June 30, 1997
The Swedish Qualfication tournament before WC 1977 is finished
Results:
1. Petter Gardström PG 9.5 Plays in WC A-Final 2. Stefan Karlsson SK 7.5 Plays in WC QT 3. Tord Andersson TA 5.0 Plays in WC QT ------------------------------ 4. Björn Wallgren BW 3.0 5. Göran Holgersson GH 2.5 5. Peter Jonsson PJ 2.5
June 25, 1997
is played during this week. The tournament will end on Saturday June, 28. 6 players are fighting for 1 place in WC A-final and 2 places in Qualification tournament. In the tournament all players will play against all other players two times. After half tournament (5 rounds) the standings are as follows:
1. Petter Gardström PG 5 2. Stefan Karlsson SK 3.5 3. Tord Andersson TA 2.5 4. Göran Holgersson GH 1.5 4. Peter Jonsson PJ 1.5 6. Björn Wallgren BW 1.0 Round I GH - PG 0-1 SK - TA 1-0 PJ - BW 0.5-0.5 Round II TA - PG 0-1 BW - SK 0-1 PJ - GH 1-0 Round III PG - BW 1-0 GH - TA 0-1 SK - PJ 1-0 Round IV BW - TA 0.5-0.5 PJ - PG 0-1 SK - GH 0.5-0.5 Round V PG - SK 1-0 TA - PJ 1-0 GH - BW 1-0
*Tokai Area 1st Qualification (4 for the 2nd Qualification) Apr.13 Shin'ichi Ishitani * 1 1 H 1 + + + + 3H Takeo Miyoshi 0 * H + 1 1 + + + 2H Nagayoshi Takazawa 0 H * + + 1 + + 1 2H Tsuyoshi Ota H + + * 0 + 1 1 + 2H Yasuhiro Yamamoto 0 0 + 1 * + 1 + + 2 Jun'ichiro Suzuki + 0 0 + + * 1 + 1 2 Mikio Takeuchi + + + 0 0 0 * 1 + 1 Toru Ito + + + 0 + + 0 * 1 1 Yasushi Maruyama + + 0 + + 0 + 0 * 0 *Tokai Area 2nd Qualification (1 for Meijin-sen) May 25 Takeo Miyoshi * 0 1 1 Nagayoshi Takazawa 1 * H 0 Tsuyoshi Ota 0 H * 1 Shin'ichi Ishitani 0 1 0 * Mr.Miyoshi will take part in the Meijin-sen. *Kyushu Area 1st Qualification (5 for 2nd Qualification) Apr.13 2 from each group and the winner of wxtra game by the 3rd of both group will lead to the 2nd qualification Group A Group B Akio Kuga * H H 1 1 1 Tadanobu Tanaka * 0 1 1 1 Hisao Fujinami H * 1 0 1 1 Kaneo Tanaka 1 * 0 1 1 Shoichi Sakashita H 0 * 1 1 1 Kikumaro Hiwatari 0 1 * 0 1 Kazuhisa Yamaguchi 0 1 0 * 1 1 Masatoshi Kawano 0 0 1 * 0 Toshiaki Inoue 0 0 0 0 * 1 Shigeru Tanigawa 0 0 0 1 * Motoyuki Kawakubo 0 0 0 0 0 * Final Game Sakashita 1-0 Hiwatari *Kyushu Area 2nd Qualification (1 for Meijin-sen) May 11 Akio Kuga * 0 1 1 1 Extra Match Hisao Fujinami 1 * 0 1 1 Kuga - Fujinami 1-0 Tadanobu Tanaka 0 1 * 0 1 Kaneo Tanaka 0 0 1 * 1 Shouichi Sakashita 0 0 0 0 * Mr.Kuga will take part in Meijin-sen. *Chugoku & Shikoku Area Qualification (1 for Meijin-sen) May 11 Kozo Kawate * H 1 1 1 Hiroshi Matsuura H * 0 1 1 Shunzo Furuoka 0 1 * 0 1 Takeshi Kubooka 0 0 1 * 0 Masahiro Kanda 0 0 0 1 * Mr.Kawate gets the right to play in the Meijin-sen *Kansai Area 1st Qualification (2+1 for 2nd qualification) May 18 Kozo Ooi * 1 + 1 + + 1 1 + + + + + 4 Tsunehiro Matsui 0 * 1 + + + + + 1 + + 1 + 3 Yoshimi Hayakawa + 0 * + 1 + + + + 1 1 + + 3 Akihisa Iwata 0 + + * H 1 + + + + 1 + + 2H Teiji Takagawa + + 0 H * + + + + + + 1 + (bye) 2H Yuichiro Kawano + + + 0 + * 1 1 + 0 + + + 2 Toshiko Matsuo 0 + + + + 0 * + + + 1 + 1 2 Shigemasa Koiso 0 + + + + 0 + * + + + 1 1 2 Hiroyuki Tatsutomi + 0 + + + + + + * 1 0 + 1 2 Akihiko Kashihara + + 0 + + 1 + + 0 * + + + (bye) 2 Yasuhiro Adachi + + 0 0 + + 0 + 1 + * + + 1 Yoshihiro Matsuo + 0 + + 0 + + 0 + + + * + (bye) 1 Chie Tatsutomi + + + + + + 0 0 0 + + + * (bye) 1 *Kansai-Hokuriku Area 2nd Qualification (2 for Meijin-sen) June 8 Takashi Sagara * 1 1 1 Yoshimi Hayakawa 0 * 1 1 Tsunehiro Matsui 0 0 * 1 Kozo Ooi 0 0 0 * Mr.Sagara and Mr.Hayakawa will attend the Meijin-sen *East Japan Area 1st Qualification (4 for 2nd qualification) June 1 Shigeru Nakamura * 1 1 + + 1 1 + + + + 4 Takahiro Kudomi 0 * + + + + 1 1 + 1 + 3 Masao Mitsumori 0 + * + H + + + + 1 1 2H Hisashi Takahashi + + + * 0 + + H 1 1 + 2H ------------------------------------------------- Taizan Isobe + + H 1 * + 0 1 + + + 2H (refused) Naoya Suzuki 0 + + + + * + 0 1 + 1 2 Shoki Sunagawa 0 0 + + 1 + * + 1 + + 2 Masato Kusajima + 0 + H 0 1 + * + + + 1H Izumi Kubo + + + 0 + 0 0 + * + 1 1 Hiroshi Aihara + 0 0 0 + + + + + * 1 1 Koji Maruta + + 0 + + 0 + + 0 0 * 0 *East Japan Area 2nd Qualification (2 for Meijin-sen) June 15 Shigeru Nakamura * H H 1 Extra Match Takahiro Kudomi H * 1 0 Kudomi - Takahashi 1-0 Hisashi Takahashi H 0 * 1 Masao Mitsumori 0 1 0 * Mr.Nakamura & Mr.Kudomi will play in Meijin-sen
Now you are able to find the electronic version of the Swedish Magazine Fem I Rad No 1 - 1997 on the following URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/fir971/framsida.htm Some parts of the written version is not included in the electronic version.
