European Grand Prix

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Table of contents

1 European Grand Prix 1.1 Tournament Format 1.2 Scoring 2 History 2.1 Previous results 2.2 Previous winners 3 Statistics 3.1 Season 3.2 Tournament 3.2.1 Individual (winning) 3.2.2 Individual (other) 3.2.3 Country 3.2.4 Team 3.3 Age 3.4 Collected EGP points 3.5 More

European Grand Prix

The European Grand Prix (EGP) is a circuit consisting of the major European tournaments; the winner is determined by adding the number of EGP points scored in the player's best N tournaments, where N has varied over the years.

Tournament Format

EGP tournaments are held over 2 days. Traditionally on a Saturday and Sunday. They are usually played over 11 rounds. 7 rounds on the first day and 4 on the second. A best of three final and a one game 3rd/4th playoff on the afternoon of the second day. (Note: Some countries play a best of three playoff as well.)

Scoring

Points are awarded for the following places in any EGP tournament:

1st 200; 2nd 140; 3rd 90; 4th 60; 5th 40; 6th 30; 7th 20; 8th 15; 9th 10; 10th 5.

Ties for placings fifth and below and drawn play-offs (e.g. 1 1/2-1 1/2) are not resolved and all tied players are awarded points equal to the total points awarded for the tied players divided by the number of players.

For example three players tied for fifth place will each be awarded 30 points. This is equal to the sum of points for fifth, sixth and seventh places (40+30+20 = 90) divided by three (30).

Should there be any fractions, these are ignored and 1 added to the number of points awarded. For example four players tied for eighth place would each be awarded eight points. This is equal to the sum of points for eighth, ninth and tenth places - eleventh scores zero (15+10+5 = 30). This divided by four is 7 1/2. Ignoring the half and adding one makes the points awarded equal to 8.

A player's points total consists of his or her best N scoring tournaments.

History

The EGP began in 1986 with the tournaments in Milan, Cambridge, Copenhagen and Paris. Brussels was added in 1991, and later on Amsterdam (2001), Stockholm (2003), Gdansk (2004), Barcelona (2006), Prague (2007), Berlin (2008) and Moss (2009) have been added to the list of host cities. In 2010 and 2011 the EGP cycle consisted out of 6 tournaments. All 12 organising countries had their EGP in the one year or the other. This system has been extended for the period 2012-2013 and is then planned to be re-evaluated. The winner of the EGP is sometimes referred too as the European Champion, although there has been an annual tournament at the MSO referred too as the "European Championship".

As can be seen from the full list of winners, British players dominated in the early years, but French players won for ten of the eleven years 1993-2003. Since then a variaty of players won the title.

Previous results

Previous winners

Statistics

Season

• As of the end of the 2011 season, Imre Leader and Takuji Kashiwabara won the EGP five times each.
  
• Not only French and British players won the EGP. German, Danish, Italian, Japanese, American and Polish players are also listed as EGP series winner.
• David Shaman (1996), Emmanuel Caspard (1998), Graham Brightwell (2005) and Michele Borassi (2008) scored the maximum number of available points.
  
• The largest period between two EGP victories is 16 years. Imre Leader won his fourth EGP in 2007, after winning his third in 1991.
• Takuji Kashiwabara manages to hold a top 3 position in the EGP series since 2001, thus over a period of 11 years.
• Takuji Kashiwabara is the only player who was able to score EGP points the last 15 years (1998-2012). A group of 11 players managed to do this the past 5 years (2008-2012).
• Marc Tastet and Graham Brightwell scored points every year for over a period of 20 seasons (1986-2005).
• 13 players managed to win multiple EGP's in one season.
• Bintsa Andriani is the only player who played tournaments in the first 24 seasons (3,4 on average) - until 2009. Marc Tastet is the only player having played tournaments in 26 of the 27 seasons (he missed 2006).

Tournament

Individual (winning)

• Imre Leader and Takuji Kashiwabara have won the most individual EGP tournaments (17). The final of Moss EGP 2011 was the first "master final", broadcasting the two players with the highest number of EGP tournament victories, battling for the sole lead.
  
• 49 different players have already won an EGP. These players represented 14 different countries living in 3 continents.
  
• The largest period between two EGP tournament victories is 13 years. Francesco Marconi won the Italian EGP in 2006, after winning his last in 1993.
  
• Graham Brightwell claimed 4 victories in EGP tournaments in 2007 (out of 9 tournaments). Relatively seen David Shaman did even better by winning 3 out of 5 in 1996.
  
