60 players took part. A lot of the players are from Estonia. 30 persons went from Estonia to Linkoping in a bus. Three of them took advanced places among the best 16 players. It was Ando Meritee, Ants Soosorv and Margus Tuvikene. The other top players are from Sweden.
Results (The 16th best):
1. Ando Meritee
2. Tord Andersson
3. Stefan Karlsson
4. Göran Holgersson
5. Rickard Johannesson
6. Ants Soosorv
7. Kristian Lindberg
8. Tomas Hagström
9. Björn Wallgren
10. Margus Tuvikene
11. Bengt Nyberg
12. Hannes Hermansson
13. Anders Bertilsson
14. Bengt Asplund
15. Jonas Frid
16. Martin K. Karlsson
First League of Russia
From the 6th to the 11th of November in Briansk, Russia the First League tournament of the 4th Open Russian Championship has been held. 50 partici- pants took part in that competition. There were 47 persons from 16 Russian towns and 3 foreign players: Ants Soosyrv (Tallinn, Estonia), Felix Deg- tiar and Oleg Ermakov (both from Minsk, Byelorussia).
Tournament system was the Swiss System of 11 rounds. Top ten players got the right to play in the Highest League tournament next year. Here they are:
1. Dmitry Iljin (Elets) 9
2. Dmitry Krasnonosov (Moscow) 8
3. Konstantin Nikonov (Electrostal) 8
4. Oleg Fedorkin (Mytischi) 6 dan -> 7 dan 8
5. Ants Soosyrv (Tallinn) 8
6. Aleksandr Milevsky (Mytischi) 7.5
7. Andrej Martynov (Novokuznetsk) 4 dan -> 5 dan, +27 (!) 7
8. Pavel Makarov (Moscow) 5 dan -> 6 dan, +24 7
9. Vladimir Filinov (St.Petersburg) 7
10. Dmitry Kabanov (Zhiguliovsk) 7
Ants Soosyrv came to Briansk only on the 2nd day of the tournament and, therefore, got two minuses in the first two rounds. And then he lost one game only and got the place in the Highest League.
The next Highest League tournament will be held in Zhiguliovsk (town near Samara) at the end of February. Top six players of the last Highest League have the personal places in the next Highest League tournament:
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2. Pavel Salnikov
3. Stepan Peskov
4. Igor Siniov
5. Stefan Karlsson
6. Mikhail Kozhin
It is decided that nobody will play instead of Nikolaj Mikhailov. The next Highest League will consist of 15 players and it will be given in memory of Kolya.
Jonkoping, July 8, 1995
Recently I received this message:
"Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 20:50:51 +0400
Dear Tommy
Very bad news.
Nick Mikhailov died yesterday.
Yours Respectfully Nosovsky"
Nikolai Mikhailov from Tasjkent in Uzbekistan lived since some time in Moscow. Some weeks ago I heard that he had meningitis and was very ill at hospital. On the 12th of March this year he won the Third Open Russian Championship held in Elets. 1989 in the 1st World Championship in Kyoto he was No5 and the strongest player from USSR. 1993 in the 3rd World Championship in Arjeplog, Sweden he was No 9. Nick Mikhailov was a very nice man and he was much liked by many players because of his personal charm.
Results from Swedish Championship in Five-In-A-Row
In Riga finished Baltic Championship Qualification Round. 18 players took part for 9 places in Baltic Championship Final. 10 th player will be World Ex- and Vice-Champion Ando Meritee. Tournament was quite strong. Some good Latvian players (Teterovskis, Rotbergs, Gaujens) couldn't play, but some players(Andersons, Bethers, Stamburskis)returned back after 3-4 years silence. Results (Swiss system 7 rounds): 1. Veidemanis, Arnis LAT 6.0 2. Reims, Aldis LAT 5.0 3. Gurtskis, Gatis LAT 4.5 4. Matyuk, Valeri LAT 4.5 5. Balanova, Yelena LAT 4.5 6. Andersons, Andris LAT 4.5 7. Soosorv, Ants EST 4.0 8. Demidov, Alexey LAT 4.0 9. Dreimanis, Raimonds LAT 3.5 -------------------------------- 10.Naber, Lauri EST 3.5 11.Mutsenieks, Vairis LAT 3.5 12.Stamburski, Vlad LAT 3.0 13.Harju, Ulle EST 3.0 14.Bethers, Arilds LAT 3.0 15.Rinkis, Ingus LAT 2.5 16.Orglaan, Taavi EST 2.0 17.Harju, Merle EST 2.0 18.Zemlitskis, A LAT 0.0 Most interesting results. R1. Reims-Gurtskis 0:1 R2. Balanova-Veidemanis 0:1 R3. Andersons-Veidemanis 0:1; Soosorv-Gurtskis 1:0 R4. Veidemanis-Soosorv 1:0; Andersons-Reims 0:1 R5. Veidemanis-Gurtskis 1:0; Soosorv-Reims 0:1 R6. Reims-Veidemanis 0:1; R7. Veidemanis-Matyuk 0:1; Andersons-Soosorv 1:0 Now first 9 places + Ando Meritee in December/January will play Final tournament (Round Robin) and first two places will play Baltic "Meijinmatch" from 5 games.
