Renju Newsletter January-June 1999 (No 1-40)
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Date sent:      	Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:17:17 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 40 - 1999 
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Yoshimi Hayakawa, the president of Nihon Renju Sha, The Japanese  Renju Association,
now has his own e-mail address: 
hayaka32@aol.com 
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Dear renju-friends - Swedish WCQ NEWS No. 4 
1999-06-30 / ska 
We have now played 4 days(7 rounds) of the Swedish Final Qualification 
tournament to World Championship in Beijing, China. The three best  will
have places in QT in WC. The participants are: 
TA = Tord Andersson 
PG = Petter Gardström 
JG = Joachim Gaulitz 
LH = Linus Hermansson 
SK = Stefan Karlsson 
Round V (played in Alby, Stockholm): 
JG-PG 0-1 
TA-LH 1-0 
Round VI (played in Uppsala): 
JG-LH 1-0 
PG-SK 1-0 
Round VII 
LH-SK 0-1 
TA-JG 1-0 
Standings after 7 rounds(in brackets how many games played so far): 
1. SK 4½ (6) 
2. TA 4  (5) 
3. PG 2½ (5) 
4. JG 2½ (6) 
5. LH ½  (6) 
Round VIII and IX will be played in Alby, Stockholm, at 11.00 and  17.00 
hours(SWE-time) today, the 30th of June. 
With best renju-greetings, 
Stefan Karlsson 
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THE ANNUAL REPORT OF RIF CORRESPONDECE COMMISSION, 1998-1999:  
NO GUTS, NO GLORY.(by Oleg Fedorkin, Russia) 
                      "Tovaristch, ya vahty ne v silakh derzhat, 
                       skazal kochegar kochegaru..." 
                                       Russian sad song 
"c) THE CORRESPONDENCE COMMISSION:It should investigate and decide 
eventual new rules for the next WC via e-mail. 
Chairman: Norihiko Kawamura, Japan (Withdrawal during the period) 
New chairman during the period: Oleg Fedorkin, Russia. 
Other Members: Yurij Tarannikov, Russia Tommy Maltell, Sweden, 
Ando Meritee, Estonia, Aldis Reims, Latvia, Na Wei, China, 
Albert Pogosyan, Armenia, Vladimir Kolesnik, Ukraine, 
Rickard W. Rognlie, USA".  
I asked all members of RIF Correspondence Commission if they are 
going to go on their task during next two years. I had got no reply 
from any member of Commission. 
Also I suggested several new members of the Commission. They are: 
K.Hasegawa (Japan), T.Takagawa (Japan), B.Asplund (Sweden), 
J.Gaulitz (Sweden), A.Soosorv (Estonia), M.Kozhin (Russia), 
A.Mikhailov (Russia), A.Nosovsky (Russia). I asked their opinions 
if they would like to work in the Commission. So Bengt Asplund 
and Ants Soosorv informed me that they could work in the RIF 
Correspondence Commission during next two years in the case 
of their election. 
IT MEANS THAT THE NATIONAL FEDERATIONS SHOULD PROPOSE 
FROM THEIR SIDE THE OTHER MEMBERS OF RIF CORREPONDENCE COMMISSION. 
As for me, probably, I will not have enough time next years 
to continue the work in the RIF Correspondence Commission 
as a chairman. So I would like somebody else to be the new 
chairman of the Commission for two next years but I could 
work in the Commission just as a member. 
Also I asked the opinion of members of RIF Correpondence Commission 
and several other players about the some changes in the system of 
RIF renju tournaments via e-mail. I got some suggestions. 
PROBLEM 1. How we should get the decision of RIF Correpondence 
Commission. I think that we can leave the previous method 
to decide the problems and technical details: 
The chairman of Commission will form the proposals and 
will send it to all members of our Commission to poll. 
The result of this polling will be the decision of 
the RIF Correspondence Commission. The chairman will inform 
all members about the resuls with the exact information 
about each vote. The polling should be started 
by the chairman if at least two members of Commission would ask it. 
So I would like to propose for RIF meeting to confirm this system: 
1.THE CHAIRMAN OF RIF CORRESPONDENCE COMMISSION WILL FORM THE 
PROPOSALS AND WILL SEND IT TO ALL MEMBERS OF COMMISSION FOR 
TO POLL. THE RESULT OF THIS POLLING WILL BE THE DECISION OF 
RIF CORRESPONDENCE COMMISSION. 
PROBLEM 2. The overcrowded semi-final tournaments: a lot of 
players, a lot of games. And in future, probably, every year 
we will have more and more new participants. It means that if 
we would not change the system of selection, in each semi-final 
20, for example, players will play two games with the every 
opponent (near 40 games!) but only the winner will play 
in the final. 
The received suggestions: a)to divide the applicants to semi-finals 
and also to quarter-finals. It could be the different systems: 12  players 
in the final, 3x12 players in the semi-finals, others - in quarter- finals, 
two games with each opponent (O.Fedorkin); 10 players in the final,  2x10 
players in the semi-finals, others - in quarter-finals, 
two games with each opponent (Yu.Tarannikov), 12 players in the final, 
others in the semi- and quarter-finals, one game with each opponent 
(B.Asplund), 15 players in the final, others in semi-finals, one  
game with each opponent (S.Smirnov). 
So I would like to propose for RIF meeting to decide: 
2.SHOULD WE PLAY RIF RENJU E-MAIL TOURNAMENTS WITH TWO OR ONLY 
ONE GAME BETWEEN THE PARTICIPANTS? 
3.THE RIF CORRESPONDENCE COMMISSION WILL GET RIGHT TO DIVIDE ALL 
PARTICIPANTS OF THE SELECTION TOURNAMENTS ON BOTH SEMI-FINALS AND 
QUARTER-FINALS. 
4.THE NUMBER OF WCH VIA E-MAIL PARTICIPANTS WILL INCREASE 
IN FINAL IN 2001 (FINAL OF 6TH WCH VIA E-MAIL) FROM 10 NOW. 
The technical details will be decided by RIF Correspondence 
Commission depending on the number of applicants. 
I would like to comment it so: 
If we would play 1 game/match, may be for several years we will not 
need quarter-finals. But if we would play 2 games/match as it goes  now, 
definitely we will need quarter-finals quite soon. 
PROBLEM 3. Some players (M.Kozhin, P.Salnikov) mentioned the 
presence of so-called "black" userids on PbEM server. It means that 
some unknown players play more strongly as it could be expected. 
Also some players play more strongly with only part of their opponents 
and too weak with the others, and the difference is obvious. 
Actually that's right, but I have not heard yet the good way 
to decide this problem. 
Could I suggest for RIF meeting next proposal: 
5.RIF CORRESPONDENCE COMMISSION WILL DISCUSS THIS PROBLEM AND WILL 
PROPOSE ITS DECISIONS TO THE NEXT RIF MEETING. 
Next RIF meeting probably will be in a year after meeting in China. 
PROBLEM 4. We have no possibility to pass the move at PbEM server now 
(P.Salnikov). I think that it is a technical problem and RIF 
Correspondence Commission could ask R.Ronglie later about possibility 
to change this option on server. 
PROBLEM 5. Money qwestions. As it was announced at PbEM server, 
Richard Rognlie change his job, and now he has to pay for PbEm 
server whereas for players this server is free. So he asked if 
somebody could help him to pay for server. I know that 
RIF is not a rich organization and a lot of things 
for RIF money to be spent. But may be RIF could help the owner 
of PbEM server just symbolically? Other thing: is it so that 
RIF should reward the winners of RIF WCh via e-mail? So far 
only the winner of 1st WCh Aldis Reims got the Cup for his win. 
Could we reward the winners of WCh via e-mail by Cup and 1-6 
places in final, 1-3 places in semi-finals (1 place in quarter- 
finals in the case of being) by diploma? 
For the last two years RIF Correspondence Commission organized 
two World renju Championship via e-mail. 
1ST RENJU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP VIA E-MAIL 
1996: I.A.REIMS (LAT) II.L.Laibinis (LIT-FIN) III.I.Sinyev (RUS) 
2ND RENJU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP VIA E-MAIL 
1997: I.YU.TARANNIKOV (RUS) II.R.Kolpakov (RUS) III.A.Reims (LAT) 
25 players from 9 countries took part in the semi-finals. 
3RD RENJU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP VIA E-MAIL 
1998: I.O.FEDORKIN (RUS) II.A.Reims (LAT) III.K.Hasegawa (JAP) 
29 players from 13 countries took part in the semi-finals. 
4TH RENJU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP VIA E-MAIL 
1999. See the tables below. Those tables are not completely official, 
because the referees (Bengt Asplund and Alexander Nosovsky) should 
confirm it. 48 players from 12 countries take part in the semi-finals. 
With best wishes 
Oleg Fedorkin. 
                              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 MtPt  Pts  Place 
1.O.Fedorkin(RUS) fedorkin    xx 1= 11 1= =0 11 == == 11 11   7   13=    I  
2.A.Reims(LAT) areims         =0 xx 1   1 =1    =0     1 =0   2=   6        
3.K.Hasegava(JAP) uo9man      00  0 xx 10 01 0  == 1  0   0   2    4        
4.R.Kolpakov(RUS) kolpak      =0 0  10 xx    =1 == 11 11 1    4    9        
5.Yu.Tarannikov(RUS) taran    1= 0= 01    xx    ==       0    2    4        
6.V.Golosov(RUS) golosov      00     1 0=    xx 00 1      0   1    2=       
7.S.Bondarenko(RUS) troter    == 1= == == == 11 xx 11 11 =1   7   13     II 
8.S.Smirnov(RUS) smirnov      ==     0 00     0 00 xx 00 01   1    2        
9.OKlimachev(RUS) klimachev  00 0   1 00       00 11 xx 0    1=   3        
10.E.Bobkov(RUS) bobkove      00 1= 1   0  1 1  0= 01  1 xx   3=   7        
Group B. 
                              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 Pts  Place 
1.N.Kawamura(JAP) norihiko    xx 00    00 11 11 11 11 1  11 11 1  14        
2.M.Kozhin(RUS) jenaro        11 xx 01 11 11 1= 11 11 11 11 11 11 20=   I   
3.S.Filippov(RUS) filippov       01 xx  1 11 11 11 11  1 11 11 0  15        
4.B.Wallgren(SWE) bjornw      11 00 0  xx 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 17        
5.V.Egorov(RUS) evit          00 00 00 00 xx 00 11 11 01 00 11 00  7    9   
6.Y.Madissoon(EST) ymadis     00 =0 00 00 11 xx 11 11    11 11 00 10=       
7.M.Lalayan(ARM) lama         00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 11 00 00 10 00  3  10-11 
8.T.Wang(CHI) tomwang         00 00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00 00 00  0   12   
9.V.Kolesnik(UKR) kvik         0 00 0  00 01    11 11 xx 11 11  0  9        
10.R.Brown(USA) guzzle        00 00 00 00 11 00 11 11 00 xx 11 00  8    8   
11.M.Dumanyan(ARM) dumh       00 00 00 00 00 00 10 11 00 00 xx 00  3  10-11 
12.S.Krasnonosova(RUS) odetta  0 00  1 10 11 11 11 11 1  11 11 xx 15        
Group C. 
                             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 Pts  Place 
1.A.Soosorv(EST) asoosorv   xx 0= 01 11 10 11 11 00 11 11 11 11 16=        
2.A.Mikhailov(RUS) almi+    =1 xx 10 11 =1 11 11 11 1  11 11  1 18         
3.V.Barykin(RUS) vbarykin   01 10 xx 11 11 11 11 =0 11 11 11 11 18=        
4.R.Johannesson(SWE) ratson 00 00 00 xx 01 11 00 00 00 11 00 00  5         
5.S.Sitnik(RUS) sergei      10 0= 00 01 xx 11 11 01 11 11 11 1  14=        
6.K.Birk(EST) katrin        00 00 00 00 00 xx  1 00 00 11 00 00  3         
7.M.Minasyan(ARM) mima      00 00 00 11 00 0  xx 00 0  11  0     4         
8.Zh.Jinyu(CHI) freefish    11 00 1= 11 01 11 11 xx 01 11 11 00 15=        
9.I.Rinkis(LAT) ingus       00  0 00 11 00 11  1 01 xx 11 11    10         
10.A.Stepanyan(ARM) star    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00  0     12  
11.R.Samal(CHE) rsamal      00 00 00 11 00 11 1  00 00 11 xx  0  7         
12.V.Alibabaev(RUS) alibaba 00 0  00 11  0 11    11    11 1  xx  9         
Group D. 
                             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 13 Pts  Place 
1.A.Poghosyan(ARM) apogh    xx 00 00 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 00 00  2         
2.I.Sinyov(RUS) sinyovi     11 xx 10  0 01  1 11 11 11 10 11  1 15         
3.A.Nosovsky(RUS) nosovs    11 10 xx 10 11 01 11  1 11 11 11 == 17         
4.J.Gaulitz(SWE) joachim    11 1  10 xx 10  1 11    1  01  1  1 12         
5.V.Lunkin(RUS) lunkin      11 01 00 10 xx 1  1  1   1 01 11 0= 11=        
6.M.Kolk(EST) mkolk         11 0  01 0   0 xx 11  1 10 11 11 0= 11=        
7.A.Karapetyan(ARM) kaar    00 00 00 00  0 00 xx 0  00 00 00 00            
8.Zh.Tongxiang(JAP) s02     11 00 0      0 0   1 xx 1  0= 10  0  5=        
9.E.Gaidamauskas(LIT) volk  11 00 00  0 0  10 11  0 xx 11 01 00  8         
10.W.Huang(USA) stfan       11 10 00 01 01 00 11 =1 00 xx 11 00 10=        
11.C.Tibaldi(ITA) tibia     11 00 00 0  00 00 11 10 10 00 xx 00  6         
13.M.Dufvenberg(SWE) mikedu 11 0  == 0  =1 =1 11 1  11 11 11 xx 15         
Group E. 
                              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 Pts  Place 
1.T.Takagawa(JAP) takagawa   xx 00 =1 00 01 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 16=        
2.K.Nikonov(RUS) vanalaud    11 xx 10 1= 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 20=    I   
3.P.Salnikov(RUS) psalnikov  0= 10 xx == 11 11 11 11 11 11 11  1 17=        
4.D.Soloviev(RUS) dsol       11 =0 == xx 11 11 11  1 11 11 11 1= 18         
5.J.Lents(EST) lents         01 00 00 00 xx 11 11 11 11 11 00    11         
6.M.Manykyan(ARM) mamh       00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00 00 00 00 00  0    12   
7.M.Carlsson(SWE) muppin     00 00 00 00 00 11 xx 11 11 00 00 00  6         
8.A.Kobzev(ARM) kai          00 00 00 0  00 11 00 xx 11 01 00 00  5         
9.A.Lipsits(USA) alipsits    00 00 00 00 00 11 00 00 xx 00 00 00  2    11   
10.G.Baggio(ITA) beppejb     00 00 00 00 00 11 11 01 11 xx  0 00  7         
11.E.Tihkau(EST) etienne     00 00 00 00 11 11 11 11 11 1  xx 01 12         
12.B.Asplund(SWE) basplund   00 00 0  =0    11 11 11 11 11 01 xx 11=        
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Date sent:      	Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:21:40 +0200
Renju  Newsletter No 39 - 1999
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Swedish WCQ NEWS
We have now played 2,5 days(4 rounds) of the 
Swedish Final Qualification
tournament to World Championship in Beijing, 
China. The three best best will
have places in QT in WC. The participants are:
TA = Tord Andersson
PG = Petter Gardström
JG = Joachim Gaulitz
LH = Linus Hermansson
SK = Stefan Karlsson
The 3 first rounds were played in Uppsala, close 
to Uppsala Cathedral, the
biggest church in Scandinavia! Results:
Round I
LH-JG 0-1
PG-SK 0-1
Round II
JG-TA ½-½
SK-LH 1-0
Round III
TA-SK ½-½
LH-PG ½-½
On Monday round IV and V will be played in Alby, 
Stockholm at 11.00 and
17.00 hours. Referee of the tournament is Björn 
Wallgren.
Round IV (played in Alby, Stockholm):
PG-TA 0-1
SK-JG 1-0
Standings after 4 rounds(in brackets how many 
games played so far):
1. SK 3½ (4)
2. TA 2  (3)
3. JG 1½ (3)
4. PG ½  (3)
   LH ½  (3)
Later this afternoon round V will be played in 
Alby, Stockholm at 17.00
hours(SWE-time).
With best renju-greetings,
Stefan Karlsson
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Date sent:      	Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:25:34 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 38 - 1999
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My Internet supplier still has problem with DNS
When today I tried to go to 
http://www.renju.nu/
I received the message
HTTP Error 404
404 Not Found
The Web server cannot find the file or script you 
asked for. Please check the URL to ensure that 
the path is correct.
Please contact the server's administrator if this 
problem persists.
When today I tried to go to 
http://www.renju.nu/
I came to 
www.bgcom.com
Therefore for some time you have to go to
http://195.84.172.147/renju/
or to 
http://195.84.172.147/
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Date sent:      	Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:51:36 +0200
Renju Newsletters No 37 - 1999
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Final results of the 17th Championship of St.Petersburg:
1. Aleksandr Klimashin     8.5   35.75
2. Pavel Salnikov          7     30.75
3. Vladimir Sushkov        7     29.25
4. Viktor Aleksandrov      6.5   27.00
5. Pavel Ses               5.5   21.50
6. Kirill Moiseiev         5.5   19.25
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7. Nonna Salnikova         3.5   14.00
8. Vladimir Filinov        3.5   12.50
9. Vitaly Yegorov          3     14.00
10. Konstantin Vodolazsky  2      7.50
11. Aleksandr Ivanov       2      5.50
Sincerely Yours,
Pavel Salnikov
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Date sent:      	Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:20:43 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 36 - 1999
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     Dear Renju friends,
     
