_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-12-29 Renju Newsletter No 56 - 2001 Highlights - JINGWEI CUP RENJU TOURNAMENT 2001 _____________________________________________________________________ JINGWEI CUP RENJU TOURNAMENT 2001 "Jingwei" Cup Renju Championship was held at October 2-4, 2001, in Shanghai, China. The participates in tournament was tentop good player in China. You can see the results table on the URL: http://users.lk.net/~stepanov/rifrat/china.html or http://lijing.rifchina.com/news/2001jwb10.htm By the way, the title "III China National Renju tournament 2001" in users.lk.net/~stepanov/rifrat/rifrat.html was wrong. The right title is "Jingwei Cup Renju Tournament 2001". Friendly, Lijing SUN [slijing@263.net] http://rifchina.topcool.net/
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-12-22 Renju Newsletter No 55 - 2001 Highlights - ESTONIAN OPEN _____________________________________________________________________ ESTONIAN OPEN Here are results of Estonian Open, played December 15.-16. in Tallinn. 7 rounds, Swiss: 1. Johann Lents 6,5 2. Ants Soosyrv 6 3. Vladimir Semenov (St.Petersburg) 5 4. Tunnet Taimla 4,5 5. Timo Ilu 4 6. Pavel Ses (St.P) 4 7. Vityok (Viktor Alexandrov) (St.P) 4 8. Maris Tuvikene 4 9. Andry Purk 3,5 10. Helen Milva 3,5 11. Marko Pellikka (FIN) 3 12. Kristo Holm 3 13. Tauri Tarbe 3 14. Ester Eggert 2,5 15. Marika Pellikka (FIN) 2 16. Sander Sulane 1,5 17. Mikk Oblikas 1 Some results: Lents-Taimla 0,5-0,5 Lents -Ses 1-0 Lents-Soosyrv 1-0 Lents- Semenov 1-0 Semenov-Taimla 1-0 Vityok-Taimla 0-1 Ilu-Ses 1-0 Vityok - Semenov 0-1 Friendly, Ants Soosyrv [asoosyrv@hotmail.com]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-12-13 Renju Newsletter No 54 - 2001 Highlights - FINAL RESULTS OF YOUTH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP _____________________________________________________________________ FINAL RESULTS OF YOUTH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Group A : 1. Michael Kazarin (RUS) 5 2. Johann Lents (RUS) 2,5 3. Denis Nekrasov (RUS) 2,5 4. Evgeni Myasoedov (RUS) 2 Group B: 1. Tunnet Taimla (EST) 10 2. Alexander Ryabov (RUS) 9,5 3. Pavel Vershinin (RUS) 9 4. Timo Ilu (EST) 7,5 5. Sergei Ogorodov (RUS) 7 6. Evgeni Sumarokov (RUS) 6 7. Oskari Kauppila (FIN) 5,5 8. Sander Sulane (EST) 5 9. Andry Purk (EST) 5 10. Gustav Amer (EST) 5 11.Mikk Oblikas (EST) 5 12. Tuomo Pinola (FIN) 5 13. Petri Maki (FIN) 4 14. Alvar Timmermann (EST) 4 15. Lauri Horell (FIN) 3,5 16. Eevert Kokkonen (FIN) 3 17. Ats Malksoo (EST) 3 18. Peeter Kolk (EST) 2 Group C + D: 1. Yulia Savrasova (D) 5 2. Oxana Sorokina 5 3. Evelyn Tihkan 5 4. Anastasya Leshukova 5 5. Maris Tuvikene 4 6. Anastasya Sokolova 3 7. Ester Eggert 1 8. (2.)Helen Milva (D) 0 Friendly, Ants Soosyrv [asoosyrv@hotmail.com]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-12-10 Renju Newsletter No 53 - 2001 Highlights - YOUTH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP - THE 4TH YOUTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP _____________________________________________________________________ YOUTH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Youth European Championship is going in Tallinn now. Unfortunately only 14 estonians, 11 russians and 5 finnish are taking part. Standings are next: Group A (boys, 15 - 20 years old), 4 players, twice Round Robin (6 rounds totally), after 3 rounds: 1. Lents (EST) 2,5 2. Kazarin (RUS) 2 3. Myasoyedov (RUS)1 4. Nekrasov (RUS) 0,5 Group B (boys till 14 years old) Swiss after 4 rounds: 1. Vershinin (RUS) 4 2.-3. Ryabov (RUS), Taimla (EST) 3,5 4.-5. Ogorodov (RUS), Ilu (EST) 3 Groups C (girls 15-20) and D (till 14) play together, because there is only 2 players in group D - Yulia Savrasova and Helen Milva after 3 rounds: 1. Tihkan (EST) 3 2.-3. Sorokina (RUS) 2, Sokolova (RUS) 2 4.-5. Savrasova (RUS), Leshukova (RUS) 1,5 6.-7. Maris Tuvikene, Eggert( EST) 1 8. Milva (EST) 0 Friendly, Ants Soosyrv [asoosyrv@hotmail.com] _____________________________________________________________________ THE 4TH YOUTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP The 4th Youth World Championship of Renju will be held 27 July – 2 August 2002 in Podjuga (Archangelsk region, Russia). There will be 4 groups of players: 1) Group A – boys, who are born 1982-1987; 2) Group B – boys, who are born 1988 and later; 3) Group C – girls, who are born 1982 – 1987; 4) Group D – girls, who are born 1988 and later. Your primary applications and questions are welcome as soon as possible: Irina Metreveli (the chief organizer) - E-mail: renmiv@atnet.ru; Fax: Rus-818-58-21816. Alexey Skuridin (the chairman of RIF Youth Commission) - E-mail: alexey_skuridin@hotmail.com; tel: rus – 8312-667579. Konstantin Nikonov (the chairman of Russian Renjuplayers Association) - E-mail: nikonov@elsite.ru; tel: Rus-096-57-46505; fax: Rus-095-516-0578.
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-12-08 Renju Newsletter No 52 - 2001 Highlights - 2ND GAME OF MEIJIN MATCH _____________________________________________________________________ 2ND GAME OF MEIJIN MATCH Hello Renju fans! On 2nd of Dec. the 2nd game of 39th Meijin Match was held between Meijin Nakamura and Hasegawa. The game was draw at 93th move. Nakamura was tentative black and selected D8. Hasegawa chose black. Black played Joseki move at 5th. However, it was Nakamura' tactics. Nakamura moved 18th, which was shown by him four years ago. Hasegawa played natually after 19th move, but could not win. Finally, they agreed draw. The 3rd game will be played next year, but not desided in detail. Norihiko Kawamura [nkawamur@hkf.mew.co.jp]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-12-01 Renju Newsletter No 51 - 2001 Highlights - LIVE SHOW 39TH MEIJIN MATCH 2ND GAME _____________________________________________________________________ LIVE SHOW 39TH MEIJIN MATCH 2ND GAME Hello Renju fans! The 39th Meijin match 2nd game will be played on 2th of Dec. The live show by the network is begun at 10:00 a.m.(JST) Please look at http://www.renjusha.net/ and click [39**** Live.] (Sorry,These sites are only Japanese.) Kuramoto Hideharu (Nihon Renjusha site WebMaster) [crow@www.renjusha.net]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-11-30 Renju Newsletter No 50 - 2001 Highlights - REPORT OF E-MAIL COMMISSION _____________________________________________________________________ REPORT OF E-MAIL COMMISSION Dear Renju Freinds, The World Renju Championship are finished. Congratulations to new World Champion Konstantin Nikonov from Russia. Other results you can see in the tables. So Next year final: K.Nikonov (RUS) vanalaud Zhang Jinyu (CHI) freefish V.Lunkin (RUS) lunkin M.Kozhin (RUS) jenaro E.Bobkov (RUS) bobkove V.Dvoeglazov (RUS) dvoeglazov P.Salnikov (RUS) psalnikov A.Soosorv (EST) asoosorv A.Nosovsky (RUS) nosovs O.Fedorkin (RUS) fedorkin L.Laibinis (LIT) llaibini S.Filippov (RUS) filippov Next semifinal: V.Golosov (RUS) golosov K.Hasegawa (JAP) uo9man I.Sinyov (RUS) sinyovi A.Reims (LAT) areims S.Sitnik (RUS) sergei M.Yamamoto (JAP) myamamoto V.Nazarov (UKR) vnazarov V.Barykin (RUS) vbarykin N.Salnikova (RUS) nonna V.Filinov (RUS) vfilinov Klimachev Oleg (RUS) klimatchev Ibragimova Mariam (RUS) mariam Lu Jiu (CHI) lujiu Kazarin Mikhail mike Medjid Abdul (TUR) abmedj Artemiev Sergey (SPb)(RUS) artemievs Dzainukov Eldar (AZR) dem Turko Sergey (RUS) sturko Makarov Pavel (RUS) mak Vershinin Pavel (RUS) pavel Chen Wei (CHI) chinastar Zaytsev Vjacheslav (RUS) slava Final of 6th Renju World Championship via e-mail Group A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 MatchPointsCont.EndLost +/- Pl. Coef Ber 1 A.Reims (LAT) areims x x = 0 = 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 = = 2.5 6 0 18 -12 -6 8 44.25 2 E.Bobkov (RUS) bobkove 1 = x x 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 = 0 0 0 1 5 10 0 18 -8 2 5 68 3 K.Nikonov (RUS) vanalaud 1 = 0 1 x x 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 = = 1 1 1 0 1 8 14.5 0 18 -3.5 11 1 17.25 4 M.Kozhin (RUS) jenaro 0 1 1 1 0 0 x x 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 5.5 11 0 18 -7 4 4 81.5 5 K.Hasegawa (JAP) uo9man 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 x x 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5 3 0 18 -15 -12 9 15.5 6 V.Golosov (RUS) golosov 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 x x 1 1 0 1 0 0 = = 3.5 7 0 18 -11 -4 7 46 7 I.Sinyov (RUS) sinyovi 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 x x 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2.5 0 18 -15.5-13 10 21.25 8 V.Lunkin (RUS) lunkin 1 1 = 1 0 = 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 x x 1 1 = = 6.5 13 0 18 -5 8 3 96.25 9 V.Dvoeglazov(RUS)dvoeglazov 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 x x 0 0 5 10 0 18 -8 2 6 57 10Zhang Jinyu (CHI) freefish = = 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 = = 1 1 = = 1 1 x x 6.5 13 0 18 -5 8 2 103.5 Referee - Ants Soosorv asoosyrv@hotmail.com (PBeM - asoosorv) Semi-final tournaments of 7th Renju World Championship via e-mail Group B. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MatchPoinCont.End Lost +/- Pl. 1 S.Artemyev (RUS) arts x x 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 6.5 0 22 -15.5-9 8 2 M.Dufvenberg (SWE) mikedu 1 1 x x 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 6.5 13 0 22 -9 4 7 3 J.Gaulitz (SWE) joachim 0 0 0 0 x x 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2.5 5 0 22 -17 -12 10 4 L.Gluhovsky (ISR) leonid 0 0 0 0 0 0 x x 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 22 -20 -18 12 5 L.Laibinis (LIT) llaibini 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 x x 1 1 0 1 0 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 0 0 8.5 16 0 22 -6 10 3 6 Y.Madissoon (EST) ymadis 1 = 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 x x 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 = 0 0 3.5 6 0 22 -16 -10 9 7 V.Nazarov (UKR) vnazarov 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 x x 0 1 0 0 0 = 1 1 0 1 7 14.5 0 22 -7.5 7 6 8 A.Nosovsky (RUS) nosovs 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 x x 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 18 0 22 -4 14 2 9 P.Salnikov (RUS) psalnikov 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 x x 1 = 1 1 1 1 9.5 19 0 22 -3 16 1 10S.Sitnik (RUS) sergei 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 = 1 1 = 1 0 0 = 0 x x 1 1 0 = 7 15 0 22 -7 8 4 11E.Tihkan (EST) etienne 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x x 0 1 1 2.5 0 22 -19.5-17 11 12M.Yamamoto (JAP) myamamoto 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 1 x x 7.5 14.5 0 22 -7.5 7 5 Referee -Hasegawa Kazuto uo9man@mve.biglobe.ne.jp Group C. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 MatchPoinCont.End Lost +/- Pl. Coef Ber 1 V.Barykin (RUS) vbarykin x x = 0 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 7.5 15 0 22 -7 8 4 131.25 2 O.Fedorkin (RUS) fedorkin 1 = x x 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 8.5 16.5 0 22 -5.5 11 2 152 3 V.Filinov (RUS) vfilinov 0 0 0 1 x x 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 6 12 0 22 -10 2 6 98 4 S.Filippov (RUS) filippov 0 0 1 0 1 1 x x = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 = = 1 1 1 1 8 16 0 22 -6 10 3 142 5 J.Lents (EST) lents 0 = 0 1 0 1 = = x x = 1 1 0 0 1 = = 0 0 1 0 1 1 5.5 11 0 22 -11 0 7 199.25 6 V.Kolesnik (UKR) kvik 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = x x 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 3.5 7.5 0 22 -14.5-7 10 45.5 7 Li Ming Yeh (CHI-T) myli 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 x x 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 5 10 0 22 -12 -2 8 72.5 8 I.Rinkis (LAT) ingus 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 x x 0 = 0 0 1 0 1 1 3.5 7.5 0 22 -14.5-7 9 154.75 9 N.Salnikova (RUS) nonna 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 = = 0 1 0 1 = 1 x x = = 1 1 1 1 7.5 14.5 0 22 -7.5 7 5 140.25 10A.Soosorv (EST) asoosorv 1 1 0 1 1 0 = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 = = x x 1 1 1 1 9 18 0 22 -4 14 1 169 11T.Takagawa (JAP) takagawa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 x x 1 1 2 4 0 22 -18 -14 11 18.5 12K.Yamamoto (JAP) itty 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x x 0 0 0 22 -22 -22 12 0 Referee - Sinyov Igor rensini@yahoo.com (PBeM - sinyovi) Quarter-final tournaments of 8th Renju World Championship via e-mail Pool Name W L T Points ---- ------------- --- --- -------- d klimatchev 22 2 0 22 d mariam 21 3 0 21 -------------------------------------------------- d siil 19 5 0 19 d leizhao 18 6 0 18 d bje 18 6 0 18 d oksana 14 10 0 14 d klimashin 14 10 0 14 d sjansson 10 14 0 10 d echo_tw 8 16 0 8 d z_jackily 3 21 0 3 d beeson 3 21 0 3 d underouk 3 21 0 3 d xuchangshi 3 21 0 3 e lujiu 24 0 0 24 e mike 17 7 0 17 -------------------------------------------------- e mirageled 17 7 0 17 e kareev 16 8 0 16 e nat 15 9 0 15 e aramarka 15 9 0 15 e faint2 14 10 0 14 e vnsh 13 11 0 13 e gealb 10 14 0 10 e zhnan 7 17 0 7 e tibia 5 19 0 5 e sinakiboy 3 21 0 3 e dino1 0 24 0 0 Group E. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 MatchPointCont.EndLost +/- Pl. Coef Ber 1 Dino Hsu dino1 x x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 0 0 24 -24 -24 13 0 2 Huan He sinakiboy + + x x 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.5 3 0 24 -21 -18 12 5 3 Kadyrov Georgiy gealb + + 1 1 x x 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 10 0 24 -14 -4 9 58 4 Karapetyan Aram aramarka + + 1 1 1 1 x x 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 7.5 15 0 24 -9 6 6 126 5 Kareev Vlad kareev + + 1 1 1 1 0 1 x x 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 8 16 0 24 -8 8 4 144 6 Kazarin Mikhail mike + + 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 x x 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 8.5 17 0 24 -7 10 2 154 7 Lu Jiu lujiu + + 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 x x 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 24 0 24 0 24 1 264 8 Shashin Vladimir vnsh + + 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 x x 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 6.5 13 0 24 -11 2 8 129 9 Shieng-min Lin mirageled + + 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 x x 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 8.5 17 0 24 -7 10 3 152 10Tibaldi Carlo tibia + + 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 x x 0 0 0 0 0 1 2.5 5 0 24 -19 -14 11 23 11Vasiljeva Nataly nat + + 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 x x 1 1 1 1 7.5 15 0 24 -9 6 5 134 12Yu Xiang faint2 + + 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 x x 1 1 7 14 0 24 -10 4 7 110 13Zhang Nan zhnan + + 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 x x 3.5 7 0 24 -17 -10 10 37 Referee - Pavel Salnikov spy@nt-ex.petrobank.spb.su f abmedj 22 2 0 22 f artemievs 21 3 0 21 -------------------------------------------------- f 99 18 6 0 18 f bru 17 7 0 17 f stepanov 16 8 0 16 f irina 15 9 0 15 f elena 14 10 0 14 f xxt22 12 12 0 12 f landey 8 16 0 8 f gongmz 7 17 0 7 f wmzzq 2 22 0 2 f alipsits 2 22 0 2 f chandr 2 22 0 2 0 g dem 22 2 0 22 g sturko 22 2 0 22 -------------------------------------------------- g murjam 18 4 2 19 g shuitaof 17 5 2 18 g julia 15 7 2 16 g denis 14 6 4 16 g tainy 11 13 0 11 g eurozero 10 14 0 10 g miges 8 16 0 8 g evit 8 16 0 8 g sundling 2 22 0 2 g slamduk 2 22 0 2 g cuiyue 2 22 0 2 0 h mak 24 0 0 24 h pavel 19 4 1 19.5 -------------------------------------------------- h s02 19 5 0 19 h hovik 18 6 0 18 h baitao 16 7 1 16.5 h sespavel 13 11 0 13 h jerTnimo 12 12 0 12 h barents 10 14 0 10 h dave 9 15 0 9 h vax 8 16 0 8 h wuchang 5 19 0 5 h sealw 1 23 0 1 h ben 1 23 0 1 0 i chinastar 22 2 0 22 i slava 21 3 0 21 -------------------------------------------------- i vodolazsky 20 4 0 20 i ain 18 6 0 18 i mmammel 15 9 0 15 i wyshlawyer 15 9 0 15 i reigo 11 13 0 11 i homa 11 13 0 11 i holmes 10 14 0 10 i george 6 18 0 6 i earthqq 5 19 0 5 i liuhong 2 22 0 2 i ojr 0 24 0 0 Please send Igor Sinyov (rensini@yahoo.com) confirmation of participation in format Name;Country;PBeM Name;e-mail And we welcome new players ! The next Tournament will starts at Pbem server from 1 February 2002. Every player able to participate from quater-finals, to became participant of E-mail WC you need to registred userid at Pbem server first (pbmserv@gamerz.net). (Send Help Tutorial command if you have problems). After that please, send your Full Name, Country, userid at Pbem, e-mail address to Igor Sinyov (rensini@yahoo.com) Ussially it is long tournament , Total time you have to use 135 days for each player. Winners of each groups able to play in semi-finals next year. Winners semi-finals able to play at Final, losers have to play in quarter-finals again. Nosovsky [stigma.ltd@g23.relcom.ru]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-11-29 Renju Newsletter No 49 - 2001 Highlights - RESULTS OF SWEDISH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - REPORT FROM JAPAN RENJU FEDERATION TRIP TO TAIWAN _____________________________________________________________________ RESULTS OF SWEDISH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP This years Swedish Team Championship was played in Stockholm 24/11 - 25/11. There were six teams participating in the tournament. It was a tough and equal fight for the first place between Stockholms Renju Club and KFUM Jonkoping. The latter succeeded to win the tournament as last year. Here comes the final standing: Team points mt pts members of the team 1. KFUM Jönköping 25.0 10 Göran Holgersson, Martin Carlsson & Peter Jonsson 2. STORK 25.0 9 Stefan Karlsson, Joachim Gaulitz & Björn Eriksson 3. AROLF 1 16.5 4 Hannes Hermansson, Linnea Widman & Sandra Fjällström 4. HÖL 15.5 5 Marcus Eriksson, Linus Hermannson & Peter Carlsson 5. SWEITEST 9.0 3 Irene Karlsson, Linnea Edlund & Paola Bergnehr 6. AROLF 2 8.0 2 Bengt Nyberg, Kristoffer Fjellström & Lars Hellander Greetings, Irene Karlsson [skire@bredband.net] _____________________________________________________________________ REPORT FROM JAPAN RENJU FEDERATION TRIP TO TAIWAN Dear Renju friends. This time, Japan Renju Federation visited to Taiwan for development of Renju for Asian area. I report this trip. When we played The 7th WC in Kyoto, we had the second Asia committee. Then we promised this trip with Taiwanese players, Mr. Chang Yi-Feng(La), and Mr. Meritee. Date ; 2001.11.21-25 Member ; Kyozo Isobe 9-dan, Shinichi Ishitani 8-dan, Takahiro Kudomi 6-dan, Hideki Nara 9-dan. Details ; We took part in two Renju meeting at Taipei and Tainan. *11.23(Thu) at Taipei The meeting place is in a tea-shop. Many young people, about 50 men and women gathered there. Mr. Chang Yi-Feng is arranging this meeting every week. This day, Mr. Lin Shieng-Min, Mr. Chung Hsien-Chi, Mr. A-Meritee and many players had come there. And a journalist of Japanese Tokyo-Chunichi Newspaper, Mr. Kusama had come there to collect news. Mr. Isobe called him. There, we introduced Mr. Lin Shieng-Min's 5-dan diploma from Japan Renju Federation, and gave some presents from Japan to Taipei. And we accepted some gifts, thank you. Then, we played some games against many players as we can possible. Japanese 4 men lost many games, because every Taiwanese players are very strong. For example, I (Nara) lost two games against Miss Yao (17 years old, pretty girl). About this, Mr. Ando Meritee said, "All Japanese players weak against young girl ! " I think it is true. Ahaha.... *11.24(Fri) at Tainan Mr. Chang Yi-Feng brought us to Tainan by his car. And some Taipei players (Finite, Ikon, Chung, Yao, etc.....) joined us. Tainan is about 300 Km away from Taipei. We leave Taipei 10 o'clock half, we arrived at tainan 16 o'clock. Because highway got choked with traffic. But Mr. Chang drove only himself, Xie xie. The meeting place is in a tea-shop same as Taipei. Many young people, about 40 men and women gathered there. We gave some presents from Japan to Tainan. And we accepted some gifts, Arigatou. Then, we played some games against many players. Foo, Taiwan players are very strong too. After meeting, we went back to taipei by Mr. Chang's driving. *Summary We had very meaingful times in Taiwan. We talked with many friends about Renju, and played many games. I hope this activity will stand Asian Renju in good stead. All Taiwanese Renju friends, thank you very much ! See you again at The 8th WC in Sweden, two years later. 