The 29th Amsterdam
tournament had a full program with many side-events spread over four sunny days.
The whole event attracted over 200 players, the main tournament had 148 participants
and more then 50 people joined the side-tournaments. This increases the participation
30% compared to last year!
A view in the main playing room. The smiling person in the lower left is Hans Mulder who just lost against Kei Shinada giving her the 6th straight win in this tournament
Du Jingyu the winner steps forward out of the cheering crowd
Jingyu Du convincingly won all his games and ended at the top before Guo Juan.
The only other player with six victories was the very promising talent Kei Shinada.
There were eleven players with five wins, which is a surprisingly high number.
The best player under the top group was Masanori Tanaka, who had beaten the leader
in the overall tour-ranking Vladimir Danek in the fifth round.
In the lightning tournament Ad Kampwart (3d) won the final against
Tobias Berben (3d). Jingyu Du / Zhao Pei and Dach Zbynek / Klara Zaloudkova shared
the first place in the pair tournament (ten pairs took part).
The
Children’s tournament and the Extra Rapid tournament had together over forty participants
and were very pleasant Saturday-events.
Main Oraganizer Caspar Nijhuis hands over the prizes to the winning pairs of the pair go tournament
Ad Kampwart receives the first prize for the lightening tournament. Also in the main tournament Ad did very well by winning 4 games, helping his club Tilburg to become 3rd in the club championship
As a new additional element
in the main tournament the highest sums of board points from the best performing
four players of the same club were awarded with special club prizes: The hosting
Amsterdam Go-club ended at the top just before Paris and Tilburg.
An other
new side-tournament was the Continuous Freestyle opportunity for every participant
to challenge any other participant on any board size. Vincent Vrolijk (1d) became
winner and Jürgen Abels (5k) got a prize for the most games played: 23.
120
players preregistered and took part in the lottery at the closing ceremony. Thanks
to this extra event the organisation before the first round went smoothly and
quick.
The Amsterdam tournament has a strong tradition,
but this year has proven that, thanks to the Toyota Tour, on many aspects there
was still a big improvement possible. The organisation likes to continue on this
new way.
A lot of spectators watched the game analysis by runner up Guo Juan and winner Du Jingyu of their spectacular game