     Following is the players namelist for the 6th World Championship in
     Beijing. Please let us know if we missed out anyone. Namelist for 
     China and Chinese Taipei will be announced before Jul.10,1999.
     
     Qualification Tournament
     
     Aldis Reims                Latvia
     Arnis Veidemanis           Latvia
     Gatis Gurckis              Latvia
     Artis Gaujens              Latvia
     Makarov Pavel              Russia
     
     A Tournament
     
     Kazuto Hasegawa            Japan
     Norio Nishizono            Japan
     Takashi Sagara             Japan
     Yshimi Hayakawa            Japan
     Ando Meritee               Estonia
     
     B Tournament
     
     Juris Skuskovniks          Latvia
     Roberts Idelsons           Latvia
     Nossovski Alexandre        Russia
     Milevsky Alexandre         Russia
     Lunkin Vitaly              Russia
     Filippov Serguei           Russia
     Tchernov Serguei           Russia
     Smirnov Serguei            Russia
     Kaoufman Victor            Russia
     Masao Mitsumori            Japan
     Kyozo Isobe                Japan
     Shinich Ishitani           Japan
     Hideki Nara                Japan
     Hiroshi Sakamoto           Japan
     Hiroyuki Tatsutomi         Japan
     Joachim Gaulitz            Sweden
     Peter Jonsson              Sweden
     Martin Karlsson            Sweden
     Kristian Lindberg          Sweden
     
     Women's Tournament
     
     Mutsumi Tatsutomi          Japan
     Chie Tatsutomi             Japan
     Olga Skouridina            Russia
     Irene Einberg              Estonia
     