More information will hopefully be sent later. The tournament was played 17.06.1997-21.06.1997.
1. Meritee 8p (from 9) 2. Kozhin 7p 3. Skuridin 7p 4. Soosorv 6½p 5. Kabanov 6½p 6. Kareev 6p ...
Totally 46 players played 9 rounds in Swiss system. Some results:
Kozhin-Soosorv ½-½ Meritee-Kozhin 1-0 Kareev-Soosorv 1-0 Meritee-Skuridin 0-1
June 17, 1997
Results of Championship of St. Petersburg
The 15th Championship of St.Petersburg is finished. 10 persons
played in the tournament by Round-Robin System of one round.
Viktor Alexandrov and Alexandr Ivanov relinquished their right of
participation in the tournament.
Below you can see the final position of the participants:
01. Alexandr Klimashin 8,5 33.50
02. Pavel Ses 6 23.75
03. Pavel Salnikov 6 22.25
04. Vladimir Filinov 5,5 19.25
05. Vladimir Sushkov 5,5 17.75
06. Kirill Moiseev 3 10.75
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07. Vladimir Semionov 3 9.25
08. Alexandr Ozhinsky 2,5 10.00
09. Nonna Salnikova 2,5 9.75
10. Anatoly Nyrkov 2,5 7.25
Results of Moscow Open Tournament 12-14.06.97
Main Referee - Dmitriy Krasnonosov
27 participants, 9 rounds.
01. Tarannikov Yu. (Moscow) 7
02. Soosyrv A. (Tallinn) 6.5
03. Makarov P. (Moscow) 6.5
04. Nikonov K. (Electrostal) 6
05. Taiblin Yu. (Rybinsk) 6
06. Filippov S. (Moscow) 5.5
07. Lunkin V. (Moscow) 5.5
08. Golosov V. (Moscow) 5.5
09. Sirategyan K. (Moscow) 5.5
10. Smirnov S. (Moscow) 5
11. Fedorkin O. (Mytischi) 5
12. Karejev V. (N. Novgorod) 5
13. Nosovsky A. (Moscow) 5
14. Tyaglo Yu. (Belgorod) 5
15. Krasnonosova S. (Moscow) 4.5
16. Ogorodov S. (Moscow) 4.5
17. Lebedeva E. (Podyuga) 4
18. Lents J. (Tallinn) 4
19. Potapov V. (Moscow) 4
20. Zvereva M. (Moscow) 4
21. Samal A. (Moscow) 4
22. Piskaryuov A. (Moscow) 3.5
23. Uja A. (Tallinn) 3.5
24. Trofimov Yu. (Moscow) 3
25. Zvereva A. (Moscow) 3
26. Tsygankova T. (Moscow) 2
27. Rakhmatullin A. (Moscow) 1
June 8, 1997
Renju World No 25 (No 1 1997) is now
awailable on the URL-address: http://www.neti.ee/renju/
From Renju World No 25 you are able to read the Renju World on the World Wide Web. The 1st Web-version is now published.
June 2, 1997
Russian Web-pages
Russian Renju Federation has now Renju
Web-pages.
The URL-address is http://194.87.49.195/
There you will find among other things:
May 23, 1997
May 17, 1997
Now you are able to see 11 images from the China Tournament.
May 13, 1997
No. Name Score
1 Isobe 15
2 S.Karlsson 14
3 G.Holgersson 14
4 Nara 13
5 Ishitani 11
6 Li Dong 10
7 Mitsumori 9
8 Zhang Jin Yu 9
9 Yin Li Cheng 9
10 Deng Jing Hui 9
11 P.Svensson 9
12 Shao Xiao Dong 8
13 Chung Hsien Chi 8
14 Lu Yao 8
15 A.Nosovsky 8
16 Chen Lung Chuan 7
17 Xin Ji Quan 7
18 Su Liang 6
19 Yu Jing Ping 6
20 Nagahira 0
Sincerely,
Na Wei
Deep Blue (computer program) - Kasparov 3.5-2.5
Renju computer programs are not yet so strong. Maybe now chess players want to change from chess to renju.
