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From this page you are able to to find more than 200 photos from the renju world.

40 historical renju images with comments

Historical photos

• Takayama Goraku, the 1st Permanent Japanese Meijin (Meijin for life-time)(73 Kb).

• Takagi Rakuzan, the 3rd Permanent Japanese Meijin (87 Kb).

• A Japanese Meijin match between Kyozo Isobe, 8 times Meijin and Toshio Nishimura. The referee in the middle is Gosi Sakata, the 5th and last Permanent Meijin (49 Kb).

• Tomas Hagenfors to the left and Alf Dahlgren to the right in Kinna, Sweden, springtime 1978.

• Alf Dahlgren, Sweden plays 16 games with Torben Zahle, Denmark in Helsingborg January 14, 1979. The winner should have beeen appointed "The best go-moku player in Europe". The match ended draw (8-8) (30 Kb).

• Tommy Maltell wins Svealand Open May 27, 1979. The prize he receivs from the chairman of Svenska Luffarschackförbundet Christer Olsson (31 Kb).

• Wataru Ikawa visiting Tommy Maltell in Helsingborg in March 1982 (36 Kb).

• Swedish Open International Championship of Renju in Jönköping, Sweden in December 1982 was the 1st international tournament of renju (56 Kb.)

• Tadayoshi Tanaka, Japan, the winner of Swedish Open 1982 (54 Kb).

• Stefan Jansson, Sweden plays with Kosho Hayakawa, Japan in Swedish Open 1982 (32 Kb).

• Christer Lorentsson and Peter Jonsson in Swedish Open 1982 (32 Kb).

• Tomas Hagenfors 1982?

Tommy Maltell visits as the first Swedish player Japan in July 1983.

• Meeting with the authors of the first book in English about renju: Wataru Ikawa and Goro Sakata (37 Kb).

• Goro Sakata has many books on renju (34 Kb).

• In Hakone we played a historical tournament (82 Kb).

• Tommy Maltell plays with Shigeru Nakamura ( 35 Kb).

• Shigeru Nakamura won the tournament and Takahashi Hishashi took the 2nd place (46 Kb).

• Shinishi Ishitani (27 Kb).

• Kyozo Isobe. 8 times he was Meijin of Japan (30 Kb).

• My family were very welcome to Kyoto (81Kb).

• Kosho Hayakawa´s renju school for children (45 Kb).

• Kosho Hayakawa´s renju school for pensioners (49 Kb).

More historical photos.

• In December 1966 this Swedish troup went to Leningrad (S:t Petersburg) to play in the 1st New Year tournament there (38 Kb).

• Many players waiting for prize ceremony in Leningrad 1966 (26 Kb).

• In August 1988 was the first time for a Soviet team to visit Sweden. This is a little welcome dinner arranged by Ingvar Sundling in Uppsala (21 Kb).

• On the 8th of August 1988 RIF was founded. The photo is from a meeting preparing the foundation (32 Kb).

1st World Championship in Kyoto, Japan in August 1989.

• Mr Katsura was one of the organizers. The photo is from the A-tournament (58 Kb).

• The World Champion challenge trophy (27 Kb).

• Kosho Hayakawa, the organizer of the 1st WC in Renju (25 Kb).

• 5 of the players in A-tournament. From left: Ingvar Sundling, Jan Palmgren, Petter Gardström, Nikolay Mikhailov, Yevgei Bobkov (32 Kb).

• The other five players in A-tournament. From left: Mikhail Koshin, Shigeru Nakamura, Kazuto Hasegawa, Hideki Nara, Toshio Nishimura (41 Kb).

• Shigeru Nakamura plays with Hideki Nara (16 Kb).

• Nikolay Mikhailov plays with Ingvar Sundling (58 Kb).

• Yevgei Bobkov, Russia (25 Kb).

• Petter Gardström, Sweden (25 Kb).

• Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan (22 Kb).

• Stefan Karlsson, Sweden (26 Kb).

• Norihiko Kawamura, Japan. The World Champion 1995 and the Meijin of Japan 1994. (25 Kb).

• Mikhail Koshin, Russia (27 Kb).

• Nikolay Mikhailov, Uzbekistan (25 Kb).

• Shigeru Nakamura, Japan. He was two times World Champion without losing any game. He has won the Meijin title of Japan 17 times(42 Kb).

• Hideki Nara, Japan. He has taken two 2nd places and one 4th place in WC (23 Kb).

• Toshio Nishimura, Japan (29 Kb).

• Jan Palmgren, Sweden (26 Kb).

• Hiroyuki Tatsutomi, Japan (24 Kb).

• Ingvar Sundling, Sweden (26 Kb).

• Alexander Nosovsky, Russia (29 Kb).

• Peter Jonsson, Sweden (32 Kb).

• Viktor Kaufman, Russia (31 Kb).

• Masao Mitsumori, Japan (32 Kb).

