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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.
More historical photos.
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.
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.
Some other photos.
Swedish Team Championship 1994
Swedish Blitz Championship 1995
The Swedish tournament "Malmö Battle" 1995
Swedish Championship 1995
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
1. Aleksandr Klimashin, Russia -
The European Champion
2. From game Aleksandr Klimashin- Pavel Salnikov
3. Aleksandr Klimashin has received his prizes
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
Winner Stefan Karlsson
Johnny Nielsen and Göran Holgersson
Bengt Asplund and Kristian Gustavsson
Martin Carlsson and Stefan Diös
Martin Karlsson and Kristian Gustavsson
Jan Paulander and Peder Svensson
Rickard Johannesson and Stefan Karlsson
One photo from the Swedish Championship 1996
From left Hannes Hermansson, winner of B-Final, and
Stefan Karlsson, winner of A-Final.
11 photos from the World Team Championship in S:t Petersburg
Here are 11 photos from the World Team Championships in S:t Petersburg.
Soon I hope to give you also the names of the players on each photo.
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
Oldest group World Champion Tuvikene (Estonia).
Young group
World Champion Chingin (Gigulevsk-Russia).
Girls World Champion Lebedeva
Swedish team in World
Youth Championship
Some of the Swedish players in Moscow
2 photos from Peter Jonsson´s visit in China
A. Chinese players together with Peter Jonsson and Rickard Johannesson.
B. From left
1. Peter Jonsson
2. Wang Runan, 8-dan Go player and Vice President of Chinese Go Association
3. Rickard Johannesson
4. Ji Rui, Director Assistant of Chinese Go Federation
5. Na Wei, RIF Chinese Connection man.
Images from the China Open International Tournament 1997
Now you are able to see 11 images from the China Tournament.
- Luo Yao
- Mitsumori
- Nagahiro
- Liu Guobin
- Chuang Xian Ji (from Chinese Taipei)
- Shao Xiao Dong
- Karlsson, Isobe, Holgersson
- Isobe - The winner
- All player 1
- All players 2
- Na Wei - the organizer
From World Championship in S:t Petersburg
- Hasegawa, Kazuto and Metreveli, Irina
- The participants of the World Championship for men
- The participants of the World Championship for women
From China
Some of the names are unknown for me. I hope to get the names soon.
- Lu Yan
- Shao Xiao-Dong
- Deng Jing-Hui
- Yin Li-cheng
- Li Dong
- Xin Ji Quan
- Zhang Jin Yu and ?
- ? and Su Ling
- ?
Some photos you may also find on
the player´s presentation page