01.11.27 Hideki Nara [hdk-nara@246.ne.jp]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-11-20 Renju Newsletter No 48 - 2001 Highlights - 1ST GAME OF MEIJIN MATCH _____________________________________________________________________ 1ST GAME OF MEIJIN MATCH Hello Renju fans! On 18th of Nov. the 1st game of 39th Meijin Match was held between Meijin Nakamura and Hasegawa, who won the Meijinsen Tournament of this year. Nakamura won at 76th move! Hasegawa was tentative black and selected D3. Nakamura chose white. Nakamura showed the new (I think) move at 10th move. Nakamura protected Hasegawa's attacking steadily, and made black double four finally. The 2nd game will be played on 9th of Dec. And we will organize to publish LIVE show by Net. Please look at http://www.renjusha.net/ and click 39**** Live. Norihiko Kawamura [nkawamur@hkf.mew.co.jp]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-11-19 Renju Newsletter No 47 - 2001 Highlights - BALTIC LEAGUE 2002 _____________________________________________________________________ BALTIC LEAGUE 2002 The next Baltic League will be played in Jonkoping, Sweden on Jan 26- 27 2002. Swiss system, 7 rounds, 60 min/player (control moves 49 and 50) + 10 moves/10 minutes. Players from all countries are very welcome to take part. Tournament fee is 50 SEK for foreign players and 80 SEK for Swedish players. The organizing club can offer very cheap sleeping quarters. Please send your application or questions to Peter Jonsson petejonsson@hotmail.com or please call INT+4636136735. The Estonian and Finnish players will come by bus/ferry Tallinn- Helsinki- Stockholm. More information from Ants Soosorv asoosyrv@hotmail.com Peter Jonsson, Organizer
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-11-04 Renju Newsletter No 46 - 2001 Highlights - About Renju Newsletter _____________________________________________________________________ ABOUT RENJU NEWSLETTER The idea of Renju Newsletter is to spread information about events in the world of renju, go-moku and related board games. One event is the opening of a Renju Players Club. Another event is the start of Renju Class Newsletter. * Alexander Nosovsky asked me to publish information about Yahoo Renju Club, which I have done twice. * Ando Meritee asked me to publish the whole content of the 1st renjuclass newsletter, which I did. These last two Renju Newsletters has lead to a discussion between the two involved, which will not be published further in Renju Newsletter. However, you can find Alexander Nosovsky's replies to Ando Meritee in Yahoo Renju Players Club, http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/renjuplayers where I prefer the discussion is kept from now. RIF Webmaster
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-11-03 Renju Newsletter No 45 - 2001 Highlights - Renjuclass Newsletter # 1-2001 _____________________________________________________________________ Renjuclass has also started a regular newsletter. Here follows the complete renjuclass newsletter no.1 RIF Webmaster ============ Renjuclass Newsletter # 1-2001 =============== ============== http://www.renjuclass.com ================= H e a d l i n e s: * Editor's Greeting * Reminder about the race "The Best Students 2001" * Renjuclass Tournament * New Downloads * Comments to Nosovsky's Insulting Message * Surprise project for 2002 - "War of Roses" ================================================== EDITORS GREETING Dear subscribers of Renjuclass Newsletter, I am happy to announce the opening of our regular Newsletter. It will be published frequently and keep everyone updated with all the information regarding renjuclass and also world renju events. My idea of having a Newsletter was inspired by Tommy Maltell who created the Renju Newsletter many years ago. It is a wonderful way of spreading information. I hope you will all enjoy this! I also hope you will all be cooperative and help me with infromation and articles. Thank you so much! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REMINDER ABOUT THE RACE "THE BEST STUDENTS 2001" Just like in last year, after the end of the year, we will select the Best Students of the year according to your homework results. The conditions of selections are shown here: "Since the homework is the most important condition that shows the student's activity as well as skill, therefore the selection of best students is based on homework answers. There are lots of students who actively submit their homework almost every week, and there are students whose homework answers are correct almost every time. Therefore, we have two big categories - the quantity and the quality of the homework. Both are equally important categories. Quantity shows the activity and dedication of the student whereas quality shows the deepness and preciseness of their homework answer. Quantity is measured by the number of submitted homework answers, quality is measured by earned creditpoints. In case of equal points, the places were determined by additional criterias." Here you can take a look at the results of last year Best Student race. http://my.tele2.ee/renjuclass/best2000.html I wish everyone good luck and more spirit in order to become the Best!! :) Ando Meritee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RENJUCLASS TOURNAMENT For those who have not been active recently and do not know our recent activities, I inform that we are currenly playing The 2nd Online Renju Class Tournament in our speacial tournament server. There are 37 players taking part in it. The tournament began on October 1, 2001. Each player has 20 games there. The time limit is 40 days per player. The best players of the tournament will be rewarded with credit points. The tournament server database stores all the games, and they are accessible to everyone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW DOWNLOADS The most recent update about the download area is about ANDO's BOOK. We have uploaded the complete "Indirect 2" opening there. It has nearly 30 pages, and it takes 17 credit points to download it all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMENTS TO NOSOVSKY'S INSULTING MESSAGE There is one interesting message I found from yahoo message board. I could not decide first whether to put it here or to Jokes Message Board. But the tone of the message is serious, therefore I publish it in General Message Board of Renjuclass. The author of the message was Alexander Nosovsky, RIF Vice President. His message: "Dear Members of Club You can download Ando Meritee 11 wins at WC with his commentaries http://my.tele2.ee/renjuclass/my11games.zip He is the only person in Renju who won 3 times World Championship. Other players probably can not beat him at all because he earn his money teaching Renju Taiwanese players, other players has their own professions. There is also RenjuClass where students need to analyze variants for Meritee. So, he play games which were analyzed whole team of players. It is interesting to read comentary of such strong player to his games at WC. " People who may be do not know Mr Nosovsky very well, I can explain that he is a person who likes to talk a lot, annoy people, manipulate with people, and usually does not know much about the facts nor ethics. It is a shame that we have chosen him to be a vice persident for Renju International Federation, since he is just creating confusion and negative feelings in the world of renju. He is purposely making up stories to humiliate others. This is very sad. However, I am very optimistic, and looking forward to see more honest and polite vice president in the future. Alexander Nosovsky does not know if I got paid by Taiwan Renju Association or not. But he is brave to make his conclusions. In fact, The Association was practically dead when I arrived to Taiwan. The association owes me over 1 year salary. I taught them for free because of my optimism and faith to renju. We all see, Nosovsky's attempt was to find excuses for my result in WC. Nosovsky says I ask students analyse variants for me, so that I could use them for my win games. I think Nosovsky has heard something about our Homework, but he apparently does not know the content of homework. The homework questions have nothing to do with analyses of renju openings. I guess he was just too busy and did not bother to download any of the homeworks, although they are all 100% available for public download at www.renjuclass.com. And all the answers as well. So, if someone thinks there is something valuable for WC preparation, one can download them for free. Well, It was his another attempt to try to humiliate my result in WC. I am not offended. It is because I know him well, and his behaviour and attitude does not surprise me at all. I just want you all know what to expect whenever you get in touch with him in the future. He surely owes an apology to me personally and to the whole renjuclass. He humiliated me and all of you with his message. Ando Meritee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SURPRISING PROJECT FOR 2002 - "WAR OF ROSES" We are expecting another exciting activity in Renjuclass in coming year. We will have a role play with all our class. All 100 people will be involved with it. It is called "The War of Roses". Those who know the history of England, they probably guess what this is all about (The Red Rose vs The White Rose). We will split the whole class into two teams, and we will create a special server where the two teams will play the game in one board. When it is one team's turn to move, it has 24 hours for that. During that time, all the warriors of that team must make their vote for the next move. The system will automatically select the most voted move in the moment the deadline passes, and submits it to the big board. We will create more side activities to that "War of Roses" to make it more playful and even romantic. Please write your comments and ideas about "War of Roses" to General Message board of renjuclass. Ando Meritee =========================================== Thank you for reading the Newsletter! Ando Meritee The Editor of Renjuclass Newsletter Email: kullo@neti.ee