     Sincerely,
     Na Wei
     President of RIF China
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Date sent:      	Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:30:00 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 35 - 1999 - Adds to RIF GA Agenda   
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Now it seems that we can see the RIF Web site  again on the orginal URL-address,
 but to be sure  I ask you all. Can you see the RIF Web site
 on the URL-address: 
http://www.renju.nu/  
Please, let me know if you cannot see the web site. 
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2 adds to RIF GA Agenda 
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1. The first part of the RIF General Assembly will be 
    held on Sunday July, 25 starting from 6:00 pm. 
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2. I have forgotten one suggestion which should have been included from the beginning.
 It is a     suggestion to correct the grammatical errors  
 in the rules of renju  without changing the 
 intended meaning of any of the rules. 
It is a task for the RIF Rules Commission to  
check that the intended meaning of any of the  rules will be changed and give me a report
 before  the 25th of July. 
The suggestion is enclosed below. 
The currents rules will be found on the URL- address: 
http://www.renju.nu/rifrules.htm 
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Results from three tournaments and RIF rating  changes because of the results from these
  tournaments. 
7th Russian Championchip for women  1-3 May 1999 
in Nizhni Novgorod 
                                      Sco     RIF rating 
 1. Irina Metreveli       Podyuga     9       +39   2124        
 2. Anastasia Leshukova   Rybinsk     6,5      --   1893 
 3. Yelena Lebedeva       Podyuga     6,5     -29   2036 
 4. Natalia Vasilieva     Rybinsk     6,5     -46   2195 
 5. Julia Savrasova       Podyuga     6        --    -- 
 6. Anastasia Sokolova    Rybinsk     5       -50   1894 
 7. Oksana Sorokina       Podyuga     4,5      --   1859 
 8. Yelena Chizhkina      N.Novgorod  3,5      --    -- 
 9. Olga Skuridina        N.Novgorod  3        --   1898 
10. Olga Kocheshkova      N.Novgorod  2,5      --    -- 
11. Evgenia Zakatova      N.Novgorod  2        --    -- 
Swedish WC-Qualification Step 1 in Jonkoping 990522-990524  
                                           RIF rating 
1. Rickard Johannesson Jonkoping   7,5     +43   2404             
2. Tord Andersson      Uppsala     5       -33   2280  
3. Martin Carlsson     Jonkoping   5       +34   2198 
4. Bengt Asplund       Norrtalje   5       - 3   2240 
5. Linus Hermansson    Hogsjo      4,5     +50   2077 
6. Anders Bertilsson   Hogsjo      3       -67   2178 
7. Marcus Eriksson     Hogsjo      3       +20   1975 
8. Peter Jonsson       Jonkoping   3       -44   2132 
9. Jan-Olov Andersson  Jonkoping   0        --    -- 
MOSCOW  OPEN																												 
12.06.1999 - 14.06.1999																												 
                                            Sco     RIF Rating 
 1	Sushkov Vladimir   Gatchina	    Russia   7	    +60   2471 
 2	Nikonov Konstantin Elektrostal	Russia   6,5    +28   2449 
 3	Kozhin Mikhail     Dubna	    Russia   6,5    -37   2551 
 4	Tarannikov Yuri	   Moscow	    Russia   6      - 8   2452 
 5	Sinyov Igor	       Moscow       Russia   6      +29   2434 
 6	Smirnov Sergey	   Moscow       Russia   6      +55   2348 
 7	Kareev Vladislav   N.Novgorod	Russia	 6      +21   2400 
 8	Krasnonosov Dmitri Moscow       Russia   5,5   -11   2329 
 9	Makarov Pavel	   Moscow	    Russia   5,5   -34   2393 
10	Golosov Victor	   Moscow	    Russia   5     -44   2315 
11	Bertilsson Anders  Hogsjo	    Sweden   5     + 7   2185 
12	Eriksson Markus	   Hogsjo	    Sweden   5     +85   2060 
13	Sirategyan Karen   Moscow	    Russia   5     -21   2164 
14	Soosyrv Ants       Tallinn	    Estonia  4,5   -53   2415 
15	Ivanov Alexey      Moscow	    Russia   4,5   -36   2127 
16	Khramov Andrey     Tashkent	 Uzbekistan  4,5   -15   2056 
17	Taimla Tunnet      Tallinn	    Estonia  4     +34   2201 
18	Ogorodov Sergey    Moscow	    Russia   4      --   1926 
19	Lents Johann       Tallinn	    Estonia  4     + 9   1993 
20	Kolesnikov Alexey  Tomsk	    Russia   4     -70   2244 
21	Hermansson Linus   Hogsjo	    Sweden   4     -20   2057 
22	Shubin Alexander   Moscow	    Russia   3,5    --   2072 
23	Tyaglo Yuri        Belgorod	    Russia   3,5    --   1943 
24	Tuvikene Maris     Tallinn	    Estonia  3     -10   1907 
25	Lunkin Vitali      Moscow	    Russia   3     -48   2072 
26	Krasnonosova Serafima Moscow	Russia	 2,5    --   1816 
27	Zvereva Anna       Moscow	    Russia   1      --    -- 
28	Zakatova Yevgenija N.Novgorod	Russia   1      --    -- 
The RIF rating lists have been updated and you  can find them on the following URL-addresses: 
http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990615.htm 
http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990615.htm 
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Enclosure: The suggestion to correct the  grammatical errors in the rules of renju without 
 changing the intended meaning of any of the rules. 
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From:           	Michael Bevin   
(RIF Connection man of New Zealand) 
I'm not sure who to send this to but you looked  pretty likely - I guess 
you can pass it on to whoever.... 
I downloaded the official rules of renju from  your site and found a number of grammatical 
 errors which made it very hard for me to 
understand. It was obvious from reading that the  creator was not a native English speaker, 
so I  thought you might appreciate it if I corrected  the obvious errors so as to remove any 
 ambiguities and make it generally easier to  understand. I have attached this corrected 
version 
to this e-mail. Originally I thought I might list  the corrections so you can include 
whichever ones  you saw fit, but I had to make a large number 
of them, so I've just included the corrected text  file. In order make editing it easier, 
I had to  convert it from html to text, so you will 
obviously have to convert it back again, but this  should be relatively simple. If you have 
 questions about any of the changes please e-mail  me.  
I have been careful not to change the intended  meaning of any of the rules, but 
instead simply  correct the grammar and make it easier to 
understand. Having English as my first language  and having a good education in grammar, 
I hope  you can trust that the improvements 
represent better English, even if you do not  recognise the original errors. I avoided any  
major changes to the text so it is still not 
worded perfectly (ie some sentences were a bit  long but I left this alone), but the grammer 
and  ambiguities should all be resolved (or are 
at least much improved). 
Regards, 
Michael Bevin 
mbevin@atlas.otago.ac.nz 
THE INTERNATIONAL RULES OF RENJU 
Decided by RIF 2nd of May 1996 
with minor corrections made by RIF Central  Committee 3rd of May 1998 
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1 INTRODUCTION 
Renju is played between two opponents on a board  by making moves with black and white pieces 
called stones. 
2 THE BOARD 
The board has 15 vertical and 15 horizontal lines  with 225 intersections. 
Five of these intersections are reference points.  The colour of the board must not be the 
same as  the colour of any of the stones. 
3 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS 
ROW 
A combination of stones of the same colour,  either situated on a diagonal, 
vertical, or horizontal line, which is limited by  the edge of the board, an opponent 
stone or a  free intersection, with no opponent stones 
situated among the own stones. 
UNBROKEN ROW 
A row where between any stones there is no free  intersection. 
FIVE IN A ROW 
An unbroken row with five stones. 
OVERLINE 
An unbroken row consisting of six or more stones. 
FOUR 
A row with four stones to which you can add one  stone to attain five in 
a row. 
STRAIGHT FOUR 
An unbroken row of four stones ("four") to which  you, in two different ways, 
can add one more stone to attain five in a row. 
THREE 
A row with three stones to which you, without at  the same time making a five in a row, 
can add one  more stone to attain a straight four. 
DOUBLE-FOUR 
Putting a stone on an intersection, which at the  same time makes more than one four that 
meet each  other in this intersection. 
DOUBLE-THREE 
Putting a stone on an intersection, which at the  same time makes more than one three that 
meet  each other in this intersection. 
4 THE WAY TO PLAY 
4.1 One of the players has at his disposal the  black stones and the other player has the 
white  stones. 
4.2 Both players must alternately make one move  each turn. Black (the player with the black  
stones) begins the game by making a move in the 
middle of the board. 
4.3 Black to play means that it is black's turn  to move. White to play means that it is 
white's  turn to move. 
5 THE CONCEPTION MOVE 
A move consists of either the placing of a stone  on one of the intersections of the board, 
or of  the declaration by the player to play that he  gives up his right to put a stone on 
the board  (he passes). 
6 MAKING A MOVE 
The making of a move is considered to be ended  when the player has released the stone. When 
a  player passes, the move ends the moment he  declares that he passes. 
7 MOVED STONE 
A player to play has the right to adjust one or  several stones on their intersections, but 
before  they adjust the stones they must inform their 
opponent. 
8 WRONG POSITION 
If during a game one or several stones have  become disarranged, or if the stones are 
incorrectly removed or replaced, the position  must be reconstructed as it was before 
the  mishap, and after that the game will continue. If 
one of the players is responsible for the  disarranged position, and if the game cannot 
be  reconstructed, he will lose the game. If the  position is disarranged and the game 
cannot be  reconstructed, and if none of the players can be  regarded as responsible for the disarranged  position, the game is void and a new one must be  played. 
9 WIN OF A GAME 
9.1 The winner of the game is the player who is  the first to attain five in a row. For 
white an  overline is also counted as a win. 
9.2 The game is won for white if black, without  at the same time attaining five in a row: 
a) makes an overline; 
b) makes a double-four; 
c) makes a double-three (however there are some  double-threes which black is allowed
 to make, see  9.3); 
9.3 A black double-three is allowed if at least  one of the following conditions a) or
 b) are  fulfilled: 
a) Not more than one of the three's can be made  into a straight four when adding another
 stone in  any intersection, without at the same time an 
overline or double-four being attained in this  intersection. To find out which
 double-three's  are allowed, you must make the move, which causes  the double-three,
 in your mind, and then continue  trying to make straight fours, which are allowed, 
 in your mind. 
b) Not more than one of the three's can be made  into a straight four when adding
 another stone in  any intersection, without at the same time at 
least two three's meeting in this intersection  and making a forbidden double-three.
 To find out  if this last double-three is forbidden or not, 
you must first examine if the double-three is  allowed according to a) above,
 and then in your  mind continue trying to make straight fours out  of the three's
 in your mind. If, when making a  straight four in your mind, another double-three
  would also be attained, these double-three's must  be examined in the same way
 as described in this  point 9.3, etc. 
9.4 The game is won for the player who can prove  that the time of their opponent
 has ended, or who  can prove that the opponent has not made the 
stipulated number of moves within the stipulated  time. 
9.5 The game is won for the player whose opponent  gives up the game. 
9.6 The player who wants to win must always claim  the win, and at the same time must
 both clocks.  To obtain a win according to 9.1-9.4 the 
winning player's clapper must be up when both the  clocks have been stopped. 
9.7 If black gets five in a row, but does not see  his win and does not call
 attention to it, and if  white makes a move and black continues to play, 
and black makes a prohibited move according to  9.2, then white is the winner
 of the game (if he  calls attention to it) in spite of the fact that 
black has attained five in a row. 
9.8 If black makes a forbidden double-three or a  double-four, and white does
 not call attention to  this and continues to play, white cannot afterwads 
claim the win with respect to this double-three  or double-four. If black makes
 an overline and  white does not call attention to this and 
continues to play, white still has the option of  calling attention to black's
 overline in a 
later phase of the game, so long as black hasn't  made five in a row and claimed
 the win, and the  game has not been finished in another way. 
10 DRAW a) The game is draw 
10.1 when all the intersections of the board are  occupied; 
10.2 by agreement between both the players; 
10.3 when both players (after each other) pass  (refrain from making their moves); 
10.4 when both players' time has ended. 
b) An offer of a draw according to 10.2 can only  be made by a player 
at the same time as he makes  his move. After he has offered a draw he starts 
the clock of his opponent. The opponent is able  to accept or refuse the 
offer either orally or by  making a move showing the refusal. In the  meantime, the 
player who has made the offer has  no right to cancel the offer. 
11 THE PATTERNS OF RENJU 
Only the following 13 indirect and 13 direct  patterns are possible to play. 
(This means that  the second and third moves must be played as in  the below pictures. 
Two alternatives are possible  for the second move and after the second move 13  
alternatives are possible for the third move.) 
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12 OPENING RULES 
12.1 In starting the game a tentative Black and a  tentative White are decided between
the two  players. 12.2-4.The tentative Black plays all the  first three moves (two moves
 for black and one  move for white i.e. he decides which of the 26  patterns will be used.) 
The rule 12.2-4 is a new rule decided by the  General Assembly on the 2nd of May 1996. 
12.5 The tentative White decides which of the  players that will play as Black and as
White in  the game (White has the right to change sides). 
12.6 The newly decided white player makes the 4th  move in an optional unoccupied
intersection. 
12.7 BLACK'S CHOICE Black (the player with the  black stones) has to make two different
proposals  for the 5th stone. The proposals have to be  unequal in all respects. White
 as the right to  choose one of Black's two proposals to 
become the 5th move of the game. The time for  Black goes till he has given two correct
proposals. For White the time goes till he has 
accepted one of the proposals and till he has  made the 6th move which can be made 
in any unoccupied intersection. 
12.8 With the 5th move the special opening rules  for the moves are ended. 
12.9 Passing is not allowed within the first  three moves. 
13 RECORD OF THE GAME 
13.1 During the game both players are required to  record the game (both their own 
moves and their  opponent's) move by move in a legible way on a 
record decided by the organizer of the  competition. 
13.2 If a player has only five minutes or less  left of his time, he does not need to 
fulfil the  duty prescribed in 13.1, but must complete his 
record as soon as the lack of the time is over,  if this is possible. 
14 USE OF CLOCK 
14.1 During a certain time both players must make  a certain number of moves. 
14.2 The control of the time for the player is  made with help of a special
clock for this  purpose. 
14.3 At the time when the game begins Black's clock will be started.
Henceforth, after making a  move each player has to stop his own clock with 
the same hand as he used for making the move. At the same time as he stops
his own clock he must  start his opponents' clock. The stop of his own 
clock and the start of his opponent's clock must  always be made immediately,
so as not to disturb  the opponent's making of moves. This rule does not prevent
a player from forgetting to stop the  clock, and his opponent does not have to point 
out if he notices the forgotten stop. 
14.4 When it is time to decide if the stipulated number of moves have been made
within the time  stipulated, the last move is considered not to be 
made until the player has stopped his clock. 
14.5 The time registered by the clock is  considered as decisive unless obvious
defects  exist. A player who wants to point out defects in  the clocks must do 
this immediately. 
14.6 If the game has to be interrupted for some  reason, not caused by any of the
 players, the  clocks must be stopped till the matter is solved. 
14.7 The players must not decide for themselves  to stop their clocks without
 immediately sending  for the organizer of the competiton. 
14.8 It is not allowed for anyone other than the  players in a game, including 
the organizer of a  competition, to point out that the time is out  for a player, 
or that a player has forgotten to  stop his clock. 
14.9 It is allowed for the organizer of a  competition to use "TIME REFEREES". If 
TIME  REFEREES are used, the TIME REFEREES control the  time and 14.8 is not valid. 
If TIME REFEREES are  used then the organizer must see to it 
that all games can get a TIME REFEREE when one is  needed. When 5 minutes are left 
of the time  stipulated in a game, the players must  immediately send for a TIME REFEREE. 
15 LATE ARRIVAL 
When the games have to start all the clocks must  be started on the request
of the organizer of the  competition. If both players are absent one 
clock will be started. The time of this clock  runs for both players. 
16 THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE PLAYERS 
When the game has started, it is prohibited for the players to use
written or printed documents  or to analyse the game on another renju board. 
When games are going on or when one or several  games are interrupted,
no analyse is allowed in  the room or rooms for play. 
No one may distract or disturb the opponent in  anyway. 
Players must follow the rules stipulated for the  competition. 
Transgression against the above mentioned rules of behaviour can lead
to punishment and loss of a  game. 
17 ORGANIZER OF THE COMPETITION 
To lead and organize the competition, an organizer has to be appointed. 
The tasks of the organizer are: 
17.1 to control that the valid rules are carefully used; 
17.2 to judge in all disputes that may occur during the competition; 
17.3 to ensure that good circumstances are  presented during the 
competition; 
17.4 to ensure that the players are not disturbed by each other or by 
spectators; 
17.5 to punish players who do not follow the  rules; 
17.6 to decide the order in which interrupted games should start again; 
18 CHANGE OF RULES 
These rules can only be changed after a decision  made by the General
Assembly of the Renju  International Federation. 
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Date sent:      	Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:49:51 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 34 - 1999 
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The magazine "Renju World No 29/30" is now  available from the URL address: 
http://www.neti.ee/renju/renworld.htm 
It is a zipped file including 20 Word97-files. 
The HTML version is not yet finished. 
Printed versions will of course also be sent to  all subscribers. 
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Adds to RIF GA Agenda  
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1. Poposal from Chinese Taipei: 
Dear Mr. Maltell, 
If we Chinese-Taipei can be adopted as a member 
of RIF, we'd like to organize the 8th WC in 2003. 
We also hope it can be a proposal in the 2nd part 
of General Assembly. Although we are not member 
yet, we hope you'd like to consider our  suggestion. 
Thank you very much! 
Sincerely Yours, 
Chung, Hsien-chi 
The secretary-general of Chinese Renju Association 
(in Chinese Taipei) 
Comments from Tommy Maltell: 
3 World Championships in a row in East Asia maybe is too much 
because it is planned that Japan will  arrange the championship
of year 2001. So, if  your country also is interested to arrrange
WC in  the year 2003, please, let me know. 
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2. Mind Sports Olympiad in the year 2000 
In earlier Renju Newsletters I have informed you  about Mind Sports Olympiad.
This year a Renju  tournament is not included. I suggest that on GA  RIF
will decide to act so that it will be a renju  tournament next year 
and that a new commission  will take care of the preparations. 
As an information I enclose parts of a letter  from David Levy: 
Tommy:  
It seems to me that Mr Tatsutomi from Japan is 
interested to visit Mind Sports Olympiad as a  representative for renju. 
I suppose he has contacted you via e-mail. 
  
David: 
Yes he did. 
Tommy: 
Will there be tournaments in renju or gomoku  during Mind Sports Olympiad? 
David: 
Not this year. We would not want to do it without  the help of RIF
or yourself. We need to be able  to publicize it widely in the Renju
and Gomoku communities and at the moment we have not way to do this. 
But for next year I would like to start the  planning as soon as poossible
if we can have some  help. This year we have a 100,000 prize fund and next 
year we expect to have at least that muvch  and maybe more. If you can help 
us to get a lot  of Renju/Gomoku players we will offer very nice  prizes. 
If there is some important tournament in your  calendar for which 
you want a host (e.g. European  Championship) we would be interested. Dates for 
2000 are August 19-27. 
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Date sent:      	Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:53:39 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 33 - 1999 
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Correction of writing mistakes in Renju Newsletter No 32: 
The Agenda of The RIF General Assembly 1999  
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Correct first sentence is: 
Agenda of the RIF General Assembly 1999 (not 1997). 
Correct paragraph 10 is: 
10. The number of players in A-tournament and in  
Qualification Tournament (QT).  
My proposal is 13 players which means 7 players decided  
from last WC, 1 player from China as organizer and 5  
players decided from QT.
  