May 5, 1997
took place 30.04.97. - 4.05.97. at Elektrostal. Ilin, Salnikov, Milevsky, Filinov, Semenov, V.Aleksandrov, Makarov have not taken part.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Place
1.Krasnonosov x = = 0 = 0 = = 2,5 7
2.Fedorkin = x = = = = = = 3,5 4
3.Kabanov = = x = = 0 1 0 3 5
4.Kozhin 1 = = x = 1 = 1 5 1
5.Peskov = = = = x 0 0 1 3 6
6.Sinyev 1 = 1 0 1 x = 1 5 2
7.Mikhailov = = 0 = 1 = x 1 4 3
8.Nikonov = = 1 0 0 0 0 x 2 8
A.Klimashin and M.Kozhin will play at WC directly, I.Sinyev and S.Peskov will play at QTWC.
With best wishes
Oleg Fedorkin
in renju for Baltic teams or traditional Riga-Tallinn-St.Petersburg tournament which took place 1.-4.May in hotel "Baltija" in Jurmala is finished.
1. St.Petersburg 2. Tallinn 3. Riga
With best wishes
Gatis Gurckis
April 30, 1997
(please pay attention to * and #. * means China vs Japan teenager contest, # means China Open)
5/2
Tour around Beijing
5/3
Tour around Beijing
5/4
9:00am Opening ceremony
2:00pm China vs Japan teenager contest,
*Round 1(herein after marked with *)
2:00pm International Kyu test
3:30pm *Round 2
5/5
9:00am China Open, #Round 1(herein after marked with #)
9:00am *Round 3
10:30am *Round 4
3:00pm #Round 2
3:00pm *Round 5
4:30pm *Round 6
5/6
9:00am #Round 3
9:00am *Round 7
10:30am *Reward ceremony
2:00pm Sightseeing (Special family only)
3:00pm #Round 4
7:00pm Seminar
- Renju in China
- Tournaments arrangement in China
- Technique discussion
5/7
9:00am #Round 5
3:00pm #Round 6
5/8
Sightseeing (all players)
5/9
9:00am #Round 7
3:00pm #Round 8
5/10
9:00am #Final
12:00pm End of tournament
CCTV will visit our competition site in the morning of May 10.
April 29, 1997
Konstantin Nikonov won Moscow Cup!
Preliminary rounds, 1/8 and 1/4 --- see Renju Newsletter No 86 - 1996
1/2 Alexander Milevsky - Sergey Filippov 2 - 0 Konstantin Nikonov - Yuriy Tarannikov 1.5 - 0.5 Final for 1st place Konstantin Nikonov - Alexander Milevsky 2 - 2 Final for 3rd place Yuriy Tarannikov - Sergey Filippov 3 - 1
The final match for 1st place was very interesting.
1st game
Nikonov was a tentative black and seleceted D3. Milevsky chose white and won by means of foul double-four in a line at the edge of board on 78th move.
2nd game
Milevsky was a tentative black and seleceted I11. Ninonov chose black and made old 7th move. Game was a tie on 51th move.
3rd game
Nikonov was a tentative black and seleceted D5. Milevsky chose black and made classic 5th move (similar development with I6). Nikonov made sharp 12th move and won on 24th move.
4th game
Milevsky was a tentative black and seleceted I11. Ninonov chose black. A classic 30-moves variant was played. Game was a tie on 50th move.
By tournament system the fast games must been played. But opponents decided that winner would be determined by means of drawing. The main Cup Referee, Russian Qualificator Sergey Smirnov agreed with such decision and organized computer drawing. Konstantin Nikonov was a more lucky man.
With best wishes
Yuriy Tarannikov
The First Open Youth European Championship will be held in Estonia in Karepa, 100 km from Tallinn during 8.08.1997-13.08.1997. The competition will be organized by Estonian Renju Union and Tallinn Hobby Center "Kullo".
The players and their trainers must pay the fee 75 USD for housing and food (the fee includes also transport Tallinn-Karepa and Karepa-Tallinn).
There will be three different groups:
Group A: There will play boys, who were born during 01.01.1979-31.12.1982.
Group B: There will play boys, who were born after 01.01.1983.
Group C: There will play girls, who were born after 01.01.1979.
There will be 9 rounds in swiss system in A-group.
There will be 11 rounds in swiss system in groups B and C.
I case of small number of players, the Judges Council may decrease the number of rounds or to change playing system.
There will be 90 minutes for 30 moves for a player in A group. The control moves are 59 and 60. Then will be baiomi 10 minutes for 10 moves.
There will be 60 minutes for 30 moves for a player in groups B and C. The control moves are 59 and 60. Then will be baiomi 10 minutes for 10 moves.
All players will be rewarded with diplomas, 3 best from each group will get medals.
SCHEDULE
8.08 10.00 Start from Tallinn
12.30 Arrival to Karepa
20.00 Opening Ceremony
9.08 10.00 1.round of group A,B and C
14.00 2.round of group A,B and C
19.00 3.round of group B and C
10.08 10.00 3.round of group A and 4.round of B and C
14.00 4.round of group A and 5.round of B and C
16.30 6.round of group B and C
19.00 5.round of group A and 7.round of B and C
11.08 10.00 6.round of group A and 8.round of B and C
14.00 7.round of group A and 9.round of B and C
19.00 8.round of group A and 10.round of B and C
12.08 10.00 9.round of group A and 11.round of B and C
17.00 Closing Ceremony
Contactpersons:
Ando Meritee fax 372-6503563, phone 372-2-527789
e-mail: kullo@neti.ee
Ants Soosõrv EE0009,Estonia ,Tallinn,Lemmiku 12,phone 372-2-518561
With best regards
Ando Meritee
April 28, 1997
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 Pts. TB1
1. Takashi Sagara 8-1 3-1 2-= 6-1 7-1 4-1 5-= 6
2. Hideki Nara 6-1 4-1 1-= 3-0 5-= 7-1 9-1 5
3. Akihiko Kashihara 5-1 1-0 4-1 2-1 8-= 6-0 Bye 4,5
4. Yoshimi Hayakawa 7-1 2-0 3-0 Bye 9-1 1-0 6-1 4 24
5. Norio Nishizono 3-0 9-1 7-0 8-1 2-= Bye 1-= 4 23
6. Shin-ichi Ishitani 2-0 8-1 9-1 1-0 Bye 3-1 4-0 4 23
7. Takeo Miyoshi 4-0 Bye 5-1 9-1 1-0 2-0 8-1 4 22,5
8. Shigemasa Koiso 1-0 6-0 Bye 5-0 3-= 9-1 7-0 2,5
9. Hiroyuki Tatsutomi Bye 5-0 6-0 7-0 4-0 8-0 2-0 1
Sagara, Nara and Kashihara got the right to play WCQT. So far, we disided Mr. Hasegawa got the right to play WC, and Mr. Kawamura has the right to play WC personally.
