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_____________________________________________________________________ Renju Newsletter No 8, 2006-03-13 Highlights - SWEDISH BLITZ CHAMPIONSHIP - RESULTS FROM TAMPERE MASTERS 2006 - THE 10TH LANGUAGE IN ORC - CZECH _____________________________________________________________________ SWEDISH BLITZ CHAMPIONSHIP On Saturday the 4th of March was clarified the annual Swedish Champion in blitz. There were totally 15 participants and the tournament was held in Linköping. At the first stage all players were divided into 2 groups. After a round robin tournament the two best were clarified and new groups of four players were founded for the final play. This very equal and exciting tournament gave a new Swedish chapion in blitz, Hannes Hermansson. Here are final standings: 1. Hannes Hermansson (Linköping) 2. Stefan Karlsson (Stockholm) 3. Peter Jonsson (Jönköping) 4. Bengt Asplund (Linköping) 5. Marcus Eriksson (Linköping) 6. Björn Lind (Stockholm) 7. Irene Karlsson (Stockholm) 8. Tord Andersson (Uppsala) 9. Richard Sandström (Jönköping) 10. Torbjörn Blomstedt (Stockholm) 11. Hans Sjöstedt (Stockholm) 12. Emma Warner (Stockholm) 13. Bengt Nyberg (Linköping) 14. Johan Malmberg (Linköping) 15. Daniel Nygårds (Stockholm) Irene Karlsson _____________________________________________________________________ RESULTS FROM TAMPERE MASTERS 2006 On March 11.-12. an international renju tournament was held in Tampere, Finland. The tournament was named "Masters", thanks to the idea by Marko Pellikka! Totally 22 players participated and we played 7 rounds in Swiss system. Final standings: Place Name Score Buch. Berg. Wins 1 Ilu, Timo (EST) 6 31.0 25.00 6 2 Meritee, Ando (EST) 6 29.5 25.00 6 3 Oll, Aivo (EST) 5 27.0 19.00 5 4 Purk, Andry (EST) 4.5 30.5 17.25 4 5 Veidemanis, Arnis (LAT) 4.5 28.5 14.50 4 6 Soosyrv, Ants (EST) 4.5 27.5 15.00 4 7 Jonsson, Peter (SWE) 4.5 25.5 13.75 4 8 Saarenpää, Samuli (FIN) 4 28.0 12.50 3 9 Timmermann, Alvar (EST) 4 26.5 12.00 4 10 Pellikka, Marko (FIN) 4 25.5 11.00 4 11 Karlsson, Stefan (SWE) 4 25.0 10.00 4 12 Skuridina-Jonsson, Olga (RUS) 3 28.5 9.00 3 13 Ikonen, Jussi (FIN) 3 24.0 6.00 3 14 Haikonen, Kari (FIN) 3 23.0 6.00 3 15 Kikkas, Chrislyn (EST) 3 21.0 6.00 3 16 Eggert, Ester (EST) 3 19.0 5.00 3 17 Karlsson, Irene (EST) 3 15.0 4.00 3 18 Gurckis, Gatis (LAT) 2 25.0 7.00 2 19 Toivonen, Lauri (FIN) 2 24.0 5.00 2 20 Nukk, Rauno (EST) 2 17.5 2.00 2 21 Nukk, Erki (EST) 2 16.0 2.00 2 22 Savik, Aki (EST) 0 21.5 0.00 0 All games will be published soon on our website, www.renju.fi On behalf of our federation, I thank everyone who joined our new tournament.. Wish to see you all and hopefully many others also next year! Samuli Saarenpää samuli@renju.fi _____________________________________________________________________ THE 10TH LANGUAGE IN ORC - CZECH ORC Game Center is proud to annouce the publication of it's 10th language version - Czech version. Great thanks to derkas (Jan Zavadil) for his excellent job in translating ORC into Czech! Hope we will have more friends join us with this new version. To get the new version, follow one of the two choices: 1. Download the Czech version installation file from http://www.renju.net/orc/ , install it, start ORC Game center, and set language to Czech, then restart ORC; 2. Turn on Auto Update, restart ORC game center, set language to Czech, and restart ORC game center (again). Czech resource files will be downloaded and installed automatically. Enjoy the new version! Lu Wenzhe _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Renju Newsletter No 7, 2006-03-01 Highlights - SOME NEWS FROM ESTONIA - RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP HIGH LEAGUE _____________________________________________________________________ SOME NEWS FROM ESTONIA Some information about coming Team World Championship You can read at renju..ee - championships. Soon tournament regulation will be added there. Right now I am glad to announce that 9 teams are going to play - Russia 1, Russia 2, Finland, China, Japan, Poland, Sweden, Estonia 1 and Estonia 2. Second preliminary tournament of Estonian Cup 2006 was played January 28. Results: 1. Andry Purk 7 (7 games) 2. Alvar Timmermann 5 3. Renee Pajuste 4,5 4. Kaia Kolk 4,5 5. Mikk Oblikas 4 6. Sten Leesmann 4 7. Paul Valjataga 3 8. Sander Sulane 3 9. Peeter Kolk 3 10. Tauri Purk 2 11. Iisak Virma 2 12. Aki Savik 0 Ants _____________________________________________________________________ RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP HIGH LEAGUE From 19 to 26 of February the High League tournament of XIV Open Russian Championship was held in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl district. As usually, 16 participants played in a Round-Robin tournament. Final standings: 1. Chingin Konstantin (Dolgoprudny) 12 2. Savrasova Yulia (Podyuga) 11 3. Klimashin Alexandr (St.Petersburg) 10.5 74.25 4. Artemyev Sergej (St.Petersburg) 10.5 65 5. Lysakov Mikhail (Podyuga) 9.5 66.5 6. Karasyov Maxim (N.Novgorod) 9.5 58.25 ----------------------------------------------------- 7. Nikonov Konstantin (Electrostal) 9.5 57.5 8. Kadulin Alexandr (Podyuga) 9 9. Kozhin Mikhail (Dubna) 8 10. Kareyev Vladislav (N.Novgorod) 7 11. Vershinin Pavel (Vologda) 6.5 12. Salnikov Pavel (St.Petersburg) 5.5 38.25 13. Nekrasov Yevgeny (Kargopol) 5.5 26.75 14. Filinov Vladimir (St.Petersburg) 2.5 15. Salnikova Nonna (St.Petersburg) 2 16. Krayeva Tatjyana (Podyuga) 1.5 Congratulations to the new Champion - Konstantin Chingin! It's his second high Russian title. Friendly, Pavel Salnikov _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Renju Newsletter No 6, 2006-02-12 Highlights - THE 2ND MEETING OF PLAYERS COUNCIL - WORLD-WIDE POLL OF RENJU OPENING RULES _____________________________________________________________________ THE 2ND MEETING OF PLAYERS COUNCIL The 2nd meeting of Players Council was very successful. All countries agreed on excluding 23 proposals from list. So, there are 8 rules remained in the list now. These 8 rules belong to the rules groups A,B and C. In the next meeting we will continue discussing these 8 proposals. The next meeting will take place on March 5, at 12.00pm GMT. The complete list of renju opening rules proposals together with evaluations by RIF Rules Commission: http://renju.compute.com.tw/~renjuclass/forum/usr/25/25_41_2.zip The protocol of the 2nd meeting can be downloaded from here: http://renju.compute.com.tw/~renjuclass/forum/usr/25/25_41_1.zip The protocol file is best viewed by Classroom Viewer, which can be downloaded from here: http://renju.compute.com.tw/~renjuclass/classroom/works24/RenjuClassWorks24..zip The Player's Council is an unofficial body of world top renju players and officials, who represent the majority opinion of their country as well as expert opinion of their own, in order to discuss and find agreement about best possible opening rule proposal. With the help of series of meetings, we hope to select the one and only final choice, so that in May 2006, RIF General Assembly could vote for new opening rule without complications. Every renju country has a right to be represented in these meetings. To get the access to the meeting, please contact me, and I will provide the name and password. On behalf of Rules Commission (Jonsson, Tarannikov, Kawamura and me) I thank all the members of Players Council for active and dedicated participation in the meeting! See you all in the 3rd meeting, on March 5! Ando Meritee Chairman of Rules Commission _____________________________________________________________________ WORLD-WIDE POLL OF RENJU OPENING RULES On February 12, the Players Council had a meeting regarding new rules proposals. We excluded 23 proposals from 31, and 8 remained for further discussions. On March 5, there will be next meeting of Players Council. Every renju player in the world can make their effort in this process, too. For that, you can participate in the poll and vote for the rules that are acceptable for you. You can vote for more than one rule choice, if you like.. Please vote for every choice that you like. This way, RIF Rules Commission and Players Council will have better information about public opinion. Enjoy the poll!! The results can be seen right after voting! Good luck with voting! The location of the Poll is: http://renju.compute.com.tw/~renjuclass/cgi-bin/forum/topic.cgi?forum=25&topic=43&show=0 Ando Meritee _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Renju Newsletter No 5, 2006-02-08 Highlights - RESULTS OF RENJU WC-2005 VIA E-MAIL - TAKE PART IN THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2006 VIA E-MAIL! - NIZHNY NOVGOROD OPEN - ASIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP - HASEGAWA BECAME A MEIJIN AGAIN! - THE 9TH MIKAMI CUP _____________________________________________________________________ RESULTS OF RENJU WC-2005 VIA E-MAIL Dear renju players participating in WC via e-mail and who are interested in that! I'm glad to inform you that the new World Champion is Barykin Viktor from Russia, congratulations! Other results are: High League (Final of 10th Renju World Championship via e-mail) Group A Pl. Participant Country UserID Points MPs Koef ========================================================== 1. Barykin Viktor RUS vbarykin 11.5 6.5 99.50 2. Zhang Jinyu CHI freefish 11.5 6.0 95.75 3. Wenzhe Lu CHI luwenzhe 10.0 4.5 80.25 4. Song Xian CHI whte 10.0 4.5 80.25 5. Chuancheg Li CHI ccwn 10.0 4.5 79.50 6. Chen Wei CHI chinastar 9.5 5.0 79.50 ========================================================== 7. Potapov A. RUS apotapov 9.0 5.0 81.00 8. Bobkov E. RUS bobkove 9.0 4.5 78.00 9. Filippov S. RUS filippov 5.5 2.5 48.25 10. Cheng Mu CHI moocheng 4.0 2.0 35.00 First League (Semifinals of 11th Renju World Championship via e-mail) Group B Pl. Participant Country UserID Points MPs Koef ========================================================== 1. Epifanov D. RUS owen 18.5 10.0 174.75 2. Bai Shi CHI whitestone 17.5 9.5 163.25 ========================================================== 3. Mao Mao CHI faintcat 17.0 9.0 155.00 4. Dvoeglazov V. RUS dvoeglazov 16.0 8.0 128.25 5. Kuznetsov N. RUS nik_hopper 13.0 6.0 93.75 6. Ustimov A. RUS mowgli 12.5 5.5 101.50 7. Wu Hao CHI seiya 12.0 6.0 96.50 8. Heybatov N. AZE nheybatov 11.0 5.0 76.50 ========================================================== 9. Youning Han CHI icesword 6.0 3.0 31.50 10. Wen Hao CHI hiroshi 5.0 2.5 15.50 11. Hung Yun-Tung TWN fermat 3.5 1.5 10.50 12. Hong Lee CHI weskit 0.0 0.0 0.00 Group C Pl. Participant Country UserID Points MPs Koef ========================================================== 1. Coco Yang CHI coco_yuang 15.0 9.0 152.50 2. Qi Da Nei CHI alucard 14.5 7.5 145.25 ========================================================== 3. Nikonov K. RUS vanalaud 13.5 6.5 132.50 4. Ke Yang CHI yangke 12.5 6.5 132.00 5. Balanova Je. LAT leoranger 12.5 6.0 131.25 6. Dzainukov E AZE dem 12.5 6.0 121.00 7. Qi Ya CHI killua 12.0 6.5 117.50 8. Wei Hua Wei CHI whwdream 11.0 5.5 114.75 ========================================================== 9. Yamamoto M. JAP myamamoto 9.5 4.0 105.50 10. Makarov P. RUS mak 7.0 3.5 65.75 11. Sviridov N. RUS nikolay 6.5 3.0 64.25 12. Feng Huansheng. CHI amao 5.5 2.0 58.75 Second League (Quarterfinals of 12th Renju World Championship via e-mail) Group D Pl. Participant Country UserID Points MPs Koef ========================================================== 1. Bashirov R. RUS bru 19.0 10.0 179.25 2. zhou nan CHI worker 18.5 9.5 167.25 ========================================================== 3. Xu Liu CHI fss.sosei 18.0 9.0 158.25 4. Zhukov V. RUS arrow 16.0 8.0 142.00 5. Kuryan O. UZB shustrik1 14.0 6.5 100.50 6. Turko S. RUS sturko 12.5 6.0 91.25 7. Andry Purk EST andry 11.0 5.5 62.50 8. longzeng CHI longzeng 10.0 5.0 49.50 9. Matveev A. RUS alexey 6.0 3.0 14.00 10. Baoguo Zhou CHI H8 4.0 2.0 6.00 11. Nazarov V. UKR vnazarov 3.0 1.5 16.00 12. Luke Pebody CHI drp 0.0 0.0 0.00 Group E Pl. Participant Country UserID Points MPs Koef ========================================================== 1. Fedorkin O. RUS fedorkin 19.0 10.0 184.25 2. alyssa chia CHI alyssa 17.5 8.5 157.00 ========================================================== 3. Jean Arberg FRA jeanp-a 15.0 7.5 139.50 4. Zhang Peng CHI voshkod 15.0 7.5 133.50 5. Kolesnik V. UKR kvik 14.0 7.0 117.75 6. yiqunmei CHI ldljyqm 12.0 6.0 87.00 7. Aivo Oll EST aivo 11.0 5.5 82.00 8. Vinokurtsev V. RUS wiktor 11.0 5.5 77.00 9. Trenogin V. TRK trenogin 10.5 5.0 71.50 10. Vodolazsky K. RUS vodolazsky 4.0 2.0 6.00 11. Trifonov Gleb RUS got 2.0 1.0 16.00 12. Kobzev Alexey ARM kai 1.0 0.5 2.00 Group F Pl. Participant Country UserID Points MPs Koef ========================================================== 1. Balabhai V. RUS vkb 20.0 10.0 190.00 2. Zyazin A. RUS iskander 18.5 9.5 162.25 ========================================================== 3. Krivtsov N. RUS krnik 17.5 9.0 159.00 4. Li Ying CHI dinerstein 15.5 7.5 120.50 5. Artemyev S.