Swedish federation propose that we should also consider
the alternative to arrange this WC with 14 players which 
means 7 players decided from last WC, 1 player from China
as organizer and 6 players (not 5 players) decided from QT.  
Info about date and time for General Assembly will be sent  within short. 
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Date sent:      	Sat, 5 Jun 1999 00:37:21 +0200
Renju Newsletter No  32 - 1999/Agenda for GA 
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Short info about the RIF web site: 
The Web hotel were the web site is situated has changed the  IP-number for the site.
The DNS-servers all around the world maybe not yet has been updated.  
If you cannot see the pages, till it will work again you  can use the
IP-number directly i.e. you can use the address  
http://195.84.172.147/renju/index.html  
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Please, cheque the agenda below and inform me if I have forgotten something 
that you have sent to me and that should be added. I am in a  
hurry so maybe I have missed someting. If I have forgotten something  
I will add it in a future newsletter. 
I also ask all chairmans of RIF Commissions to send me their reports 
about commission activity via e-mail before 1st of July  1999. Every report must
give the answer to the question if the commission should remain as it works
today or if some  changes are necessary? The reports should also include
eventual proposals and for each member of the commission if  the member
is a candidate for 2 more years or if the member  wants to withdraw from his task. 
 
The reports may be published in Renju Newsletter and then 
everybody knows about them and these reports will not take
to much time during the assembly. The names of all chairmans
and members) are listed below. 
The financial report probably also will be published before the meeting. 
The Agenda of The RIF General Assembly 1999. 
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Agenda of the RIF General Assembly 1999 during the WC in 
Beijing China. The General Assembly probably will be held 
in two parts. However if it is good time maybe it is enough 
with one part. 
The exact time for these two General Asseblies is 
not yet decided.  
The first part must take place before the QT and the  tournament. 
The second part of General Assembly will be held later 
during the tournament days. 
1. Opening of the General Assembly (and election of the 
chairman of the assembly) 
2. Election of the secretary of the assembly 
3. Election of 3 persons to check the minutes and 3 
scrutineers 
4. Approval of this agenda and roll-call 
5. Annual report from the President 
6. Annual report from the Treasurer and the Auditor 
7. Approval of the work of the Central Committee for the 
last two years 
8. The budget and the membership fee for 
the period July  1999 - August 2000 or also for 
July 2000 - August 2001 
9. Election of the Central Committee: 
   Suggestion: 
     President              Tommy Maltell (re-election) 
     Vice President         Kosho Hayakawa (re-election) 
     Vice President         Alexander Nosovsky (re-election) 
     General Secretary      Peter Jonsson (re-election) 
     Treasurer              Stefan Karlsson (re-election) 
     Auditor                Lars B. Melin (re-election) 
10. The number of players in A-tournament and in 
Qualification Tournament (QT). 
My proposal is 13 players which means 7 players decided 
from last WC, 1 player from China as organizer and 5 
players decided from QT.
 
Swedish federation propose that we should also consider the alternative
to arrange this WC with 14 players which  means 7 players decided from
last WC, 1 player from China as organizer and 6 players decided from QT. 
11. Adopting of Chinese Taipei as a member of RIF with 
member rights regarding number of participants in QT. 
12. The number of players in A-tournament in WC in Japan 
2001. We also have to decide wheather the rule in paragraph 
#5e from the RIF Extra General Assembly in Riga on August 
7, 1992: 
"The organizing federation for the World Championship has 
one free place in the A-tournament, if the federation does 
not have any PP(Personal Places) or NP(National Places)." 
shall be left or not for future WC (2001 maybe is not so 
interesting but we do not know about 2003). Personally I 
think that of many reasons it is of great importance for 
organizing country to have this right left. If we decide to 
keep this rule we also have to decide if it should mean 
that one more players then should take place in A- 
tournament or if it will be one place less in QT. 
In this point it could also be decided once again which 
will be the rules for places in WC 2001 to avoid future 
misunderstandings. 
12b. Suggstion from Alexander Nosovsky: Also, I would like
to suggest that if rule of 5e will occur it means 
that 13 players will play in A-Final. 
Thus we will not need to change anything in our decisions. 
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Here is a possible stop and then the assembly will meet  again later.
Paragraph 10-12 must be decided before QT. 
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13. Reports from all RIF Commissions. Every member of a 
commission must inform his chairman if he wants to go on 
with his task. Every chairman has to inform me before 1st of July  
in the report mentioned above which players that do not want to go on. 
If the chairman has proposals for new delegates he should include such 
proposals in this report. If he has no such proposals CC 
can try to find new delagates. 
Should the commissions remain as they work today? 
14a. Report and proposal from RIF Correspondence 
Commission is enclosed in the end of this agenda. 
14b. Suggestion from Alexander Nosovsky: Every Chairman of RIF Commission have to
send report to President about 
commission activity before 10 of May each second year. 
15. Elections for delegates in all RIF Commissions.
 The former delegates are listed below. 
16. Eventual report regarding RIF rating system 
17.Future international tournaments - Report from Sports 
Commission 
a. Team World Championship in May 2000 in Tallinn, Estonia 
b. Youth World Championship in July 2000 in Arjeplog, Sweden 
   The Arjeplog club propose also to organise an Open International Tournament 
   during the same week as the Youth World Championship. 
c. World Championship in  end of July - beginning of August 
   in Japan 2001 
18.End of General Assembly 
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10a. Report and proposal from RIF Correspondence 
Commission 
As current chairman of RIF Correspondence 
Commission, I would like to propose to 
discuss at the RIF meeting in China  
the problems of RIF e-mail tournaments. 
At least one problem has to be discussed. 
Every year more and more new players 
take part in Renju WCh via e-mail. This 
year we have situation when 12 players 
play 2 games all together in each semi-final 
group. As a result, it is very difficult now 
to win the semi-final (only winner will play 
next year in a final tournament), because 
every year more and more really strong 
players take part in competition. Secondly, 
what will we do, when we will get 20, 
for example, participants in each semi-final? 
It will be too hard for players to play near 
40 games in the tournament. 
It could be the case next years because the number 
of participants grows every year. I would like 
to propose to discuss a possibility to make 
not only semi-final but quarter-final tournaments 
also. For example, as it was announced 
previously, in the final of the next 5 WCh 
via e-mail will take part 6 best of the current 
4 WCh final and 4 winners of semi-final 
groups. Simultaneously, the 3 semi-finals 
of the 6th WCh will start. In each semi-final 
group will play 12 players - 4 from the previous 
final A and 32 players from the current  
semi-final (2-9 places from each have right 
to play). In the case of rejections to play 
free places in these semi-finals will be replaced 
by the applicants with the highest RIF 
international ranking. 2 winners of each 
group will take part in the final of 6th 
WCh, so from the 6th final 12 players 
will play in the high league tournament, 6 best 
will play next high league and 6 others 
will be replaced by the winners of semi-finals. 
From the other hand, 4 players from each 
ended semi-final of 6th WCh will be replaced 
by the winners of quater-finals. 
Of course, these changes 
of the system of selection have a significant 
meaning in the case of every year growing 
of the number of participants. But it seems 
so that we actually have this permanent 
growing. So I guess it should be discussed. 
With best wishes 
Oleg Fedorkin 
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The following commissions have worked within RIF for two  years. 
a) THE RULES COMMISSION. It should work with the playing rules and 
also investigate possibilities for new rules. 
Chairman: Aldis Reims, Latvia. 
Other members: Norihiko Kawamura, Japan Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan 
Yurij Tarannikov, Russia Mikael Kozhin, Russia 
Ando Meritee, Estonia Arsen Avetisyan, Armenia 
Sergei Varov, Armenia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine 
 
b) THE SPORTS COMMISSION. It should work with the organization 
of international tournaments and also recommend which of the 
tournaments who should be counted in the rating list. 
Chairman: Konstantin Nikonov, Russia 
Other members: Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan Viktor Kaufman, Russia 
Stefan Karlsson, Sweden Na Wei, China 
Arnis veidemanis, Latvia Ants Soosorv, Estonia 
Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Nikolai  Ponomarenko, Ukraine 
c) THE CORRESPONDENCE COMMISSION:It should investigate 
and decide eventual new rules for the next WC via e-mail. 
Chairman: Norihiko Kawamura, Japan (Withdrawal during the period) 
New chairman during the period : Oleg Fedorkin, Russia. 
Other Members: Yurij Tarannikov, Russia 
Tommy Maltell, Sweden Ando Meritee, Estonia 
Aldis Reims, Latvia Na Wei, China 
Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Vladimir Kolesnik, Ukraine 
Rickard W. Rognlie, USA 
d) THE QUALIFICATION COMMISSION. It will work with the 
rating list and make suggestions for the General Assembly in case of new rules. 
Chairman: Bengt Asplund, Sweden 
Other Members: Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan Sergei Smirnov, Russia 
Felix Degtiar, Byelorussia Na Wei, China 
Ants Soosorv, Estonia Artis Gaujens, Latvia 
Nerses Grigorian, Armenia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine 
e) THE TRANSLATION COMMISSION. The task will be to try to translate 
Renju rules into each language of the connection men. If possible it 
will also translate the book “ The Click Of Stones” into English. 
Chairman: Na Wei, China 
Other Members: Norio Nishizono, Japan Alexandr Nosovsky, Russia 
Ando Meritee, Estonia Gatis Gurtskis, Latvia 
Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Oleg Mostovlansky, Byelorussia 
f) THE EUROPE COMMISSION. It will try to start Renju activities 
in new countries and also help other european “not established countries” to 
develop Renju activities. 
Chairman: Peter Jonsson, Sweden 
Other Members: Alexandr Nosovsky, Russia Ants Soosorv, Estonia 
Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine 
g) THE REFEREE COMMISSION: It will see that a system for referee 
categories will be set up. National federations should apply 
for candidates for international referees. In future all international 
championships must have an appointed international referee. 
The chairman should be the referee of the WC via e-mail and  
when difficult problems occure he should ask the commission for help. 
Chairman: Alexei Skuridin, Russia 
Other members: Hiroyuki Tatsutomi, Japan Pavel Salnikov, Russia 
Felix Degtiar, Byelorussia Ants Soosorv, Estonia 
Artis Gaujens, Latvia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine 
Albert Pogosyan, Armenia  
h) THE YOUTH COMMISSION. It should work with youth activities. 
Chairman: Alexei Skuridin, Russia 
Other members: Hiroyuki Tatsutomi, Japan Anders Bertilsson, Sweden 
Na Wei, China Ants Soosorv, Estonia 
Gurgen Karapetyan, Armenia Valentin Uspensky, Ukraine 
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Date sent:      	Mon, 24 May 1999 23:07:47 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 31 - 1999 
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Swedish WC-Qualification Step 1 in Joenkoeping 990522-990524 
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1. Rickard J		7.5p         
2. Tord A          	5p 
3. Martin C         	5p 
----------------------------------- 
4. Bengt A         	5p 
5. Linus H		4.5p 
6. Anders B	 	3p 
7. Marcus E		3p 
8. Peter J		3p 
9. Jan-Olov A		0p 
The three best above together with the three best from
Swedish Championship will play in QT step 2 
June, 28 - July, 3 to decide the 3 Swedish players in WC QT 
The three best in Swedish Championship 
1. Joachim Gaulitz              8                
2. Petter Gardstroem            7.5              
3. Stefan Karlsson              6  
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Some news from Estonia. 
Estonian Federation has 2 suggestions for General Assemble. 
1. Tallinn would like to have Team World Championship in  the begin-ning of May 2000. 
2. We suggest that organizing country has right to play in  TWC with 2 teams. 
From October 1998 till May 1999 we had serie of tournaments  in Hobby- 
center Kullo and Kivimae school 
Results in Kullo (12 players totaly) 
1.Tunnet Taimla  51 
2.Johann Lents   45 
3.Pavel Voznjuk  33 
4.Lauri Naber    25 
5.Maris Tuvikene 22 
6.Evelyn Tihkan  20 
7.Katrin Birk    12
 
Results in Kivimae (11 players ) 
1.Tunnet Taimla  57 
2.Johann Lents   46 
3.Pavel Voznjuk  29 
4.Evelyn Tihkan  24 
5.Juri Viital    21 
6.Katrin Birk    12 
  Friendly,Ants 
------------------------------------------ 
Changed ratings because of Estonia qualification tournament  
                             +/-   rating 
1. Ando Meritee     9 points -12   2680 
2. Ants Soosyrv     7,5      - 8   2468 
3. Tunnet Taimla    7       +118   2167 
4. Lauri Naber      3,5      -38   2125 
5. Johann Lents     2        -26   1984 
6. Maris Tuvikene   1        -34   1917 
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Date sent:      	Sun, 9 May 1999 23:45:25 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 30 - 1999
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World Championship Estonian qualification finished today.Tunnet
Taimla couldnt play his last game with Ando Meritee earlier.But Ando
won this game and here are total results :
                     1   2   3   4   5   6
1. Ando Meritee     X  1d  d1  11  11  11  9 points
2. Ants Soosyrv    0d  X   11  11  11  11  7,5
3. Tunnet Taimla   d0  10  X   1d  11  11  7
4. Lauri Naber     00  00  0d  X   11  01  3,5
5. Johann Lents    00  00  00  00  X   11  2
6. Maris Tuvikene  00  00  00  10  00  X   1
Ando Meritee and Ants Soosyrv will play in WC final.
In qualification will play Peeter Tamm.
Friendly,Ants
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Date sent:      	Thu, 6 May 1999 23:36:58 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 29 - 1999
Information from China regarding WC 1999
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     Dear Renju friends,
     
     As the next Would Championship in Beijing China is drawing near, I 
     would like to remind you again to inform your namelist of
     participants 
     who come to the tournament. Please let us know details per following
     requests:
     
     1. Total number of your delegation (including players and
     non-players)
     2. Number of non-players
     3. Indicate clearly who participate A tournament, who participate B
     tournament and who participate women's tournament
     4. Indicate clearly for each member of your delegation, their sex, 
     date of birth, passport number and occupation
     
     I have received namelist from some countries. However, none of them
     gave full details on above request. Please do it ASAP so that we can
     send invitation to you with no delay.
     