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-11-03 Renju Newsletter No 44 - 2001 Highlights - Info about Yahoo Renju Players Club - Renju International Federation Web Forum _____________________________________________________________________ Info about Yahoo Renju Players Club =================================== Dear Renju friends You can read "fresh" news at Yahoo Renju Players Club ! Results of Meijin-sen Tournament, Chinese Final, Results of Moscow Competition, free software and literature all this you can read at this Club ! You can be member of the club and ask questions and send information to the members of the Club ? This is the place to discuss some variants anyone can obtain advice from other members from all over the world. Among members Vladimir Sushkov (Russia), Jin Yu Zhang (China), Leonid Glukhovsky (Israel) and many other strong players from (Russia, Sweden, Hungary, USA, China and many other) http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/renjuplayers Lets became Renju Club the biggest among Yahoo Clubs ! (To became member you need Yahoo mail address, and then go directly to the Renju Players Club) Alexander Nosovsky [stigma.ltd@g23.relcom.ru] http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/renjuplayers You can also find the link on RIF first page. ____________________________________________________________________ Renju International Federation Web Forum ======================================== There is a new button on RIF first page, where you can enter RIF Forum to, for example, ask questions about the RIF site and about the renju/go-moku games. You can also enter news information. RIF Forum URL: http://pub30.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=2522171292&cpv=1_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-10-26 Renju Newsletter No 43 - 2001 Highlights - Tournaments in Estonia _____________________________________________________________________ Tournaments in Estonia ====================== December 8.-12. will held Youth European Championship in Tallinn, in Hobbycenter "Kullo" (Mustamae street 59). Accomodation and food (2 meals per day) costs 100 EEK (about 6 USD) per day. Also we have tournament fee - 12 USD. December 15.-16. will held Estonian Open Championship in Tallinn Chesshouse (Vene street 29) About both competitions please contact with Ants Soosyrv phones - 372 56 69 73 82 or 372 6777 852 e-mail asoosyrv@hotmail.com Friendly, Ants Soosyrv
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-10-14 Renju Newsletter No 42 - 2001 Highlights - Wettercupen results - NAC _____________________________________________________________________ WETTERCUPEN =========== This annual tournament is played in Jonkoping. Earlier some foreign players took part but not this year. Everybody are welcome to take part another year. Results: 1. Stefan Karlsson Stockholm 2. Goran Holgersson Jonkoping 3. Rickard Johannesson Jonkoping 4. Martin Carlsson Jonkoping 5. Peter Jonsson Jonkoping 6. Tomas Hagenfors Kumla 7. Peter Carlsson Kumla Irene Karlsson Stockholm Martin Karlsson Jonkoping Peter Jonsson [petejonsson@hotmail.com] NAC - A Five In A Row Game for computer ethusiasts ================================================== The application is working as a platform for algorithms that is read from dll-files created by programmers. NAC is a small software. The sourcecode is free and is downloadable from http://www.ida.his.se/ida/~a00jamdi/nac.html The software is far from being ready and does contain bugs. The sourcecode is written in a very sloppy way but probably understandable for most of the C-coding community. James Dickson [a00jamdi@student.his.se]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-10-14 Renju Newsletter No 41 - 2001 Highlights - E-mail addresses to commission members - E-mail World Championship _____________________________________________________________________ E-mail addresses to commission members ====================================== There is now a page for all commissions and members at URL: http://www.renju.nu/agendaga2001/commissions.htm However, these tables needs to be filled with e-mail addresses of the members of each commission. Anybody is welcome to send me e-mail addresses to members of a commission. Here is a list of the commissions and members: The Commissions THE ASIAN COMMISSION Hideki Nara, Chairman Japan Na Wei, Vice chairman China Mr. Nara, 2:nd vice chairman Japan Andrey Khramov Uzbekistan Mr. Chang Chinese Taipei Albert Pogosyan Armenia Alexander Nosovsky Russia Mr. Eibatov Azerbadjan Mr. Kwon Korea Mr. Hasegawa Japan Mr. Glukovski Israel THE CORRESPONDENCE COMMISSION Igor Sinyov, Chairman Russia Björn Eriksson Sweden Joachim Gaulitz Sweden Stefan Karlsson Sweden Kazuto Hasegawa Japan Alexander Nosovsky Russia Teiji Takagawa Japan Yurij Tarannikov Russia Ando Meritee Estonia Chien-Yung Chiang Chinese Taipei Albert Pogosyan Armenia Mr. Kwon Korea (Until Korea has made a decision) THE SPORTS COMMISSION Konstantin Nikonov, Chairman Russia Kazuto Hasegawa Japan Stefan Karlsson Sweden Na Wei China (Until China has made a decision) Ants Soosorv Estonia Viktor Kaufman Russia Chien-Yung Chiang Chinese Taipei (Until Chinese Taipei has made a decision) Mr. Kwon Korea (Until Korea has made a decision) Albert Pogosyan Armenia THE REFEREE COMMISSION Alexei Skuridin, Chairman Russia Hiroyuki Tatsutomi Japan (Until Japan has made a decision) Hideki Nara Japan Peter Jonsson Sweden Andrei Khramov Uzbekistan Dino Hsu Chinese Taipei Ants Soosorv Estonia Artis Gaujens Latvia Na Wei China (Until China has made a decision) Anders Henningsson Sweden Albert Pogosyan Armenia Mr. Kwon Korea (Until Korea has made a decision) THE YOUTH COMMISSION Alexei Skuridin, Chairman Russia Hiroyuki Tatsutomi Japan (Until Japan has made a decision) Na Wei China (Until China has made a decision) Ants Soosorv Estonia Peter Jonsson Sweden Valentin Uspenski Ukraine Shih-Wen Li Chinese Taipei Albert Pogosyan Armenia THE RULES COMMISSION Yoshimi Hayakawa, Chairman Japan Yurij Tarannikov Russia Mikhail Kozhin Russia Ando Merittee Estonia Peter Jonsson Sweden Andrei Khramov Uzbekistan Norihiko Kawamura Japan THE QUALIFICATION COMMISSION Oleg Stephanov, Chairman Russia Stefan Karlsson Sweden Kazuto Hasegawa Japan Pavel Makarov Russia Na Wei China (Until China has made a decision) Ants Soosorv Estonia Lung-Chuan Chen Chinese Taipei Albert Pogosyan Armenia Mr. Kwon Korea (Until Korea has made a decision) THE TRANSLATION COMMISSION Ando Meritee, Chairman Estonia Peng Jian Guo China Norio Nishizono Japan (Until Japan has made a decision) Mikhail Kozhin Russia (Until Russia has made a decision) Irene Karlsson Estonia Peter Jonsson Sweden Mr. Kwon Korea (Until Korea has made a decision) Andrei Khramov Uzbekistan Mr. Eibatov Azerbadjan THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION Ants Soosorv, Chairman Estonia Peter Jonsson Sweden Mr. Poddubny Ukraine Viktor Kaufman Russia THE INTERNET COMMISSION Frank Arkbo, Chairman Sweden Mr. Kuramoto Japan Mr. Sinyov Russia Mr. Milevski Russia Mr. Filipov Russia Mr. Meritee Estonia Mr. Kwon Korea (Until Korea has made a decision) Mr. Okuno Yusuke Japan (Until Japan has made a decision) Mr. Khramov Uzbekistan Mr. Gobosev Armenia RIF Webmaster [web@renju.nu] E-mail World Championship ========================= Renju e-mail world Championship will end quite soon. I have request to players, please comment 1-2 Your best games and send them to "Renju World" magazine - asoosyrv@hotmail.com, suslik@ut.ee or Etienne.Ok@mail.ee Your can help a lot to make "Renju World" magazine better! Friendly, Ants Soosyrv [asoosyrv@hotmail.com]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-10-11 Renju Newsletter No 40 - 2001 Highlights - Renju World - GoRenjer _____________________________________________________________________ Renju World - Magazine ====================== Evelyn Tihkan has done good job with "Renju World" internetversion. It is possible to read it in address http://www.hot.ee/renjuworld/ Unfortunately I have lost most of files from numbers 32-35, but You can see all materials from numbers 36-38 and now also World Championship Extra, which got ready some days ago. All suggestions, how to make "Renju World" and internetversion better are of course welcome. Friendly, Ants [asoosyrv@hotmail.com]
GoRenjer - Palm Renju Board =========================== I prepared homepage about English version of Gorenjer at http://www.gonnta.ne.jp/~itty/GoRenjer-en.html GoRenjer runs on over PalmOS 3.0. I have never run it on PalmOS 2 because i have not device of Palm OS 2.0. But i think it can run on Palm OS 2.0, maybe. regards, Keisuke Yamamoto [itty@gonnta.ne.jp]