[Ul] RUS arts 14.5 7.0 101.25 6. Tatsutomi Ya. JAP tatsutomi 14.0 7.0 100.50 7. lihanlin CHI lhl7806 12.0 6.0 71.50 8. Kadyrov G. RUS natvik 8.0 4.0 24.00 9. FENG Huasheng CHI gauss98 6.0 3.0 12.00 10. Tunnet Taimla EST tank 4.0 2.0 4.00 11. Kobzev Viktor ARM avg 2.0 1.0 0.00 12. Pedro Graca POR slowmover 0.0 0.0 0.00 Group G Pl. Participant Country UserID Points MPs Koef ========================================================== 1. Suslov A. MLD suslov 20.0 10.5 187.00 2. Salnikov P. RUS psalnikov 19.0 9.5 170.00 ========================================================== 3. Pang Wei CHI slamduk 19.0 9.5 168.50 4. wang xiao ming CHI terry 17.0 8.0 138.50 5. Kurochkin V. RUS kurok 14.0 7.0 90.00 6. xingyue CHI renjukings 13.0 6.5 74.00 7. Nefedyev S. RUS snefedyev 10.0 5.0 40.00 8. Serdyuk A. RUS warpod 7.0 3.5 23.00 9. Melnik Dm. UKR dim64m 6.0 3.0 14.00 10. Zhu kai CHI endlesroad 3.0 1.5 11.00 11. Lipsits Sasha USA slipsits 2.0 1.0 6.00 12. Timo Ilu EST reigo 2.0 1.0 4.00 Abbreviations: Pl. - Place; MPs - Match Points; Coef - Berger Coefficient. Friendly yours, Epifanov Dmitry aka owen. E-mail: owene@pisem.net _____________________________________________________________________ TAKE PART IN THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2006 VIA E-MAIL! In 2006 year tournament, will be held in 3 leagues (can be qualification organized, if will be a big quantity of participants): High League(Group A, 10 participants), First League (Groups B and C), Second League and Qualification(the quantity of groups depends on quantity of the sent application for participation). 4 top players from Groups B and C (2 players from each) will play in the High League next year instead of 4 bottom players from Group A. 8 top players from Second League will play in the First League next year instead of bottom 8 players from Groups B and C (4 players from each). And Winners Qualification will play in the Second league next year. Final transition between the second league and qualification will be authorized Before the beginning of the championship. The quota of participants from one country will be observed. The tournament is held at PBeM Server (http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv). Time control - 135 days to each player for all game. Besides that, there is an additional rule used at the server - 21 days per 1 move (this rule only on the server, therefore referee does not finish games by this rule). Starting date approximately is March 1, 2005. Deadline for applications is February 23, 2005. All renju fans are invited to take part in the tournament! An application should consist of: 1. Name 2. Country 3. E-mail 4. Userid at PBeM Server Please, send your applications: Dmitry Epifanov (e-mail: owene@pisem.net, renjusignup@yandex.ru) see also: http://renjusignup.narod.ru/, Now High League and First League look like as follows: High League (Final of 11th Renju World Championship via e-mail) Group A No Participant Country Userid ---------------------------------------- 1. Barykin Viktor RUS vbarykin 2. Zhang Jinyu CHI freefish 3. Wenzhe Lu CHI luwenzhe 4. Song Xian CHI whte 5. Chuancheg Li CHI ccwn 6. Chen Wei CHI chinastar 7. Epifanov D. RUS owen 8. Bai Shi CHI whitestone 9. Coco Yang CHI coco_yuang 10. Qi Da Nei CHI alucard First League (Semifinals of 12th Renju World Championship via e-mail) Groups B and C No Participant Country Userid ------------------------------------- 1. Potapov A. RUS apotapov 2. Bobkov E. RUS bobkove 3. Filippov S. RUS filippov 4. Cheng Mu CHI moocheng 5. Mao Mao CHI faintcat 6. Dvoeglazov V. RUS dvoeglazov 7. Kuznetsov N. RUS nik_hopper 8. Ustimov A. RUS mowgli 9. Wu Hao CHI seiya 10. Heybatov N. AZE nheybatov 11. Nikonov K. RUS vanalaud 12. Ke Yang CHI yangke 13. Balanova Je. LAT leoranger 14. Dzainukov E AZE dem 15. Qi Ya CHI killua 16. Wei Hua Wei CHI whwdream 17. Bashirov R. RUS bru 18. zhou nan CHI worker 19. Fedorkin O. RUS fedorkin 20. alyssa chia CHI alyssa 21. Balabhai V. RUS vkb 22. Zyazin A. RUS iskander 23. Suslov A. MLD suslov 24. Salnikov P. RUS psalnikov Friendly yours, Potapov Alexei _____________________________________________________________________ NIZHNY NOVGOROD OPEN In the middle of March the Nizhny Novgorod renju club will celebrate 22-th anniversary. So the traditional “Nizhny Novgorod – open” tournament will be held March 17-19. All renjuplayers from all over the world are welcome. For more detailed information and personal invitations alexey_skuridin@hotmail.com _____________________________________________________________________ ASIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP Asia open-championship will be held in Korea August 11 to August 16. More detailed