     Sincerely,
     Na Wei
     president of RIF China
     E-mail: hannahhou@snc.schmidtgroup.com 
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Date sent:      	Wed, 5 May 1999 20:15:34 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 28 - 1999
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I forward a letter from David Levy.
--------------------------------------
Tommy
Would you and your colleagues like to have a Renju & Go-Moku tournament
at
the Mind Sports Olympiad this year? We are expanding our event and would
welcome
your participation. We provide a venue, prizes, medals and an
infrastructure.
What we would need is your help in publicizing the event.
We would also be interested in hosting your world championships at some
time
in the future if you need a venue, and/or the European Championships.
Regards,
David Levy
David@intrsrch.demon.co.uk 
       ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
       +                                      +
       +       3rd MIND SPORTS OLYMPIAD       +
       +                                      +
       +  Olympia, London, August 21-29 1999  +
       +                                      +
       +       Preliminary Announcement       +
       +                                      +
       ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
We are delighted to announce that the venue for the 3rd Mind
Sports Olympiad will be the Conference Centre at Olympia,
one of London's premier exhibition and conference sites. 
The dates, as announced at the end of last year's event, are
August 21st-29th. By extending the event to nine days we
have made it possible to accommodate more players and to
organize more tournaments. 
We plan to have events for most games throughout the
Olympiad. Typically, for each game, there will be some
tournaments on the first weekend, then some 5-day events on
the middle Monday-Friday (August 23-27) and finally some
more tournaments on the final weekend. But every game will
have its own requirements and at this stage we are still
flexible in our tournament planning. For example, we are
organizing a very strong chess tournament with 9 rounds,
extending thhroughout the Olympiad, in which players will
be able to obtain norms towards international titles. This
tournament is in addition to the quickplay and 5-minute chess
tournaments which we have held in the past. 
This year there will be a substantial prize fund. We will be
dramatically upgrading our web site over the next few
months. We are also opening a full time central London office
on May 14th.
Further details will follow during May. In the meantime will
all organisers please contact me with suggestions as to how
they would like to see the tournaments for their particular
game(s) to be scheduled.
Best regards,
David Levy
P.S.  Please note that since last year my telephone and fax numbers
      have changed:
      Tel: +44 171 435 9496
      Fax: +44 171 435 2870
      As from May 14th there will be additional contact numbers for me
      at the new MSO office.
      Snailmail still reaches me at P.O. Box 13388, London NW3 5FB.
      e-mail: dlevy@intelligent-group.com
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Date sent:      	Wed, 5 May 1999 19:50:58 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 27 - 1999
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Pavel Makarov won Qualification Tournament for WC in Russia.
Russia have decided participants of WC there
M. Kozhin (Dubna)
V. Sushkov (St, Petersburg)
P. Makarov (Moscow)
S. Peskov (Zhigulevsk)
Y. Bobkov (Moscow)
Reserv Nikonov, Sinyov
--------------------------------
The full table of games in Russian Championship you can   
find on the URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/ruswcq99.htm
The new RIF ratinglists you can find on the following URL-
addresses:
http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990504.htm
http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990504.htm
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Date sent:      	Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:27:30 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 26 - 1999
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Notice to attend RIF General Assembly during China WC 1999
27th of July - 6th of August
The General Assembly will this time be separated in two 
parts. The first part of the meeting will be before QT and 
WC starts because we have to decide 2 questions.
1. The number of players in A-tournament and in 
Qualification Tournament (QT). 
(My proposal is 13 players which means 7 players decided 
from last WC, 1 player from China as organizer and 5 
players decided from QT.)
2. Adopting of Chinese Taipei as a member of RIF with 
member rights regarding number of participants in QT.
The second part of General Assembly will be held later 
during the tournament days.
The agenda will soon be sent within a Renju Newsletter.
(RIF CC will first have some days to discuss the agenda)
-----------------------------------------------------
Of some reason the new rating lists announced in Renju 
Newsletter No 25 was not updated. However, now you will 
find them updated on the following URL-addresses
http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990426.htm
http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990426.htm
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Those people who knows Tomas Hagenfors from Kumla knows 
that he is very good to enthusiast people to start playing 
renju. He has arranged school championships in little town 
Kumla (http://www.kumla.se/) with 18900 inhabitants (12600 
in the centre). 447 pupils participated in the championship.
Those who can read Swedish can read more about the 
championship on the URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/kumlas99.htm
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Date sent:      	Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:47:46 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 25 - 1999
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Results and international rating changes 
from Swedish Championship in Vadstena,
April 21-25 1999.
Final standings, Group A
      Po		+/-		rating
1. Joachim Gaulitz 		8		+141	2342
2. Petter Gardstroem 		7.5		+ 61	2419
3. Stefan Karlsson 		6		- 35	2462
4. Bengt Asplund 		5		+ 46	2243
5. Anders Bertilsson 		4.5		+ 20	2245
6. Rickard Johannesson 		3.5		-107	2361
7. Martin Carlsson 		3.5		+ 22	2164
8. Goeran Holgersson 		3		- 53	2235
9. Jan Palmgren 		2.5		- 43	2180
10.Johnny Nielsen 		1.5		- 52	2113
Final standings, Group B, 11 rounds
1. Peter Jonsson 		10		+ 19		2176
2. Linus Hermansson 		9.5		+ 46		2027
3. Hannes Hermansson 		8		- 48		2116
4. Haakan Moeller 		8		  -		  -
5. Tomas Hagstroem 		7		  -		1984
6. Olga Skuridina 		7		  -		  -
7. Tomas Hagenfors 		7		  -		1942
8. Marcus Eriksson 		5.5		- 56		1955
9. Johan Vikerskog 		5		  -		  -
10.Erik Lissel 			5		  -		  -
11.Sven-AAke Pettersson 	5		  -		  -
12.Jan-Olov Andersson 		5	        -	        -
13.Kim Kemilae 			4		  -		  -
14.Jan Paulander 		4		  -		  -
15.Mikael Johansson 		4		  -		  -
16.Gabriel Hagenfors 		3		  -		  -
17.Andreas Johansson 		1		  -		  -
18.Carl Hermansson 		1		  -		  -
The new rating lists you will find on the following URL-
addresses
http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990426.htm
http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990426.htm
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Date sent:      	Sun, 25 Apr 1999 21:09:26 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 24 - 1999
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Rsults from Swedish Championship in Vadstena,
April 21-25 1999.
New Swedish Champion in Renju is Joachim Gaulitz!
Round 5
Joachim Gaulitz-Goeran Holgersson 1-0
Stefan Karlsson-Martin Carlsson 1-0
Bengt Asplund-Johnny Nielsen 1-0
Petter Gardstroem-Jan Palmgren 1-0
Anders Bertilsson-Rickard Johannesson 1-0
Round 6
Joachim Gaulitz-Bengt Asplund 1-0
Stefan Karlsson-Jan Palmgren 1-0
Anders Bertilsson-Goeran Holgersson 1-0
Petter Gardstroem-Johnny Nielsen 1-0
Martin Carlsson-Rickard Johannesson 0.5-0.5
Round 7
Petter Gardstroem-Rickard Johannesson 1-0
Stefan Karlsson-Goeran Holgersson 1-0
Joachim Gaulitz-Jan Palmgren 1-0
Anders Bertilsson-Johnny Nielsen 1-0
Bengt Asplund-Martin Carlsson 1-0
Round 8
Petter Gardstroem-Stefan Karlsson 0.5-0.5
Goeran Holgersson-Rickard Johannesson 0.5-0.5
Anders Bertilsson-Bengt Asplund 1-0
Joachim Gaulitz-Martin Carlsson 1-0
Jan Palmgren-Johnny Nielsen 1-0
Round 9
Joachim Gaulitz-Anders Bertilsson 1-0
Goeran Holgersson-Petter Gardstroem 1-0
Stefan Karlsson-Rickard Johannesson 0.5-0.5
Bengt Asplund-Jan Palmgren 1-0
Martin Carlsson-Johnny Nielsen 1-0
Final standings, Group A
1. Joachim Gaulitz 8
2. Petter Gardstroem 7.5
3. Stefan Karlsson 6
4. Bengt Asplund 5
5. Anders Bertilsson 4.5
6. Rickard Johannesson 3.5
7. Martin Carlsson 3.5
8. Goeran Holgersson 3
9. Jan Palmgren 2.5
10.Johnny Nielsen 1.5
Final standings, Group B, 11 rounds
1. Peter Jonsson 10
2. Linus Hermansson 9.5
3. Hannes Hermansson 8
4. Haakan Moeller 8
5. Tomas Hagstroem 7
6. Olga Skuridina 7
7. Tomas Hagenfors 7
8. Marcus Eriksson 5.5
9. Johan Vikerskog 5
10.Erik Lissel 5
11.Sven-AAke Pettersson 5
12.Jan-Olov Andersson 5
13.Kim Kemilae 4
14.Jan Paulander 4
15.Mikael Johansson 4
16.Gabriel Hagenfors 3
17.Andreas Johansson 1
18.Carl Hermansson 1
Peter and Linus are qualified for next years A-group.
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Date sent:      	Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:15:01 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 23 - 1999
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Situation in final stage of Estonian WC qualification is 
next:
1.Tunnet Taimla 5,5 points from 6
2.Ando Meritee  4,5 (5)
3.Ants Soosyrv  4,5 (6)
4.Lauri Naber   2,5 (8)
5.Maris Tuvikene 0  (4)
6.Johann Lents   0  (5)
 We shall finish next week.
 Friendly,Ants
---------------------------------------------
Swedish Championship of Renju - standings after 4 rounds.
Round 1
Petter Gardström-Martin Carlsson 1-0
Stefan Karlsson-Anders Bertilsson 1-0
Bengt Asplund-Göran Holgersson 1-0
Rickard Johannesson-Jan Palmgren 1-0
Joachim Gaulitz-Johnny Nielsen 1-0
Round 2
Petter Gardström-Joachim Gaulitz 1-0
Johnny Nielsen-Rickard Johannesson 1-0
Bengt Asplund-Stefan Karlsson 1-0
Göran Holgersson-Jan Palmgren 1-0
Anders Bertilsson-Martin Carlsson 0.5-0.5
Round 3
Petter Gardström-Anders Bertilsson 1-0
Rickard Johannesson-Bengt Asplund 1-0
Joachim Gaulitz-Stefan Karlsson 1-0
Göran Holgersson-Johnny Nielsen 0.5-0.5
Martin Carlsson-Jan Palmgren 0.5-0.5
Round 4
Petter Gardström-Bengt Asplund 1-0
Stefan Karlsson-Johnny Nielsen 1-0
Martin Carlsson-Göran Holgersson 1-0
Jan Palmgren-Anders Bertilsson 1-0
Joachim Gaulitz-Rickard Johannesson 1-0
Standings
Petter Gardström 4
Joachim Gaulitz 3
Bengt Asplund 2
Martin Carlsson 2
Rickard Johannesson 2
Stefan Karlsson 2
Göran Holgersson 1.5
Johnny Nielsen 1.5
Jan Palmgren 1.5
Anders Bertilsson 0.5
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Date sent:      	Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:02:17 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 22 - 1999  
--------------------------------------------------------  
On Saturday 17th of April 1999  
Peter Jonsson, Joenkoeping, Sweden 
and 
Olga Skuridina, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, 
were married. 
From the URL-address: 
http://www.renju.nu/wedding/ 
you can find 6 photos from the wedding 
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Letter from Jeff Zucker: 
Also, for my own benefit I created a renju opening 
tutorial that uses the images from RIF in a javascript
that makes it easy to see the opening moves.
Please take a look  at 
http://www.vpservices.com/jeff/games/renju/dubrenju.htm
     
