Tournaments
2005 Unlur world championship
Played on the 8 sized board at www.ludoteka.com, the Candidate's Tournament started in April and finished by the end of May. Time limit was 30 minutes per player plus 10 second per move and each player had to play 3 games against each opponent. Candidates were selected by invitation according to their results in other tournaments.
4 people accepted the invitation, Carl Johan Ragnarson, Paul Van Wamelen, Bernhard Herwig and the title defender Taral Seierstad. This time, all the participants were mathematicians. And among the games we could see extremely ballanced contracts and really tricky arrows.
Paul and Bernhard deserved a better score but they weren't able to beat Taral or Carl Johan, so the two finalists for the 2005 World Championship are Taral Seierstad ,the current champion, and Carl Johan Ragnarson.
The finals haven't been scheduled yet.
2003-2004 e-mail tournament
It started in December and finished in May, played in the Richard's server. There was 14 participans divided into 2 pools.
| Player | W | L
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| stcharles | 5 | 1
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| bernhard | 5 | 1
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| taral | 4 | 2
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| dashstofsk | 4 | 2
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| lyman | 2 | 4
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| karen53 | 1 | 5
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| jseakle | 0 | 6
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| Player | W | L
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| jarrausi | 6 | 0
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| scotty | 4 | 2
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| fritzd | 4 | 2
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| zamunda | 3 | 3
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| pedro | 2 | 4
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| camb | 2 | 4
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| drp | 0 | 6
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| FINAL |
| Player | W | L
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| fritzd | 4 | 0
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| stcharles | 3 | 1
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| bernhard | 2 | 2
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| jarrausi | 1 | 3
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| scotty | 0 | 4
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The current position of the games played can be seen here
The two best of each pool and ties pass to the finar round.
The winner and the runner-up of the tournament got the passport to the candidate's tournament of the world championship 2004.
2003 Unlur world championship
It took place from January to April, and it was played on http://www.ludoteka.com.
10 people from around the world took place in the tournament, the games where played on the 6-size board, each played had 20 minutes plus 10 seconds per move to make all his moves. After a round robin, the two best reached the finlas. They were the American David Bush and the Norwegian Taral Guldahl Seierstad.
The first world cahmpion in the world would be the first of the finalist to win three games. Below you can see the games of the finals.
(;SZ[6]GM[unlur]C[Unlur World Championship 2003
Finals\: Game1
David J Bush v.s Taral Guldahl Seierstad
March 30, 2003]
;P1[C4];P2[J9];P1[C6];P2[J8];P1[C7];P2[B6];P1[pass];P2[W][F6];P1[B][F9];P2[W][G7];P1[B][G4];P2[W][E4];P1[B][E5];P2[W][F5];P1[B][G8]
;P2[W][H8];P1[B][I10];P2[W][G9];P1[B][E3];P2[W][D3];P1[B][E6];P2[W][H9];P1[B][H11];P2[W][G10];P1[B][G11];P2[W][F10];P1[B][F11];P2[W][H5]
;P1[B][E10];P2[W][D8]C[Black resigns])
(;SZ[6]N1[Taral Guldahl Seierstad]N2[David
Bush]GM[unlur]C[Unlur World Championship 2003
Finals: Game2
Taral Guldahl Seierstad v.s David J Bush
6 April, 2003]
;P1[I5];P2[D5];P1[C5];P2[D7];P1[B5];P2[C4];P1[pass];P2[W][F6];P1[B][E4];P2[W][F4];P1[B][F5];P2[W][H6];P1[B][G5];P2[W][H5];P1[B][G4]
;P2[W][H4];P1[B][F8];P2[W][I9];P1[B][G8];P2[W][G3];P1[B][I8]C[White resigns])
(;SZ[6]GM[unlur]C[Unlur World Championship 2003
Finals: Game 3
David J Bush v.s Taral Guldahl Seierstad
April 10, 2003]
;P1[D5];P2[C5];P1[D7];P2[B5];P1[B6];P2[C6];P1[B4];P2[pass];P1[W][F6];P2[B][E4];P1[W][F4];P2[B][F8];P1[W][G8];P2[B][F5];P1[W][G5]
;P2[B][G6];P1[W][I7];P2[B][H6];P1[W][I5];P2[B][I6];P1[W][J6];P2[B][J7];P1[W][D2];P2[B][C2];P1[W][D3];P2[B][B3]C[Black resigns])
Taral won the three games and became the first unlur champion.