• Nick Alexandrov, Russia. He is now living in USA. He has also been living some years in Japan (26 Kb).

• Frank Arkbo, Sweden (27 Kb).

• Bengt Asplund, Sweden (28 Kb).

• Lars Eriksson, Sweden (29 Kb).

• Göran Holgersson, Sweden (29 Kb).

• Shigetaro Mikami, President of Nihon Renju Sha and Honourable President of RIF (25 Kb).

• Norio Nishizono, Japan (23 Kb).

• After distribution of prizes (52 Kb).

• Toshio Sawai, Japan (25 Kb).

• Andrej Sokolsky, Russia (31 Kb).

• Sokolsky plays with Maltell (17 Kb).

• Tommy Maltell and Shoseki Honda. Shoseki Honda is 95 years old but in Kyoto Memorial Tournament in August 1994 he was still active. He has visited Sweden a lot of times and all visits have been after his first tournament Swedish Open in 1982 in which tournament he won against all the three best Swedish players (31 Kb).

• Shoseki Honda plays with a much younger player (59 Kb).

• A photo from the A-tournament (60 Kb).

• A photo from the B-tournament (74 Kb).

2nd World Championship in Moscow, Soviet Union in August 1991.

• A photo with many players from 2nd WC in Moscow (216 Kb).

3rd World Championship in Arjeplog, Sweden in August 1993.

• The 12 players in A-tournament. From left: Kazuto Hasegawa, Hideki Nara, Takashi Sagara, Mikhail Koshin, Konstantin Nikonov, Aldis Reims, Albert Pogosyan, Ants Soosorv, Ando Meritee, Nikolay Mikhailov, Stefan Karlsson, Ingvar Sundling (37 Kb).

European Championship in Tallinn, Estonia in December 1994

• From left: No 2, Stepan Peskov, Russia, European Champion, Arnis Veidemanis, Latvia, No 3, Igor Sinyov, Russia (34 Kb).

• From left: Stepan Peskov plays with Arnis Veidemanis (18 Kb).

• From left: Ando Meritee, Estonia, the World Champion 1993, plays with Igor Sinyov , Russia (24 Kb).

• From left: Göran Holgersson, Sweden plays with Nizami Eibatov, Azerbaijan (20 Kb).

• Göran Holgersson, Sweden (7 Kb).

Photos from Renju in Peoples Republic of China.

• Na Wei, the President of China Jingdu Renju Association and Wang Xuetas, the first player from China who contacted RIF together with the other players in Jingdu Renju Team (51 Kb) .

• Above photo but (94 Kb)

• Above photo but (174 Kb)

• Na Wei, the President of China Jingdu Renju Association (21 Kb).

• Jingdu Team (23 Kb).

• Prize-winners (24 Kb).

• A game played by a young boy and a girl (15 Kb).

• From a big tournament hall (23 Kb).

Some other photos.

• Michail Unterweger, Austria (29 Kb).

• From Jönköping Renju Club (30 Kb).

• From the tournament Linköping Open (29 Kb).

• Tommy Maltell, Sweden (19 Kb).

Swedish Team Championship 1994

• Lars Eriksson, Ingvar Sundling, Bengt Asplund

• Stefan Karlsson and Anders Bertilsson

• Frank Arkbo and Martin Karlsson

• Robert Karlsson and Frank Arkbo

• Richard Johannesson and Hannes Hermansson

Swedish Blitz Championship 1995

• Göran Holgersson, The Swedish Champion

• Ando Meritee, the winner of the tournament and Ants Soosorv, no 2 in the tournament

• A lot of players assembled

• Ants Soosorv

The Swedish tournament "Malmö Battle" 1995

• Håkan Möller and Peter Jonsson

• Stefan Diös and Peder Svensson

• Fernando Rave and Vitaliano Rave

Swedish Championship 1995

• Petter Gardström, No 2, Stefan Karlsson, No 1, Ingvar Sundling , No 3

• Petter Gardström and Stefan Karlsson

• Bengt Asplund and Ingvar Sundling

• Anders Bertilsson and Peter Jonsson

• Richard Johannesson and Stefan Ögren

• Tord Andersson and Jan Palmgren

• Distribution of prizes. Hannes Hermansson is getting his prize from the organizer Jan Berglund.

Large photos.

• Na Wei, the President of China Jingdu Renju Association and Wang Xuetas, the first player from China who contacted RIF together with the other players in Jingdu Renju Team (174 Kb).

• Ando Meritee, Estonia, the World Champion 1993(195 Kb).

• Shigeru Nakamura, Japan (89 Kb).

• Aldis Reims, Latvia plays with Arnis Veidemanis, Latvia (272 Kb).

• Margus Tuvikene, Estonia (207 Kb).

• Igor Sinyov, Russia (219 Kb).

• Victor Alexandrov, Russia (236 Kb).

• Andrej Mishin, Russia (221 Kb).