Jeff Zucker 
jeff@vpservices.com 
http://www.vpservices.com/jeff/ 
Co-coordinator 
http://www.unicef.org/voy/ 
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How to find a renjufriend in your own country? 
Nowadays it is not so difficult to find a friend
to play renju with via Internet.
There are several places for that  for example 
Richard's Play-By-eMail Server with the URL-address: 
http://eiss.erols.com/~pbmserv/ 
Playsite with the URL-address: 
http://www.playsite.com/index.html 
5WIN Game Server with the URL-adress: 
http://www.5wingame.com/ 
E-mail addresses to all Renju Newsletter subscribers you
can also find from the URL-adress:  
http://www.renju.nu/sub.htm
On the list of Renju subscribers you can only find name,
country, eventual C and the e-mail address. 
A player who is a contactman for his country
has a C after the nationality for example 
"Ants Soosorv, Estonia, C" 
Still I have been told to arrange some possibility for
players to register themselves so that other players are
able to contact them.  
Therefore I have made a special guestbook called 
"Renjucontact's guestbook"
just for this purpose on the  following URL-address: 
http://www.guestbook.de/yasg.cgi?X=195898 
The old guestbook is still left and it can be
used for all other guestbook purposes. 
In the new guestbook every player could register
himself as a person interested in contacts with other renjuplayers.  
In this guestbook any player are able to write for example  his/her: 
name 
mailing address (snail-mail) 
country 
e-mail address 
telephone 
fax 
homepage 
what kind of contact he/she is interested in  
for example: 
interested in contacts via e-mail or in real life 
interested to play games via e-mail, via some server or in  real life  
interested to discuss analysis 
interested to organize a club 
interested to found a national organization  
and so on 
You and of course also non-subscribers are welcome to write  in this guestbook. 
------------------------------------------------------- 
A place (in Swedish)for children who want to play gomoku:  
www.pettson.gammafon.se/HTML_PYSSEL/_LUFFAR/index.html 
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Date sent:      	Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:19:03 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 21 - 1999
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Letter with info about free game software from TaoYin
Hi tommy:
We programed a renju game , we also call it renju manager.
It's a Free Software . If you like that you can distribute
it at your site .
Now we are programing a new version which have Multi Media functions .
If you want more infomation please contact us.
(1st :arj x free.arj , then run setup.exe)
Sincerely,
TaoYin
E-mail: yinzhang0@163.net
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You can find the files mentioned above
on the following URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/renjumanager/
Arj.exe  -  104614b
Free.arj -  417825b
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These are the results of Helsinki Open tournament (10-11 April).
Gomoku tournament. 11 rounds.
1.Pellikka Marko (FIN) - 10
2.Aager Sten (EST) - 9
3-4.Milva Helen (EST) - 7,5
Talihaerm Maria (EST) - 7,5
5-6.Rauk Raile (EST) - 7
Evart Kristjan (EST) - 7
7.Nurkse Mariliis (EST) - 6
8-10.Milva Kadi (EST) - 5,5
Puks Toomas (EST) - 5,5
Ilu Timo (EST) - 5,5
11-14.Salmela Matti (FIN) - 5
Ikonen Tatu (FIN) - 5
Salmela Mari (FIN) - 5
Vooras Mario (EST) - 5
15-17.Pensasmaeki Jouni (FIN) - 4,5
Lemstroem Niklas (FIN) - 4,5
Jaakonsaari Sara (FIN) - 4,5
18-19.Utt Teele (EST) - 4
Savi Helina (EST) - 4
20-21.Karimaeki Teemu (FIN) - 3
Pellikka Pasi (FIN) - 3
Renju tournament. 7 rounds
1.Meritee Ando (EST) - 6,5
2.Asplund Bengt (SWE) - 5,5
3.Fedorkin Oleg (RUS) - 5
4.Soosorv Ants (EST) - 4,5
5.Skuridin Alexei (RUS) - 4
6.Jonsson Peter (SWE) - 4
7.Holgersson Goeran (SWE) - 3,5
8.Lents Johann (EST) - 3
9.Voznyuk Pavel (EST) - 2
10.Tihkan Evelyn (EST) - 2
11.Viital Juri (EST) - 1
12.Hagenfors Thomas (SWE) - 1
Some interesting results in renju tournament:
Meritee - Asplund 0,5-0,5
Jonsson - Meritee 0-1
Soosorv - Meritee 0-1
Meritee - Fedorkin 1-0
Holgersson - Meritee 0-1
Skuridin - Meritee 0-1
Fedorkin - Asplund 1-0
Asplund - Jonsson 1-0
Asplund - Holgersson 1-0
Holgersson - Fedorkin 0,5-0,5
Soosorv - Fedorkin 0,5-0,5
Soosorv - Skuridin 1-0
Holgersson - Soosorv 1-0
Holgersson - Skuridin 0-1
Skuridin - Jonsson 0-1
Lents - Jonsson 1-0.
With best wishes
Oleg Fedorkin.
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This is current standings of renju WC e-mail tournaments.
Group A.
                               1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 MtPt  Pts
                               Place
1.O.Fedorkin(RUS) fedorkin    xx  = 11 1= =  1  ==       11   4    8=     
2.A.Reims(LAT) areims         =  xx                           0    =      
3.K.Hasegava(JAP) uo9man      00    xx 10  1    =         0   1    2=     
4.R.Kolpakov(RUS) kolpak      =0    10 xx        = 11         1=   4      
5.Yu.Tarannikov(RUS) taran     =    0     xx    ==            =    1=     
6.V.Golosov(RUS) golosov       0             xx               0    0      
7.S.Bondarenko(RUS) troter    ==     = =  ==    xx 11     1   2=   6      
8.S.Smirnov(RUS) smirnov               00       00 xx 00  1   =    1      
9.O.Klimachev(RUS) klimachev                       11 xx      1    2      
10.E.Bobkov(RUS) bobkove      00    1           0  0     xx   =    1      
Group B.
                               1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 Pts Place
1.N.Kawamura(JAP) norihiko    xx 0     0  11  1 11 11    11 11    11      
2.M.Kozhin(RUS) jenaro         1 xx    11 11 1= 11 11    11 11    14=     
3.S.Filippov(RUS) filippov          xx    11 11 11 11  1 11 11    13      
4.B.Wallgren(SWE) bjornw       1 00    xx 11 11 11 11    11 11    13      
5.V.Egorov(RUS) evit          00 00 00 00 xx 00 11 11 01 00 11 00  7     9 
6.Y.Madissoon(EST) ymadis     0  =0 00 00 11 xx 11 11    11 11  0 10=     
7.M.Lalayan(ARM) lama         00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 11 00 00 10 00  3 10-11
8.T.Wang(CHI) tomwang         00 00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00 00 00  0    12 
9.V.Kolesnik(UKR) kvik              0     01    11 11 xx 11 11     9
10.R.Brown(USA) guzzle        00 00 00 00 11 00 11 11 00 xx 11 00  8     8 
11.M.Dumanyan(ARM) dumh       00 00 00 00 00 00 10 11 00 00 xx 00  3 10-11 
12.S.Krasnonosova(RUS) odetta             11 1  11 11    11 11 xx       11       
Group C.
                             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 Pts Place
1.A.Soosorv(EST) asoosorv   xx 0  01    10 11    0     11 11     8      
2.A.Mikhailov(RUS) almi+     1 xx          11  1 11    11  1     9      
3.V.Barykin(RUS) vbarykin   01    xx    1  11     0    11 1      7      
4.R.Johannesson(SWE) ratson          xx  1 11          11        5      
5.S.Sitnik(RUS) sergei      10     0 0  xx 11    01    11        6      
6.K.Birk(EST) katrin        00 00 00 00 00 xx    00 0  11 00     2      
7.M.Minasyan(ARM) mima         0              xx       11        2      
8.Zh.Jinyu(CHI) freefish     1 00 1     01 11    xx    11        7      
9.I.Rinkis(LAT) ingus                       1       xx 11        3      
10.A.Stepanyan(ARM) star    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00  0    12
11.R.Samal(CHE) rsamal      00 0   0       11          11 xx     4      
12.V.Alibabaev(RUS) alibaba                            11    xx  2       
Group D.
                             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 13 Pts Place
1.A.Poghosyan(ARM) apogh    xx 00 00 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 00 00  2      
2.I.Sinyov(RUS) sinyovi     11 xx 1   0       11       10 1      7      
3.A.Nosovsky(RUS) nosovs    11  0 xx  0  1  1 1      1 11    =   8=     
4.J.Gaulitz(SWE) joachim    11 1  1  xx     1 11        1        8      
5.V.Lunkin(RUS) lunkin      11    0     xx 1  1        01    0   5      
6.M.Kolk(EST) mkolk         11    0  0   0 xx 1     10 11  1 0   7      
7.A.Karapetyan(ARM) kaar    00 00  0 00  0  0 xx    00 00     0         
8.Zh.Tongxiang(JAP) s02     11                   xx    0         2      
9.E.Gaidamauskas(LIT) volk  11    0        10 11    xx 11  1     8      
10.W.Huang(USA) stfun       11 10 00 0  01 00 11  1 00 xx    00  7      
11.C.Tibaldi(ITA) tibia     11  0          0         0    xx     2      
13.M.Dufvenberg(SWE) mikedu 11     =     1  1 1        11    xx  7=      
Group E.
                              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 Pts Place
1.T.Takagawa(JAP) takagawa   xx  0  1 0   1 11     1 11 11 1     10      
2.K.Nikonov(RUS) vanalaud    1  xx 1      1 11  1 11 11 11 11 1  15      
3.P.Salnikov(RUS) psalnikov  0   0 xx  =  1 11     1 11  1 1   1  9=     
4.D.Soloviev(RUS) dsol        1    =  xx  1 11     1 1   1 11     9=     
5.J.Lents(EST) lents         0  0  0  0  xx 11       11 11  0     6      
6.M.Manykyan(ARM) mamh       00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00 00 00 00 00  0   12 
7.M.Carlsson(SWE) muppin        0           11 xx    11           4      
8.A.Kobzev(ARM) kai          0  00 0  0     11    xx 11 01    00  5      
9.A.Lipsits(USA) alipsits    00 00 00  0 00 11 00 00 xx 00 00 00  2   11 
10.G.Baggio(ITA) beppejb     00 00 0  0  00 11    01 11 xx    00  5      
11.E.Tihkau(EST) etienne      0 00  0 00 1  11       11    xx  1  6      
12.B.Asplund(SWE) basplund       0 0        11    11 11 11 0  xx  8     
With best wishes
Oleg Fedorkin
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Date sent:      	Sat, 10 Apr 1999 01:23:31 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 20 - 1999
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The Swedish Magazine Fem i Rad No 3 - 1998
is now available on the URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/fir983/index.html
All pages are in Swedish but some of them could be 
understood by everyone for example
Results from different tournaments and
Poängligan 1998 - Slutställning i.e. total sum of points 
from different tournaments 1998
Aktuell rankinglista 990101-990430 i.e. the Swedish actual 
ratinglist
------
The following Russian language magazines you can find on 
Internet on the URL-address:
http://194.87.49.195/Renju/default.htm
1.The very sucsessfull magazine project "Moscow Almanah:"
  by Fedorkin and Golosov as cheif-editors.
2.Theoretical magazine "Analitick" by A. Mikhaylov.
3.Local magazines for example by P.Makarov in Moscow,
  by P. Salnikov in SPB,
  by Vasileva in Ribinsk
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Date sent:      	Tue, 6 Apr 1999 00:25:07 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 19 - 1999 
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On Saturday 17th of April 1999 
Peter Jonsson, Joenkoeping, Sweden, General Secretary of  RIF,
and
Olga Skuridina, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia,
Nr 6 in the 1st Women Renju World Championship 1997,
will marry. 
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Result of Japanese Qualification tournament for WC6 
 Qualification tournament for the 6th WC of Japan (3-4 Apr.) 
                        R1   R2   R3   R4   R5   R6   R7   Pts TB1 rank 
 1. Takashi  Sagara     7-1  8-1  5-=  2-1  3-1  6-1  4-=   6        1 
 2. Hideki   Nara       8-0  7-1  6-1  1-0  4-0  5-1 10-1   4   10   5 
 3. Yoshimi  Hayakawa   9-0 11-1 10-1  5-1  1-0 12-1  8-1   5        2 
 4. Shinichi Ishitani  10-0 12-0 11-1  9-1  2-1  8-0  1-=   3=  13   6  
 5. Akihiko  Kashihara 11-1  9-1  1-=  3-0  6-0  2-0  7-1   3=  11   7 
 6. Hiroshi  Matsuura  12-1 10-1  2-0  8-=  5-1  1-0  9-0   3=  9,75 8 
 7. Takeo    Miyoshi    1-0  2-0 12-0 11-1  9-0 10-1  5-0   2    3  11 
 8. Hiroshi  Sakamoto   2-1  1-0  9-1  6-= 12-1  4-1  3-0   4=       3 
 9. Masato   Kusajima   3-1  5-0  8-0  4-0  7-1 11-1  6-1   4   12,5 4 
10. Koichi   Iida       4-1  6-0  3-0 12-0 11-0  7-0  2-0   1       12 
11. Teiji    Takagawa   5-0  3-0  4-0  7-0 10-1  9-0 12-1   2    4  10 
12. Masayuki Hata       6-0  4-1  7-1 10-1  8-0  3-0 11-0   3        9 
 Sagara and Hayakawa was qualified to the A tournament. 
Hasegawa(Present World Champion) and Nishizono (winner of latest 
meijin-sen tournament) have already qualified. 
Nishizono was qualified because of Nakamura's avoidance going abroad. 
Kawamura was absent from this tournament. 
Sincerely, 
 Kazuto Hasegawa 
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Because of this tournament and the Estonian Qualification 
tournament reported in Renju Newsletter No 18 already new
RIF ratinglists are available on the following two URL-adresses: 
http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990405.htm 
http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990405.htm 
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Kazuto Hasegawa has got a new e-mail address for his  personal use. 
 The new address is 
  uo9man@mve.biglobe.ne.jp 
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Date sent:  Mon, 5 Apr 1999 01:44:43 +0200
Renju Newsletter No 18 - 1999
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On the URL-addresses
http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990331.htm
http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990331.htm