Next Renju World (No 25) will be printed on usual paper but it will also be published on the Tallinn Renju Club homepage: http://www.neti.ee/renju/. There you are also able to download a Word version. It is all free for You! But if You want to receive printed version regularily, become a subscriber by sending 15 USD per year to the RIF treasurer Stefan Karlsson with e-mail: ec93kast@hj.se
Some players may have e-mail but no access to World Wide Web. Please, inform me if you are in this position. Then I also want to know if you are able to receive and open a zipped Word-fil, if you use MIME in your mail-program.
It will be possible to convert the Word-file into a pdf-file which will be possible to view in any operating system. Adobe reader is freeware for all operating systems. It may also be possible to convert to a rtf-file which can be viewed in different word processors.
Therefore, please, let me know if you only are able to read pdf- or rtf-files.
On the page http://www.algonet.se/~mawi/ you can play gomoku online.
April 23, 1997
No. Player pt. place 1. Ants Soosorv * 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 7,5 3. 2. Marek Kolk 0 * ½ 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3,5 6. 3. Marlen Raudsepp 0 ½ * 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2,5 8. 4. Johann Lents 0 0 0 * 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 10. 5. Margus Tuvikene ½ 1 1 1 * 1 1 1 1 1 8,5 1. 6. Aller Uja 0 0 1 1 0 * 0 0 1 0 3 7. 7. Ando Meritee 1 1 1 1 0 1 * 1 1 1 8 2. 8. Peeter Tamm 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 * 0 0 1 9. 9. Eve Harju 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 * 0 4 5. 10. Lauri Naber 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 * 6 4.
No. Player pt. place 1. Ando Meritee * * 1 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 8 1. 2. Margus Tuvikene 0 0 * * 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 6 3. 3. Lauri Naber ½ ½ 0 0 * * 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 2,5 5. 4. Ants Soosorv 0 1 0 1 1 1 * * 1 1 1 1 8 2. 5. Eve Harju 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 0 * * 0 0 2 6. 6. Marek Kolk 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 1 1 * * 3,5 4.
Ando Meritee has now got a place in WC, Ants Soosorv and Margus Tuvikene will play in the International WCQT.
Irene Einberg,
PR- department of Estonian Renju Union
April 22, 1997
All time list of Swedish Championships is updated
Now you can find the updated all time list of Swedish
Championships played with renju rules on the page:
http://www.renju.nu/masvre95.htm
On the page: http://www.lemes.se/kfumjkpg/maraton/maratonsm.htm
you can find a lot of other all time lists of Swedish
Championships. However all lists are not yet updated.
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| To the left Björn Wallgren and to the right Tord Andersson. |
I congratulate Tord Andersson for his first victory in Swedish
Championship. From the all time list you can see that he has
played in the group of best 10 players since 1984. No other
player have joined this group so long. However Tord participated
earlier in GoMoku Championships and his first good result was No
4 in GoMoku Championship 1981.
Tord used to play good in international tournaments but this is
his first big success among only Swedes.
Connect5
If you want to try a Connect5 gomoku game online you can go to
the page: http://www-ug.eecg.toronto.edu/~sokorac/Connect5/cgitalk.html
April 21, 1997
1. Tord Andersson 7 2. Göran Holgersson 6 3. Stefan Karlsson 5.5 (SB 23) 4. Jan Palmgren 5.5 (SB 22.25) 5. Petter Gardström 5 6. Björn Wallgren 3.5 (SB 15.25) (won the internal match) -------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Rickard Johannesson 3.5 (SB 15.25) 8. Hannes Hermansson 3.5 (SB 15) 9. Anders Bertilsson 3 10. Bengt Asplund 2.5
(The 2 best will play in A-tournament next year)
1. Anders Henningsson 2. Martin Carlsson ------------------------- 3. Peter Jonsson 4. Joachim Gaulitz 5. Marcus Eriksson 6. Mike Dufenberg 7. Linus Hermansson 8. Kristian Gustavsson 9. Peder Svensson
22 players all together took part in "Lilla SM".
April 17, 1997
Latvian WCh Qualification 1st part finished last weekend and 2nd part started.
In remaining 3 games all results (Gaujens-Andersons 1:0, Gurtskis-Balanova 0:1 and Matyuk-Demidov 0:1) were sensational and finally we got also quite strange quarterfinal pairs...
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pts Place
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1. Reims,A * / 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 / 1 8.0 2
2. Gaujens,A / * / 0 / 0 1 + 1 0 / 5.0 6
3. Balanova,Y 0 / * 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 5.5 5
4. Gurtskis,G 0 1 0 * 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 7.0 3
5. Demidov,A 1 / 1 0 * 1 1 1 0 0 0 5.5 4
6. Mutsenieks,V 0 1 0 0 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 11
7. Matyuk,V 0 0 0 1 0 1 * 1 0 0 1 4.0 8
8. Bethers,A 0 - 0 0 0 1 0 * 1 0 0 2.0 10
9. Andersons,A 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 * 0 / 4.5 7
10. Veidemanis,A / 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 * 1 8.5 1
11. Rotbergs,A 0 / 0 0 1 1 0 1 / 0 * 4.0 9
2nd PART. Balanova beated Demidov without any problems showing that Demidov's place in quarterfinal was just an accident. Gurtskis also won, however in both games Gaujens had an advantage.
