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World Othello Championship 1997
Athens (Greece)
Results of round 1
				| Ilya Shifman | 16-48 | Graham Brightwell | 
| Andrea Silvola | 48-16 | Ola Hansson | 
| Roberto Sperandio | 30-34 | Ryan Matreyek | 
| Michael Handel | 27-37 | Ian Turner | 
| Erik Lund Jensen | 09-55 | Emmanuel Lazard | 
| Raphael Schreiber | 32-32 | David Parsons | 
| George Ortiz | 08-56 | Donato Barnaba | 
| Nils Berner | 37-27 | Benyamin Shifman | 
| Geoff Hubbard | 20-44 | Jan Kristian Haugland | 
| Leonid Shifman | 06-58 | Karsten Feldborg | 
| Markku Poysti | 09-55 | Mitsuaki Sugiyama | 
| Akemi Sugiyama | 16-48 | David Shaman | 
| Serge Alard | 23-41 | Johan Berner | 
| Panagiotis Augerinos | 05-59 | Alain Daix | 
| Marc Tastet | 40-24 | Emmanuel Caspard | 
| Bintsa Andriani | 23-41 | Larry Back | 
| Makoto Suekuni | 47-17 | Harri Levanen | 
Team ranking
after round 1
				after round 1
| 1. | Belgium | 2 | 
| France | 2 | |
| Great-Britain | 2 | |
| Italy | 2 | |
| Japan | 2 | |
| Sweden | 2 | |
| USA | 2 | |
| 8. | Canada | 1 | 
| Denmark | 1 | |
| Norway | 1 | |
| 11. | Australia | 0 | 
| Finland | 0 | |
| Greece | 0 | |
| Israel | 0 | |
| Madagascar | 0 | 
| Standings after round 1 
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