4 teams played in the final:
1.Uppsala (Petter Gardström, Tord Andersson, Frank Arkbo) 18,5 p 2.Jönköping 1 (Stefan Karlsson, Göran Holgersson, R Johannesson) 18 p 3.Stockholm (Ingvar Sundling, Bengt Asplund, Robert Andersson) 10 p 4.Jönköping 2 (Peter Jonsson, Peder Svensson, Martin Karlsson) 7,5 p 5.Högsjö 1 6.Härnösand 1 7.Jönköping 3 8.Högsjö 3
Ingvar Sundling - Johnny Nielsen 3 - 2 Göran Holgersson - Peter Jonsson 3 - 0 Petter Gardström - Jan Palmgren 2.5 - 2.5 (1-0 in a blitz game) Stefan Karlsson - Rickard Johannesson 3.5 - 0.5
All games were played November 11th - November 12th.
Stefan Karlsson - Petter Gardström Game 1 0-1 Stefan Karlsson - Petter Gardström Game 2 1-0 Stefan Karlsson - Petter Gardström Game 3 1-0 Stefan Karlsson - Petter Gardström Game 4 0.5-0.5 Stefan Karlsson - Petter Gardström Game 5 1-0 Totally: Stefan Karlsson - Petter Gardström 3.5-1.5 Ingvar Sundling - Göran Holgersson Game 1 1-0 Ingvar Sundling - Göran Holgersson Game 2 0-1 Ingvar Sundling - Göran Holgersson Game 3 0.5-0.5 Ingvar Sundling - Göran Holgersson Game 4 0.5-0.5 Ingvar Sundling - Göran Holgersson Game 5 1-0 Totally: Ingvar Sundling - Göran Holgersson 3-2
Jan Palmgren, Göteborg, Sweden could not play this year in the Renju World Championship in Tallinn. In this tournament he showed that he was itching to play. In the semi-final he won against Ando Meritee, World Champion 1993 and no 2 in World Championship 1995. In the final Jan Palmgren won against Ants Soosorv, no 6 in WC 1993 and no 10 in WC 1995.
The final game was draw. A new blitz-game was played. Here is to the left the semi-final game where Palmgren is black and Meritee is white and to the right the final 5 minutes blitz game where Palmgren is black and Soosorv is white:
Here are two photos from the tournament. Just click on them if you want a little bigger photo. To the left is the winner Jan Palmgren and to the right the four best players: Nearest to the camera is Stefan Karlsson and Ando Meritee playing for the 3rd place and nearest the window Ants Soosorv and Jan Palmgren in the final game.
1.Jan Palmgren, Göteborg 2.Ants Sosorv, Estonia 3.Ando Meritee, Estonia 4.Stefan Karlsson, Jönköping 5.Rickard Johannesson, Jönköping 6.Göran Holgersson, Jönköping 7.Tord Andersson, Uppsala 8.Bengt Asplund, Stockholm 9.Peter Jonsson, Jönköping 10.Johnnie Nielsen, Malmö 11.Anders Bertilsson, Högsjö 12.Hannes Hermansson, Högsjö 13.Peder Svensson, Jönköping 14.Bengt Nyberg, Linköping 15.Björn Wallgren, Härnösand 16.Marcus Eriksson, Högsjö 17.Tommy Maltell, Jönköping 18.Martin Karlsson, Jönköping 19.Henrik Karlsson, Jönköping 20.Tobias Ring, Högsjö 21.Martin Carlsson, Jönköping 22.Sven-Åke Petterssson, Högsjö 23.Håkan Möller, Malmö 24.Linus Hermansson, Högsjö 25.Jan Paulander, Malmö 26.Peeter Tamm, Estonia 27.Endrik Arumagi, Estonia 28.Johan Åhrlin, Linköping 29.Tobias Wallén, Högsjö 30.Marleen Raudsepp, Estonia 31.Kristian Gustafsson, Jönköping 32.Leo Ljung, Högsjö 33.Robert Lindqvist, Högsjö 34.Mikael Sundberg, Högsjö Eights-finals: Meritee-Nyberg 1-0 Asplund-Jonsson 1-0 Palmgren-Bertilsson 1-0 Holersson-Eriksson 1-0 Karlsson- H Hermansson 1-0 Johannesson-Wallgren 1-0 Andersson-Nielsen 1-0 Soosorv-Svensson 1-0 Quarter-finals: Palmgren-Holgersson 1-0 Meritee-Asplund 1-0 Soosorv-Andersson 1-0 Karlsson-Johannesson 1-0 Semi-finals: Palmgren-Meritee 1-0 Soosorv-Karlsson 1-0 Final: Palmgren-Soosorv 1-0
September, 19
August, 27
Mr Shigeru Nakamura who has played 20 Japanese Meijin finals in-a-row did not take part in the Meijinsen Tournament this year.
List of results: win-lose-draw points Hasegawa 7-1 7 Nara 6-1-1 6.5 Sagara 6-2 6 Yamaguchi 5-3 5 Nishizono 5-3 5 Nishimura 3-5 3 Ishitani 2-5-1 2.5 Matsuura 0-7-1 0.5 Tatsutomi 0-7-1 0.5 Mr.Hasegawa lost against Mr.Nara, Mr. Nara lost against Mr. Sagara in the last game and got draw against Mr. Ishitani. Mr. Hasegawa won and he will in his 5th Meijinfinal play with Meijin Norihiko Kawamura. The first two games of the Meijinsen Final will be held 7th of Oct and 8th of Oct. The following games will be played after that every two Sunday.
Here is a link to all future Meijinfinals.
Japanese Meijin Final Games with links to
photos of players (quicker loading).
Japanese Meijin Final Games with
photos of players.
Results from Swedish Qualification Tournament before WC in Tallinn.
1. Stefan Karlsson 7p (He is qualified for WC A-tournament) 2. Petter Gardström 6½p (He is qualified for WC Qualification Tournament) 3. Ingvar Sundling 5½p 4. Göran Holgersson 5 p 5. Rickard Johannesson 4p 6. Tord Andersson 2p