The second German EGP will be held June 6th/7th 2009 in Cologne (Köln).

Photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/othellodeutschland/KolnEGP2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCMfa6qf8gPPiiAE#

Results

Bintsa Andriani won the second German EGP beating Dominik 2-1 in the final.

Best advanced Player: Sebastian Schmidt

Best Beginner: Benjamin Baumann

Full results and crosstable

Location

Pohlmanstrasse 13
50735 Koeln

A: Tournament location
red: cant go through Rudolf-Sohm-Straße
green: can go through Eichhornstraße
blue: Restaurant for saturday's dinner.
orange text: supermarkets REWE and PLUS, Mc Donald, pizzeria, snack-bar

Attention: Rudolf-Sohm-Straße (red dot) is blocked. Can't go through as your navigation system might like you to. Take Eichhornstraße (green dots) which is just before the supermarket. The house under the "A" on the map is the tournament location. Right infront of the building are several parking places. Should be for free.
The previous information that you can park at the REWE supermarket is wrong. Only for guests and only for one hour. I don't think parking will be a problem in that region anyway.

Google map

Next station is Nesselroderstr.

This is the tournament location from the outside. You can see it from the direction from the train stop. By car you will be coming from the other side (the road you can see on the picture).

Entry fee

(1) 20 Euro
(2) 10 Euro for students, unemployed, beginners
(3) free for first time players

Schedule

Friday

17.30-19.30 Indian restaurant
20.00-23.00 Bowling

Saturday

shortly past 9 we open the room
9.30 sign up
10.00 1st round
11.00 2nd round
12.00 3rd round
13.00 lunch break
14.00 4th round
15.00 5th round
16.00 6th round
17.00 7th round
18.30 Dinner at a nearby restaurant
20.30 Game evening at the tournament location

Sunday

shortly past 9 we open the room
9.30 8th round
10.30 9th round
11.30 10th round
12.30 11th round
13.30 lunch break
15.00 1st final
16.00 2nd final
17.00 3rd final or Victory ceremony
18.00 Victory ceremony

System

11 rounds Swiss system (7 on Saturday, 4 Sunday morning)

Best-of-3 Final

Best-of-3 Play-off 3rd/4th unless both agree on Best-of-1

Advanced players and beginners will have 1 game cross final and final.

Prizes

1 cup for the winner
10 medals and several prizes (toys etc.) to choose from.
The medals are for:
best, second and third of all 3 categories: Elite, Advanced, Beginner.
Best Endgame will win a medal.

Best Endgame

Rules of the Best Endgame prize will be following the example of the US National Championships. We are still considering if we really only consider the winner of the games.

The best endgame prize will be awarded for the games played in the 11 rounds swiss only, and based on the following criteria:

(1) Only the winner of a game will be considered.
(2) The winning disk differential must be 20 disks or less.
(3) Errors in the last twenty moves (ten moves for either side) of the game will be calculated as the number of disks the error costs with perfect play. This calculation will be performed on WZebra. Errors will be counted only if the move is not perfect for the winning player.
(4) Tiebreak: if more than one player have the best endgame according to the rules above:
a) the winner is the one with the lowest disc loss value starting from the end of the game forward to the point where there is the first difference.
b) in case a) can not find a difference within the last 30(!) moves, the second best endgame will be considered.

Specials

Friday Evening: Othello Bowling party.

From 8 pm to 11 pm we will play bowling.
West-Bowling
Melatengürtel 21
50933 Köln
http://www.westbowling.de

A few players will be there all 3 hours, but likely many others will only join 1 or 2 hours. So in order to be able to book enough lanes, please tell me when and how long you plan to take part.