you will find the new RIF ratings from March 31, 1999
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The Renju Association in Taiwan named "Chinese Renju 
Association" (translate in directly) has be established on 
March, 21. The 1st president is Mr. Camel Chen. I Hsien-chi 
Chung(or Chung, Hsien-chi)  am the secretary-general. We'd 
like to apply a member of RIF. Could you tell me how to do 
it? Thank you very much.
Sincerely Yours,
Chung, Hsien-chi
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The Russian Youth Championships took place in Rybinsk (the 
small town in Yaroslavl region with the good renju club) 
during March 25-30.
Most people had Chingin, the reigning Champion, as the 
favourite for the elder boys title. But… (Look below)
Boys born 1981-1984 (six players, double Round Robin)
1:	 Shevelyov	N. Novgorod	8.5p
2:	 Chingin	Zhigulyovsk	7
3:	 Ses		St. Petersburg	6.5
4:	 Yegorov	St Petersburg	5.5
5:	 Nogovitsin	Podyuga	        2.5
6:	 Mikryukov	Podyuga	        0
Boys born 1985 and after (24 players, 11 rounds Swiss 
System) 
1:	Diner		Zhigulyovsk	9
2:	Kazarin	    	Podyuga	   	8.5
3:	Grishnin	N. Novgorod	8.5
4:	Provorov	N. Novgorod	8.5
5:	Ogorodov	Moscow	        6.5
Girls group (16 players, 11 rounds Swiss System)
1:	Leshukova	Rybinsk	        9
2:	Sokolova	Rybinsk	        8
3:	Mihailova	Zhigulyovsk     8
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 Report from Estonia
 2.-3.04.we played 2.stage of Estonian qualification to WC.
 9 players ,Round Robin ,results:
 1.Ants Soosyrv   7 (1)
 2.Lauri Naber    6 
 3.Tunnet Taimla  6
 4.Maris Tuvikene 4,5
 5.Johann Lents   4  
 6.Pavel Voznjuk  4
 7.Evelyn Tihkan  2,5
 8.Peeter Tamm    1 (1)
 9.Katrin Birk    0
 5 best will play last stage together with Ando Meritee.
 Friendly,Ants 
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Date sent:      	Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:47:26 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 17 - 1999 
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     Dear Renju friends,
     Here are some information about the 6th World Championship in
     Beijing, China during Jul.27-Aug.5,99. 
     1. Accommodations
     Hotel: US$20/day including breakfast
     The organizing committee will provide free tea and cake in the noon
     time and free dinner in the evening.
     2. Players name list
     It is suggest that each country send participants name list to us as
     soon as possible, so that we can send out invitation letter. Please
     provide following personal data:
     Name
     Occupation
     Job Title
     Passport No.
     3. For those countries with financial problem, RIF China can provide
     free hotel and food. Please send your application together with name
     list. 
     4. All companions pay for their own costs.
     5. Enrollment fee
     The enrollment fee is US$100/person, however, the Organizing
     Committee will bear US$60 for each player, therefore, the enrollment
     fee is USD40/person.
     6. There will be a lot reports to be show on TV or on newspapers,
     therefore, please let us know your sponsors requirement asap so that
     we can communicate with the reporters with no delay.
     Should you have any question, please fell free contact with RIF
     China:
     Email: hannahhou@snc.schmidtgroup.com 
     Telephone: 8610-64268385
     Sincerely,
     Na Wei
     President of RIF China
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Date sent:      	Wed, 24 Mar 1999 21:27:38 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 16 - 1999
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 20.-22.03 played Baltic High and First League in Tallinn.
 Results of High League-
 1.Stefan Karlsson 6
 2.Ants Soosyrv 5,5
 3.Vladimir Sushkov 4,5
 4.Tord Andersson 4
 5.Petter Gardstrom 3
 6.Tunnet Taimla 2
 7.Pavel Voznjuk 2
 8.Marie Lestander 1
 Interesting results had Tord,who beated Stefan,Vladimir and Petter,
 but lost against Marie and Tunnet!
Results of First League-
 1.Lauri Naber 4
 2.Johann Lents 4
 3.Maris Tuvikene 3
 4.Katrin Birk 3
 5.Irene Einberg 1
 6.Juri Viital 0
 Friendly,Ants
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Date sent:      	Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:53:36 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 15 - 1999
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On the URL-address:
http://www.renju.nu/russian/7thrussianl.htm
you will find the results from 
7th Russian Championship. Highest league. in 
Verbilki 27.02.1999 - 7.03.1999
On the following URL-address you can find the new 
international ratinglist 
http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990315.htm
On the following URL-address you can find the new 
international ratinglist country by country
http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990315.htm
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Date sent:      	Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:24:59 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 14 - 1999
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Results from Malmoe Battle (Malmoeslaget) 
played March, 13-14, 1999
1. Peter Jonsson    8
2. Johnny Nielsen   7
3. Olga Skuridina   6
4. Jan Paulander    4
5. Johan Vikerskog  3.5
6. Bengt Nyberg     3
7. Haakan Moeller   2
8. Kim Kemilae      1.5
9. Micael Naeslundh 1
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Date sent:      	Mon, 1 Mar 1999 00:19:25 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 13 - 1999
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Russian Championship
Hello from Verbilki Moscow region.
After first day we have next situation in Russia Ch.
Kozhin 2 (2) !!!
Mikhailov A.,Nikonov,Tarannikov,Salnikov 1.5 (2)
Sinyov 1 (1)
Suhkov,Filippov,Golosov,Smirnov 1 (2)
Makarov, Lapshin 0.5 (2)
Krasnonosov 0 (1)
Vasilyeva, Ivanov A-j 0 (2)
Best regard
Igor Sinyov
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Date sent:      	Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:57:09 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 12 - 1999
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Results from Blitz Swedish Championship 1999
1 Stefan Karlsson Stockholm
2 Peter Jonsson  Jönköping
3 Göran Holgersson  Jönköping
4 Rickard Johannesson  Jönköping
5 Hannes Hermansson  Högsjö
6 Tomas Hagenfors  Kumla
7 Anders Bertilsson  Högsjö
8 Linus Hermansson  Högsjö
9 Marcus Eriksson  Högsjö
10 Olga Skuridina  Jönköping
11 Martin Carlsson  Jönköping
12 Sven-Åke Pettersson  Högsjö
13 Gunnar Andersson  Högsjö
14 Bengt Nyberg  Vadstena
15 Martin Karlsson  Jönköping
16 Sören Wirén   Kumla
17 Irene Einberg   Stockholm
18 Erik Lissel   Kumla
19 Morgan Svensson  Kumla
20 Gabriel Hagenfors  Kumla
21 Andreas Johansson  Kumla
22 Conny Roos   Kumla
23 Johan Pettersson Högsjö
24 Tobias Flood   Kumla
25 Dergham Mowares  Kumla
26 Sandra Johansson  Kumla
27 Linus Roos   Kumla
28 Joakim Larsson Kumla
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Date sent:      	Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:16:30 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 11 - 1999
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Helsinki Open in Finland
 Here is information about Helsinki Open.
 Helsinki Open will be in school(Kotinummen ala-asteen koulu)about
 10 km.from centre of Helsinki.
 There will be 2 internatinal competitions at same time:
 1.Internatinal Renjutournament,which timetable is approximately next:
 10.april
 11.00 Opening ceremony
 11.30 1.round
 13.45 2.round
 17.00 3.round
 19.15 4.round
 11.april
 8.30 5.round
 10.45 6.round
 14.00 7.round
 16.30 Closing ceremony
 Timecontrol in this tournament is 60 minutes to 60 own moves(control
 moves are 119.and 120).After 120. move is draw.
 2.International Gomokutournament.There will be 11 rounds(2 games in each
round).Players get 15 minutes per game.Opening and Closing ceremony are
together with Renjutournament,exact timetable will be published later.
 During tournament is possible to stay in Park Hotel.Prices are next
(including breakfast and sauna):
 room for 1 person - 100 dollars, Friday and Saturday 70 dollars
 room for 2 persons - 125 dollars, F,S 82 dollars
 room for 3 persons - 140 dollars,F,S 110 dollars
 room for 4 persons - 160 dollars ,F,S 120 dollars
 Also is possible to take own sleepingbags and sleep in the floor of
gymnastic hall in school.
 I think about 30 estonian players will play in Helsinki Open and many
 finnish players. Who are interested to take part,please let me know as
 soon is possible.
 Friendly,Ants Soosyrv 
"Ants Soosorv, Estonia, C"
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Date sent:      	Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:12:10 +0100
Renju Newsletters No 10 -1999
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A final match of the 13-th St.Petersburg Cup tournament between Vladimir
Sushkov and Aleksandr Klimashin is finished.
Vladimir Sushkov won the match with a score of 2.5-1.5 and became a 
winner of that competition second time.
Sincerely Yours,
Pavel Salnikov
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Date sent:      	Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:03:19 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 9 - 1999
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Information from Alexander Nosovsky about new program
Now, the commercial version of Blackstone by Victor Barykin is available.
Winner of World Championship among computers can play with you, analyze
positions and help you to play better in 5Win-server or PBM-server games.
Play against strong opponents with the help of program !!! Your strength
will increase rapidly ! This is not free software. Price 40 USD. If you
decided to Buy it, you have to send e-mail to Alexander Nosovsky
stigma.ltd@relcom.ru Ask him about serial number for Blackstone and
country which are you from. After receiving serial number and link of ftp
you can make installation of this software and make a payment which
depends which country are you from. Please, send the
Code Entry 
Computer Number 
Serial Number 
to Mr. Nosovsky again.
After confirmation of receiving your payment of 40 USD you will receive
pasword.
This software works in Win-95 and Win-98 (but not works in Win311 ; we are
not sure about other systems). It is working rather fast at Pentium-200
and Pentium-II mashines. If you have only 486 mashine it may be too
slowly.
Our recomendations for Pentim-200 mashine
1 dan   time 7 minutes per move
1 kyu   time 5 minutes per move
2 kuy   time 2 minutes per move
3 kyu   time 0.5 minutes per move
It means that you have to change Level and time control for 2 kuy 60 moves
for 120 minutes. It is very useful with RenBase-95 software which able
save any game from Base in .pos format. The pos format is standart for
Renju, many of Renju programs support it. With the help of this software
you can download .pos files position , then use key - you can create 
position and the run this program. It is very usefull playing e-mail or
5Win online games. RenBase-95 subscribers receive new games which was
played at 5Win and Pbm-server just in time (by e-mail)! (Only 2 USD per
each 100 games). All what you need to add this upgrade to your Base by
yourself !!! You can also create your own position with the help of this
software (RenBase). Then you can load it to Blackstone software, (it is
also compatable with "Renju for Windows", "Solver" and other famous
programs. Blackstone also possible to change load position. Use mouse put
moves clicking mouse then stop thinking with Button stop thinking (STOP
mark) and then put next your move you can make it many times and create
position which you had need.
If you want practice in Renju game with RIF rules you can do it. Just read
help file or push PLAY button.
Enjoy Renju !!!
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Date sent:      	Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:40:41 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 8 - 1999
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To all participants in the e-mail WC tournament in renju:
1. In the D pool someone took the userid 'dufven' 
and pretended to be Mike Dufvenberg from Sweden.
 He has now withdrawn from the tournament, and I hope he 
regrets his action. The real Mike Dufvenberg, from Sweden,
is now playing under the userid 'mikedu'.
All players taking part in the e-mail WC in 
renju must play with there own REAL identities.
It means that everybody must tell there real name,
and country they live in, as a minimum amount of information.
2. The UNDO command on the PBeM server.
It is not allowed to request to undo moves in this tournament. 
All moves, which are sent to an opponent, are definite and
cannot be changed, so please, do not try to use the UNDO
command on the server.
Just, please, be careful when you write the coordinate of
the move you are sending! 
Noone likes to see poor mistakes.
Good luck in the games!
Bengt Asplund, referee of A-final and D-pool.
e-mail: basp@algonet.se
userid: basplund
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Date sent:      	Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:10:28 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 7 - 1999
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BALTIC QUALIFICATION LEAGUE IN STOCKHOLM 30-31 OF JANUARY
Now the first Baltic League tournament played in Stockholm has finished.