• Michele Borassi is the first player to win 5 EGPs in one season (2008). He won every EGP he participated in that season.
• Emmanuel Caspard won all the EGPs he participated in the 1998 season. He won 4 (out of 5 tournaments in the series).
• Takuji Kashiwabara managed to claim victory in 9 different countries, Imre Leader returned victorious from 8 different countries. Marc Tastet has won exactly once in 7 different towns from 6 different countries.
• Michele Borassi played the most finals without losing one (7).
• David Shaman has won Amstelveen EGP 2003, which was the largest tournament (63 players). Imre Leader is the only player having won 3 tournaments with over 40 participants.
• Eight players from seven countries won the first EGP they participated: Jean François Puget (Milan 1986), Imre Leader (Cambridge 1986), David Shaman (Paris 1986), Takeshi Murakami (Paris 1989), Tetsuya Nakajima (Paris 1994), Paweł Pęczkowski (Gdansk 2004), Rubén Saiz (Barcelona 2006) and Martin Ødegård (Moss 2009).

Individual (other)

• Three women reached a top 4 position in an EGP. Velma Fu ended 2nd in the 2006 Dutch EGP, Caroline Sandberg Odsell was 2nd in the 2010 Stockholm EGP and Helena Verrill ended 4th in the 1990 Cambridge EGP.
• Takuji Kashiwabara reached the top 3 on 43 occasions.
• 16 players got into an EGP final but did not win. Didier Piau and Dominik Nowak are the unfortunate players having had this twice.
• Dominique Penloup played the most consecutive EGP tournaments (31 from Paris 1989 until Cambridge 1996).
• Marc Tastet played the most consecutive EGP tournaments and got points (9 from Milan 1992 until Brussels 1993).
• Marc Tastet got points in the most consecutive EGP tournaments he played (35 from Cambridge 1994 until Amsterdam 2005).
• Imre Leader got points in 52 of the 53 tournaments he played (Brussels 2007 was the exception).
• Nicky van den Biggelaar had 4 draws in the 2010 Alkmaar EGP. It's the only time a player only lost twice and did not reach the play-offs.
• Roel Hobo played the most tournaments before winning a tournament (39 / 40th = victory).
• Bintsa Andriani played the most tournaments without having won any (82).
• Marie Christine Torri played the most tournaments without scoring any points (20).
• Martin Fransen played the most tournaments without making the play-offs (44).
• Bintsa Andriani played the most tournaments before making the play-offs (26 / 27th = play-off).
• Marcel Sneek played the most tournaments before scoring points (21 / 22nd = points).
• Takuji Kashiwabara played the most EGP tournaments (90).
• Roman Kraczyk was the first player who played EGP tournaments in all organising countries (12). By playing in Moss EGP 2011, Roel Hobo, Takuji Kashiwabara and Marc Tastet also achieved this record.

Country

• French players won 46 EGPs. France is well ahead on United Kingdom, having won 37 EGPs.
  
• France has 9 players having won at least one EGP. Italy and United Kingdom have 8 unique winners.

Team

• The best performance by 2 brothers (14.5 points) was equally achieved by 3 couples: Marc Tastet and Serge Tastet (9.5+5) in the Paris EGP 1990, Torben Vallund and Henrik Vallund (8+6.5) in the Copenhagen EGP 2000 and Nils Berner and Johan Berner (8+6.5) playing the Stockholm EGP 2003.
• The best performance by 2 partners (17 points) was achieved by Albert Kortendijk and Linda Praseptyo (11+6) during Copenhagen EGP 2006.

Age

• The youngest player to win an EGP was Paweł Pęczkowski during Gdansk 2004 (aged 16 years and 245 days).
• The youngest player to reach the top 4 was Łukasz Szyszko during Gdansk 2004 (aged 13 years and 30 days)
• The oldest player to win an EGP was Marc Tastet during Barcelona 2011 (aged 48 years and 141 days).
• The oldest player to reach the top 4 was Marc Tastet during Copenhagen 2012 (aged 49 years and 182 days: exactly 49 years and a half).
• The youngest player to score EGP points was Arthur Juigner during Paris 2011 (aged 9 years).
• The oldest player to gain EGP points was Mikael Mårtensson during Copenhagen 2005 (aged 71 years and 342 days).
• The youngest player to participate an EGP was Arthur Juigner during Paris 2011 (aged 9 years).
• The oldest player to play an EGP was Mikael Mårtensson during Copenhagen 2010 (aged 76 years and 364 days).
• The oldest player to play his first and only EGP while been already officially rated (http://www.eothello.com/classement.php?pays=F) was Jacques Ovion during Paris 2009 (aged 64 years and four months).

Collected EGP points

• Takuji Kashiwabara collected the highest number of EGP points, namely 8027.
• France scored the highest number of points, namely -28406-.
• The youngest player to score 1000 EGP points was Michele Borassi (aged...).

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