_____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-10-06 Renju Newsletter No 39 - 2001 Highlights - Polish Site with Gomoku _____________________________________________________________________ Polish Site with Gomoku ======================= The URL http://www.cronix.com/ has been added to RIF first page. _____________________________________________________________________ Date sent: 2001-10-01 Renju Newsletter No 38 - 2001 Highlights - Results of Helsinki Open _____________________________________________________________________ Results of Helsinki Open, played September 29.-30., 7 rounds Swiss: 1. Ants Soosyrv (EST) 6 2. Martin Carlsson (SWE) 5 3. Maris Tuvikene (EST) 4,5 4. Evelyn Tihkan (EST) 4 5. Tunnet Taimla (EST) 4 6. Vitaly Lunkin (RUS) 4 7. Ester Eggert (EST) 3,5 8. Stefan Karlsson (SWE) 3,5 9. Linas Laibinis (LIT) 3,5 10. Irene Karlsson (EST) 3 11. Marko Pellikka (FIN) 3 12. Kristian Lindberg(SWE) 3 13. Ain Ostra (EST) 2 14. Marika Pellikka (FIN) 0 Some interesting results: 1. round Evelyn - Ants 1-0 Maris - Stefan 0,5-0,5 3. round Evelyn - Stefan 1-0 Maris - Vitaly 1-0 Ester - Kristian 1-0 4. round Ester - Stefan 1-0 (!) 6. round Maris - Martin 1-0 Vitaly - Stefan 1-0 There was also gomoku tournament with 29 players. 3 best were: 1. Oskari Kauppila (FIN) 2. Tuomo Pinola (FIN) 3. Tauri Tarbe (EST) Friendly, Ants
------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-10-01 Renju Newsletter No 37 - 2001 Highlights - RENJUCLASS INFORMATION ------------------------------------------- RENJUCLASS INFORMATION ====================== Hello renju people of the world! On behalf of renjuclass I have some information to give all of you. First of all, our URL is still same as before, www.renjuclass.com. Besides that you can also use the URL www.renju.net which is our alternative address and leads to the same website. Our renjuclass now has 92 students from 20 different countries all over the world. It is the largest international renju community in the world where people study hard about renju and make everything to become a better player. Our renjuclass students study regularly every week. They attend lessons, do their weekly homework, etc. We now have 5 Grand Masters in our class!! Their renjuclass usernames are luwenzhe (China), ladykayak (Canada), concord2497 (Taiwan), forsaken (China), jahre (Russia). The title has been given to them because of their true and dedicated work and study in renjuclass. The condition of the title was to earn 100 credit points of the renjuclass by showing renju efforts. THE FRESH NEWS: Today, on October 1, the renjuclass began our second official Renju Tournament. There are 37 people taking part in it. The games are played in the special Game Server that has been built specially for renjuclass website. Everybody is welcome to watch our activity in renjuclass!! If you want to see how the games are played in either our regular Play Games server or Tournament server, then you can do it by going to www.renjuclass.com website, clicking on 'Play Games' link and then you will be shown the link 'WELCOME GUESTS!'. There you get all the necessary information that you need for going around in our server. One more thing: On behalf of renjuclass and 92 eager students I thank Renju International Federation for supporting our inevitable costs such as domain name fee (USD 15) and server host fee (USD 60)! RIF attention and support will help us to grow even bigger and spread renju all over the world! See you in our class! Ando Meritee [kullo@neti.ee] (RenjuTeacher) ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-09-30 Renju Newsletter No 36 - 2001 Highlights - General Assembly decisions 2001 - Concluding words from the former president of RIF - Opening words from the new president of RIF - Ando's 11 games in WC - Improved ratinglist layout - Some Palm renju/go-moku applications - GoMoku game for Psion Series 3a/3c/3mx and Siena ------------------------------------------- General Assembly decisions 2001 =============================== Now you can read the official protocol (PDF-files) from the General Assembly of RIF Part 1 - 010806 - URL: http://www.renju.nu/agendaga2001/ga_part1.PDF Part 2 - 010807 - URL: http://www.renju.nu/agendaga2001/ga_part2.PDF Webmaster note: All chairmans and members listed in a commission, please send me an e-mail, informing me which commission(s) you are a member of. Concluding words from the former president of RIF ================================================= I congratulate Peter Jonsson to be the new president of RIF. Since the start of RIF Peter has been a member of the Central Commitee. Actually Peter was the one to write the proposal for the statues of RIF. So he already knows a lot about adminstration within RIF. I know that he cares much for renju. Also the other members of Central Committee - the old and new members - I also know care very much for renju so I am sure all the new Central Committee will make a great job. I also know the new Web master Frank Arkbo will make a great job. He also knows a lot about renju and he also cares for renju. He has been playing renju for about 20 years just as Peter and I. Tommy Maltell President of RIF from the start on the 8th of August 1988 till the General Assembly in Kyoto in August 2001 Opening words from the new president of RIF =========================================== Dear Renju Friends. It is a big honour for me to be elected as the president for the Renju International Federation. Looking back at my predecessor, Tommy Maltell's 12 years as President, a lot of things have happened. In that time it was three member countries and we did not know what we could expect from the future. RIF made international rules and established the World Championship, European Championship, Youth Championship (World and European), Women Championship and Team World Championship. An international rating list was created. Even computer programs have their own championship. The Internet revolution made a championship by mail much easier and quicker. Ten years ago we had to wait for ordinary letters, which was quite frustrating many times. The Renju Newsletter is very much appreciated by many players all over the world. Globally, the world of Renju is bigger now. The latest years, our game has gained popularity in some Asian countries. The level of playing has reached to a higher level. Personally, I have some visions for the future. Of course it is desirable to get more member countries, especially in those areas that still are "white spots" on the renju map. But we must not forget to work for that renju activities continue in the countries where Renju already exists. In order to become more professional we must see that some things happen. I mean for example qualification for referees. We must have an open mind about the opening rules, but also pay respect to the tradition. More books about Renju must be written and published. The work of the official commissions must be better. I think that the way of slow progress is better here because everyone of us work voluntarily. Finally, I want to thank the former President, Tommy Maltell for his work during the first 12 years of RIF. Peter Jonsson President of RIF PDF file: http://www.renju.nu/agendaga2001/dearrenjufriends.PDF Player presentation: http://www.renju.nu/players/peterjonsson.htm Ando's 11 games in WC ===================== In renjuclass site, News/Articles, you can read about * Ando's 11 games in WC for Renju World magazine (zipped doc file) games commented by Ando Meritee URL: http://my.tele2.ee/renjuclass/articles.html Improved ratinglist layout ========================== The latest RIF international ratinglist presented by Oleg Stepanov has a new improved layout. URL: http://users.lk.net/~stepanov/rifrat/rifrat.html Some Palm renju/go-moku applications ==================================== 1. Renju v1.4 URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/8569/ 2. Mihai's Go Moku 2.2 URL: http://mihainastase.homestead.com/ 3. PDA Five 1.0.1 URL: http://www.sokorac.com/palm/ 4. Gobang 1.1 URL: http://www.jdhy.com.cn/idiot/en/index.htm GoMoku game for Psion Series 3a/3c/3mx and Siena ================================================ URL: http://www.emccsoft.com/software/series3/gomoku.html ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-09-07 Renju Newsletter No 35 - 2001 Highlights - General Assembly - preliminary protocol ------------------------------------------- General Assembly - preliminary protocol ======================================= You can read the preliminary protocol (PDF-file) from the General Assembly of RIF, 010806 - 010807, by opening the file: http://www.renju.nu/agendaga2001/ga_preliminary_protocol.PDF Webmaster note: All chairmans and members listed in a commission, please send me an e-mail, informing me which commission(s) you are a member of. I will make a table of e-mails of the members of each commission to be sent to the chairman of each commission. ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-09-06 Renju Newsletter No 34 - 2001 Highlights - Participation in 4th WC among computer programs ------------------------------------------- Participation in 4th WC among computer programs =============================================== Please, refuse or confirm your participation in 4th World Championship in RENJU, GOMOKU and PENTE among computer programs Read more in the following page: http://www.renju.nu/nosovsky/WC4_computer.htm ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-09-04 Renju Newsletter No 33 - 2001 Highlights - Results Svealand Open ------------------------------------------- Results Svealand Open ===================== Russian GoMoku tournament in Kumla, Sweden, september 1st with a total of 14 participants. Final results: 1. Linus Hermansson Högsjö 2. Tomas Hagenfors Kumla 3. Gunnar Andersson Odensbacken 4. Peter Carlsson Kumla 5. Jörgen Rehnstedt Borlänge 6. Morgan Svensson Kumla 7. Martin Hermansson Kumla 8. Sven-Åke Pettersson Högsjö 9. Linus Andersson Odensbacken 10. Gabriel Hagenfors Kumla 11. Albin Hermansson Högsjö 12. Carl Hermansson Högsjö 13. Cajsa-Tora Hermansson Högsjö Christina Källman Kumla ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-09-03 Renju Newsletter No 32 - 2001 Highlights - How To Play Renju On Game.263.net ------------------------------------------- How To Play Renju On Game.263.net ================================= It is very easy and convenient to play renju games with other people in games.263.net. There are always hundreds of people playing renju/ gomoku games at real time and always about 100 people play renju. You will easily find a opponent to play renju with you here. games.263.net use Java program for games, so it is easy to play, you don`t need anything to download. 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------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-09-03 Renju Newsletter No 31 - 2001 Highlights - For all participants of 7th WC! - RIF Ratings after WC - Yahoo Renju Players Club ! ------------------------------------------- For all participants of 7th WC! =============================== Hello renju friends! We will publish the report of 7th WC in Kyoto soon. Please send me your comments as soon as possible. The detail is following; The title is "My World Championship" It will be better to mention your impression freely with one photo or diagram. It will be OK a short comment. The dead line will be 10/9.(I am sorry so fast) You send me, nkawamur@hkf.mew.co.jp That book will be published on October, including all games of AT,WT,BT,QT. Norihiko Kawamura RIF Ratings after WC ==================== See address: http://users.lk.net/~stepanov/rifrat/rolast.html Yahoo Renju Players Club ! ========================== Dear Renju Players Now it is possible to enter Yahoo Renju Players Club http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/renjuplayers Place where you can ask questions and exchange opinions. Place for joint analyzing and answering questions of begginers ! You can talk with the strong renju players on-line or by e-mail. To be member of this club you need first Yahoo-mail address and then go to the Yahoo Renju Players Club. You are welcome !!! Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-09-02 13:00 Renju Newsletter No 30 - 2001 Highlights - Pente for PalmOS - Writings about renju from Alexander Nosovsky´s site - Renju World Championship record of BT up-loaded ------------------------------------------- Pente for PalmOS ================ You might be interested in my version of Pente for PalmOS: http://www.sinz.com/Palm/Michael Sinz <Michael.Sinz@sinz.org> Writings about renju from Alexander Nosovsky´s site =================================================== - Renju for beginners - A Way to Improvement of player's standard - Click of Stones are available for download, see page http://www.renju.nu/nosovsky/index.htm Renju World Championship record of BT up-loaded =============================================== Hello! Renju Friend 7th Renju World Championship record of BT was up-loaded. URL: http://www.renjusha.net/world_ch.html Best regards, from Kyoto Japan Kitamoto Kenji URL http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/ E-mail mailto:arka01@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp mailto:arka01@fancy.ocn.ne.jp mailto:arka@www.renjusha.net ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-09-01 23:00 Renju Newsletter No 29 - 2001 Highlights - Pente News - Shogi News ------------------------------------------- Pente News ========== It was started PENTE quater-finals e-mail tournament at PBM server. Among participants Alexander Zabrodin, Alexander Klimashin, Oleg Stepanov (Russia), Arne Blum (Sweden), Kazuto Hasegawa (Japan). It is also started Final of this e-mail Pente Championship among 7 participants : Dmitriy Krasnonosov, Igor Sinyov, Victor Barykin, Alexander Nosovsky (Russia) , Mark Mammel, Garry Burns (USA), Don Banks (Canada). Shogi News ========== At MSO of this year in London some Renju players took part at Shogi Tournament Mr. Hiroyuki Tatsutomi (3 Dan) was N13, Jan Palmgren (Sweden) (2 Kyu) was N15, Hirokazu Tatsutomi (9 Kyu) N 31 Total number of participants was 36. ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-08-31 19:25 Renju Newsletter No 28 - 2001 Highlights - International Internet Go-Moku Federation ------------------------------------------- International Internet Go-Moku Federation ========================================= On address http://powiat.mielec.pl/pietshaq/gomoku/index.html you can find a page which "... was created with an intention of connecting fans of Go-Moku from all over the world. In this page, you will find the rules of Go-Moku, you will be able to join the federation and play with each other rated tournaments via e-mail, ..." ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-08-28 23:55 Renju Newsletter No 27 - 2001 Highlights - Download WC7 games - Online Renju Class is closed ------------------------------------------- Download WC7 games ================== The WC7 games are now available for download on the address http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~osamu/wc7th.games.htm in a RenLib-file. Online Renju Class is closed ============================ Online Renju Class is closed. However, the Game server will continue to work and you can still read the articles about WC 2001 recently announced in Renju Newsletter. More details about renjuclass situation will be found on Renju Class Message Boards. The address to Renju Class is http://www.renjuclass.com/ ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-08-26 22:20 Renju Newsletter No 26 - 2001 Highlights - Comments about World Championship games - World Championship Articles ------------------------------------------- Comments about World Championship games ======================================= Hello, my name is Osamu, a Japanese renju player, and the member of the championship in Kyoto. Now, we would like to have the page about the comments about World Championship games. I will be happy if eager renju players send me comment about your favourite games with Renlib file or GIF files. Thank you. Best Regards, Osamu ( or nakayann in meritees renju class) This is my E-mail address: laker@anet.ne.jp ------------------------------------------- World Championship Articles =========================== In renjuclass site (http://www.renjuclass.com/articles.html) you can read about the World Championship in Renju, Kyoto 2001 - The story about World Championship 2001 - by Igor Samotsvetov - Interview with Ando Meritee after WC 2001 - questions made by Ants Soosõrv ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-08-21 22:45 Renju Newsletter No 25 - 2001 Highlights - 7th WC in Kyoto official report - Helsinki Open - Luff ------------------------------------------- 7th WC in Kyoto official report =============================== To All Renju fans in the world! Final Report The 7th WC Organized Committee, President Yoshimi Hayakawa Chairperson Toshio Sawai Thanks for organizing WC in Kyoto! We could organize "the 7th Renju World Championship in Kyoto" with success. It was held from 3/8(Welcome party) to 12/8(SAYONARA party) with attending foreign players from 12 countries and 1 district. Totally, 80 people as a guest(foreign players and officers), 200 people including Japanese players and volunteers were joined in QT, AT, WT, BT and Blitz. During tournament, some masscomminucation(NHK broadcasting, Kyoto newspapers and more newspapers) mentioned it everyday. Besides, HP of Nihonrenjusha was great success. We could announce WC results on time through HP,"Live Broadcasting of WC". Total access was taken over 15000 hits, more than 70% was from excpet Japan. As a result I believe we made a great result of international communication. I would like to express many thanks to all renju fans. Yoshimi Hayakawa (translated by Norihiko Kawamura) TEL 075-531-2741 FAX 075-525-0615 Email hayakawa@www.renjusha.net I tell you only the final result of AT. Ando Meritee became a champion again with an amazing score!! Please look at www.renjusha.net/ if you want to know details. ******The result of AT (7/8-12/8)************ Name Country W-L-D Points --------------------------------------------- Ando Meritee Estonia 11-0 11 Vladimir Sushkov Russia 8-1-2 9 Igor Sinyov Russia 8-3 8 Hideki Nara Japan 6-5 6 Petter Gardstrom Sweden 5-5-1 5.5 Stefan Karlsson Sweden 5-6 5 Ants Soosyrv Estonia 4-5-2 5 Shinichi Ishitani Japan 3-5-3 4.5 Kim Byoung-Jun Korea 4-7 4 Konstantin Nikonov Russia 4-7 4 Joachim Gaulitz Sweden 3-8 3 Lin Shieng-Min Taiwan 1-10 1 ------------------------------------------- Helsinki Open ============= Hello! Helsinki Open will held September 29.-30. in Helsinki Kotinummen School, address is Kotinummen tie 1. Hopefully will be there many strong players from Russia, Sweden, Estonia, Finland and maybe Israel. There will be 7 rounds in Swiss system. Info about timetable and timecontrol I will send soon. Russian players, who need visa, please contact with me as soon as possible to get invitation. Friendly, Ants [asoosyrv@hotmail.com] ------------------------------------------- Luff ==== "Luff is a network game that makes it possible for two players to play noughts and crosses (Swedish: luffarschack) against each other. The program has also a chat and a timelimit function which makes the playing a little bit more fun." This program, written by Fredrik Ternerot, is free and can be downloaded from http://www.efd.lth.se/~e00ft/luff/ The program is under development and will adapt to international rules. One way to find out your own IP-address is to use the standard command "ipconfig", but in the next version it will be possible to see your own IP-address. ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-08-19 18:15 Renju Newsletter No 24 - 2001 ------------------------------------------- Asia Committee Report ===================== Dear Renju friends. Thanks to the renju friends all over the world, we got a great success in The 7th WC in Kyoto. Thank you very much. By the way, we had The second Asia committee meeting during this WC. Here is the report below. *About The first Asia committee, please see Renju Newsletter No 64 - 2000 Best regards, Hideki Nara [hdk-nara@246.ne.jp] 2001.8.19 === The second Asia committee meeting minutes === Date and time : August 6th, from PM.9:00 to 11:00 The place : Kyoto Park Hotel, room number 367 Participation : A conference attendant China Xu Bing Ji, Na Wei Taiwan Chang Yi - Feng Korea Kwon Jun Chol Russia Alexander Nosovsky Israel Leonid Gluhovsky Armenia Albert Poghosyan Azerbaijan Nizami Heybatov Uzbekistan Andrey Khramov Japan Hideki Nara, Kazuto Hasegawa Estonia Ando Meritee (Observer) Based on The first Asia committee meeting minutes, we had opinion exchange, adjustment and got a reconfirmation and decision matter as the following. A reconfirmation matter : 1.Names 1) This committee was named "Asia committee" 2.Purpose 1) Spread Renju to the whole Asian area , activate international exchange of each countries through Renju and hope to keep peace of every countries. 2) Hold the Asian Championship in the near feature. 3.Activity contents 1) By holding periodical Asia Comittee meeting, we spread Renju to whole Asia area and activate international exchange of each Asian countries. A decision matter : 1. A member nation and frontman (at 2001.8 ) #China; name; Xu Bing Ji(temporary) e-mail; xbjwzq@sina.com *China Federation will decide the official frontman later. #Taiwan; name; Chang Yi - Feng (temporary) e-mail; la@ms4.url.com.tw *Taiwan Federation will decide the official frontman later. #Korea; name; Kwon Jun Chul e-mail; gamewith@gamewith.com #Russia; name; Alexander Nosovsky e-mail; stigma.ltd@g23.relcom.ru #Israel; name; Leonid Gluhovsky e-mail; leonid@pobox.com #Armenia; name; Albert Poghosyan e-mail; apogh@infocom.am #Azerbaijan; name; Nizami Heybatov e-mail; dzainukti@azeurotel.com #Uzbekistan; name; Andrey Khramov e-mail; khan50@tkt.uz #Japan; name; Hideki Nara e-mail; hdk-nara@246.ne.jp name; Kazuto Hasegawa e-mail; uo9man@mve.biglobe.ne.jp ( Webmaster note: Information about home addresses is removed from this list. When needed, the addresses can be asked for from the chairman of the Asia committee. ) 2. The chairperson of Asia committee Last year, the first chairperson was decided as Yoshimi Hayakawa. But he resighed his post. So this time, Hideki Nara was inaugurated as new chairperson of Asia committee by all mutual consent. 3. The vice-chairperson of Asia committee We set up two vice-chairpersons as the following. 1)Preparation for Asia championship -> Na Wei (or Chinese another man. China will decide.) *We set up this post from the next host country for Asia championship. 2)Spread of renju in Asia -> Hideki Nana (concurrently hold the post) 4. About tenure of office The chairperson and vice-chairperson of Asia committee are for two years. 5. About The first Asia Championship tournament We will plan The first Asia Championship tournament as the following. Time; 2002. October or December (after 15th October) Place; Beijing, China *From now, Mr. Xu Bing Ji, Mr. Na Wei, and RIF China will plan it. Other member nations will work together. 6. A next time holding plan We will have the third Asia committee meeting during the 8th WC tournament in Sweden. Or if it's possible, 2002. October, when Asia Championship tournament will be held at Beijing, we will hold it. 7. Others; This November, Japan Renju Association will plan a visit to Taiwan, for the spread and developing of Renju. From now, Nara, Chang Yi - Feng, Meritee will decide a detail. Concluded. ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-07-20 18:50 Renju Newsletter No 23 - 2001 ------------------------------------------- Web page for Renju World Championship in Kyoto ============================================== Hello, I am a Japanese renju player and a member of the committee in Championship. Now, we made the two webpages for it. The one is the page you can see the games there with Online. http://www.renjusha.net/world_ch.html The other is the page of Renju World Championship in English. If you want to enjoy Championship with Internet, you can access to it during the tournament. http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~osamu/7th.htm I will be happy if you introduce everyone who are interested in Renju. Thank you. Osamu Nakajima laker@anet.ne.jp ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-07-18 18:05 Renju Newsletter No 22 - 2001 ------------------------------------------- Hello! Renju fans! I translate the message from Hayakawa into English. Please read it and if you have any questions, tell me as soon as possible. Norihiko Kawamura nkawamur@hkf.mew.co.jp ----------------- Important, Emergency!! ====================== To participants of 7th Renju WC in Kyoto (All people who come to Kyoto) I think you are ready to come to Kyoto. I guess you worry the transportation between Kansai(or Narita) airport and Kyoto Park Hotel. So I tell you how to come there. So far, many participants from lots of countries are made entry. They will come to Japan around QT date. However, we can not assure we meet all participants at airport, because every country will arrive perfectly at different time. Besides, if we meet you at airport, the cost will increase and we can not keep members to meet you. So please come to Kyoto Park Hotel BY YOURSELF. We will be waiting you for about 3 hours after you arrive at Kansai Airport. When you arrive at Park Hotel, you will be able to relax in the comfortable room. I show you how to go to Park Hotel below. We are looking forward to seeing there. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *From Kansai Airport 1)Use Haruka Express Cost---\3690(one way per one person) Need Time---about 70 min. Comment---comfortable,easy,fast 2)Use Rapid train You use Kankuu-Kaisoku bound for Kyobashi. You should change train at Osaka station to Biwako line bound for Maibara,Yasu or Nagahama.(all train will stop at Kyoto) Cost---\1830(one way per one person) Need Time--- about 2hours Comment---not so bad,cheap,a littel complicated **Caution! There are two lines at Kansai Airport. You must use JR line not Nankai line. There is train terminal next to Airport terminal(only one minutes walk) *From Narita Airport You should use Narita Express and leave at Tokyo terminal.( change lines) Then you should use Shinkansen train to Kyoto. Cost---about \ 16000(one way per one person) Need Time---about 5hours **Caution! We have not decided that anybody can meet foreign participants at Narita Airport. In case of not meeting, I show you how to go to Kyoto. It is about 2 km far from Kyoto station.So, 1)Use taxi---about \800 2)Use bus---\200 The name of bus stop is "Sanjuusangendou". 3)Walk---\0 but tough!! **Caution! Look at the home page of Kyoto Park Hotel. I recommend you print out the map and keep it. http://www.kyopark.co.jp/access/traffic.htm If you are lost, you had better call phones. Kyoto Park Hotel 075-525-3111 Hayakawa's portable phone 090-8482-5757 **I recommend you should write down this phone number. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The arrival schedule of foreign participants we know so far. Country Number of person Date Arrival Time Airport Armenia 3 28/7 ? Kansai China 2(Wang Zi) 2/8 ? Narita Russia 12or13 3/8 ? Narita Taiwan 6+7(+2?) 3-4/8 ? Kansai Sweden 10 ? ? Kansai Estonia 6(including Marko)4/8 07:45 Kansai Latvia 5 5/8 07:40 Kansai (Mr.Henningsson) 3/8 20:00 Kansai If this information is wrong or you have the correct one, tell me as soon as possible. ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-07-12 15:55 Renju Newsletter No 21 - 2001 ------------------------------------------- Message from Hayakawa ===================== Hello! Renju fans! I translate the message from Hayakawa into English. Please read it and if you have a message, tell me as soon as possible. Norihiko Kawamura nkawamur@hkf.mew.co.jp ----------------- Dear RIF members Kyoto WC will be held soon. I have some messages for you about QT. 1)If the number of QT participants is odd, I recommend Sou Miyagawa, 11 years old,1st dan. He is very young but recently become strong. 2)Japanese QT participants are follwing; Kazuto Hasegawa (by rating) Hideki Nara (by rating) Masato Kusajima (replace of Nara, the 2nd of last BT) Syoki Sunagawa (by Japanese right) Hiroshi Okabe (by Japanese right) (Sou Miyagawa, if odd number) 3)I have not got the entry form from China. 3 Chinese officers will come. For me, it is better to take part more countries to get sponsors. So I suggest Chinese participant in BT will change for participating in QT and I am now requsesting for Mr.Na to allow it. Chinese participant is Mr.Wang Zi--12 years old. 4)It is different between Korean participants in QT and application name of visa?? I ask for Korea but I am not able to contact. 