In semifinal pairs Veidemanis lost 1st game to Balanova (!) and Reims played draw with gurtskis and somebody started discuss about possible final Gurtskis-Balanova !!! But Veidemanis quite quickly proved that Balanova's class is far away from his and only problem for Arnis is just a lack of concentration.
Victory for Reims wasn't so easy, but finally we got standard Latvian battle Veidemanis-Reims for title and WCh place.
Veidemanis
---------------------
I Veidemanis
Balanova I-----------------
---------- Balanova I 1:1 (1:0) I
Demidov I----------- I
---------- 2:0 I Place in WCh-97 Final
Gurtskis I----------------------- ??????
---------- Gurtskis I Champion of Latvia-97
Gaujens I----------- I
---------- 1.5:0.5 I Reims I
I-----------------
Reims I 1.5:0.5
---------------------
A.R.
2nd stage of Estonian WC QT is finished. According to this 6
best players will continue playing round robin tournament, 2
games with each.
6 best became Tuvikene, Meritee, Soosorv, Naber, Eve Harju, Kolk.
So, tournament table of 2nd stage: No. Player Points 1. Margus Tuvikene 8½ 2. Ando Meritee 8 3. Ants Soosorv 7½ 4. Lauri Naber 6 5. Eve Harju 4 6. Marek Kolk 3½ --------------------------- 7. Aller Uja 3 8. Marlen Raudsepp 2½ 9. Peeter Tamm 1 10. Johann Lents 1
Some important results: Tuvikene - Meritee 1:0 Meritee - Soosorv 1:0 Soosorv - Tuvikene ½:½
3rd stage has already started. The winner of 3rd stage will go straight to World Championship finals, 2nd and 3rd place will have a right to play in International WC QT. In case of same number of points, the place in 2nd stage will be considered.
With best wishes,
Ando Meritee
April 15, 1997
The electronic version of the Swedish Magazine "Fem I Rad" No 3 1996 now is published.
April 6, 1997
Some news from Estonia
The results from the 1st stage of Estonian WCQT,
played 6.04.1997, swiss system, 8 rounds.
14 players took part and 6 best of them got the right
to take part in 2nd stage together with Naber, Kolk, Sooso'rv
and Meritee.
1. Tuvikene, Margus 8p
2. Madissoon, U"lo 6p
3. Raudsepp, Marlen 5p
4. Uja, Aller 5p
5. Tamm, Peeter 5p
6. Lents, Johann 4p
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7. Harju, Eve 4p
8. Taimla, Tunnet 4p
9. Pallas, Henrik 3p
10. Rauk, Raile 3p
11. Nitoo, Nils 3p
12. Metsis, Ray 3p
13. Viital, Ju"ri 1p
14. Aasma"e, Toomas 1p
Madissoon as a real gentleman offered the place in 2nd stage to
Eve
Harju. She accepted, of course.
2nd stage will be played 12.04-13.04.1997, round robin.
6 best will go to final (3rd) stage.
Baltic Meijin Match
3rd game between Meritee and Soosorv was played 5.04.1997.
Meritee set up opening d3, Soosorv chosed white. Black won after
59 moves. With the result 2:1 Meritee got Baltic Meijin title.
Bye!
Ando Meritee
April 2, 1997
The Nizhny Novgorod Renju Club has
celebrated the 13th anniversary
The Nizhny Novgorod Open tournament (march 14-16) was devoted to
this date.
33 partcipantstook part. The top 5:
1. Krasnonosov Dmitry 8 dan Moscow 8.5 points
2. Kareev Vladislav 3 dan N.Novgorod 8.5
3. Skuridin Alexey 7 dan N.Novgorod 8.5
4. Petrovsky Dmitry 3 dan N.Novgorod 7
5. Oljunin Sergey 5 dan N.Novgorod 6
This tournament was held in McMagon system. This system is used
often in go
tournaments. The McMagon is kind of Swiss system. All partcipants
are
divided into two, three or more groups (it depends upon total
number of
participants, number of rounds and variety of players category).
The
weakest group get no points before competition. More strong group
get one,
two and so on points before tournament. The reason of this
operation is to
exclude games between expert and beginners players. So I'd like
to
recommend the McMagon system to be used in tournaments with great
variety
of players category.
Friendly yours,
A. Skuridin.
The following Web-page contains the full
table of results the Nizhny Novgorod Open Tournament:
http://www.renju.nu/nishni.htm
International tournament in China in
May
8 Japanese players will go to China for the international
tournament
in May.
They are Mr.Mitsumori, Mr.Isobe, Mr.Nara,
Mr.Ishitani, Mr.Nagahira, and 3 members of family Tatsutomi.
2 Taiwan players and 3 Swedish (for example Mr Karlsson and
Mr Svensson), Mr Nosovsky and maybe Mr Chernov from Russia will
also
go to this tournament.
USA tournament on July, 4
On the 4 July there will be a USA tournament with among
others the following participants:
Alexandrov, Talsky, Lipsits
Marh 31, 1997
New international pages now will be found on the RIF startpage
German Renju Web-page
The promised html-pages about Renju in german language
are now ready at: http://www.ba-mosbach.de/~barth/Renju
It's the first version and includes a rules page,
a RIF page, a e-mail page and a page about Renju in Germany.
cheers
Karlhein Barth
Alexander Nosovsky has the new e-mail-address
The new page about renju in Spanish was made by Alexander Nosovsky.
