Maurice Demmer (Holland) New European Riichi Champion

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Created on Sunday, 11 July 2010 17:44

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:00

Written by Martin Rep

HANOVER - Maurice Demmer is the new European Riichi Mahjong Champion. After two days of severe competition in the hot Hanover Jazz Club, the Dutchman ended on the first place, just 700 points before Joel Ratsimandresy from France. David Bresnick from the USA won the third prize.
For many players, Maurice was a dark horse. But although he did bad in the very last hanchan (he scored minus 35,000 there), he played outstandingly in the previous seven rounds. During the first day of the tournament, he scored a double yakuman with Suu Ankou (four concealed pons).

Quite remarkable: Maurice’s wife, Marjan, ended in the last (80th) position.
The competition - with players from fifteen countries - was organized by the Hanover mahjong group, just as the first EC Riichi mahjong. It is not known yet where the next EC will take place.

New faces

Although there were some disappointments for the organizers - e.g. that there were just two Japanese competitors instead of six, and no-one fom China as a result of visa problems for the two Chinese players - there was a good number of new faces, even from new countries. Some of them did extremely well.

• David Bresnick from the USA made it to the third position
• Domink Kolenda from Poland also entered the top ten: he won the eighth prize
• Matthias Köhler was the best player from host country Germany: 13th place
• Leevi Rasila, a young talent from Finland: 14th place
• Stanislav Petrov was the best Russian on nr. 24
• Yu Takehana from Japan, nr. 26
• Thomas Kragh from Denmark, the 2008 champion, ended on position nr. 48
• Deniz Gencturk from Turkey, number 56
• Jérôme Fornage from Switzerland, number 70

 

Pictures of the tournament

 

Final results

Rank.	First Name	Last Name	Nat	Points
1	Maurice	Demmer	NED	103700
2	Joel	Ratsimandresy	FRA	103000
3	David	Bresnick	USA	96600
4	Tina	Christensen	DEN	93400
5	Akihiro	Honda	JAP	86600
6	Gertjan	Davies	NED	77600
7	Chang	Xue	AUT	76700
8	Dominik	Kolenda	PLD	73300
9	Sjef	Strik	NED	71800
10	Robert	Jensen	DEN	70400
11	Gerda	van Oorschot	NED	68200
12	Jeppe	Stig Nielsen	DEN	66000
13	Matthias	Köhler	GER	64200
14	Leevi	Rasila	FIN	58800
15	Jesper	Willemoes Hansen	DEN	45900
16	Taneli	Pursiainen	FIN	44600
17	Kim	Iversen	DEN	43900
18	Anders	Labich	DEN	41600
19	John	Kuijpers	NED	36300
20	Ian	Fraser	GBR	35500
21	Frauke	Roos	GER	33300
22	Alexander	Doppelhofer	AUT	31200
23	Janine	Scholtemeijer	NED	30500
24	Stanislav	Petrov	RUS	28600
24	Yvonne	van der Heide	NED	28600
26	Yu	Takehana	JAP	27500
27	Morten	Andersen	DEN	27400
28	Jaap	Croeze	NED	27200
29	Désirée	Heemskerk	NED	24100
30	Andrey	Kozlov	RUS	23800
31	Paula	Pereira Gomes	POR	22100
32	Lena	Smith	DEN	16900
33	Ans	Hoogland-Cornelis	NED	16400
34	Ton	Rijnders	NED	16200
35	Janco	Onnink	NED	13600
36	Ilka	Stummeyer	GER	12600
37	Philipp	Scharpf	GER	8900
38	Freddy	Christiansen	DEN	8400
39	Teemu	Sandblom	FIN	6600
40	Carolin	Dewes	GER	5100
41	Peter	Langford	GBR	4100
42	Thomas	Riedel	USA	4000
43	Valtteri	Rasila	FIN	3900
44	Tom	Mustonen	FIN	1600
45	Richard	Stöckemann	GER	1200
46	Björn	Schulz	GER	1100
47	Botond	Kis	AUT	100
48	Thomas	Kragh	DEN	-1200
49	Sebastian	Scharpf	GER	-1500
50	Ma Prem Sohana	Troostheide	NED	-15500
51	Henrik	Krogh Nielsen	DEN	-16200
52	Marianne	Croeze	NED	-16800
53	Alexander	Schuler	GER	-18500
54	Michael	Zahradnik	GER	-24500
55	Lars	Therkelsen	DEN	-28600
56	Deniz	Gencturk	TUR	-29100
57	Dicky	Rep	NED	-31300
58	Nicolas	Pochic	FRA	-31500
59	Sune	Thomsen	DEN	-31600
60	Perttu	Vantanen	FIN	-37400
61	Paola	Bungaro	GBR	-38700
62	Sylvain	Malbec	FRA	-51200
63	Gemma	Collinge	GBR	-51400
64	Fred	Schröder	GER	-54500
65	Philipp	Martin	GER	-56400
66	Cor	Hoogland	NED	-59700
67	Wolfgang Hans	Franke	GER	-66000
68	Henrik	Leth	DEN	-75400
69	Jakub	Tomaszewski	PLD	-75500
70	Jérome	Fornage	SUI	-79000
71	Raphael	Hobbiger	AUT	-79100
72	Robert	Rijnders	NED	-79800
73	Nadine	König	GER	-80200
74	Giorgio	Moratti	ITA	-82100
75	Dimphy	van Grinsven	NED	-85200
76	Harry	Kal	NED	-88000
77	Martin	Rep	NED	-88700
78	Lena	Weinguny	AUT	-89300
79	Nick	Dyer	GBR	-94500
80	Marjan	Demmer	NED	-124700