information will be provided soon. Anders Henningsson _____________________________________________________________________ HASEGAWA BECAME A MEIJIN AGAIN! The 5th game(final game) of Meijin Match was held at 28 of January. Hasegawa won and got the meijin title at the 2nd time. Hasegawa(T.B) 1-0 Kawamura Total Hasegawa 3.5-1.5 Kawamura 5th game, Hasegawa was T.B and selected D11. Kawamura chose black and played the old 11th move. After 18th move Kawamura had an advantage and attacked. However, his attack was not good and failed attacking. Hasegawa won at 60th move by 4x4 prohibited move. Norihiko Kawamura _____________________________________________________________________ THE 9TH MIKAMI CUP It was held in Tokyo on Jan. 28. 5-9 dan class was held as a test tournament of rule-2 in ORC forum. Other classes was held in current RIF rule. 5-9 dan class (8 players joind) 1 Yusui Yamaguchi 3.5 (out of 4) 2 Junya Takashima 3 3 Masao Mitsumori 2.5 4 Taizan Isobe 2 Nobuyoshi Arita 2 6 Yoshihiro Iio 1.5 7 Hiroshi Okabe 1 8 Shin-ichi Ishitani 0.5 1-4 dan class (19 players joined) 1 Yuki Kamo 5(out of 5) 2 Takayuki Ono 4 Jun Koyama 4 Katsuhiro Tomobe 4 *Kamo (renju name of Yuki Oosumi joind 9th WC) got 5-dan by this winning, he passed 1-4 dan in only 11 monthes!! Kyu players class (14 players joined) 1 Masaki Fujikawa 5 2 Masayuki Koyama 5 3 Hiroki Tanji 4.5 * extra game: Fujikawa 1:0 Koyama Organizers: Koji Maruta, Izumi Kubo and Hiroshi Okabe Hiroshi Okabe p.okabe@dream.ocn.ne.jp _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Renju Newsletter No 4, 2006-01-16 Highlights - YOUTH RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP _____________________________________________________________________ YOUTH RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIP January 10-12 the Youth Russian championship (1994 y.b. and younger) was held in Nizhny Novgorod. 18 boys and 14 girls from Rybinsk, Zhiguljovsk, Podjuga and Nizhny Novgorod took part. Boys. Swiss system, 11 rounds: place points coef 1.Krjuchok Roman Podjuga 2d 9 71 53 2.Merkulov Artem Podjuga 3d 9 71 53 3.Savrasov Ruslan Podjuga 4k 9 69 52 4.Motin Sergey Zhiguljovsk 6k 4k 9 67 54 5.Solovjev Egor Rybinsk 4k + 8 66 39 6.Sobolev Pavel N.Novgorod 7k 6k 7 63 28 7.Gorokhov Nikita N.Novgorod 7k + 6 66 22 8.Prokopjev Ruslan Podjuga 4k - 6 63 20 9.Tumanov Yury Podjuga 4k - 5 60 16 10.Somov Roman N.Novgorod 8k + 4 69 14 11.Glazkov Dmitry N.Novgorod 10k 9k 4 63 18 12.Korjakin Anton N.Novgorod 10k + 4 57 12 13.Kuzikov Timofey N.Novgorod 8k - 4 53 14 14.Nesterenko Dmitry N.Novgorod 10k + 4 49 12 15.Zakharov Roman N.Novgorod 10k + 3 59 10 16.Sveshnikov Ilja Rybinsk 9k - 3 47 12 17.Babaev Ivan N.Novgorod 10k - 3 47 9 18.Belkin Nikolay N.Novgorod 9k - 2 49 6 Very interesting situation happened in the tournament: top 4 participants have got 9 points. Krjuchok and Merkulov have got equal coefficient. Therefore, the personal game was taken into consideration. Girls. Swiss system, 11 rounds: place points coef 1.Oborina Anastasia Podjuga 1k 10 61 54 2.Novozhilova Olesia Podjuga 4k 10 59 49 3.Sumarokova Alexandra Podjuga 4k 8 63 36 4.Litvinova Julia Podjuga 4k 7 62 38 5.Kurdina Olga Podjuga 4k 7 61 30 6.Rodina Anastasia N.Novgorod 10k 9k 5 61 18 7.Karacheva Anastasia Zhiguljovsk 10k + 4 65 18 8.Bashkirova Elena N.Novgorod 10k + 4 64 17 9.Romanova Ekaterina Zhiguljovsk 10k + 4 62 15 10.Sokolova Alina Zhiguljovsk 8k - 4 62 14 11.Belova Ekaterina Zhiguljovsk 10k + 4 59 16 12.Trefilova Aljona Rybinsk 10k + 4 56 14 13.Komissarova Ekaterina Zhiguljovsk 10k + 4 55 14 14.Makhalova Polina N.Novgorod 10k - 2 57 11 The tournament shows ones again young renju players from Podjuga (especially girls) are strongest in Russia. A. Skuridin _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Renju Newsletter No 3, 2006-01-15 Highlights - THE FIRST MEETING OF PLAYERS COUNCIL - RENJU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BY E-MAIL 2006 - SOME NEWS FROM ESTONIA - TAMPERE MASTERS RENJU TOURNAMENT 2006 _____________________________________________________________________ THE FIRST MEETING OF PLAYERS COUNCIL On January 15, 2006, at 12.00 GMT the members of Players Council had the first meeting in ORC Classroom. The players Council consists of top players and officials of renju countries. The task of Players Council is to find the agreement between renju countries about the best choice for new opening rule of renju. The following