One way to tell me is this: http://www.doodle.com/huxzf6efq8i2ta2p

Dinner on Friday

I don't expect many players to arrive in time to have dinner before bowling, but if you are interested, let me know. My plan is to have dinner between 17.30 and 19.30 at the Indian restaurant "Buy buy" which is pretty much near the center. http://www.qype.com/place/12635-Buy-Buy-Koeln/photos
Aachener Straße 16
50937 Köln
U-Bahn: Rudolfsplatz
It is 4 stops away from the bowling center.

Another option would be a Mediterranean restaurant at the station you go to for bowling.
Haus Westend
Aachener Straße 415
50933 Köln
Seems like a nice restaurant. Prices aren't cheap. ~

Cologne Cathedral

If there is enough interest, i'd like to climb the Cologne Cathedral with some fellow Othello players on Friday afternoon. Let me know if you are interested to join.

Saturday evening: Poker & other games

As in Berlin we will try to organise some games for saturday evening. Poker will most likely be played by many players, but other games are welcome as well. I will try to invite local chess and go players as well.

We will most likely be back from the restaurant at around 20.30 and have the tournament room to play whatever we like.

Catering

Drinks

Situation changed, the previous information about chess players selling drinks and snacks is no longer the case.

We (I or fellow players) will try to organise drinks for low price.

There is a REWE and a PLUS super market nearby so you can either buy for yourself or let us know what you'd like to drink (or eat?) and we'll try to get it.

Lunch

For lunch on saturday and sunday we plan to order at this delivery service:
https://pizza.de/pizzeria-toscana-koeln-keupstr-8?lgs=34167

At they seem to have reasonable prices and lots of different stuff, so hopefully everyone can find something. As it will take lots of time to make 20-30 dishes at once, we need to order around 2h before, so I'd like everyone to order at sign-up or real soon afterwards. If you check out the online menu and decide in advance, you can let me know by e-mail or online, so I can put it on a list and you can just verify your order at sign-up.

Dinner

Saturday evening we plan to eat at a restaurant nearby (blue dot).
"Kupferdach"
Niehler Straße 342
50735
it's said to have "Gutbürgerliche Küche" so I'd say it's rather traditional german food. But for that day they have a special offer: "7.50 EU all you can eat" for a mixed grill.

Next to this restaurant is also a China restaurant which also could deliver for lunch if we got enough interest.

Feedback for the german restaurant above was pretty good so far, that I think I'll book that room for 18.30-20.30. Please let me know if you plan to join.

Accomodation

Youth hostels

http://www.koeln-riehl.jugendherberge.de

They only have 6 beds left. 1x 2-bed 1x 4-bed 14 min with public transportation (one stop) 3.4 km by car 2.5 km walk

http://www.jugendherberge.de/jh/rheinland/koeln-deutz/index.shtml.de?m

They only have 18 beds left. 1x 2-bed and bigger ones 21 min with public transportation (one stop) 5.5 km by car

Apartments

http://www.fremdenzimmer-koeln.de/

2.1 km walk or 0.5 km walk + 2 min metro

http://www.pension.de/pensionen/koeln/hotel_niehler_damm/6621.html

21 min with public transportation (one stop) 1.6 km walk 0.8 km walk + 2 min metro

http://www.babk.de/Nippes.html

This one has 3 rooms (2 beds each). If not all booked by one group, other rooms might be booked by others.

http://www.babk.de/Ebertplatz.html

This is an apartment for two person (60 Euro).

http://www.babk.de/Gaestezimmer.html

here are some other apartments hosted by the same person.

Public Transportation

Metro Net

The tournament location is right next to Nesselroderstr. which you can find easily a bit north of Köln HBF (central station) following the line 16 (turquoise).

You can find some more maps here:

http://www.kvb-koeln.de/german/fahrplan/linienplan.html

To find itinerary go here: http://auskunft.kvb-koeln.de/ (different languages)

signed up: 33 players

(just started to sign up)

(A)dvanced players are neither (B)eginner nor (E)lite. Elite players are those players that have ever finished top-4 of any previous EGP tournament.
star* = female player
(?) only on saturday
(!) only on sunday

Guests