A computer program to play Renju
Mark Mammel
mmammel@compuserve.com
has written a computer program to play Renju. It includes all
tournament rules and uses an opening book. The program's answers
are:
g3, i6, h12, g5. If you would like to try the program, it is
available for DOS at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mmammel
In the program you can also load in a Richard's Play By EMail
game
from an email message.
On Mark´s page you can also download a DOS pente game.
Renju in Taiwan
There is a big boom in Internet of late years. The members of
Renju players is growing on Internet too. There is a web site
called "Wu-lin"(Five world, It sounds like the fantasy
world
of Chinese Kung-fu in Chinese). We can play Five-in-a-row and
Renju on-line on the web site. It's free and over 33,000 hits
from Feb. this year. As I know the register profiles is over
2,700. But the actual members maybe 600-700 and Renju players
is about 20-30%. The "Wu-lin" is only Chinese(Big-5
code) now
and will offer a English version in future. The URL of it is
http://5.ficnet.net.tw
Welcome for your visit. We are also discussing Renju Problems
and Opening on the local Newsgroup: tw.bbs.rec.chess
The other players who can not use WWW can get the information
of Renju from BBS too.
In the other hand, There is a Renju get-together per month in
Taipei from this year. It was 4th time get-together yesterday.
There was about 8 members each time. We introduced the rules
to new Renju players more clearly and made a free competition
also discussed the Opening during the meeting time.
We are still beginners now. I think we need more experience.
I hope there can be some very strong players after 5-10 years.
Chung, Hsien-chi reporting from Taiwan, 24th Mar. 1997
Baltic Meijin Match is played between Ants
Sooso'rv and Ando Meritee.
1st game was played on 22.03.1997. Meritee set up d3 and won
after 81
moves as black. 2nd game was played on 23.03.1997. Sooso'rv set
up d8
and won after 72 moves as white. So the score is now 1:1. 3rd
game
will be probably played on 5.04.1997.
Ando Meritee
March 18, 1997
Renju Sekai is since 30 years the flagship of renju. Every month a new issue is published. The main problem is that the magazine is written in Japanese which makes it difficult for non-japanese players to read the magazine. Recently No 500 of the magazine was published and page 13-60 as I can understand covers special celebration information. I congratulate Renju Sekai.
The printing "From the opening to the middle of the game" by Sagara was first presented as articles in Renju Sekai. The articles were very important because they showed players the best opening and middle play variants in practical playing.
For example the Swedish player became much better after the translation into Swedish were finished.
The articles were first translated from Japanese into Russian and then from Russian into Swedish and after that from Swedish into English. The translations took a lot of years before we had the English version.
Now a new book "Click of the Stones" is published by Alexander Nosovsky and Mikhail Koshin. The book is written in Russian language so now we only wait for someone to translate it into English. The book includes 190 pages and a lot of diagrams.
This is Alexander Nosovsky´s own words about the book.
"It is modern improved theoretick book. It is usefull for middle class players but for the strongest player it 'll be interesting to read it too. I hope that young players will learn from it and that they will use it in real games so the strongest players have to improve theory further."
Alexander Nosovsky has e-mail: stigma.ltd@g23.relcom.ru
yesterday was finished. Played 33 men, 9 rounds. The first 3 places have divided:
Points Coef
1. Krasnonosov D. Moscow 7.5 62
2. Kireev V. N.N. 7.5 60
3. Skuridin A. N.N. 7.5 59
from Russia version called "Renju Tools 6.03", which also includes a playing program, has now 18 001 games in a DOS-program including for example all Japanese Meijin-finals since 1962.
Aldis Reims, Latvia has ny e-mail:
aldisr@tkb.lv
Sergey Chernov, Russia has new e-mail:
avras@glasnet.ru
Jan Palmgren, Sweden has new e-mail:
j.p.@swipnet.se
Tor-Birger Skogen, Norway has new e-mail:
Tor-Birger.Skogen@FM-AA.SRI.telemax.no
March 6, 1997
Some new fact about the RIF connection men have been reported. On special pages you can find the actual addresses and actual e-mail addresses. The new connection man of Ukraine Nikolas N. Ponomarenko
has E-mail: Internet topgame@aqua.kharkov.ua Fidonet 2:461/44.77
He gives the following reports:
Championship of Ukraine. October, 1996.
(23 players, swiss system, 11 rounds).
Name City Dan Point
-------------------------------------------
1. Ponomarenko N. Kharkov VII 11.0
2. Kolesnik V. Odessa I 9.0
3. Karataev I. Lubny V 9.0
4. Shereverov A. Zugres V 8.5
5. Chasovskih Zugres 1 8.5
Open Kharkov championship. November, 1996.
(6 players, complex system, 7 rounds).