people too part in the first meeting: Hermansson - Sweden Tarannikov - RIF Rules Commission Meritee - RIF Rules Commission Tsai_chiacheng - Chinese Taipei Okabe - Japan Jonsson - RIF Rules Commission Sushkov - Russia Yamaguchi - Japan Song_xian - China Gu_wei - China Karlsson - Sweden Taimla - Estonia Soosõrv - Estonia During the first meeting, the Players Council agreed about the proper criteria which should be used for evaluating all the 31 proposals of opening rules. The 7 criteria are: - the new rule should not be very different from the current rule (the smaller is the change, the better) - the new rule should give more playable (balanced) variants than the current rule - it should be fair to both players (one player should not have too big "home preparation" advantage) - it should be easy for beginners to learn rules and to play by these rules - it should include all or nearly all the existing theory - there should be no strange "far-away" moves be possible during the opening stage - the first move should be in the center During the next weeks, RIF Rules Commission will use these criteria to analyse all 31 proposals and will grade them. After grading the list of 31 proposals will be sorted according to grades. This sorted list will be used in the 2nd meeting of Players Council as a reference, simplifying the work of Players Council and helping to make decisions easier. The first meeting was successful! Everybody made a great effort. The 2nd meeting will be held on February 12, 2006, at 11 a.m. GMT (7pm China time, 8pm Japan time). The meeting protocol is available here: http://renju.compute.com.tw/~renjuclass/forum/usr/25/25_39.zip . It is best viewed by the ORC Works program (in Viewer mode). You can download that program from http://renju.compute.com..tw/~renjuclass/classroom/works24/RenjuClassWorks24.zip Every renju player has a right to review the meeting protocol, and send your opinion and comments to the representative of your country, and he/she would then represent your opinion in the 2nd meeting of Players Council. If your country does not have any representative yet, please contact RIF Rules Commission and we will make the username and password for him/her for accessing the meeting room. The forum for discussing renju opening rules proposals is located at http://renju.compute.com.tw/~renjuclass/cgi-bin/forum/forums.cgi?forum=25 You can find all the 31 opening rules proposals there. Ando Meritee The Chairman of RIF Rules Commission _____________________________________________________________________ RENJU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BY E-MAIL 2006 Hello all! WC-2006 will begin very soon. If you wish to take part in this tournament you should: 1) Create userid at PBeM server www.gamerz.net if you don't have one. 2) Send a letter to the following addresses: owene@pisem.net, renjusignup@narod.ru. The letter should contain: a) Your name and surname; b) Your userid; c) Your country; d) Your e-mail. If it's the first time you participate in WC by e-mail or if you have played earlier with another userid please point it out in your letter. Deadline for applications is the first decade of February. For additional information check http://renjusignup.narod.ru Good luck in the tournament! _____________________________________________________________________ SOME NEWS FROM ESTONIA Tallinn Renjuclub lost match against Shanghai Renjuclub, played on internet (ORC) January 7. Ando Meritee - Li Hong Bin 2:0 Andry Purk - Zhu Jianfeng 0:2 Timo - Chen Wenxia 1,5:0,5 Aivo Oll - Cai Lijie 1:1 Ester Eggert - Gu Wanqin 0:2 total score: 4,5 - 5,5 January 5. Preliminary tournament of Estonian Cup 2006 was played: 1. Aivo Oll 6 2. Timo Ilu 6 3. Andry Purk 5 4. Rauni Lillemets 5 5. Ergo Kaljuste 3 6. Tauri Purk 2 7. Mart Kullamaa 1 8. Kaia Kolk 0 3 best got place in final stage, among 8 finalists Ando Meritee and Johann Lents finished their semifinalmatch in Estonian Cup 2004 (:-)) ). Ando won 3:0 and will play with Ants Soosyrv in final. Estonia have also made selection to Estonia 1 team for Team WC. We decided to give place for Ando and Tunnet Taimla without competition. Timo Ilu decided to play in Estonia 2 and didnt candidate. So finally 4 players - Johann Lents, Andry Purk, Aivo Oll and Ants Soosyrv had battle for 3 places. Unfortunately Andry and Johann didnt fight really seriously, as they have exams during TWC and cant play all games they were not strongly motivated. Results (double Round Robin) 1. Ants Soosyrv 5 2. Aivo Oll 4 3. Johann Lents 2 4. Andry Purk 1 Aivo got 1 pluss against Andry and Andry got 1 pluss against Johann. So, Estonia 1 team members are (order of tables is not decided yet) - Ando Meritee, Tunnet Taimla, Ants Soosyrv, Aivo Oll, Johann Lents. Estonia 2 members are not selected yet, except Timo Ilu Friendly, Ants _____________________________________________________________________ TAMPERE MASTERS RENJU TOURNAMENT 2006 On March 11.