XX Го Конгресс 1976
Кембридж, Великобритания 1976
Patrick Merissert became the first French European Champion. In the championship's Tournament he finished together with Tony Goddard on the first place. Merissert won the deciding
play-off.
Pl. | Name | Co. | Str. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Pts. |
1 | Patrick Merissert-C. | Fra | 4d | xxx | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
2 | Tony Goddard | Gbr | 4d | | xxx | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
3 | John Diamond | Gbr | | 1 | 0 | xxx | 1 | J | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5.5 |
4 | Michael Katscher | Ger | 5d | 1 | 0 | 0 | xxx | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
5 | Cas Muller | Nld | 3d | 0 | 1 | J | 0 | xxx | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 |
6 | Helmut Hasibeder | Aut | 4d | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | xxx | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
7-8 | Robert Rehm | Nld | 4d | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | xxx | 0 | | 2 |
7-8 | Wolfgang Isele | Ger | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | xxx | 1 | 2 |
9 | Igor Bizjak | Yug | 3d | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | xxx | 1 |
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This year the usual Master and other tournaments were replaced by one Main Tournament, paired with the
Mac Mahon-system?. In the first division (
2-3 dan) was a
three-way tie for the first place. Matthew Macfadyen (Gbr, 3d) won the
tie-break on
SOS-points and qualified for 1977 European Championship.
The results:
Matthew Macfadyen, Golja (Yug, 2d), Ronald Schlemper (Nld, 3d), Berndt Wolter (Ger, 3d):
6-2
Jerome Hubert (Fra, 2d), Rob van Vulpen (Nld, 3d), Andrew Daly (Gbr, 2d):
5-3
Jean Michel (Fra, 2d), T. Hall (Gbr, 2d), Koncer (Yug, 2d), Francis Roads (Gbr, 2d):
4-4
John (Ger, 3d), Ger Hungerink (Nld, 2d):
3-5
Winners other divisions:
Division 2: 1 dan
Andre Moussa, Herve Dicky (Fra):
5-3
Division 3: 1 kyu
Christie (Gbr):
6-2
Division 4:
2-4 kyu
Amin (Gbr, 2k)
Division 5:
4-7 kyu
Levine (Fra, 4k)
Division 6: 8 kyu and up
Clark (Gbr, 14k)
Other Events
This year there was for the first time mention of a Weekend Tournament and a Rengo Tournament.
The Weekend Tournament was won by Ronald Schlemper, followed by Chandler (Gbr).
The Rengo Tournament was an event with teams with hilarious names like, 'Le
san-san va frapper', 'Ever Hopefulls'. The 'London Weakies' even composed their own battle song. Here you find the third stanza (music: Offenbach; text Francis Roads):
Oh we're rather weak on openings,
and our middle game is poor;
And the way we play our yse,
is the worst you ever saw;
But when we're in a lost position,
then we just take our usual stance;
We rip them off, we rip them off,
We rip them off, we rip them off,
We show them we're the
weak-kneed dans.
(Was this the start of the Song Parties at the European Congress?) Anyway, the battle songs didn't help against the violence of 'The reading Weak Group' (John Diamond, Matthew Macfadyen, Andrew Daly – 3.33 dan average), which won the tournament.
Iwamoto Kaoru was present the first few days of the Congress, with a public game commentary on the second game of the Honinbo Match between Ishida and Takemiya as highlight of his visit.