Name City Dan Point
-------------------------------------------
1. Ponomarenko N. Kharkov VII 5.5
2. Shereverov A. Zugres V 5.0
3. Tregoubov M. Kharkov VI 3.5
4. Iljin D. Yelets VIII 3.0
5. Petrov E. Kharkov V 2.0
6. Gulyajev I. Kerch VI 1.0
Rating List of Ukraine on 01.01.97
Total number of players - 43
7 dan
1 Ponomarenko Kharkov 2432
6 dan
2 Shereverov Zugres 2397
3 Tregubow Kharkov 2318
5 dan
4 Karataev Lubny 2330
5 Gulyajev Kerch 2328
6 Segal Kerch 2292
7 Petrov E Kharkov 2257
4 dan
8 Putilin Zugres 2234
9 Zhikharev Kharkov 2157
3 dan
10 Kleimenov Zugres 2373
11 Kirilenko I Zugres 2193
12 Uspensky Zugres 2168
13 Zhurenko Zugres 2103
14 Kirilenko A Zugres 2099
15 Zaitseva Zugres 2070
2 dan
16 Kolesnik Odessa 2244
17 Antonenko Yu Zugres 2216
18 Chershkalo Zugres 2166
19 Visotskaya Zugres 2156
20 Sapronov Zugres 2152
21 Kovalenko S Zugres 2100
22 Tsumrak Zugres 2091
1 dan
23 Nalivka Krivoi Rog 2203
24 Chasovskih Zugres 2200
25 Divnogorsky Zugres 2200
26 Umantsiv Maniava 2200
27 Bondarenko A Zugres 2200
28 Dimitriev Gorlovka 2200
29 Yakovleva Zugres 2183
30 Braikov Zugres 2172
31 Brodsky Zugres 2123
1 ku
32 Tsibukovsky Zugres 2215
33 Baitalsky Odessa 2205
34 Martovitsky Rubezhnoe 2200
35 Tsupko Zugres 2200
36 Nikitochkin Gorlovka 2199
37 Tatarinov Zugres 2195
38 Nikolaichuk Simferopol 2187
39 Maslov Zugres 2185
40 Gorbatenko Zugres 2171
41 Ignatov Zugres 2170
42 Miagkov Kharkov 2130
43 Poddubny Zheltye Vody 2097
February 25, 1997
Report by Pavel Salnikov from the
Russian Championship
From February 15 to February 22 in Rybinsk the High League
tournament of
the Fifth Russian Championship has been held.
I am happy to say that the first place and the title of Russian
Champion
have been won by Aleksandr KLIMASHIN with an excellent result: 9
of 12!
It is the first occurrence when the First League and the High
League tour-
naments of Russian (and USSR) Championships have been won by the
same per-
son.
Below you can see the final results of the tournament.
========================================================
Pl.Participant Town Points Coeff.
========================================================
01. Aleksandr Klimashin St.Petersburg 9.0 02. Mikhail Kozhin Dubna 7.5 42.00 03. Dmitry Krasnonosov Moscow 7.5 40.75 04. Ants Soosyrv Tallinn 7.0 37.75 05. Pavel Salnikov St.Petersburg 7.0 37.00 06. Aleksandr Mikhailov Moscow 6.5 39.75
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07. Igor Sinyov Moscow 6.5 34.75 08. Konstantin Nikonov Elektrostal 5.5 30.75 09. Aleksandr Milevsky Mytischi 5.5 28.00 10. Aleksei Skuridin Nizhny Novgorod 5.0 11. Karen Sirategian Moscow 4.0 25.50 12. Viktor Golosov Moscow 4.0 20.25 13. Yury Taiblin Rybinsk 3.0
========================================================
In the same time and at the same place the Fifth Russian
Championship
among women has been held too. 8 players played by the
Round-Robin System
of two rounds.
In the very hard struggle the first place and the title of
Russian Cham-
pion have been won by Natalia VASILIEVA! She wins that title for
the first
time.
The final results of the tournament look like as follows:
=================================================
Pl.Participant Town Points
=================================================
1. Natalia Vasilieva Rybinsk 12.5 2. Nonna Salnikova St.Petersburg 11.5 3. Irina Metreveli Podiuga 11.0 4. Elena Lebedeva Podiuga 8.5 5. Anastasia Leshukova Rybinsk 5.0 6. Anastasia Sokolova Rybinsk 3.0 7. Marina Sokolova Rybinsk 2.5 8. Alla Samal Moscow 2.0
Report from Uppsaladraget - A Swedish
Renju tournament
by Göran Holgersson
At first the players were divided into 4 pools.
No 1 from each pool received a place in one semi-final.
Martin Carlsson was very close to enter the semi-final by
defeating Stefan Karlsson. However he did not manage and Stefan,
Bjoern Och Martin shared the first place in their pool and
therefore
they were forced to replay and then Stefan became No 1 och Bjoern
no
2 and Martin no 3.
Semi-finals:
Goeran Holgersson - Petter Gardstroem 1-0
Stefan Karlsson - Frank Arkbo 1-0 (WO)
Frank could not play because of lack of time
Final:
Goeran Holgersson - Stefan Karlsson 1-0
Here is the list of results from Uppsaladraget
played on the 22nd of Februari 1997.
01. Goeran Holgersson
02. Stefan Karlsson
03. Petter Gardstoem
04. Frank Arkbo
05. Bjoern Wallgren
06. Tord Andersson
07. Rickard Johannesson
08. Bengt Asplund
09. Martin Carlsson
10. Jonas Frid
11. Bengt Nyberg
12. Daniel Nyberg
12. Mina Gardstroem
14. Jan-Olov Andersson
February 23, 1997
Klimashin won Russia Championship and get place in WC Final !
Kozhin was N2. Il'in did not take part.
Krasnonosov was 3-d , Sooserv 4-th , Sinyov N7 !
The best 10 players in May will play tournament for 1WC place and one QT place.
February 1, 1997
1.Ando Meritee Tallinn 2.Ants Soosõrv Tallinn 3.Anders Henningsson Göteborg 4.Stefan Karlsson Jönköping 5.Kristian Lindberg Jönköping 6.Petter Gardström Uppsala 7.Tord Andersson Uppsala 8.Göran Holgersson Jönköping 9.Rickard Johannesson Jönköping 10.Jan Palmgren Göteborg 11.Peder Svensson Jönköping 12.Anders Bertilsson Högsjö 13.Hannes Hermansson Högsjö 14.Tommy Maltell Jönköping 15.Peter Jonsson Jönköping 16.Martin Carlsson Jönköping 17.Tomas Hagenfors Högsjö 18.Jonas Frid Linköping 19.Björn Wallgren Härnösand 20.Marcus Eriksson Högsjö 21.Marek Kolk Tallinn 22.Sven-Åke Pettersson Högsjö 23.Tommy Pettersson Högsjö 24.Martin Karlsson Jönköping 25.Martin Tedremaa Tallinn 26.Bengt Nyberg Motala 27.Emma Hultin Högsjö 28.Frida Skoogh Högsjö 29.Daniel Nyberg Motala 30.Nils Widman Arjeplog 31.Ülo Madissoon Tallinn 32.Sandra Sjöberg Högsjö 33.Tobias Ekvall Jönköping 34.Jüri Viital Tallinn 35.Johann Lents Tallinn 36.Lars Hellander Arjeplog 37.Eva Eldermann Tallinn 38.Daniel Johansson Jönköping 39.Eric Hansson Kungälv 40.Mirjam Pällo Tallinn 41.Janno Veskimets Tallinn 42.Irene Einberg Tallinn 43.Mario Palmiste Tallinn 44.Kristin Nugis Tallinn 45.Jan-Olov Andersson Jönköping 46.Emelie Pettersson Högsjö 47.Riina Viital Tallinn 48.Urmas Ling Tallinn 49.Indrek Kaul Tallinn 50.Virko Raagmets Tallinn 51.Karl-Joosep Maltis Tallinn 52.Helen Ree Tallinn 53.Mari-Liis Ernits Tallinn 54.Ave-Õnne Õnnis Tallinn 55.Kaiari Kaurla Tallinn 56.Liina Ernits Tallinn 57.Ida Karlsson Högsjö 58.Jaana Lemberg Tallinn 59.Sille Vallimäe Tallinn 60.Piret Ortus Tallinn
January 26, 1997
It is now high time to apply to play in the B-tournaments i.e. in the qualification tournaments for the next A-Final which preliminary will start in October 1997. Application for participation in the B-tournaments must be sent to Tommy Maltell (Tommy Maltell) before the 4th of February.
The B-tournaments will start around the 10th of February.
The players in the A-final will be the 2 best players in the 1st WC via e-mail Aldis Reims (areims) and Linus Laibinis (llaibini) together with the 2 best players in each qualification pool.
January 12, 1997
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Sorted nr 1, nr 2, nr 3 and so on
Sorted according to nations and all players
within a nation in alphabetical order
January 9, 1997
The time for thinking in the final of Renju WC via airmail will be long compared with the qualification tournament. I plan for 150 days for each player and game.
I also invite all renjuplayers to apply for participation in B-tournaments which will be played at the same time as the A-tournament. The best players in the B-tournaments will qualify for the A-tournament 1988.
There will be no qualfication tournament this autumn. The qualification tournaments will start around the 1st of February at the same time as the A-final. If there will be may players in B-finals only one game will be played in each match. More information will be published later.
The results from the qualification tournament soon finished will be one base for seeding in the B-tournaments.
I must receive your application for participation in the B-tournaments before the 24th of January.
Tommy Maltell (Tommy Maltell)
Current standings in WC via e-mail will be found on the WC-page.
HAPPY NEW YEAR ! ! !
The IX Nizhny Novgorod Cup tournament was finished. N.N.Cup in many-staged competition (since 1/8 final to final). The winner of final (pretender) have a 6-gamed match with the previous Cup holder. In case the superfinal match finsh with 3:3 score, the Cup doesn't change its holder.
The first such tournament was held in 1986-87 years. A. Sokolov was winner of first and second Cup. Then V. Filinov (now he lives in S.-Petersburg) won the Cup three times one after the other. And lst three Cup tournaments were won by A. Gorshenkov.
The latest N.N. Cup superfinal match was A.Skuridin - A. Gorshenkov - 3.5 : 0.5. So I became the 4-th winner of this prestige in Nizhny Novgorod competition.
The traditinal Nizhny Novgorod Open tornament will be held 14-16 of March. McMagon system. 9 rounds. All players are invited. Everyone can send applications to me via E-Mail(mih@sapr.gaz.ru), tel. (int - 8312685191), fax (int - 8312340100) or via usual mail (7-4, Suslovoj Street, N.Novgorod, 603106, Russia).
Friendly yours,
Alexey Skuridin.
It is not yet decided which tournaments that will be regarded as international tournaments for the period 1 January to 30 April 1997 i.e. which tournaments that will influence the international ratinglist of RIF. A complete suggestion will be published in a few days.
Göran Holgersson who is the chairman of Jönköping Renju Club has started to publish renju information on his own renjupages. You will on his pages find the games from the Swedish Cup final in renju with comments in Swedish, players with Swedish dan och kyu-titles, the Jönköping Renju Club rating list and results from the Jönkoping Club local championship 1997 (this tournament has not yet started).
A newdatabase freeware with 3559 games is now available. It encludes all the latest Japanese Meijin games.
January 5, 1997
Renju Classificator (ROC) - the system of openings in renju is now presented in a Web-system. You can see how one opening will lead to the same position as another opening.
The Renju Classificator system are presented by M.Kojin and A. Nosovsky. The HTML files are made by S.Filippov.
You can also find a page presenting the new program Renbase 4.0 for Windows 95 and Windows NT by A.Milevsky and S.Filippov.
No 23 (No 2 - 1996) of Renju World was issued just before the new year began. Alexander Nosovsky informs that his last issue Renju World No 24 will hopefully be issued in January-February 1997.
Ando Meritee from Tallinn, Estonia will become Chief Editor of RW after the withdrawal of Alexander Nosovsky. So Ando Meritee are able to start from April - May 1997 with the first issue of Renju World 1997. Renju World No 25 is planned to be published also as a Web-magazine.