-12. a Renju tournament will be held in Tampere, Finland. Thanks to the imagination of Marko Pellikka, the tournament is named Tampere Masters! We will play only Renju and we will be using the current RIF rules. 7 rounds are scheduled and Swiss system is being used. Time control is about 50min/player/game without extra time. The tournament will be held at the university of Tampere, the main building there. We will be able to provide free accommodation for all participants, who do not wish to stay at any hotel etc. If someone wishes to stay at a hotel, please contact us soon, since we may be able to get some discount from a certain smaller hotel near central area. For detailed information, please see http://tampere.pellikka.net . We will be publishing more detailed information there concerning all matters necessary for your participation. There you can find also information about visa matters, but all players who need visa should contact us also. The tournament fee is 5EUR. Please inform us as soon as possible, if you will join our tournament. The deadline for signing-up for the tournament is March 1st. On the website, you can find also the preliminary schedule for the tournament. Since we will start the games around 10am on Saturday, it is best for all players to come during Friday if in any way possible. If you come by plane, we will provide you a car ride from the airport to your accommodation place. Estimated time for closing on Sunday is 4pm. We will update the website with new and improved information as soon as we get some to our knowledge. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or Marko (e-mail: marko@renju.fi). Welcome all to Tampere! -Samuli Saarenpää- e-mail: samuli@renju.fi _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Renju Newsletter No 2, 2006-01-03 Highlights - SOME NEWS FROM ESTONIA _____________________________________________________________________ SOME NEWS FROM ESTONIA In Tallinn Open we didnt have many guests this time, but first time during last years we had all best at the moment estonian renjuplayers together. Also "old" players as Pajuste and Raude made come back after 14 years break. Battle was really interesting and winner uclear till the last moment. Mikhail Kozhin had good chances to win tournament, but finally failed in game with Ando. Stefan Karlsson took 4,5 out of first 5 games but lost last 3... Some results from the tournament: 2nd round - Lents - Kozhin 1:0, Taimla - Ilu 1:0 3rd round - Karlsson - Lents 1:0 (Johann didnt stop four...), Andry Purk - Soosyrv 0:1, Taimla - Meritee 0:1 4rd round - Meritee - Karlsson 0:1 (Ando couldnt find his win in time-trouble), Soosyrv - Jonsson 1:0, Taimla - Lents 1:0 5th round - Soosyrv - Karlsson 0,5: 0,5 (Stefan missed win at least 3 times!), Oll - Kozhin 0:1, Purk - Taimla 1:0, Ilu-Meritee 0:1 6th round - Kozhin - Karlsson 1:0, Soosyrv - Oll 1:0, Meritee - Purk 1:0 7th round - Soosyrv - Meritee 0:1, Purk - Kozhin 0:1, Taimla - Karlsson 1:0, Ilu -Lents 1:0 8th round - Meritee - Kozhin 1:0, Taimla - Soosyrv 1:0, Ilu - Karlsson 1:0, Lents - Oll 1:0, Purk - Pajuste 0:1 This tournament was last of 3 Nordic Cup tournaments, all which were played with alternative opening rules. Here we publish 15 best in total: 1. Timo Ilu EST 61 (3 - number of played tournaments) 2. Ants Soosyrv EST 44 (3) 3. Johann Lents EST 30 (2) 4. Tunnet Taimla EST 30 (2) 5. Stefan Karlsson SWE 30 (3) 6. Aivo Oll 28 EST (3) 7. Ando Meritee EST 25 (1) 8. Andry Purk EST 21 (3) 9. Mikhail Kozhin RUS 20 (1) 10. Peter Jonsson SWE 18 (3) 11. Jussi Ikonen FIN 15 (3) 12. Gatis Gurckis LAT 11 (1) 13.