• Andrej Pavinich, Russia (211 Kb).

• Stepan Peskov, Russia (223 Kb).

• Albert Pogosyan, Armenia (220 Kb).

• Edvard Voskanian, Armenia (211 Kb).

• Oleg Fedorkin, Russia (219 Kb).

• Dmitriy Iljin, Russia (200 Kb).

• Pavel Salnikov, Russia (216 Kb).

Photos from World Championship in Tallinn, Estonia 1995

• The World Champion Norihiko Kawamura has received his prize.

• Ando Meritee No 2 and Norihiko Kawamura No 1 have received their prizes.

• Ando Meritee No 2 and Norihiko Kawamura No 1 have received their prizes - picture 2.

• Meritee and Kawamura in their match.

• Meritee, Nara and Kawamura are all laughing.

• Bertilsson and Wei.

• Chung and Peskov.

• Eibatov and Gardström.

• Eibatov and Wei.

• Gardström and Iljin.

• Hasegawa and Bertilsson.

• Hasegawa and Wallgren.

• Hayakawa gives 1-dan title to Na Wei from China.

• Jonsson and Hasegawa.

• Meritee and Gardström.

• Nara and Iljin.

• Nara and Karlsson.

• Nara, Wei and Kawamura.

• Nara, Wei and Kawamura - picture 2.

• Peskov and Veidemanis.

• The referees.

• Salnikov and Pogosyan.

• Sawai, Kawamura, Nara, Hasegawa and Mitsumori.

• Alexej Skoridin from Nishnirovgorod in Russia, the main referee.

• Sawai, Nikonov, Hayakawa, Wei, Nara, Chung and Kawamura.

• Wallgren and Wei.

• Na Wei from China - first time in Renju WC.

• Veidemanis and Gardström.

Other photos of players in World Championship in Tallinn, Estonia 1995 (Links to all these 11 photos you can also find above)

• Norihiko Kawamura, Japan, The World Champion 1995 and also Meijin in Japan (25 Kb).

• Ando Meritee, Estonia, the World Champion 1993(195 Kb).

• Dmitriy Iljin, Russia (200 Kb).

• Hideki Nara, Japan. He has taken two 2nd places and two 4th places in WC (23 Kb).

• Stepan Peskov, Russia (223 Kb).

• Petter Gardström, Sweden (25 Kb).

• Aldis Reims, Latvia plays with Arnis Veidemanis, Latvia (272 Kb).

• Pavel Salnikov, Russia (216 Kb).

• Ants Soosorv (10 Kb).

• Stefan Karlsson, Sweden (26 Kb).

• Albert Pogosyan, Armenia (220 Kb).

Photos from Linköping Open

You can get some photos from Linköping Open from below:

Tournament winner Ando Meritee

No 3 - Stefan Karlsson

Rickard Johannesson and Ants Soosorv

Jonas Frid (Swedish  representative in e-mail WC ) and Göran Holgersson

Björn Wallgren and Tord Andersson

Photo on many players on many boards

From European Championship in Renju finished on the 21st of December 1995

1. Aleksandr Klimashin, Russia - The European Champion
2. From game Aleksandr Klimashin- Pavel Salnikov
3. Aleksandr Klimashin has received his prizes

From Peter Jonssons and Jan Palmgrens visit in China

Unfortunately all names of the players are not known.

1.Swedish and Chinese leaders
2.9 years old now and strong - World Champion in the year 2006?
3.Swedish players together with Chinese leaders and many children
4.Prize-ceremony
5.Peter Jonsson plays with Na Wei
6.In the playing room - Papers are also possible to use
7. In another playing room
8. Jan Palmgren and Peter Jonsson play simultaneously with several young players

Images from Malmöslaget

One photo from the Swedish Championship 1996

11 photos from the World Team Championship in S:t Petersburg

Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3
Photo 4
Photo 5
Photo 6
Photo 7
Photo 8
Photo 9
Photo 10
Photo 11

Photos of World Youth Championships and 2 Swedish team photos

2 photos from Peter Jonsson´s visit in China

Images from the China Open International Tournament 1997

1. Luo Yao
2. Mitsumori
3. Nagahiro
4. Liu Guobin
5. Chuang Xian Ji (from Chinese Taipei)
6. Shao Xiao Dong
7. Karlsson, Isobe, Holgersson
8. Isobe - The winner
9. All player 1
10. All players 2
11. Na Wei - the organizer

From World Championship in S:t Petersburg

1. Hasegawa,  Kazuto and Metreveli, Irina
2. The participants of the World Championship for men
3. The participants of the World Championship for women

From China

1. Lu Yan
2. Shao Xiao-Dong
3. Deng Jing-Hui
4. Yin Li-cheng
5. Li Dong
6. Xin Ji Quan
7. Zhang Jin Yu and ?
8. ? and Su Ling
9. ?

From WC in China 1999

Some photos you may also find on the player´s presentation page