5)We need all participants photo. (We will make ID card) If you don't send photo, please send your photo as soon as possible. HAYAKAWA YOSHIMI Hayaka32@aol.com ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-07-08 20:06 Renju Newsletter No 20 - 2001 ------------------------------------------- Players qualified to play in WC =============================== The RIF CC has the following info to give regarding which players that are qualificed to play in WC in Japan: Qualification Tournament to WC-7 Klimashin Alexander, (Russia) Tarannikov Yuri, (Russia) Kozhin Mikhail (Russia) Nara Hideki, (Japan) Hasegawa Kazuto, (Japan) Masato Kusajima (Japan) Syoki Sunagawa (Japan) Hiroshi Okabe (Japan) Karlsson Stefan (Sweden) Anderson Tord (Sweden) Gardstrom Petter (Sweden) Kim Byung Jun (Korea) Park Jung Ho (Korea) Park Sung Jae (Korea) Gluhovsky Leonid (Israel) Lents Johann (Estonia) Tihkan Evelin (Estonia) Cheng Wei-Yuang (Chinese Taibei) Chen Wei- Han (Chinese Taibei) Lin Shieng-Mn (Chinese Taibei) Khramov Andrey (Uzbekistan) + 2 places QT (possible) from Uzbekistan (*) Heybatov Nizami (Azerbaijan) + 2QT from Azerbaijan (*) Pogosyan Albert (Armenia) + 2QT (possible) from Armenia (*) Veidemanis Arnis (Latvia) + 2QT (possible) from Latvia (*) 3 Chinese players for QT + Bai Tao, Shou-Xidong (Reserve) player from (Japan) A-Final Meritee (Estonia) Sinyov, (Russia) Ishitani, (Japan) Sooserv, (Estonia) Sushkov (Russia) Nikonov (Russia) Gaulitz (Sweden) 1. Because this players are among TOP 20 players and had played more then 10 games last year Klimashin, Hasegawa, Nara, Tarannikov, Karlsson - able participate Other players (Sinyov, Ishitani, Sooserv, Sushkov) are qualifyed to play direct in the Final. RIF also have decided that Mr. Kozhin also will play in QT because of extraodenery situation. 2. Winners of Beijing OPEN Tournament able to participate in QT. (Bai Tao, Shou- Xidong, (China), Nara (Japan) or the National Federation able to suggest their players. 3. (*) Countries with this mark able to have only 1 player in QT, but if they will pay to RIF old memberfee from 1998 till 2001 and pre-paid for next period it is possible to have them 3 places in QT. All payments have to be done before QT. 4. If it will be odd number of participants in QT - Japan able to add one player to make even number of participants. 5. We have no information from China and about their participation, please inform us if you know something NOSOVSKY [stigma.ltd@g23.relcom.ru] ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-07-02 23:45 Renju Newsletter No 19 - 2001 ------------------------------------------- The Swedish Qualification tournament for WC 7 in Kyoto ------------------------------------------------------ The Swedish Qualification, for WC 7 in Kyoto in August, has been played 26-30 of June in Alby, outside Stockholm, and Hamra, outside Uppsala. Referee was Björn Wallgren. There were four players in Round Robin system of 12 rounds. After the 10th round the winner of the tournament was clear and the tournament was stopped. Results: 1. Joachim Gaulitz Stockholm 8 2. Petter Gardström Enköping 6 (22) 3. Stefan Karlsson Stockholm 6 (12) 4. Tord Andersson Uppsala 0 This means Sweden will be represented with the following players in WC 7 in Kyoto: In AT: Joachim Gaulitz In QT: Tord Andersson Petter Gardström Stefan Karlsson Stefan Karlsson ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-07-02 21:36 Renju Newsletter No 18 - 2001 ------------------------------------------- Hello renju friends! This is my first attempt to send a RIF Renju Newsletter, so I hope it will reach all of you. This month I will learn about the RIF site and how to use the different tools to make the web pages look as good as Tommy made them. I hope you will be patient when you send me material and things are not as fast as before, because it will take some time before I am warm enough in my new role as Webmaster. You are all very welcome to suggest improvements about the RIF site. I have corrected the URL of the web page where you subscribe to Renju Newsletters. I have added two players who sent me e-mail. Now it should be possible to subscribe as before. ============================= Message from Alexey Skuridin ---------------------------- Dear renju friends! I am Alexey Skuridin. I have got E-mail "alexey_skuridin@hotmail.com" in my own. The previous E-mail address belongs to Mr. Shavarin. More then 5 years he helped me to get new renju information and to have constant contact with many of you. So I'like to say thank Mr. Shavarin very much. Friendly yours Alexey Skuridin. ============================= Best Regards, Frank Arkbo Webmaster of RIF http://renju.nu/ ------------------------------------------- Date sent: 2001-06-30 16:11 Renju Newsletter No 17 - 2001 ------------------------------------------- It seems that I will send you two more Renju Newsletters before Frank Arkbo will be the editor. -------------------------------------- Next thirsday I hope to send you my last Renju Newsletter with info from RIF CC how many players from different countries that will be able to take part in the QT tournament in Japan. -------------------------------------- My friend David Jelinek organises Renju tournament as part of Prague Mind sports Olympiad. He would like to invite everybody to this tournament, which takes place on 5th and 6th of July. further information avaible from me or on www.hrejsi.cz Vojtech vojtech hrabal ------------------------------------ We have just now 4 candidates for the 5 places in the RIF Central Committee after the General Assembly in Japan: Peter Jonsson and Stefan Karlsson from Sweden and Alexander Nosovsky and Pavel Salnikov from Russia. All these candidates are according to my opinion very good candidates. The only question is which will be the main task for each player. There should be a candidate from Japan Yoshimi Hayakawa will withdraw) but no one from Japan seems interested so member-countries are welcome with suggestions for the 5th candidate from another country. Member-countries are also welcome with suggestions for the auditor as Lars B Melin will withdraw. I still miss all reports from all RIF Commissions. -------------------------------------- Friendly Yours, Tommy Maltell President of RIF http://renju.nu/ ------------------------------------------- Date sent: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:50:22 Renju Newsletter No 16 - 2001 ------------------------------------------- Dear Renju Newsletter subscribers. This is my last Renju Newsletter. My first Renju Newsletter was sent in January 1995. Next Renju Newsletter will be sent by Frank Arkbo: http://www.renju.nu/players/frankarkbo.htm If you want to send new information to be published in Renju Newsletter or on other pages within the RIF Web site or if you want to contact the webmaster of the RIF Web site from now on you should send a letter to the mail-address: web@renju.nu This letter will be forwarded to Frank Arkbo as long as he is the webmaster and the person responsible for Renju Newsletter. The Renju Internation Web Site was started in the end of the year 1994 by me (Tommy Maltell, the first president of RIF). The oldest saved page is from March 23, 1995. You can find it on the RIF Web site. On the 14th of June 2001 when I ended my work as webmaster the total site included more than 50 Mb with 84 folders and more than 2100 files. From the 14th of June 2001 the webmaster is Frank Arkbo. If you want to contact the Central Committee of RIF, please, write to rif@renju.nu Now letters to this mail-address is forwarded to me and after the election of a new RIF president in August the forwarding will be changed to the new president. ------------------------------ During Russian holidays 10-12 were Moscow Renju OPEN. It were Swiss Tournament with 23 participants with 9 rounds. Igor Sinyov won the tournament with 8 points from 9 rounds. N2 Sergey Smirnov N3. Yuriy Tarannikov N4 Pavel Makarov N5 Victor Golosov N6 Victor Alexandrov Regards Alexander Nosovsky -------------------------- Thank you for this time. Those of you who is living in the North I wish a nice summer and in August I wish all a nice World Championship in Japan. Tommy Maltell President of RIF http://renju.nu/ ------------------------------------------ Date sent: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:48:33 Renju Newsletter No 15 - 2001 ------------------------------------------ Hello! Everybody! I translate the message from Hayakawa into English. Please read it as soon as possible. Especially, we will test publishing on the Net on 17/6 (Sun) at 19 o'clock (Japanese local time). Please access it as many as possible and tell us your opinion. http://www.renjusha.net/world_ch.html Norihiko Kawamura -------------------------------- To Renju fans in the world! The 7th Renju World Championship in Kyoto Middle report 2 The 7th WC Organized Committee, President Yoshimi Hayakawa Chairperson Toshio Sawai Hello Renju fans! It will be within 2 months when WC starts. We give the middle report 2, it means the third report. 1) Change Schedule We will change QT schedule. 4/8 (Sat) start from 13 o'clock / two games 5/8 (Sun) start from 9 / three games 6/8 (Mon) start from 9 / two games #Because some players arrives at 4/8 morning. Besides, we are going to hold the rule meeting at 10 o'clock. 2) We confirm that Mr. Kohzin from America can participate in QT. We will finally decide on RIF and WC organized committee. 3) Final Entry We have finished the entry to which needs visa. We are waiting till the limit to the players who not need visa. Now, about 80 persons from 13 country will take part except Japan. We will inform it on the next report. Please wait a moment. 4) My request We are preparing ID cards of all members and the tournament program. We need photos of you. Please send your photo with a short comment including arrival time, place, and entry (QT, BT, AT, WT) to the following address. renju_st@www.renjusha.net 5) My request 2 We think all diagrams will be opened and informed on the Net. We will publish on 17/6 (Sun) at 19 o'clock (Japanese local time). Please access it as many as possible and tell us your opinion. http://www.renjusha.net/world_ch.html 6) My request 3 During WC, we will hold the bazaar, it means we donate lots of things for WC. Please co-operate it and give us your goods. All proceeds use for WC. 13/6/2001
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