Estonia News
Qualification for WC A-tournament: Ants Soosorv-Margus Tuvikene 6-4.
Qualified for WC A-tournament: Ants Soosorv
Qualfied for WC Qualification Tournament: Margus Tuvikene
Japan News from Norio Nishizono
The result of 1st preliminary tournament of Meijin-sen in Kansai-area May, 14, 1995
10 players took part. 4-Rounds Swiss-System lating form. 50-minutes , then 1minutes for 1move. These 4 members passed , and 2nd preliminary tournament is on 11th Jun. Then two players can pass. and get the right to participate to Meijinsen-tournament (A-class league).
May 28, 1995
Today the first round of the Swedish Qualification tournament
before WC 1995 was finished. 14 players took part. The 6 first are now
qualified for the Qualification Final Tournament which will be played on
the 3-8 of July.
List of results:
May 5, 1995: China has decided to go to Estonia to participate in the fourth Renju World Championship.
News from Pavel Salnikov in S:t Petersburg
Two interesting tournaments have been carried out in St.Petersburg
from the 29th of April till the 2nd of May. The first one was the 3rd
traditional international tournament of "Baltic Cup". Three teams took
part in that tournament:
Tallinn - A.Meritee, A.Soosorv, T.Orglaan;
Moscow
- N.Mikhailov, S.Smirnov, P.Makarov, S.Filippov (reserved);
St.Petersburg - V.Aleksandrov, P.Salnikov, A.Mishin, V.Filinov
(reserved).
The tournament results are:
The second tournament was the 3rd Russian Women Championship. The first place and the third title of Russian Champion have been won by Irina Metreveli (Podiuga) with he absolutely best result - 9 points of 9! The total results are:
Latest news from Aldis Reims and Latvian WC Qualification.
Decisive game between Reims and Veidemanis was played this sunday (7.5) and now, although tournament isn't finished yet, both Latvian participants for WC are known.
Latvian player in WC-Final: ALDIS REIMS
Latvian player in WC-Qualification: ARNIS VEIDEMANIS
Results and situation in tournament:
Our tournament will finish next sunday, when all games will be played.
Nara won the japanese qualification tournament. The japanese
representatives in World Championship in Tallinn therefore will be
Norihiko
Kawamura, Meijin
Hideki Nara, 8-dan
Reserve is Kazuto Hasegawa,
9-dan
May, 5: S:t Petersburg won the match against Tallinn. Ando Meritee, the World Champion, lost 3 games.
On the 23rd of April the Highest League tournament of the 13th St.Petersburg Championship has been finished. The tournament results are as follows:
Top six players get the personal places in the Highest League tournament of the next St.Petersburg Championship.
Renju News from Alexander Nosovsky and from Russian young championship in Vladimir.
You are able to read about Chingin Gigulevsk in Renju World No 18.
News from Japan
* Mar. 21th: Tokai regional championship final (at Hamamatsu)
Shuichi Saito (5-dan) V.S. Tsuyoshi Ohta (5-dan) Saito won by
2-1-1 (win-draw-lose).
* Apr. 2nd: Keima championship (at Tokyo)
1. Hideki Nara (8-dan) 4-0-0
2. Norihiko Kawamura (Meijin) 3-0-1
News from China:
I have now received a letter from Mr Na Wei, President of China
Renju Association. He writes:
"Jing Du Renju Association is authorized to proceed
professionalizing with Renju game in China. Now Jing Du Renju
Association has grow to a larger scale of complex including traing
center, professional team, theory research center etc. Total member
reach to over 1000 people. Since Renju originated from China, the game
attract billions of funs all over the country. It is our great
wish to join RIF as country member. Please, take our application into
your consideration. Before the nomination by China Chess
Academy, I myself is acting the connection man of RIF in P.R. China.
Connection person: Mr. Na Wei Mailing address: Room 57211 Bldg. 7
Xiyuan Hotel Beijing P.R.China.100046 Tel: (8610)4255507, (8610)8313388
ext 57211 Fax: (8610)5120547
Early in 1990, Japanese Renju Association visited China´s Beijing,
Shanghai and Hangzhaou and med Chinese Renjuplayers. As the
representative of Chinese Renju player, I met President of Japanese
Renju Association Mr. Mikami and Mr. Kawamura in the tournament in
Beijing and also talk with them about Renju. From them I got to know RIF
and the status of international environment. We also receive The Renju
Sekai and this is the only writing we receive from Japan.
About World Championship Tournament: We hope to participate into
the international tournament, so we want more details (i.g. costs,
events, how to enroll etc). Now we have IBM and COMPAQ pcs, but not
connect with internet. We sincerely hope that you could mail us disk
containing Renju games, as well as books and information on Renju.
Chinese Jing Du Renju Team established its own women´s team in 1994.
Their achievements are even better than men´s in some of the
competitions. We would like to enroll them into international
tournaments for women if possible. So far we have published 2 books on
Renju in Chinese. We need adequate documents and information to fulfill
our theory. Please, mail us some English Writings. Swedish is also
acceptable. About Dan and Grade evaluation: Now we made our grade
evaluation by imitating Japanese´s practice. We wonder whether there is
opportunity for us to go through international examination for judgment,
and obtain certificate accordingly?"
I also received 5 photos from a tournament played on the 29th of
October 1994. These photos will be found from the RIF photo page.
Tommy Maltell
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995. The results from Swedish Championship of Renju "Stora SM"(Big Championship):
The 6 best are qualified to play in next year´s "Stora SM"
The result from "Lilla SM"(B-Tournament)
The 2 best are qualified to play in next year's "Stora SM"
The first step of the Swedish qualification tournaments before WC will be played in Linkoping 26th-28th of May. The 6 best players in this tournament will fight for the Swedish place in WC A-tournament on the 3rd-8th of July. The place of this final qualification tournament is not decided.
The First Open North American Renju Championship by e-mail started on the 2nd of March 1995. The tournament will end on September 1st, 1995. It is the first e-mail tournament of renju. List of the participants in the First Open North American Renju Championship by e-mail:
Very few players have applied to play in the first World Championship of Renju by e-mail. Therefore the start of the World Championship by e-mail is changed to the 1st of October 1995.
National tournament in Sweden with 19 participants: Malmo Battle 18-19 March, 1995 Results:
The Highest League tournament of the Third Open Russian Championship held in Elets, Russia from the 5th to the 12th of March, is finished. The tournament results are as follows:
The title of the Russian Champion and the only Russian place in the Final tournament of the Fourth World Championship were given to Pavel Salnikov. The place in the Qualification tournament was given to Stepan Peskov. Dmitry Iljin has the same place as the Winner of the last Open tournament of the World Championship. The Russian places in the Second European Championship were given to P.Salnikov, M.Kozhin and A.Mikhailov. S.Peskov, I.Siniov, O.Fedorkin and A.Mishin have the same personal right as the best Russian players on the First European Championship. Top six players get the right to take part in the next Highest League tournament without qualification.
Swedish Blitz Championship February, 4, 1995. This year it was an open tournament. The World Champion Ando Meritee took part and he won. More than 50 players took part. The ten best: