Renju Newsletter No 1-51 1998


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Date:          Thu, 18 Jun 1998 15:58:23 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 51 - 1998
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Some pages with Pente games are now available on Internet

Many players around the world are asking me for pente writings and as 
I can understand at least the writings and newsletters by the former
U.S.Pente association are very difficult to find. As the U.S. Pente
association ceased for more than 10 years and as it is a pity for
enthusiast that it is so difficult to find the former writings I have
made some gifs (sometimes jpegs) of some of the most interesting
writings by the former U.S Pente association. You can find links to  
these pages from 

http://www.renju.nu/pente/pentgifs.htm

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Nickolai Alexandrov's new address

I have moved.
My new address is:

Nickolai Alexandrov
Ceres Inc.
3007 Malibu Canyon Rd
Malibu CA 90262

email: nicka@ceres-inc.com
tel: 310-825-5315
fax: 310-825-5275

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Letters to 

Nishizono  Norio, Japan
e-mail   HBG01461@niftyserve.or.jp
                                  
cannot be delivered. Does anyone know his new e-mail address?
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Some years ago RIF had 4 webbstartpages but it  became too difficult 
to update all internal links with 4 startpages. Therefore now there 
is only one startpage with all links. Almost all new information 
you will find on  the RIF newspage. Older  information you will find 
on some of the old newspages. 

RIF´s site is pretty big. It has when I write this info 27 folders 
and 1264 files. Most of it you can find directly from the startpage. 
You are also able to see how the RIF page looked some years ago i.e. 
on March 23, 1995. Most of the links from this date does not work any
longer. The URL-address is:
http://www.renju.nu/950323/renhome.html

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Date:          Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:33:55 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 50 - 1998
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Results from 3rd Moscow Open. 12 - 14.06.1998

1	Kozhin Mikhail		8,5																								
2	Kareev Vladislav	7																								
3	Krasnonosov Dmitri	6																								
4	Makarov Pavel		6																								
5	Golosov Victor		6																								
6	Nikonov Konstantin	5,5																								
7	Smirnov Sergey		5,5																								
8	Fedorkin Oleg		5,5																								
9	Filippov Sergey		5,5																								
10	Tarannikov Yuri		5,5																								
11	Sirategyan Karen	5,5																								
12	Lunkin Vitali		5																								
13	Skuridin Alexey		5																								
14	Shevelyov Sergey	5																								
15	Shubin Alexander	5																								
16	Gorshenkov Artur	5																								
17	Karasyov Maxim		4,5																								
18	Chadov Vitali		4,5																								
19	Krasnonosova Serafima	4,5																								
20	Potapov Vyacheslav	4																								
21	Shatunov Alexander	4																								
22	Ogorodov Sergey		4																								
23	Sutyagin Alexey		4																								
24	Tyaglo Yuri		4																								
25	Chizhkina Yelena	4																								
26	Piskaryov Alexander	3																								
27	Trofimov Yuri		3																								
28	Sharypova Lyubov	3																								
29	Latutin Roman		3																								
30	Rakhmatullin Ajdar	3																								
31	Zvereva Maria		3																								
32	Scherbakov Yuri		2																								
33	Zvereva Anna		2																								
34	Podturova Marina	2																								

More detailed  results will be found on the URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/moscow98.htm

An undated RIF-rating list (after the above mentioned tournament) 
will be found on the URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro980615.htm

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Date:          Tue, 16 Jun 1998 18:46:51 +0000

Renju Newsletters No 49 - 1998
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From March, 21 till May, 24 the 16th Highest League tournament of the 
St.Petersburg Championship was held. The tournament was held by the 
Round-Robin system. The results are as follows:

Pl  Participant             Rate    Pts   Coeff
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 1. Viktor Aleksandrov      6 dan   9.5   46.75
 2. Vladimir Sushkov        6 dan   9.5   42.75
 3. Pavel Salnikov          7 dan   9     41.00
 4. Kirill Moiseev          4 dan   7.5   28.25
 5. Vladimir Filinov        6 dan   7     28.50
 6. Vladimir Semionov       5 dan   6.5   24.25
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 7. Nonna Salnikova         4 dan   4      9.50
 8. Vitaly Yegorov          1 kju   3.5   10.75
 9. Konstantin Vodolazsky   1 kju   3.5    8.25
10. Aleksandr Ivanov        2 dan   2.5   10.75
11. Viacheslav Belushkov    4 kju   2.5    9.75
12. Liudvig Bushkovsky      6 kju   1      2.50

According to the Regulations, Aleksandrov and Sushkov should play an 
extra match of two games for the first place, because they get an equal 
number of points.

As usually, top six players get a personal right to play in the next 
St.Petersburg Highest League tournament without qualification.

Sincerely Yours,
Pavel Salnikov


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Date:          Sun, 14 Jun 1998 21:56:06 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 48 - 1998
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To all federations!
Everyone, who wants to accept participation in The 2nd World Team
Championship of Renju in Yerevan (Armenia) we ask to send the data of
participants (Passnamber, full name, date of birth) till June 20.
The additional information from federation will be on June 25.

Sincerely your
Albert Pogosyan
 
Address: Verin-Shengavit 2-4-52, Yerevan, Armenia.
Phone: 3742-447988 home, 3742-555348
Fax: 3742-151580
Email: yercrig@lx2.yerphi.am

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Date:          Mon, 8 Jun 1998 18:36:17 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 47 - 1998
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Results from the Swedish tournament 

Oestgoetadraget  June  6-7  1998
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1. Stefan Karlsson           8 p
2. Bengt Asplund             7 p
3. Bjoern Wallgren           7 p
4. Anders Bertilsson         7 p
5. Tomas Hagstroem           4½ p
6. Haakan Moeller            4 p
7. Hannes Hermansson         4 p
8. Bengt Nyberg              2½ p
9. Jan Paulander             1 p
10. Sven-Aake Pettersson     0 p

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Current standings of WC A-tournament via e-mail

  a   fedorkin           5   2   3
  a   uo9man             3   2   2
  a   kolpak             2   0   3
  a   golosov            3   4   0
  a   areims             2   0   1
  a   taran              0   2   3
  a   joachim            0   0   0
  a   ska                0   2   0
  a   ameritee           0   3   0

Refere of A-Tournament Alexander Nosovsky
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In Renju Newsletter No 46  I published some views  by Carlo Tibaldi. 
Here is the answer from Alexander Nosovsky.

Dear Carlo
Thank you for your information.
It seems that you are not using  the program  correct.
First you have to choose parameters
Try PARAM_MINUTE button.
You can make Black & White 2 minutes each (for fast only)
and then you have to choose parameter
BAYOMI MOVE 1 and TIME 1 if you want to use 1 move for 1 minute
bayomi. Sometimes in Renju there is used buyomi 10 moves for 10
minutes. So , please check parameters which you had used. Then you
have to push Run button and then you have to push button (but not
points Black and White) First I had mistakes the same. I think the
"canadian" and "simple" biyomi is possible but it is not possible
professional biyomi. Try again and don't hestitate to ask me againe.

Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky 

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Date:          Sun, 7 Jun 1998 23:46:27 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 46 - 1998  

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1.
     Dear Renju friends,
     
     The 3rd World Youth Championship will be held in Beijing, China in 
     this coming August. You can sign-up to the email address: 
     "hannahhou@snc.schmidtgroup.com" or send fax to 8610-64289146 listing 
     the name, sex, date of birth of all members of your delegation.
     
     I would like to send the revised agenda for your reference:
     
     Date: Aug.2-9, 1998
     
     Itinerary:
     
     Aug.1      The Organizing Committee is ready to welcome players
     
     Aug.2      18:00   Opening Ceremony
     
     Aug.3      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 1
                        Woman's team            Round 1
                14:30   Man's team Group A & B  Round 2
                        Woman's team            Round 2
     
     Aug.4      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 3
                        Woman's team            Round 3
                14:30   Man's team Group A & B  Round 4
                        Woman's team            Round 4
     
     Aug.5      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 5
                        Woman's team            Round 5
                14:30   Man's team Group A & B  Round 6
                        Woman's team            Round 6
     
     Aug.6      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 7
                        Woman's team            Round 7
                14:30   Man's team Group A & B  Round 8
                        Woman's team            Round 8
     
     Aug.7      Visit The Grate Wall and the Summer Palace
     
     Aug.8      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 9
                        Woman's team            Round 9
                        The tournament will be broadcasted by China Central 
                         Television
        
                14:00   Guinness Record -- 1 VS 400 opponents at the same   
                        time by Mr. Ando Meritee (to be decided)
     
                18:00   Closing Ceremony
     
     Groupings:
     
     Boy's team: 
     Group A: Age 18 to 14
     Group B: Age 13 and younger
     
     Girl's team
     Group A: Age 18 to 14
     Group B: Age 13 and younger
     
     Rules:
     
     1. The black makes 3 moves
     2. 90 minutes for both of the players within one round 3. Each player 
     must finish 20 moves within 90 minutes 4. 10 moves within 10 minutes 
     for extra play
     
     Accommodations:
     
     All players and trainers can stay in WINTERLESS HOTEL (4 stars) from 
     Aug.1,98 to Aug.9,98 FREE OF CHARGE. Other members accompanied will be 
     enjoying a discount rate.
     
     Registration fee: US$20 per player.
     
     For those who need invitation letter, please show us following details 
     and your postal address:
     
     Name
     Date of birth
     Sex
     Passport No.
     
     For adults, please indicate occupation as well.
     
     Welcome to China!
     
     With best regards,
     Na Wei
     RIF China
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2.
Some comments from  Carlo Tibaldi - The Italian Connection Man of RIF

Hi Tommy !

I had a try on the byo-yomi clock and have a few comments:
- a "pause" button is missing (and a "reset" button too)
- the byo-yomi time should be in seconds (in my opinion)
- the byo-yomi counting is "strange". It seems that is a time
addition, i.e. once you have finished the main time you enter byo-yomi
which is not reset after every move, but is progressively erased. Once
the byo-yomi is finished the clock becomes red and starts counting
upwards.

In Go we have several types of byo-yomi, but none matchs the one of
Filippov clock: - professional byo-yomi is: you have a fixed time (in
general 10 minutes) divided in slots (in general 1 minute per slot).
If you move in less than one slot, the byo-yomi is reset after the
move. If you take more than one slot to move, you loose the slots
completed and, when the move is done, the clock is reset to the
remaining slots. An example: When entering byo-yomi you have 10
minutes i.e. 10 slots of 1 minute each. If you move in 1 to 59
seconds, you still will have 10 slots i.e 10 minutes. If you move in
1'00 to 1'59" you then will have only 9 slots i.e. 9 minutes. And so
forth. If you finish the slots you loose - simple byo-yomi: you have 1
minute (or 30 or 20 or 15 seconds) and you have to move in that time.
If you take more you loose - "canadian byo-yomi": you have a fixed
amount of time (in general 5 to 15 minutes) to make a number of moves
(in general 10 to 25). After you have done the fixed number of moves,
the clock is reset to the byo-yomi. If yo play less moves in the
byo-yomi you loose

There are other types of byo-yomi counting, but the mentioned three
are the most used ones.

Mine were meant as constructive suggestions and not at all as
criticism. I appreciated a lot Filippov idea and program.

Carlo Tibald
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3.
The following addresses has been taken  away from the list of 
subscribers because several times it has been impossible to send 
Renju Newsletters to them and they also do not answer to my personal 
letters.
 







As Roman Kolpakov is one of the players in WC A-tournament via e-mail 
I need his new address.
As Victor Kaufman is the international contact man of Russia I also 
his new address. Can anyone help me with these two new addresses?

It is also sad that Istvan Virag the connection man of Hungary and 
Josef Carnogursky, the connection man of  Slovakia both  are  
unreachable.
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Date:          Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:44:40 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 45 - 1998
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I just sent you Renju Newsletter No 44 but I named it No 43.
It was wrong because I have already sent  youNo 43.

Jan Palmgren will the day after tomorrow move to  Angola for at 
least half a year. 

His new address  will be as follows:

Insp Jan Palmgren / MONUA
c/o SWEDINT
Box 635
151 27 Södertälje
SWEDEN

He has no e-mail there but you can send ordinary letters to him  up 
to  maximum 100 g.

His e-mail address now is 
j.p.@swipnet.se

but if you want to send e-mail to him you must sent your letter at 
once before he has moved.

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Date:          Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:33:26 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 44 - 1998
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Two reports from Alexander Nosovsky

1.
New progress is in computer soft for Renju.
First , Mr. Yevgeniy Bobkov have made program which able to make Renju
Openning Classificator Index by itself, in .dbf and .db format of
RenBase-3.11 & RenBase-95 programs.
So it is possible to sort games in the Base also by ROC Index !
The second is free software by Sergey Filippov - biyomi-clock.
This program can be downloaded at 
http://194.87.49.195/renju/bclock.exe
I am sure that it is possible to use it playing Renju, Shogi and Go.
Please, also correct address of ARR page at RIF WWW-page 
http://194.87.49.195/renju

2.
It was finished Sooserv Cup in Moscow, this is traditional 
competition additional for 8 best players of Moscow Championship. 
They have to play 4 games matches. In the final it was the match 
between Yuriy Tarannikov winner of last Moscow Championship and 
Mikhayl Kozhin winner of Last Russia Final. (Tarannikov was not 
participated). Mr Tarannikov won this match 2.5-1.5 and he is also 
World Champion in E-mail . (He was world champion in last Five-in a 
Row WC in 1991). In regular Moscow Cup it is quarter-finals 
Nikonov - Nosovsky 2-0
Filippov-Lunkin    2-1
Tarannikov-Smirnov 2-0
Fedorkin-Golosov   will playing

Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky


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Date:          Sun, 24 May 1998 21:47:08 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 43 - 1998
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In this newsletter I present two new programs made by players that 
has sent information to me. I have not had time to check these 
programs myself.
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1.  I am writing a five-in-row game, it is Internet playable(by 
Java). Would you mind link my site to RIF's page? It's my pleasure to 
let more people play with my program. my site is
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Stadium/3329/gomoku.html

Thank you very much.

Best Regards
Zhang Tongxiang.
Sun Japan Corporation 
Zhang TongXiang  
E-mail: ztx@sunjapan.co.jp 
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Stadium/3329/
Tel:    03-5640-1980      Fax: 03-5640-1998
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2. On the following page you can find a Java based gomoku game for 
playing over Internet.
The authors wants other renjuplayers to test it and they are glad 
for comments on the program, suggestions how to make int better.

http://www.ntostud.mh.se/~smutt/

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Date:          Wed, 20 May 1998 00:31:49 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 42 - 1998
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Now you can find the new electronic version of the swedish magazine 
Fem i Rad No 1 1998  from the RIF startpage.
The exact URL-address is:
http://www.renju.nu/fir981/framsida.html
Some files are missing. I hope to add them within short.

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Date:          Sun, 17 May 1998 01:07:36 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 41 - 1998
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If you want to participate in the Fourth of July American Open
Renju Tournament, please register at the California Renju Club URL:
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/7862/
The deadline for registration is June 15, 1998
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Date:          Wed, 13 May 1998 19:03:14 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 40 - 1998
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The Japanese Team at 2-d Team WC will consist of
Hasegawa
Sagara
Kashihara
Hayakawa
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Hello Computer friends of Renju

This is information about 2-d WC among computer programs.
The championship will be in Moscow 17-23 of August 1998
We plan to use Pentium 166-200 , 32 Mb machines,Win-95
You can bring your own computer.
As you remember it will be two tournaments.
Entre fee 30 USD , or 40 both tournaments. 
We can book the hotels *-*** with prices 10-70 USD per night.
Please, inform us if you need invitation for visa,
Please, test your program with the renju test at 5 kyu 
there are 10 problems. 
http://194.87.49.195/Renju/default.htm
You can send solution in pos files to me (ziped please)
Some of players suggest to govern their program by Internet, we can suggest
 VNC program 
http://194.87.49.194/
I am not sure that Internet will work carefull 8-10 hours during
competition, and also we have to remember about time in different
countries. It may be takes additional fee for Internet and telephon.
More easy to send me demo-versions of your programs with limit time.
Please ziped it.
Some of players who can not visit Russia this time ask me about it.
You can send me your programs with English Menu and some information and
also possibility to load and save .pos files.
Format of .pos files is in this letter.
Send it two weeks before because I probably will have some questions.
So, please send me the Entry Form before 1 July 1998.
Entry Form
1.Name of Program, Authors
2.Country
3.Paticipation (personal), send software, virtual with Internet
4. Need you computer from organizers or not.
5.1. Participation WC in solving problems
5.2. Participation WC tournament.
6. Postal Address (winner will receive Cup may be by mail).
7. I agree to pay entre fee before 1 of August 1998.
For each country I can suggest better way of payment.

The list of probable participants of WC
USA
Art Shaposhnikov  winner of 1-st Renju and Gomoku WC in 1991

Eugene
Flywheel Software
flywheel@coolscreens.com
http://www.coolscreens.com

Mark K. Mammel - solved 5 kyu test
MMammel@compuserve.com

Pieter Sheth-Voss
vossp@rpi.edu

Japan
Takatoshi Kondoh solved 5 kyu test
http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/~tkondo/
E-MAIL:kondo@internet.email.ne.jp
E-MAIL:tkondo@hi-ho.ne.jp
E-MAIL:VZC01777@niftyserve.or.jp

ToMo (Hirotomo INUI)
e-mail:fqa51419@biglobe.ne.jp
Home Page:http://www2k.meshnet.or.jp/~tomo/

Kinoshita Kazutoshi
E-mail JCF00757@niftyserve.or.jp

Hiroyoshi Kamijo
Kamijo@city.fujisawa.kanagawa.jp

Tongxiang Zhang 
ztx@sunjapan.co.jp

Russia
Victor Barykin 
barykin@stalingrad.com

Stas Korotky 
stasson@orc.ru
Alexander Milevsky
a.milevsky@g23.relcom.ru

Ukraine
Igor Chaikin participant 1-st gomoku WC in 1991.
Igor_Chaikin@p16.f7.n4613.z2.fidonet.org

Alex V. Fedotov 
alex@ifdma.il.if.ua

Poland 
Grzegorz Sidorowicz 
sidor@ias.wat.waw.pl

Chehia
Miroslav Bene 
benes@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz

Slovenia
Aleksander Kelsin 
klesch@usa.net

Sweden
Joachim Gaulitz  for Mike
sobre.consult@mbox318.swipnet.se

Korea
Jong-Seo, Kim
jskim@kang.dacom.co.kr
In-Ho Kim
ihkim@tmic.tit.ac.kr

 Please, make possibility to load .pos files in your program.
 We need to load problems for problems competition.
 see also Pascal text of this pos file.
 var
     Buffer : array[0..225] of Char ;
     mm:integer;
     s:string[225];
 begin
 ..........................................
   s:=Position; 
   mm:=GetMaxMove(s); // mm=moves count
   Buffer[0]:=Chr(mm);
   for i:=1 to mm do
   begin
      j:=1;
      while ((GetMoveNumber(s[j])<>i) and (j<=225)) do INC(j); Buffer[i]:="Chr(j-1);" // where is move number i end; .......................................... FileWrite(FileHandle,Buffer,mm+1); .......................................... end; Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky P.S. Don't hesistate to ask me more questions. Please visit the conference about logic games including Renju URL:
http://www.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp/~iida/CG98-CFP.html

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Date:          Mon, 4 May 1998 23:22:00 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 39 - 1998
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Now you can find the table of all games and results from 
STOCKHOLM SUMMER TROPHY 
SWEDISH OPEN 10 YEARS CELEBRATION TOURNAMENT OF RIF
30th of April - 3rd of May 1998 in Stockholm
A-tournament and B-tournament on the following RIF-page:
http://www.renju.nu/celebrat.htm

The RIF-rating lists are updated after the tournament. You can find 
the updated lists in order from the following page:
http://www.renju.nu/rating.htm
You can find also the updated lists sorted country to country  from 
the following page:
http://www.renju.nu/rating1.htm

In the list that I sent you yesterday the results from the 
B-tournament was before the last round and not after the last round.

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Date:          Sun, 3 May 1998 23:04:03 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 38 - 1998
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On the 3rd of May 1998 RIF Central Commitee made the decision that in
the official rules of renju paragraph 9.3 should start in the
following way:

"9.3 A black double-three is allowed if at least one of
the following conditions  a)  or  b) is/are fulfilled:
a) Not more than one........" 

It is a little correction of the old writing. The
full rules you will find on the following URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/rifrules.htm

On the meeting Mr Hayakawa and Mr Tatsutomi informed that the 7th
World Championship of Renju which will be played in Japan in the year
2001 will take place in the city of Kyoto.

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Stockholm Summer Trophy 
Swedish Open 10 years celebration tournament of RIF
30th of April - 3rd of May 1998 in Stockholm

A more detailed information with results from all games in
A-tournament will be published on the tournaments own page
within a few days.

Results:

A-tournament

 Place    Name               Sco       Buch MBch Berg  Ws
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   1   Meritee,A (18)        6.5       31   23   28.50  6
   2   Karlsson,S (23)       5.5       28.5 19.5 19.75  5
   3   Sinyov,I (27)         5.0       31   22   19.50  5
   4   Gardstrom,P (7)       5.0       30   21.5 20.25  4
   5   Hayakawa,Y (12)       5.0       29.5 20   18.00  5
   6   Andersson,T (19)      4.5       30   21.5 16.25  4
   7   Soosyrv,A (10)        4.5       28.5 20.5 15.75  4
   8   Johannesson,R (28)    4.0       24.5 18.5 10.00  4
   9   Krasnonosov,D (25)    4.0       23.5 16   12.50  3
  10   Hermansson,H (20)     4.0       23   16.5 11.50  3
  11   Lunkin,V (9)          4.0       22   14.5 11.50  3
  12   Carlsson,M (26)       4.0       21   15    9.50  4
  13   Milevsky,A (2)        3.5       32   22   13.25  3
  14   Eriksson,M (1)        3.5       29   21   13.00  2
  15   Makarov,P (6)         3.5       24.5 18.5  8.50  3
  16   Jonsson,P (16)        3.5       20   14    8.25  3
  17   Ivanov,A (15)         3.0       26.5 19   10.50  3
  18   Holgersson,G (3)      3.0       26.5 19    8.50  3
  19   Maltell,T (11)        3.0       20.5 15.5  5.50  3
  20   Chernov,S (8)         3.0       17   12    4.75  2
  21   Gaulitz,J (4)         2.5       24   16.5  4.75  2
  22   Bertilsson,A (13)     2.5       23   16.5  5.00  2
  23   Tatsutomi,H (24)      2.5       21   15.5  5.00  1
  24   Nosovsky,A (17)       2.5       19.5 14.5  4.50  2
  25   Sirategian,K (21)     2.0       24   16.5  6.50  1
  26   Potapov,V (5)         2.0       19.5 14    3.50  1
  27   Taimla,T (14)         1.0       19   14    1.00  1
  28   Hermansson,L (22)     1.0       17.5 13    2.50  0

B-Tournament

  Place    Name                 Sco      Buch Mbch  Berg  Ws

    1   Kaufman,V (12)         8.5(1)    56.5  45   42.75  8
    2   Hagenfors,T (14)       8.5(1)    56.5  45   37.75  8
    3   Ogorodov,S (3)         7.5(1)    56.5  46   33.25  7
    4   Eriksson,B (8)         7.0(1)    56    45.5 27.00  7
    5   Asplund,B (1)          6.0(1)    58    47.5 25.50  6
    6   Lents,J (7)            6.0(1)    55.5  45   22.00  6
    7   Latutin,R (9)          5.0(1)    56    45.5 17.00  5
    8   Tatsutomi,M (6)        4.0(1)    55.5  45   14.00  4
    9   Krasnonosova,S (4)     3.5(1)    56.5  46   17.25  3
   10   Karlsson,M (11)        3.0(1)    56    45.5  8.50  3
   11   Strizhov,S (5)         3.0(1)    53.5  43   10.50  3
   12   Nyberg,B (10)          3.0(1)    51.5  41   11.00  3
   13   Rahmatullin,A (13)     3.0(1)    51    40.5 12.50  3
   14   Einberg,I (2)          2.0(1)    51    40.5  6.00  2

Blitz-Tournament

 Place    Name              Sco       Buch Mbch Berg  

    1   Asplund,B (8)       6.5       24   17.5 24.75
    2   Ogorodov,S (5)      5.0       23   15.5 14.00
    3   Eriksson,B (1)      4.5       26   17.5 17.25
    4   Lents,J (9)         4.5       24   16.5 14.75
    5   Einberg,I (2)       4.0       24   16.5 12.75
    6   Tatsutomi,M (4)     3.5       26.5 19   11.00
    7   Karlsson,M (6)      3.0       26.5 19    8.75
    8   Strizhov,S (7)      2.5       27.5 20    7.25
    9   Latutin,R (3)       1.5       23   16.5  5.50

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Date:          Tue, 28 Apr 1998 20:47:26 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 37 - 1998
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1. Information about Moscow Open tournament.
    by Oleg Fedorkin

Moscow Renju Club and Russian Renju Federation
invite all renju players to take part in traditional
III Moscow Open Tournament.

Moscow open will be on 12-14 of June, 1998 in TKS "Orekhovo"
 - buses 275, 291, 299 from "Kashirskaya" underground station
till "Music school" bus stop /Borisovsky proezd 11, building 3/.

Tournament regulation: 9 rounds, Swiss system, 100 minutes 
for each player per 120 moves. 
The tournament's participants can live in the hotel "Samara"
that placed very close to the tournament hall.

Hotel's prices are from 42 roubles per day for person /near $7/
till 444 roubles per day /near $75/ - it depends on a level of
the booked room.

The tournament fee is $20 for adults and $10 for children.
Probably the special prizes will be not only for personal
but also for team result. 

Please inform us about your tournament's participance till 20 May.
Please contact about more details with Dmitry Krasnonosov - phone 007
(095) 397-13-75, or Oleg Fedorkin - e-mail
fedorkin@virus3.genebee.msu.su

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2.The RIF Rating List of 3th of April 1998

You will find this list on the following URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/rating.htm
The list sorted according to nations you will find on the following 
URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/rating1.htm

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Date:          Sat, 25 Apr 1998 17:52:41 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 36 - 1998
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Alf Dahlgren, the former president of the Swedish Renju Association, 
has cut 2 "Guiness records" in free played gomoku/five-in-a-row. 

On the 23rd of April, in Marks Gymnasieskola in Kinna, Sweden, he 
played simultaneously with 314 players. All games took 2 hours and 57 
minutes. He won 310 games  and lost 4 games. The performance could 
be seen in Swedish TV 4.

On the 9th of April, in Matmagisinet in Stengungsund, Sweden, he 
played against 340 players but only first with one of them and then 
with the second and so on. He won all games. All together it took 5 
hours 38 minutes and 20 seconds. 

From the RIF startpage you can find an  image of Alf Dahlgren.
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Date:          Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:45:04 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 35 - 1998
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Some time ago we were unlucky compared with chess and go  players 
because we had not such good places on Internetwhere we could  play 
with others players, chat with them and so on.

Today, however,  we have seeral such good places. The three most 
wellknown places probably are:
1. Richard's Play-By-eMail Server where you can play a lot of brain 
games including gomoku, renju and pente  and where we are playing our 
World Championship. The  URL-adress is: 
http://eiss.erols.com/~pbmserv/
2. 5WIN - This site where you can play free gomoku and renju is very 
popular for the moment. The URL-address is:
http://www.5win.com/
3.Game Club - Here you can also buy a CD with a good playing program.
The URL-address is:
http://www.game-club.com/

We have two pages with many links:
1.Alexander Nosovsky has made an investigation and he found a lot of 
places. The URL- address to his investigation:
http://www.renju.nu/renlinks.htm
2. The California Renju Club has made links to some good places. The 
URL-address is: 

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/7862/links.html

Please, let me know if you have or know a good place and if it is  
not mentioned in any of these link-places.

Now I have been informed about a new Japanese place for playing. 
Please read the letter from Takumi Yoshida .
---------------------------------------------------------------------

"To whom it may concern,  please allow us to give you a sudden 
notice.

We,Virtual Communications Corp. ,is a specialized for digital contents
creating  for Internet business in Japan. We have developed interactive
games fighting over the Internet with Java in the last year. We now
today developed English version of it and publicly opened on the Web in
20th of April. Please look at
http://www.gamer.com/
To play these games, it's absolutely free of charge.

We would like to ask you to introduce this game site to your members,
plus would like to hear your opinions of this site interms of game
rules, the way to participating to games, or anything you notice, so 
that we would continuously like to improve the contents.

We would very much appreciate your cooperation's in this matter and 
hope this will support you business as well.

We also attach our press release for this announcement for you.

Best Regards
Takumi Yoshida
Sinior Manager, Sales & Marketing Dept.
Virtual Communications Corp
takumi@virtualcom.co.jp


########################################################

Virtual Communications Corporation announces English version of
Internet Game Site "Gamer.com".

Tokyo Japan, April 20, 1998 - A company specializing to creating of
digital contents on the internet, Virtual Communications Corporation 
(President:Kenji Shimada; Address of Head Office: 2-16-22 Mejiro, 
Toshima-ku,Tokyo, Japan;) created an English version of  Internet
Game Site as phase 2, which the Japanese version as phase 1 was
publicized on the net in the end of 1997 as http://www.gamer.com.

Gamer.com is a site where the internet can be used to play game 
matches real-time and thus communicate with internet users world-wide.
The various games available to run on internet browsers such as
Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape Communicator 4.03 that are 
compatible with the latest version of Java known as JDK 1.1.

You can find on the Gamer.com eight games,namely Internet Chess, Back
Gammon,Checker,Reversi,Renju,Go,Xiang Qi(Chinese Chess),Shogi(Japanese
Chess) available from April 20th, 1998.

Since Gamer.com is developed on Java,any computer environment conformed
to JDK 1.1 is available as a platform free such as PC, Macintosh, 
workstation or network computer. In addition,since Gamer.com is on Java,
it is absolutely unnecessary to install any specific software that many
other games or on-line game sites require.  As long as Internet users
have an environment suited to JDK1.1, the user can easily at the click
of a button and through the playing of the netgame,enter into a virtual
world of communication at no cost.

Virtual Communications Corporation has all along in the field of
planning and creating digital contents made use of latest technology 
like Java,and an interactive design and develop numerous internet-based
events, home pages,digital contents, internet-related applications etc. 
In addition, from October 1st 1997,Shinichi Sugihara had joined the 
Corporation as Chairman. Mr.Sugihara was the Country Manager of Netscape
Communications Japan Ltd since its beginnings till the end of September
1997 and had a track record of tremendous contribution to the
enlargement of the market share of the internet browser in Japan.

URL:http://www.gamer.com

Notes:  You may obtain the screen image from URL
http://www.gamer.com/preview/"
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Date:          Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:27:13 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 34  - 1998
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Results from Swedish Championship of Renju 1998
A-tournament i.e. "Stora SM 1998"

 1. Stefan Karlsson     8 p
 2. Rickard Johannesson 6 p
 3. Martin Carlsson     6 p
 4. Göran Holgersson    5 p
 5. Joacim Gaulitz      4,5 p
 6. Anders Bertilsson   4 p
 7. Jan Palmgren        3.5 p
 8. Tord Andersson      3.5 p
 9. Hannes Hermansson   2.5 p
10. Björn Wallgren      2 p

Results from Swedish Championship of Renju 1998
B-tournament i.e.  "Lilla SM 1998"

1. Bengt Asplund
2. Johnny Nielsen
3. Linus Hermansson
4. Peter Jonsson
5. Marcus Eriksson
6. Håkan Möller
7. Bengt Nyberg
8. Martin Karlsson

Swedish Championship of renju 1998

STORA SM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 poäng särsk. plac.
A I E G H J F D B C      
Jan Palmgren ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 ½ 0 13 7
B G H E F I J C A D      
Göran Holgersson 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 0 ½ 0 5   4
C H J F I E G B D A      
Stefan Karlsson 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8   1
D J F H E G I A C B      
Tord Andersson 0 ½ 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 11,75 8
E F A B D C H J I G      
Björn Wallgren 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 2   10
F E D C B H A G J I      
Joachim Gaulitz 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½   5
G B I A J D C F H E      
Hannes Hermansson 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½   9
H C B D A F E I G J      
Rickard Johannesson 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 6 24,75 2
I A G J C B D H E F      
Anders Bertilsson ½ 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 ½ 4   6
J D C I G A B E F H      
Martin Carlsson 1 0 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 6 22,25 3
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Date:          Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:05:12 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 33 - 1998
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Standings after 8 rounds in the Swedish Championship of Renju are as 
follows:

1. Stefan Karlsson, Stockholm       7
2 .Rickard Johannesson, Joenkoping  5.5
2. Martin Carlsson, Joenkoping      5.5
4 .Goeran Holgersson, Joenkoping    5
5. Joachim Gaulitz, Haernoesand     4
6. Jan Palmgren, Goeteborg          3.5
6. Anders.Bertilsson Hoegsjoe       3.5
8. Tord Andersson, Uppsala          2.5
9. Hannes Hermansson,Hoegsjoe       2
10 .Bjoern Wallgren, Haernoesand    1.5

So Stefan Karlsson is already the winner. This is his 4th win in 
Swedish Championship of Renju.
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Date:          Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:57:49 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 32 - 1998
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Standings after 5 rounds in the Swedish Championship of Renju are as 
follows:

1. Stefan Karlsson, Stockholm      4
2 .Goeran Holgersson, Joenkoping   3.5
2 .Rickard Johannesson, Joenkoping 3.5
2. Martin Carlsson, Joenkoping     3.5
5. Joachim Gaulitz, Haernoesand    3
6. Tord Andersson, Uppsala         2.5
7. Hannes Hermansson,Hoegsjoe      2
8 .Bjoern Wallgren, Haernoesand    1.5
9. Jan Palmgren, Goeteborg         1
10 Anders.Bertilsson Hoegsjoe      0.5
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Date:          Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:51:43 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 31 - 1998
-----------------------------------

Peter Jonsson - the general secretary of RIF at last has got an 
e-mail address. It is 
petejonsson@hotmail.com
Observe that it is pete without r as in peter

The Swedish Championship of Renju 19988 started today.
It will be finished on Sunday.

The results from the first round

Richard Johannesson - Stefan Karlsson     1 - 0
Jan Palmgren        - Anders Bertilsson 0.5 - 0.5
Tord Andersson      - Martin Carlsson     0 - 1
Bjoern Wallgren     - Joachim Gaulitz     0 - 1
Goeran Holgersson   - Hannes Hermansson   1 - 0
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Date:          Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:13:31 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 30 - 1998
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  The 6th Russian youth championship has been held in Nizhny
  Novgorod 25 - 30 March. There were totally 55 players from 5 cities.
  Unfortunately young players from S-Petersburg and Tumen did not came.
  We were also expected Estonian team, bat it did not came.
  I guess financial problems stop them.

     The competition was held in 4 groups. The results are:

     Group A (boys born 1980-83)
     1.  Chingin Konstantin   Zhiguljovsk   4 dan  8,5 points
     2.  Vostrjakov Sergey    Podjuga       3 dan  8
     3.  Nogovitsin Sergey    Podjuga       2 dan  7,5
     4.  Boikov Roman         Podjuga       2 dan  5
     5.  Zaripov Timur        Zhiguljovsk   1 kju  5
     6.  Karasjov Maxim       N.Novgorod    2 dan  4,5
     7.  Bykov Evgeny         Podjuga       1 dan  4,5
     8.  Piskarjov Alexander  Moscow        3 kju  4
     9.  Shatunov Alexander   N.Novgorod    3 kju  4
    10.  Potapov Vjacheslav   Moscow        2 kju  3
    11.  Shalnov Sergey       N.Novgorod    9 kju  1.
     K. Chingin 2 times (in 1986 and 1987) was the winner of group B.

     Group B (boys born 1984 and younger) Swiss system, 11 rounds.
     1.  Zaripov Roman        Zhiguljovsk   1 kju  9,5 points
     2.  Ogorodov Sergry      Moscow        3 kju  9
     3.  Shevelev Sergey      N.Novgorod    4 dan  7,5
     4.  Kazarin Mikhail      Podjuga       1 kju  7
     5.  Grishnin Stepan      N.Novgorod    4 kju  7
     6.  Bykov Mikhail        Podjuga       2 kju  7
     7.  Mjasoedov Evgeny     Rybinsk       5 kju  6
     8.  Nekrasov Denis       Podjuga       1 kju  6
     9.  Sutjagin Alexey      N.Novgorod    7 kju  6
    10.  Dukhno Evgeny
     ................................... 24 participants.

     Group C (girls born 1980-83)
     1.  Lebedeva Elena       Podjuga       3 dan  10 points
     2.  Sorokina Oksana      Podjuga       1 dan  10
     3.  Skalozubova Elena    Podjuga       1 dan   8,5
     4.  Krivosheeva Julia    N.Novgorod    7 kju   6
     5.  Sharypova Ljubov     N.Novgorod    8 kju   3,5
     6.  Zakatova Evgenia     N.Novgorod    9 kju   3
     7.  Podturova Marina     N.Novgorod    6 kju   1

     Group C (girls born 1984 and younger)
     1.  Mikhailova Aljona    Zhiguljovsk   5 kju   9 points
     2.  Leshukova Anastasia  Rybinsk       4 kju   8,5
     3.  Gross Anna           Zhiguljovsk   3 kju   8
     4.  Sokolova Anastasia   Rybinsk       5 kju   7,5
     5.  Savrasova Julia      Podjuga       5 kju   6,5
     6.  Zhukova Ekaterina    Podjuga       6 kju   6,5
     7.  Krasnonosova Serafima Moscow       6 kju   6
     8.  Chizhkina Elena      N.Novgorod    5 kju   6
     9.  Melnikova Aljona     Zhiguljovsk   5 kju   6
    10.  Kocheshkova Olga     N.Novgorod    5 kju   5
    11.  Erenberg Julia       Zhiguljovak   5 kju   4,5
    12.  Zvereva Maria        Moscow        7 kju   2,5
    13.  Malyga Ekaterina     N.Novgorod    9 kju   2.

                      Friendly yours
                                       A. Skuridin
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Date:          Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:16:05 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 29 - 1998
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NAKAMURA WON THE KEIMA CHAMPIONSHIP!!
Keima Championship was held at 5th of April in Tokyo.
Nakamura won at the score of 4-0. Nara was absent.
-------------------------------------------------
1  Nakamura  9dan 4-0 (won-Sunagawa,Miyoshi,Isobe,Ishitani)
2  Isobe     9dan 3-1 (won-Iwata,Mitsumori,Miyoshi lost-Nakamura)
3  Miyoshi   8dan 2-2 (won-Ishitani,Aihara lost-Nakamura,Isobe)
4  Ishitani  8dan 2-2 (won-Sunagawa,Mitsumori lost-Miyoshi,Nakamura)
5  Mitsumori 9dan 2-2 (won-Aihara,Iwata lost-Isobe,Ishitani)
6  Aihara    5dan 2-2 (won-Iwata,Sunagawa lost-Mitsumori,Miyoshi)
7  Sunagawa  5dan 1-3 (won-Iwata lost-Nakamura,Ishitani,Aihara)
8  Iwata     5dan 0-4 (lost-Isobe,Aihara,Sunagawa,Mitsumori)

Norihiko Kawamura

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Date:          Wed, 1 Apr 1998 20:30:21 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 28 - 1998
-----------------------------

If you have the program  Word version 6  or later version of Word or 
the freeware program Wordviewer you are able to fetch
"Renju World No 27" as a zipped file (875 kb) from
the  Renju World homepage in Tallinn:
http://www.neti.ee/renju/renworld.htm

The HTML version is not yet finished so if you want to view the 
magazine as webbpages you have to wait for some days. When it is 
finished I will announce it in a Renju Newsletter.

Printed versions will soon be sent.

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Date:          Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:55:40 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 27 - 1998
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Info about Moscow Open' 98

Traditional Third Moscow Open Tournament will be held at Moscow on
June 12-14.

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Date:          Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:59:33 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 26 -1998
------------------------------------

Results from  Baltic High League, Riga 14.03-15.03
8 players, Round Robin

1.Soosyrv    7
2.Gurckis    5
3.Taimla     4
4.Tamm       3
5.Demidov    2,5
6.Uja        2,5
7.Gaujens    2
8.Lents      2

First League,4 players,2 Round Robins

1.Balanova      5
2.Mucenieks     3
3.Maris Tuvikene3
4.Irene Einberg 1

Karepa International Tournament will held 14.08-21.08.We invite all
renjuplayers and their families to come to Estonia this time.Every
person have to pay 100 dollars - for living , food and transport
Tallinn-Karepa and Karepa- Tallinn,except children under 10 years 
who need to pay 75 dollars.
 Who wants to come please contact to Ando Meritee or Ants Soosyrv

 Friendly, Ants Soosyrv
e-mail: kullo@neti.ee
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Date:          Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:07:52 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 25 - 1998
-------------------------------------
Information from Nizny Novgorod
------------------------------

Dear Mr.  Maltell
The traditional  Nizhny  Novgorod  Open  Tournament  had  been  held
March  13-15.  This  tournament  was  dedicated  the  14th  Anniversary  of
Nizhny Novgorod Renju Club.  Our Renju Club was founded 17 March 1984,
and annual celebrating tournaments are held  from  Friday  to  Sunday  near
this  date  (so  everybody  can  forecast dates of any future tournament
even  for next 100 years (even, maybe, more).
This time there were 34 participants (including 8 guests).
Swiss system, 9 rounds.

 Place        Name           City     Category   Points
   1.   Kareev Vladislav    N.Novg.    6 dan        8
   2.   Kozhin Michael      Moscow     8 dan       7,5
   3.   Krasnonosov Dmitry  Moscow     7 dan       6,5
   4.   Makarov Pavel       Moscow     5 dan        6
   5.   Shevelev Sergey     N.Novg.    4 dan        6
   6.   Petrovsky Dmitry    N.Novg.    4 dan       5,5
   7.   Karasev Maxim       N.Novg.    2 dan       5,5
   8.   Ivanov Alexey       Moscow     4 dan       5,5
   9.   Skuridina Olga      N.Novg.    1 dan       5,5
  10.   Chizhkina Yelena    N.Novg.    5 kyu       5,5
  11.   Gorshenkov Artur    N.Novg.    3 dan        5
           ...

     Sincerely Yours,
     Alexey Skuridin and Olga Skuridina.

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Date:          Sun, 15 Mar 1998 21:56:53 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 24 - 1998
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Results from Malmoeslaget, a Swedish national tournament played on March 14-15.

1.    Rickard Johannesson    9p
2.    Göran Holgersson       8p
3.    Johnny Nielsen         7p
4.    Peder Svensson         5.5p (15.5)
4.    Bengt Asplund          5.5p  (15.5)
6.    Håkan Möller           3 (5)
7.    Stefan Diös            3 (4)
8.    Bengt Nyberg           2
9.    Daniel Nyberg          1 (3)
10.   Jan Paulander          1 (1)

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Date:          Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:58:15 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 23 -1998
-------------------------------------
Below is 2 letters with interesting info about new possibilities on 
Internet - World Wide Web.
-----------------------------------------------

Dear Tommy,

Please inform other players about new free information  on Internet.
For those who understand Russian ( see ARR WWW page 
http://194.87.49.195/Renju/default.htm) it is possible 
to read now
new Moscow Almanah  - magazine of ARR and previose issues.
Meteor issues - magazine of Sankt-Peterburg Renju Club
Analitik-2 -the theory russian magazine 
Moscow Pages - by Moscow Club
Those who can read russian enjoy it !
Other can see diagrams and understand some comentaries.

Regards Nosovsky

----------------------------------

Tommy,

There is a great web page for renju players:
http://www.latinocybermall.com/

We have a link to it on our California Renju Club
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/7862/

Nick Alexandrov


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Date:          Mon, 9 Mar 1998 23:40:08 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 22 - 1998
---------------------------

In Renju Newsletter No 21 I informed about WC via e-mail.
Then I forgot some little  information:

21 days rule is not a rule of RIF. This rule we have  because Richard 
W. Rognlie use this rule on his server and we are playing on this 
server.

If you are playing in the WC via e-mail and if you want vacation i.e. 
if you want to have a longer rest than 20 days you have to apply 
being in the vacation mode by sending a letter to Richard W Rognlie.
At the same time you must inform all the other players in your group 
and your referee.

The ordinary referees Nosovsky for A-tournament and Meritee for 
B-tournaments shall not normally  handle questions regarding 
vacations.

If a player has not applied for vacation and if more than 21days are 
gone without any move has been made there is a risk that Richard 
Rognlie will stop the game and the player without the vacation will 
win the game.

As you know all players in WC must subscribe on Renju Newsletter 
because it should be easy for me to inform them in a Renju 
Newsletter.

 One of the players in WC via e-mail: Terekhov, Dmitri 
with e-mail terekhov@YorkU.CA
is playing but when I try to send Renju Newsletters to him I receive 
a message that the adress is not valid. If you play with him or can 
reach him via server, please, ask him at once to send me his new 
address.

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Date:          Sun, 8 Mar 1998 01:32:47 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 21 - 1998

The Members of RIF Correspondence Comission have voted about the rule
that in Renju WC via e-mail a player has to make a move within 21
days. The voting was if we wanted this rule to be valid or not and the
majority of the commission wanted it to still be there and that a
player could ask for vacation when he needs it just as  the rule has
been before.

As a  matter of fact this rule is not a renju rule and RIF cannot
change it. The rule is used for all players on the server we are using
and we are offered to play our World Championship free of charge on
Richard W. Rognlie´s server. If we want to go on playing there we have
to follow this rule. Otherwise we have to put up our own server which
will be very expensive or we have to find some other server as good as
Richard´s and I doubt we will find one that works so well without any
cost for RIF.

The usual way is that the player himself takes contact with Richard W.
Rognlie and asks to be put them in vacation mode.  And when the player
return, Richard will take him  out of vacation mode, and the nags will
resume.

Your  time to think will be reduced as usual even if you have 
vacation. The only change when you have vacation is that you will not
lose the game because you have not made any move for 21 days. However
if you ask for vacation and only have for example 20 days left to
think it is useless because you will anyway lose after 20 days.

All players that for some time will get problems because of sickness
or travelling or holiday can ask  to be put in vacation mode. The role
of 21 days is there because sometimes a player stops to play without
announcing it  and this might happen also in Renju WC tournaments.
(This also has happened and especially as a matter of fact it was more
rule than exception that it happened when we played our WC with usual
snail mail.)

If a player stops to play it is good if the games could be counted as
ended as soon as possible.

As this is not a RIF rule RIF cannot either make any additional 
rules to this simple rule stated by Richard W Rognlie regarding 
vacation. For example RIF cannot state a maximum time for vacation 
for example as was discussed  40 days for each player /or 20+20 days. 
All such extra rule can make very complicated situations for the 
adminstrator of the server.

At all events proposals for  such new rules must wait till next 
tournament.As a matter of fact long ago RIF has already asked for 
too many special rules and exceptions for playing on the server.

Summary: Nothing has been changed and if a player wants vacation he
could contact Richard W Rognlie.

Any nice questions about this should be sent to me because Oleg 
Fedorkin is away for one month in Germany and he will probably not be 
able to answer you letter. All aggressive letters will be put in 

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Date:          Mon, 2 Mar 1998 19:38:58 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 20 - 1998
---------------------------------------------

The results of "Ukraine Cup" 2-7 .02.98

Only Ukraine players played in this Tournament but it was Open 
and decleared in Renju Newsletters, so it is rating RIF tournament.

It was a Swiss Tournament with 25 participants from 5 Clubs of 
Ukraine

1. Sherverov A. (Zugress) - 10 points after 11 rounds
2. Drozd A. (Atusha) - 9.5 points
3. Sapronov S. (Hartsizsk) - 7.5 points
4. Poddubniy K. (Geltie Vodi)
5. Uspensky V. (Zugress)

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Date:          Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:25:43 +0000


Renju Newsletter No 19 - 1998
---------------------

Results from Swedish Cup 1997

1. Stefan Karlsson
2. Petter Gardstroem
3. Ingvar Sundling
   Rickard Johannesson
5. Goeran Holgersson
   Bjoern Wallgren
   Tord Andersson
   Jan Palmgren
-----------------------------
Date:          Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:31:55 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 18 - 1998
--------------------------


                     STOCKHOLM  SUMMER  TROPHY
 
             SWEDISH OPEN 10 YEAR CELEBRATION TOURNAMENT OF RIF
 
Dear Renju players,

RIF (Renju International Federation) in cooperation with The Swedish Renju
Federation welcome Renju players including their families, from all over
the world, to come to Stockholm and celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the 
formation of RIF.

   Date:  April 30 - May 3, 1998
   Place: Central KFUM building, Mirrorhall, in centre of Stockholm

   PROGRAM:

   April 30      The Organizing committee welcomes the players
                 14:00   Sightseeing in Stockholm 
                 18:00   Opening Ceremony and a Welcome Dinner 
                         + a friendly short blitz tournament
         
                         A-tournament      B-tournament 
   May 1         12:00   Round 1           Round 1
                 13:30                     Round 2
                 15:00                     Round 3
                 17:00   Round 2           Round 4
                 18:30                     Round 5

                         A-tournament      B-tournament
   May 2         09:00   Round 3           Round 6
                 10:30                     Round 7
                 12:00                     Round 8
                 13:30   Round 4
                 14:30                     Round 9
                 16:00                     Round 10
                 17:30                     Round 11
                 18:00   Round 5

                         A-tournament      Blitz-tournament                                           
   May 3         09:00   Round 6           
                 10:00                     Round 1-3
                 13:30   Round 7           Round 4-7
                 18:00   Closing Ceremony & 10 Year Celebration Dinner

   Tournament groups:
   A-tournament      7 rounds swiss system
                     90 minutes/player. Control moves 59/60
                     10 moves/10 min. extra until finish of game

   B-tournament      11 rounds swiss system
                     30 minutes/player.

   Blitz tournament  7 rounds swiss system, 4 games/match
                     5 minutes/player/game.

   Tournament fees:
   Adults:  sek 240 (usd 30)
   Youths:  sek 120 (usd 15)  18 years and younger
   The 10 Year Celebration dinner is included.
   Additional costs:
   Sightseeing sek 220, Welcome Dinner sek 100 

   Latest day to announce your participation in the tournament is APRIL 1.
   Please, send us information about this as soon as possible.
   The organizing committee will assist You with personal invitations in the
   case it is necessary for You to apply for visa. 


   Accomodation, alternatives:
   HOTEL ODEN,   3 star hotel 15 min. walk from tournament hall
                 Prices: sek 554 (usd 70)/night in single room
                         sek 337 (usd 42)/night in twinbed room
                         incl. breakfast

   Youth hostel: lodgings in sleeping halls, 10 min. walk from tournament hall
                 Price:  sek 160 (usd 20)/night 
                         excl. breakfast

   Possibly, the organizing committee can arrange an even cheaper alternative
   for groups of young players.

   Main tournament Referee: Bjorn Wallgren

   Organizing Committee: Peter Jonsson, Stefan Karlsson, Bjorn Wallgren &
                         Bengt Asplund


 Send fax or e-mail to:
 Bengt Asplund  
 Tel. +46 176 227344
 Fax: +46 176 227313
 basp@algonet.se 
 
 Stefan Karlsson
 Tel. +46 8 53184136
 skire@bredband.net
 
 We wish YOU ALL heartily welcome!!! 
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Date:          Thu, 26 Feb 1998 23:50:59 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 17 - 1998
-----------------------------
Information from Albert Pogosyan:

Dear Maltell,

At the end of the last year I have sent a few letters on behalf of
Organizational Committee 2nd World Team Championship of Renju on addresses
known for me. 
Unfortunately, some addresses have appeared incorrect.
I ask you forward the applied text to all subscribers.

---------------------------------------------------
The 2nd World Team Championship of Renju
 Organising Committee is interested in followings:
1. Passnamber, full name, date of birth whose will come in Yerevan.
2. When do you to get the invitation?
3. The photos of member of your team.
4. The photo or  videomaterials about renju, if possible.
5. Your wishes, suggestions, questions.

Sincerely your
Albert Pogosyan

---------------------------------------------------
You can send your letters with information to the organizing commitee 
to me.

Friendly Yours,

Aleksey Kobzev
E-mail    yercrig@lx2.yerphi.am
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Date:          Sun, 22 Feb 1998 22:17:29 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 16 -1998
--------------------------------------

6th Russian Championship. Highest league. Dubna

14.02.1998 - 22.02.1998

      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sco Coef
1 Kozhin M. Dubna   ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 12,0 81,25
2 Mikhailov A. Moscow ½   0 ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 10,0 68,75
3 Sinyov I. Moscow 0 1   0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 10,0 68,00
4 Fedorkin O. Mytischi ½ ½ 1   0 ½ 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 9,5 64,50
5 Filippov S. Moscow ½ ½ ½ 1   ½ 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 9,0 63,75
6 Nikonov K. Elektrostal ½ ½ ½ ½ ½   0 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 9,0 60,75
7 Skuridin A. N.Novgorod ½ 0 0 0 1 1   0 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 9,0 57,00
8 Ses P. St.Petersburg 0 1 0 1 0 0 1   1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 8,5 56,00
9 Smirnov S. Moscow 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ 1 0   1 0 0 1 1 1 1 8,0 49,00
10 Kareev V. N.Novgorod 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 ½ 0   1 0 0 1 1 1 7,5 48,25
11 Krasnonosov D. Moscow ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 0   1 0 1 1 1 7,0 42,50
12 Salnikov P. St.Petersburg 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 1 0   1 ½ 1 1 6,5 36,25
13 Vasiljeva N. Rybinsk 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0   ½ 1 ½ 5,0 30,00
14 Radzevelyuk A. Rybinsk 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½   0 1 4,0 26,75
15 Maltsev O. Voronezh 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 1   ½ 3,0 19,25
16 Lunkin V. Moscow 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½   2,0 13,00

Date:          Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:12:30 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 15 - 1998
-------------------
Goeran Holgersson from Sweden who has some renju information on his 
page has now new homepage

http://w1.367.telia.com/~u36702367/

--------------------------------


Date sent:        Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:00:40 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 14 - 1998
---------------------------------------

Results from Swedish Blitz Championship
played on 14th of February 1998

1. Ando Meritee Estonia (Has not Swedish membership)
2. Stefan Karlsson Stockholm - Swedish Champion
3. Goeran Holgersson - Joenkoeping
4. Anders Bertilsson - Hoegsjoe
5. Rickard Johannesson - Joenkoeping 

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Renju Newsletters to the following subsribers have been followed by 
messages that the subscriber is unknown on the domain or that the 
domain does not exist. I ask these 3 players to send me a message 
that they still receive Renju Newsletter. If I do not receive answer 
from these players I have to take these 3 subscribers away from 
subscriber list.

If anyone else knows anything about new e-mail address for 
these 3 players, please, let me know

dvoeglazov@tycr.tmn.ru
terekhov@yorku.ca
unterweg@fubphpc01.tu-graz.ac.at

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Date sent:        Mon, 16 Feb 1998 01:29:59 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 13 - 1998
---------------------------------------------------------
On the 14th of February  The Swedish Blitz Championship was played. 
No one has so far sent me the results. I hope some of the Swedish 
players  who knows the results are able to send them to me so I can 
forward them in a Renju Newsletter.
     
*********************************************************************
     Dear all Renju players,     
     The 3rd World Youth Championship will be held in Beijing, China soon. 
     The organizing committee is now welcome Renju players from all over 
     the world to come to China for this tournament. Following is our 
     details about the tournament:
     
     Date: Aug.2-9, 1998
     
     Itinerary:
     
     Aug.1      The Organizing Committee is ready to welcome players
     
     Aug.2      18:00   Opening Ceremony
     
     Aug.3      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 1
                        Woman's team            Round 1
                14:30   Man's team Group A & B  Round 2
                        Woman's team            Round 2
     
     Aug.4      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 3
                        Woman's team            Round 3
                14:30   Man's team Group A & B  Round 4
                        Woman's team            Round 4
     
     Aug.5      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 5
                        Woman's team            Round 5
                14:30   Man's team Group A & B  Round 6
                        Woman's team            Round 6
     
     Aug.6      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 7
                        Woman's team            Round 7
                14:30   Man's team Group A & B  Round 8
                        Woman's team            Round 8
     
     Aug.7      Visit The Grate Wall and the Summer Palace
     
     
     Aug.8      9:00    Man's team Group A & B  Round 9
                        Woman's team            Round 9
                The tournament will be broadcasted by China Central         
                Television
     
                14:00   Guinness Record -- 1 VS 300 opponents at the same time 
                by 
                        Mr. Ando Meritee (to be decided)
     
                18:00   Closing Ceremony
     
     Groupings:
     
     Woman's team: Age 18 to 3
     
     Man's team
     Group A: Age 18 to 14
     Group B: Age 13 to 3
     
     Rules:
     
     1. The black makes 3 moves
     2. 90 minutes for both of the players within one round
     3. Each player must finish 20 moves within 90 minutes
     4. 10 moves within 10 minutes for extra play
     
     Accommodations:
     
     All players will be staying in WINTERLESS HOTEL (4 stars). We offer 
     all players and trainers free hotel tariff from Aug.1,98 to Aug.9,98. 
     Other members accompanied will be enjoying a discount rate.
     
     To: Connect man of RIF members
     
     Please send the namelist of the delegation of your country to us ASAP 
     and indicating following details:
     
     Name
     Age
     Sex
     Passport No.
     
     For adults, please indicate occupation as well for invitation purpose.
     
     Those who need invitation, please let us know your detailed post 
     address and receiver.
     
     If you have any comments on above rules and itinerary about this 
     tournament, please let us know.
     
     With best regards,
     Na Wei
     RIF China
---------------------------------------------------------------------
     
     China report


     We have just had a nation wide Youth Tournament from Feb.4 to
     Feb.8, 1998. Winner of this tournament will participate the 3rd
     Youth WC in Beijing. There were totally 142 players coming from 7
     provinces. After 9 round competition, the winners are:

     Woman's team

        Name            Kyu/Dan          
     1. Liang Shuang    1 Kyu           
     2. Lu Yao          1 Dan           
     3. Mi Xiao Yan                    
     4. Wu Dan                          
     5. Bao Han                         
     6. Yao Jin Rui                     
     7. Li Shi Rui                 
     8. Guo Xue
     9. Ning Qi         7 Kyu
    10.Pang Yun Ting

     Man's team/Group B

        Name            Kyu/Dan
     1. Chen Wei        5 Kyu
     2. Zhao Yue        4 Kyu
     3. Wang Lu         7 Kyu
     4. Zhang Peng      3 Kyu
     5. Hua Tao         
     6. Xu Rui Ming
     7. Xue Si Tao
     8. Xian Qing Zhu   7 Kyu
     9. Ma Shao Jie
    10.Ding Wei

     Man's team/Group A

        Name            Kyu/Dan
     1. Guan Ji Xian
     2. Shao Xiao Dong   1 Dan
     3. Zheng Zeng Zhi
     4. liu Yue Jiang
     5. Li Bo            10 Kyu
     6. Liu Chang        
     7. Liu Yi Teng      5 Kyu
     8. Shi Xu Dong
     9. Sun Kai
    10.Gao Yue          7 Kyu

     Sincerely yours,
     Na Wei   
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Date sent:        Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:30:18 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 12 - 1998
-------------------------------

California Renju Club now has its own homepage
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/7862/
with photos from last year Fourth of July American Open Tournament
This year tournament  begins at 10 a.m. July 4, 1998 at the Santa 
Monica Chess Club. 
--------------------------------

Date sent:        Tue, 3 Feb 1998 15:36:50 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 11 -1998

On the following page is the current list of all Renju Newsletter subscribers:
http://www.renju.nu/newslsub.htm
Please, check your own data an tell me if something is wrong.


Renju WC via e-mail started on February 1. 
On the page 
http://www.renju.nu/wcemail.htm
is the list of boards.

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Date sent:        Sun, 1 Feb 1998 19:59:58 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 10 - 1998
--------------------------
Results from Swedish Cup final:

Petter Gardstroem won the 3rd game against Stefan Karlsson so now 
the standing are 1.5-1.5.

A final game will be played on the 28th of February.

-------------------------
Dear Japanese Friends

Now , because of Mr. Inui activity there is Japanese translation of
information about Second WC among Computer programs.
The archive is opened to the public at
http://www2k.meshnet.or.jp/~tomo/renju.html
Regards Nosovsky
---------------------------

Date sent:        Wed, 28 Jan 1998 20:37:54 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 9 - 1998
--------------------------------

 Results of Baltic Qualification,24-25.01.98

  1.Meritee    6,5
  2.Soosyrv    5
  3.Gurckis    4,5
  4.Lents      4 (28,5)
  5.Kolk       4 (27)(11,5)
  6.Gaujens    4 (27)(11)
  7.Tamm       4 (21,5)
  8.Uja        4 (12)He did not play first 2 rounds.
  9.Veidemanis 3,5
 10.Demidov    3,5
 11.Taimla     3
 12.Einberg    2
 13.Viital     2
 14.Voznjuk    2
 15.Nitov      2
 16.M Tuvikene 2
 17.Naber      2
 
 8 best will play in high league + 2 players with high ranking(Maybe
 Reims and Veidemanis) 

 Friendly,
 Ants Soosyrv
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Date:          Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:25:12 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 8 - 1998
---------------------------------

 STOCKHOLM  SUMMER  TROPHY

 SWEDISH OPEN 10 YEARS CELEBRATION TOURNAMENT OF RIF

 30th of April - 3rd of May 1998 in Stockholm


The Swedish Renju Federation invites to Stockholm Summer Trophy and
the celebration of the 10 years together within the Renju
International Federation, 30th of April - 3rd of May 1998 in
Stockholm. It will be a nice tournament with players gathered from
many renjucountries and also a very special moment to remember the
time together sofar within RIF. It was the 8th of August 1988 when RIF
was founded in Stockholm, also then at the same time as the Stockholm
Summer Trophy was held.

All players are welcome regardless of their rating level. The
tournament will be played in one group according to Swiss System, 7
rounds. 90 minutes per game and player. Schedule:

30/4 Thursday:
14.00   Sightseeing of Stockholm
18.00   Opening Ceremony and welcome-dinner

1/5 Friday:
12.00   Start of the first round, 2 rounds this day

2/5 Saturday:
 09.00   Round 3-5

3/5 Sunday:
09.00   Round 6-7
18.00   Closing Ceremony and 10-year-celebration-dinner

We would like to know who will come to the tournament a certain period
of time before the tournament, so please let us know before the 1st of
April. 

We will come back later with more detailed information.


PLEASE FEEL VERY VERY WELCOME TO

THIS HOPEFULLY VERY INTERESTING COMBINATION

OF 10 YEAR CELEBRATION OF RIF AND

THE TOURNAMENT STOCKHOLM SUMMER  TROPHY ! ! ! ! !

W E L C O M E

Please contact us if you have any questions!


THE SWEDISH RENJU FEDERATION through

Bengt Asplund  
Västervik 10702                                                       
761 72 Norrtälje
Tel. +46 176 227344
Fax: +46 176 227313 E-mail:
basp@algonet.se 

Peter Jonsson   
Munkgatan 5 
561 34 Huskvarna  
Tel. +46 36 136735

Stefan Karlsson
Servitutsvägen 3, 4 tr
145 59 Norsborg
Tel. +46 8 53184136
E-mail: skire@bredband.net

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Date:          Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:23:03 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 7 - 1998
------------------------------------

Results from the  final match of Swedish Cup:

Two games were played in the final of the Swedish Cup 1997 in
Joenkoeping the 17th of January:

P.Gardstroem - S.Karlsson 1/2-1/2    (D8)
PG-SK                                   0-1        (D3)

The final is played in best of three games. The third game will be
played the 31st of January in Uppsala.

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Information from Oleg Fedorkin - Chairman of  RIF 
Correspondence Commission regarding coming 4th World Championship via 
e-mail

Dear friends,

At Moscow Renju Club in the presence of many Moscow players 
/K.Nikonov, President of Russian renju federation,
A.Nosovsky, Vice-President of RIF, S.Smirnov, Russian official Classificator,
Yu.Tarannikov, Renju world champion via e-mail, D.Krasnonosov, Chairman of
Moscow renju club, and many others/
I separated by lot all participants of e-mail semi-finals in their 4 groups.
As new International renju raiting-list is not available for a long time 
/from April of last year/, we used other method for lot. We thought not only
about strength of participants but also tried to separate participants from
the same contries to different groups. For example, we gave the possibility 
for all participants from other contries to play with strong Japanese player.
Also it`s a good chance for 4 Japenese players to fight for 4 place in next
final A.

Group 1.
A.Kashihara /JAP/  - kashihara, O.Klimachev /RUS/ - klimachev,
A.Kobzev /ARM/ - kai, A.Lipsits /USA/ - alipsits,
Y.Madissoon /EST/ - ymadis, I.Sinyov /RUS/ - sinyovi,
D.Terekhov /CAN/ - dterekhov
Group 2.
E.Bobkov /RUS/ - bobkove, R.Idelsons /LAT/ - robert12,
N.Kawamura /JAP/ - norihiko, V.Kolesnik /UKR/ - kvik,
L.Laibinis /LIT-FIN/ - llaibini, A.Nosovsky /RUS/ - nosovs,
C.Tibaldi /ITA/ -tibia
Group 3.
S.Filippov /RUS/ - filippov, V.Lunkin /RUS/ - lunkin, 
M.Mammel /USA/ - mmammel, K.Ooi /JAP/ - kooi,
S.Smirnov /RUS/ - smirnov, T.Taimla /EST/ - tunnu,
I.Virag /HUN/ - virag
Group 4.
B.Asplund /SWE/ - basplund, S.Bondarenko /RUS/ - troter,
L.Gluhovsky /ISR/ - leonid, Z.Zhliup /CHI/ - zz,
I.Rinkis /LAT/ - ingus, A.Soosorv /EST/ - asoosorv,
T.Takagawa /JAP/ - takagawa, S.Tatarintsev /RUS/ - sergey

Group 2 seems to be the strongest and most interesting.
Group 3 seems to be also very difficult and too funny group
because 3 of 7 participants are from Moscow club.

After withdraw of Alexey Skuridin we needed to find referee of our
tournaments. It was not easy, but now 
Ando Meritee /EST/ - ameritee, kullo@neti.ee         and
Alexander Nosovsky /RUS/ - nosovs, stigma.ltd@g23.relcom.ru
kindly agreed to be the referees. So A.Nosovsky will be the referee of
final A, A.Meritee will be the referee of finals B.
The referees will check time-move control and will help participants
with the special rule /see it below/ to prevent move copy and will
decide all tournament problems with help of Richard Rognlie,
master of playserver. 
!If there would be any serious problem in our tournaments, we should
discuss it on RIF Correspondence Commission and gotta make decision as soon
as possible. 

We should remind for all participants next things:
1.Only winners of these 4 groups will have right to play next final A.
2.Normal time-move control is 135 days for each players till 120th move.
!But for games between Russian players in semi-final groups time control
is 115 days for each players. For final A, this short time control will
use in the games between O.Fedorkin, V.Golosov, R.Kolpakov, Yu.Tarannikov
/all players from Russia/ and also in the games between J.Gaulitz and
S.Karlsson /both from Sweden/.
!!Notice that playserver`s and common numbering of moves are different.
3.RIF Correspondence Commission decided to use the special rule these
tournaments to prevent the moves copy. See below the complete text of
this rule: 

  RULE
  If the next conditions are hold
  (i) there are the same positions in the games A - B and C - D (where C and/or
D would be the same players, for example D = A, C = B, or they would be another
players);
  (ii) it's turn of players A and C;
  (iii) player C didn't move during 1 week;
  (iv) at least 15 move was made (in the case D = A, C = B this condition is
       down)
  then player A has the right to demand (through the referee) from player C
to move in the game C - D during next 1 week. But when player C has moved then
player A  MUST make ANOTHER move in the game A - B.
  END OF RULE

Of course, these players A and C are the players from the same group.

With best wishes
Oleg Fedorkin


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Date:          Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:00:55 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 6 -1998
------------------------------------
The Swedish Magazine Fem I Rad No 3 1997 is now available on the 
following URL-address:

http://www.renju.nu/fir973/fir973.html
-----------------------------------------

Date:          Wed, 14 Jan 1998 23:46:50 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 5 - 1998
-----------------
Results from Swedish Cup semifinal 

Stefan Karlsson - Ingvar Sundling  3 - 2

Last game:

IS-SK 0-1 D8  (2-3)

The final between Stefan Karlsson and Petter Gardstroem will 
start next weekend.

-------------------

Daniel Ramos  from Colombia has made 2 information 
pages in Spanish language. There is a link to these pages from the 
RIF startpage. The direct URL-addresses are

http://www.renju.nu/aboutspa.htm
http://www.renju.nu/r1rulspa.htm

Before we had information page in Portugese language:
http://www.renju.nu/spanish/esp.htm

and German page:
http://www.ba-mosbach.de/~barth/Renju/

We have of course also information in Russian, Swedish and Estonian 
language which pages you can find from RIF startpage.

---------------

Last version of Database ( 7.00)  includes 20 000 games.

More information you  can get from 
Oleg Stepanov,  Russia with e-mail
and@tuman3.ioffe.rssi.ru
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Date:          Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:31:47 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 4 - 1998
---------------------------------------

Results from  Moscow  Open Youth Championship 4.-6.01.98
29 players from Podyuga,N.Novgorod,Tallinn and Moscow took 
part 

Results:
1.Mihail Kazarin 7,5 (Pod.)
2.Aller Uja  7 (Tal.)
3.Johann Lents 6 (Tal.)
4.Mihail Bykov 6 (Pod)
5.Vjatcheslav Potapov 6 (Mos)
6.Denis Nekrasov 6 (Pod)

Girls:
 1.(10.)Olga Kotcheskova 5 (N.Nov)
 2.(11.)Serafima Krasnonosova (Mos)
 3.(15.)Jelena Prohorova (Pod)

-------------------------------------------------

After voting the Correspondence Commission has decided as follows:

1. The A och B tournament of next WC via e-mail will start in 
February 1998.

2. Normal move and time control will be 120 moves in 135 days

3. Rule to prevent move copy: Player has right to make other move 
that his opponent made in   every game    /after apellation to 
referee give 7 days for opponent to make    move and  after that 
make own different move/ - Tarannikov`s rule

4. The games between players from the same country will have less 
time than for usual games. The games will start at the same time as 
the other games but the time instead of 135 days will be 115 days.

5. As before the Semi-finals will be 4 groups. Winners have 
right to play 4th final A.

6. Milevsky will not use his place in A-final. The final will be 
played withh only 9 players i.e. no player will substitute  Milevsky

7. Kawamura will withdraw as chairman of the commission and the new 
chairman will be Fedorkin from Moscow,Russia

8. No decision has so war been made what to do if some of the 
qulified for the 4th A-final will notuse his place

9. It was decided that there are no limit for one country for the 
players in the A-final. I.e. in theory  all 10 players in future 
A-finals  may be Japanese or Russian players.

The players in the A- och B-final will be found on the following 
URL-address:

http://www.renju.nu/wcemail.htm

With this announcement  I withdraw from all activities regarding the 
WC e-mail tournaments. As the president of RIF I have to much to do 
so it is necessary and pratical that other persons work with the WC  
e-mail.

It means that the the new chairman  Oleg Fedorkin 
with -mail address
fedorkin@virus3.genebee.msu.su
will  solve the questions how to start the tournament together with
Richard W. Rognlie who runs the server that we will use for the 
tournament, how to seed the players in the 4 B-finals and how to find 
a new referee after  Skuridin´s withdrawal. My task in the commission 
in the future will only be to forward  information to you via Renju 
Newsletter.
---------------------------------
On the page 
http://www.renju.nu/wcemail.htm
is a list of the participants of the A- and B-tournaments 
of Renju WC via e-mail. It is not so nice as the Web-page.

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Date:          Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:45:31 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 3 - 1998
------------------------------------

Report from Swedish Cup.


In one of the semi-finals Petter Gardstroem won against Richard 
Johannesson but the other semi-final is not yet finished.

The game Ingvar Sundling (IS) - Stefan Karlsson (SK) is still going 
on. After the 3 games of the match it was 1.5-1.5. One extra games 
has been played and itended in a draw so the standings by now is 
2-2.  Next games is planned to take place on the 12th of January.

The four games:

I     SK-IS    1-0     D11
II    IS-SK    1-0     D3
III   SK-IS    ½-½     D8
IV    SK-IS    ½-½     D8

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Date:          Tue, 6 Jan 1998 01:18:13 +0000

Renju Newsletter No 2 - 1998
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This message is extremely sensitive because it is made in a very 
modern mail program and therefore I cannot easily change the last 3 
Swedish letters to aa,ae,oe as usual. I hope it will not give to much 
trouble for some of you.

If you cannot read it, please, let me know and I will send a new 
version later when I have more time.

I have also published the results in the Renju Newspage.
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Results from the Swedish Team Championship 1997 in Stockholm 3-4 January 1998:

1. KFUM Jönköping (Göran Holgersson, Rickard Johannesson, Martin Carlsson)             24
2. Härnö LS (Björn Wallgren, Joakim Gaulitz, Mike Dufvenberg)                          20,5
3. Högsjö LK (Hannes Hermansson, Marcus Ericsson, Linus Hermansson, Anders Bertilsson) 20
4. Stockholm RK (Stefan Karlsson, Bengt Asplund, Björn Ericsson)                       19
5. Linköping (Tomas Hagström, Jonas Frid, Jesper Antonsson)                            18,5
6. Uppsala (Petter Gardström, Tord Andersson, Mina Gardström, Frank Arkbo)             18
7. Vadstena (Bengt Nyberg, Benkt Stentoft, Daniel Nyberg)                               9
8. HEM (Martin Karlsson, Henrik Karlsson, Erik Axlund)                                  3

Härnö LS started very well in this tournament and was the leader just 
before the two last rounds. Björn Wallgren played strong (9,5 p out 
of 11) and was rewarded for the best individual performance by the 
tournament-referee Bengt Asplund. Linköping was rewarded for best 
team performance relative their ratings. In the 2nd round from the 
end Jönköping finally showed what they can, beating Uppsala by 3-0. 
Also Jönköping were the favourites to the championship, remember they 
were both number 1 and 2 1996. However this time they really had to 
fight for the victory. 

 Stefan Karlsson
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Date:          Mon, 5 Jan 1998 22:55:26 +0000

Renju Newslettter No 1 - 1998
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I wish you a Happy New Renju Year!
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Report from the festival of intellectual games in 
Nizhny Novgorod 18-21 Dec.  - A. Skuridin

     The festival of intellectual games was held in
     Nizhny Novgorod 18-21 Dec. It was combination of
     renju, go and bridge competitions. Renju, go and
     bridge players in N.N. have a lot of contacts
     and help each other to solve same problems.
     The main idea of the festival was to give a chance
     for players to take part in all competitions.
     The winner was determined in each tournament and
     in the whole festival.
     The main renju tournament. Swiss system. 7 rounds.
     22 participants. Top 5 are:
         1. Alexey Skuridin      7 dan   7 points
         2. Sergey Shevelev      3 dan   6
         3. Olga Skuridina       1 dan   5
         4. Yury Provorov        6 kju   5
         5. Vladislav Kareev     5 dan   5.
     There was an additional renju tournament for
     beginners, go and bridge fans.
     In go tournament for beginners I`ve got 4 (from 5)
     points and took 4 place. It was my first participation
     in go conpetitoin. In bridge (the main tournament)
     I`ve got 5 place. Artur Gorshenkov was my partner.
     It was not seccessful result (we have won bridge
     competitions in N.N. many times), but it was
     sufficient to get first place in the whole festival.
     Another renju player Sergey Shevelev (he is schoolboy,
     13 years old) have got 6 place.
     It was the first festival of intellectual games.
     But the N.N.renju federation, the N.N. go federation
     and N.N. bridge club hope the such festival will
     become traditional.

                       Friendly yours,    A.Skuridin
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