed to get into the sauna? The sauna was now arranged after the tournament in Sunday evening. Surprisingly (not), almost everybody had reserved time to bath, to feel the spirit of «lцyly» in the sauna and to refresh themselves swimming in the lake Kuusijдrvi. The only small complain was that we Finnish sung “out of tune”, my goodness gracious me.

What else: we played go outside through the midnight without any further light than the sky. The weather was better than anywhere else in Europe that time. In the restaurant “Lappi” go players could taste reindeer meat, Lappish mushroom soup or plenty of salmon. Those who didn't feel like they had played enough could continue their Grand Prix round in Petrozavodsk the following weekend.