-15. Olga Skuridina - Jonsson RUS, Marko Pellikka FIN and Renee Pajuste EST 9 (1) Ants _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Renju Newsletter No 1, 2006-01-01 Highlights - OPENING RULES PROPOSALS PERIOD ENDED - TALLINN OPEN 2005 - COMING CHANGES IN RIF WEB AND NEWS _____________________________________________________________________ OPENING RULES PROPOSALS PERIOD ENDED December 31, 2005 was the last day where the people all over the world could send their proposals about new renju opening rules to the specially designed discussion Forum at ORC - http://renju.compute.com.tw/~renjuclass/cgi-bin/forum/forums.cgi?forum=25 By the end of that day we got 31 proposals. It is not possible to add more proposals any more, but it is still possible to write comments on these 31 rules. The RIF Rules Commission will review these 31 rules, and exclude the ones which clearly do not meet the requirements of a serious opening rule. During the next 4 months, there will be 4 big online meetings among the officials and top players from renju countries. The purpose of these lobby meetings is to discuss about the rules proposals and to find the agreement between all the member countries about the final choice of a new opening rule. As a result, the General Assembly can have a peaceful and convenient voting for the new official opening rule in May 2006. The first meeting will take place in ORC Virtual Classroom on January 15, at 12pm GMT (that is 8pm by China time and 9pm by Japan time). In order to have an effective and constructive discussion, the number of people in that meeting will be limited. But nevertheless the meeting will be public - the full records of each meeting will be published on the website so that everybody can read it and react on it by contacting his country's representative. That way, the representatives in those meetings do not only express their own opinion, but they also bring out the majority opinion of their country. During the coming days we will try to reach the officials and top players from each country to ask if they wish to participate in these meetings. There will be about 1-5 members from each country. In addition, the Rules Commission members will participate there - Jonsson, Kawamura, Tarannikov, Meritee. There will also be one meeting in February, March and April. Our hope is that at latest by April meeting, all the RIF member countries have unofficially agreed among each other about which rule will be chosen in May 2006. After that the official decision making in General Assembly will be easy. _____________________________________________________________________ TALLINN OPEN 2005 During December 28-30, 2005 the annual international tournament "Tallinn Open" was played. This time 26 players from 4 countries took part - Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Russia. The tournament was played in Swiss System, with 8 rounds. The referee was Urmas Raude and the tournament director and organizer was Ants Soosõrv. "Tallinn Open" is one of the 3 tournaments which are played under Nordic Cup system. During 2005, all the 3 tournaments were used for testing the potential opening rules. This time the "Rule 4" was used (see the rule's descriptions from http://renju.compute.com.tw/~renjuclass/cgi-bin/forum/forums.cgi?forum=25 ). None of the testing tournaments will be counted into RIF ratings system. The final standings (8 rounds): 1. Ando Meritee 7 2. Mihail Kozhin 6 3. Tunnet Taimla 6 4. Ants Soosõrv 5,5 5. Timo Ilu 5,5 6. Johann Lents 5 7. Renee Pajuste 5 8. Stefan Karlsson 4,5 9. Mikk Oblikas 4,5 10. Aivo Oll 4,5 11. Peter Jonsson 4,5 12. Jussi Ikonen 4,5 13. Andry Purk 4 14. Irene Karlsson 4 15. Rauni Lillemets 4 16. Paul Väljataga 4 17. Ester Eggert 4 18. Urmas Raude 3,5 19. Ergo Kaljuste 3,5 20. Karin Klooster 3 21. Tauri Purk 3 22. Chris Reintal 2,5 23. Eevert Kokkonen 2 24. Eelis Kokkonen 2 25. Aki Savik 2 26. Chrislyn Kikkas 0 _____________________________________________________________________ COMING CHANGES IN RIF WEB AND NEWS >From now on the new editor for RIF website and newsletter will be Ando Meritee. Very big thanks to Frank Arkbo who had carried this heavy duty of webmaster until now! He did an excellent job! Together with the change of editor there will be some changes in RIF web and news system, too. The period of changes will last couple of weeks. The new RIF homepage will be operating under the domain of www.renju.net The www.renju.net will combine the materials of current RIF homepage and the Renjunet homepage. It will be done in order to serve the renju players of the world better. _____________________________________________________________________
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