Israel GO Championships

Israel Go Association

How it works

The members of the Israel GO Association (and anyone else who wants to) used to assemble every year (recently in Bloch St., Tel Aviv), and play 2 games a day for 3 Saturdays. (as of 2004, it will be 3 days over a weekend in a hotel). The chart system used is called "Swiss" (It seems that it was invented by J. Muller, as an alternative to a longer round robin system, and first used in a chess tournament at Zurich, Switzerland, in 1895, hence "Swiss" system) and involves listing the players more or less by rank, and matching strong ones agains weak ones (using lotteries) so that all the strong players will have a point by the end of that round. From there on, an attempt is made to match all games between players with a similar number of points, starting this process from the top at every round. If there is an odd number of players, in each round a different weak player get a point for nothing.

See the chart below for an example.

Our representative to the world event in Japan is always the highest ranking who has NOT been the rep for at least 2 years; Ergo Leonid, our strongest player for a while, travels every 3 years.

Results of the Championships

For each round the number in the brackets is the opponent of that round, and the large number is the cummulative result in points. An "*" indicates no match, and therefore a technical point, which gets deducted at the end.

A "&" represents a situation where a player has retired from the championships. Anyone who plays this person gets a free point, but if there is an even number an attempt is made to exclude them from further play.

2002-03

You can see some pictures of the people here.
Player1st2nd3rd4th5th6thScoreRanking
1. Leonid (7)1 (2)2 (3)3 (4)4 (5)5 (8)6 61
2. Gregory (6)1 (1)1 (11)2 (8)3 (4)3 (5)4 43
3. Anatoly (8)1 (7)2 (1)2 (5)3 (6)4 (4)4 43
4. Eitan (10)1 (5)2 (6)3 (1)3 (2)4 (3)5 52
5. Oded (9)1 (4)1 (7)2 (3)2 (1)2 (2)2 24
6. Tanya (2)0 (9)1 (4)1 (11)2 (3)2 (*)3 (3-*=) 24
7. Nick (1)0 (3)0 (5)0 (*)1 (11)2 (10)3 (3-*=) 24
8. Lazar (3)0 (*)0 (10)1 (2)2 (9)2 (1)3 (3-*=) 24
9. Uli (5)0 (6)0 (*)1 (10)2 (8)2 (11)3 (3-*=) 24
10. Tuvia (4)0 (11)1 (8)1 (9)1 (*)2 (7)2 (2-*=) 15
11. Sahvit (*)1 (10)1 (2)1 (6)1 (7)1 (9)1 (1-*=) 06

Since Leonid and Gregory had been in Japan in the previous two years, it was Eitan's turn, but he relinqished this priviledge to Anatoly, who traveled in 2003. As things transpired, the championships were moved to Korea (as a result of the SARS crisis). A site dedicated to the event can be found here.

2003-04

Player1st2nd3rd4th5th6thScoreRanking
1. Leonid (9)1 (4)2 (2)3 (3)4 (14)5 (7)6 61
2. Gregory (13)1 (17)2 (1)2 (5)3 (3)3 (6)4 43
3. Anatoly (14)1 (6)2 (5)3 (1)3 (2)4 (4)4 43
4. Eitan (12)1 (1)1 (6)2 (7)3 (5)4 (3)5 52
5. Uri (15)1 (10)2 (3)2 (2)2-& (1)2-& (9)2-& 2&
6. Shlomo (17)1 (3)1 (4)1 (8)2 (16)3 (2)3 34
7. Tanya (16)1 (8)2 (18)3 (4)3 (9)4 (1)4 43
8. Oded (11)1 (7)1 (16)2 (6)2 (10)3 (14)4 43
9. Lazar (1)0 (14)0 (11)1 (13)2 (7)2 (5)2-& 2&
10. Ruslan (18)1 (5)1 (17)2 (14)2 (8)2 (15)3 34
11. Sahvit (8)0 (16)0 (9)0 (18)1 (15)1 (12)2 25
12. Ido (4)0 (18)0 (15)0 (17)0 (13)0 (11)0 07
13. Amir (2)0 (15)1 (14)1 (9)1 (12)2 (18)3 34
14. Avi (3)0 (9)1 (13)2 (10)3 (1)3 (8)3 34
15. Lothar (5)0 (13)0 (12)1 (16)1 (11)2 (10)2 25
16. Tuvia (7)0 (11)1 (8)1 (15)2 (6)2 (17)2 25
17. Uli (6)0 (2)0 (10)0 (12)1 (18)2 (16)3 34
18. Shiraz (10)0 (12)1 (7)1 (11)1 (17)1 (13)1 16

Since Leonid had last been in Japan over 2 years ago, he was offered tyhe position to travel this year. But, he couldn't, and so was the case also with Oded, and Eitan. So - Shlomo will travel.




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