It has been a successfull 2-day-tournament with participants from Arjeplog
in north, Tallinn in east and from Jonkoping in south.
Final Results:
 1.Rickard Johannesson, SWE   6,5
 2.Ants Soosorv, EST          6
 3.Stefan Karlsson, SWE       5
 4.Petter Gardström, SWE      4,5
 5.Tord Andersson, SWE        4 (33)
 6.Tunnet Taimla, EST         4 (29)
 7.Hannes Hermansson, SWE     4 (28,5)
 8.Anders Bertilsson, SWE     4 (27)
 9.Linus Hermansson, SWE      4 (25,5)
10.Peter Jonsson, SWE         4 (23,5)
11.Joachim Gaulitz, SWE       4 (22,5)
12.Marcus Eriksson, SWE       4 (21,5)
13.Marie Lestander, SWE       3,5 (19)
14.Pavel Voznjuk, EST         3,5 (17,5)
15.Marek Kolk, EST            3 (27)
16.Evelyne Tihkan, EST        3 (23)
17.Lars Helander, SWE         3 (22)
18.Linnea Widman, SWE         3 (19)
19.Peter Widman, SWE          3 (17,5)
20.Johan Lents, EST           2 (26,5)
21.Christoffer Widman, SWE    2 (23,5)
22.Nils Widman, SWE           2 (19,5)
23.Jürij Viital, EST          2 (18)
The seven first players are directly qualified to High League in Tallinn
19-21 of March. Also one player from S:t Petersburg and Gatis Gurckis and
Yelena Balanova, both from Latvia, have the right to take part in High
League. Reserves are no. 8 and further down in above resultlist. At the
same time as High League, there will be played Baltic First League where
all players who want can take part. Please contact Ants Soosorv, e-mail:
asoosyrv@hotmail.com , if you are interested.
From a very nice RENJU-event in Stockholm, Sweden
Stefan Karlsson
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Date sent:      	Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:20:12 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 6 - 1999
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BALTIC QUALIFICATION LEAGUE IN STOCKHOLM 30-31 OF JANUARY
The first day, of Baltic Qualification League has now been played. 3
rounds are still to be played. The standings after 4 rounds:
 1.Ants Soosorv, EST        4
 2.Rickard Johannesson, SWE 3,5
 3.Anders Bertilsson, SWE   3 (11)
 4.Tord Andersson, SWE      3 (10,5)
 5.Tunnet Taimla, EST       3 (8,5)
 6.Marek Kolk, EST          3 (8)
 7.Petter Gardström, SWE    2,5
 8.Stefan Karlsson, SWE     2 (11,5)
 9.Christoffer Widman, SWE  2 (9)
10.Markus Eriksson, SWE     2 (8)
   Linus Hermansson, SWE    2 (8)
   Evelyne Tikhan, EST      2 (8)
   Hannes Hermansson, SWE   2 (8)
14.Peter Jonsson, SWE       2 (7,5)
15.Lars Helander, SWE       2 (6)
16.Linnea Widman, SWE       2 (5)
   Jürij Vital, EST         2 (5)
18.Joakim Gaulitz, SWE      1 (10,5)
19.Johan Lents, EST         1 (9)
20.Peter Widman, SWE        1 (8)
21.Nils Widman, SWE         1 (7)
   Pavel Voznjuk, EST       1 (7)
23.Marie Lestander          1 (6,5)
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Date sent:      	Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:52:24 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 5 - 1999
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This is a special message to the participants in the Renju 
WC via e-mail.
If you have any problems in the tournament you have to send 
e-mail not to me or to Oleg Fedorkin but to your referee.
The referees:
Bengt Asplund (A and D tournaments),
Alexander Nosovsky (B, C, E tournaments).
E-mail addresses:
"Alexander Nosovsky, Russia"
"Bengt Asplund, Sweden"
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Date sent:      	Thu, 28 Jan 1999 21:39:00 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 4 -1999 
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Baltic First League will be played  
in Stockholm 30-31 of January 1999
More info about the tournament will be found in a pdf-fil.
You need Acrobat Reader to see it. The URL-address is 
http://www.renju.nu/baltic.pdf 
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Date sent:      	Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:41:48 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 3 - 1999
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---Info about already started Renju WC via e-mail---
Dear Tommy,
Richard Rognlie kindly made the
boards of renju e-mail tournaments.
I have not yet the complete list of the
tournament boards. I attach to my letter
the big part of this list. So the tournaments
have been started already, please inform
about the start of tournaments the all
renju players. They can see the boards list
and a tournaments standings when will send a
"Renju games" and "Renju ratings" as Subject
of message to PbEM server (pbmserv@gamerz.net ).
In the group E B.Asplund (basplund) missed again, I asked
Mr.Rognlie to includ him.
With best wishes
Oleg Fedorkin
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Pool  Name              W   L 
----  ---------------- --- ---
  a   fedorkin           0   0
  a   areims             0   0
  a   uo9man             0   0
  a   kolpak             0   0
  a   taran              0   0
  a   golosov            0   0
  a   troter             0   0
  a   smirnov            0   0
  a   klimachev          0   0
  a   bobkove            0   0
  b   norihiko           0   0
  b   jenaro             0   0
  b   filippov           0   0
  b   bjornw             0   0
  b   evit               0   0
  b   ymadis             0   0
  b   lama               0   0
  b   tomwang            0   0
  b   kvik               0   0
  b   guzzle             0   0
  b   dumh               0   0
  b   odetta             0   0
  c   asoosorv           0   0
  c   almi+              0   0
  c   vbarykin           0   0
  c   ratson             0   0
  c   sergei             0   0
  c   katrin             0   0
  c   mima               0   0
  c   freefish           0   0
  c   ingus              0   0
  c   star               0   0
  c   rsamal             0   0
  c   alibaba            0   0
  d   apogh              0   0
  d   sinyovi            0   0
  d   nosovs             0   0
  d   joachim            0   0
  d   lunkin             0   0
  d   mkolk              0   0
  d   kaar               0   0
  d   s02                0   0
  d   volk               0   0
  d   stfun              0   0
  d   tibia              0   0
  d   dufven             0   0
  e   takagawa           0   0
  e   vanalaud           0   0
  e   psalnikov          0   0
  e   dsol               0   0
  e   lents              0   0
  e   mamh               0   0
  e   muppin             0   0
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a0102  fedorkin   areims     fedorkin to start
a0103  fedorkin   uo9man     fedorkin to start
a0104  fedorkin   kolpak     fedorkin to start
a0105  fedorkin   taran      fedorkin to start
a0106  fedorkin   golosov    fedorkin to start
a0107  fedorkin   troter     fedorkin to start
a0108  fedorkin   smirnov    fedorkin to start
a0109  fedorkin   klimachev  fedorkin to start
a0110  fedorkin   bobkove    fedorkin to start
a0201  areims     fedorkin   areims to start
a0203  areims     uo9man     areims to start
a0204  areims     kolpak     areims to start
a0205  areims     taran      areims to start
a0206  areims     golosov    areims to start
a0207  areims     troter     areims to start
a0208  areims     smirnov    areims to start
a0209  areims     klimachev  areims to start
a0210  areims     bobkove    areims to start
a0301  uo9man     fedorkin   fedorkin's turn
a0302  uo9man     areims     areims's turn
a0304  uo9man     kolpak     kolpak's turn
a0305  uo9man     taran      taran's turn
a0306  uo9man     golosov    golosov's turn
a0307  uo9man     troter     uo9man's turn
a0308  uo9man     smirnov    smirnov's turn
a0309  uo9man     klimachev  klimachev's turn
a0310  uo9man     bobkove    bobkove's turn
a0401  kolpak     fedorkin   kolpak to start
a0402  kolpak     areims     kolpak to start
a0403  kolpak     uo9man     kolpak to start
a0405  kolpak     taran      kolpak to start
a0406  kolpak     golosov    kolpak to start
a0407  kolpak     troter     kolpak to start
a0408  kolpak     smirnov    kolpak to start
a0409  kolpak     klimachev  kolpak to start
a0410  kolpak     bobkove    kolpak to start
a0501  taran      fedorkin   taran to start
a0502  taran      areims     taran to start
a0503  taran      uo9man     taran to start
a0504  taran      kolpak     taran to start
a0506  taran      golosov    taran to start
a0507  taran      troter     taran to start
a0508  taran      smirnov    taran to start
a0509  taran      klimachev  taran to start
a0510  taran      bobkove    taran to start
a0601  golosov    fedorkin   golosov to start
a0602  golosov    areims     golosov to start
a0603  golosov    uo9man     golosov to start
a0604  golosov    kolpak     golosov to start
a0605  golosov    taran      golosov to start
a0607  golosov    troter     golosov to start
a0608  golosov    smirnov    golosov to start
a0609  golosov    klimachev  golosov to start
a0610  golosov    bobkove    golosov to start
a0701  troter     fedorkin   troter to start
a0702  troter     areims     areims's turn
a0703  troter     uo9man     troter to start
a0704  troter     kolpak     troter to start
a0705  troter     taran      troter to start
a0706  troter     golosov    golosov's turn
a0708  troter     smirnov    troter to start
a0709  troter     klimachev  troter to start
a0710  troter     bobkove    troter to start
a0801  smirnov    fedorkin   smirnov to start
a0802  smirnov    areims     smirnov to start
a0803  smirnov    uo9man     smirnov to start
a0804  smirnov    kolpak     smirnov to start
a0805  smirnov    taran      smirnov to start
a0806  smirnov    golosov    smirnov to start
a0807  smirnov    troter     smirnov to start
a0809  smirnov    klimachev  smirnov to start
a0810  smirnov    bobkove    smirnov to start
a0901  klimachev  fedorkin   klimachev to start
a0902  klimachev  areims     klimachev to start
a0903  klimachev  uo9man     klimachev to start
a0904  klimachev  kolpak     klimachev to start
a0905  klimachev  taran      klimachev to start
a0906  klimachev  golosov    klimachev to start
a0907  klimachev  troter     klimachev to start
a0908  klimachev  smirnov    klimachev to start
a0910  klimachev  bobkove    klimachev to start
a1001  bobkove    fedorkin   bobkove to start
a1002  bobkove    areims     bobkove to start
a1003  bobkove    uo9man     bobkove to start
a1004  bobkove    kolpak     bobkove to start
a1005  bobkove    taran      bobkove to start
a1006  bobkove    golosov    bobkove to start
a1007  bobkove    troter     bobkove to start
a1008  bobkove    smirnov    bobkove to start
a1009  bobkove    klimachev  bobkove to start
b0102  norihiko   jenaro     norihiko to start
b0103  norihiko   filippov   norihiko to start
b0104  norihiko   bjornw     norihiko to start
b0105  norihiko   evit       norihiko to start
b0106  norihiko   ymadis     norihiko to start
b0107  norihiko   lama       norihiko to start
b0108  norihiko   tomwang    norihiko to start
b0109  norihiko   kvik       norihiko to start
b0110  norihiko   guzzle     norihiko to start
b0111  norihiko   dumh       norihiko to start
b0112  norihiko   odetta     norihiko to start
b0201  jenaro     norihiko   jenaro to start
b0203  jenaro     filippov   jenaro to start
b0204  jenaro     bjornw     jenaro to start
b0205  jenaro     evit       jenaro to start
b0206  jenaro     ymadis     jenaro to start
b0207  jenaro     lama       jenaro to start
b0208  jenaro     tomwang    jenaro to start
b0209  jenaro     kvik       jenaro to start
b0210  jenaro     guzzle     jenaro to start
b0211  jenaro     dumh       jenaro to start
b0212  jenaro     odetta     jenaro to start
b0301  filippov   norihiko   norihiko's turn
b0302  filippov   jenaro     jenaro's turn
b0304  filippov   bjornw     bjornw's turn
b0305  filippov   evit       evit's turn
b0306  filippov   ymadis     filippov's turn
b0307  filippov   lama       lama's turn
b0308  filippov   tomwang    tomwang's turn
b0309  filippov   kvik       kvik's turn
b0310  filippov   guzzle     guzzle's turn
b0311  filippov   dumh       dumh's turn
b0312  filippov   odetta     odetta's turn
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b0402  bjornw     jenaro     bjornw to start
b0403  bjornw     filippov   bjornw to start
b0405  bjornw     evit       bjornw to start
b0406  bjornw     ymadis     bjornw to start
b0407  bjornw     lama       bjornw to start
b0408  bjornw     tomwang    bjornw to start
b0409  bjornw     kvik       bjornw to start
b0410  bjornw     guzzle     bjornw to start
b0411  bjornw     dumh       bjornw to start
b0412  bjornw     odetta     bjornw to start
b0501  evit       norihiko   evit to start
b0502  evit       jenaro     evit to start
b0503  evit       filippov   evit to start
b0504  evit       bjornw     evit to start
b0506  evit       ymadis     evit to start
b0507  evit       lama       evit to start
b0508  evit       tomwang    evit to start
b0509  evit       kvik       evit to start
b0510  evit       guzzle     evit to start
b0511  evit       dumh       evit to start
b0512  evit       odetta     evit to start
b0601  ymadis     norihiko   ymadis to start
b0602  ymadis     jenaro     ymadis to start
b0603  ymadis     filippov   ymadis to start
b0604  ymadis     bjornw     ymadis to start
b0605  ymadis     evit       ymadis to start
b0607  ymadis     lama       ymadis to start
b0608  ymadis     tomwang    ymadis to start
b0609  ymadis     kvik       ymadis to start
b0610  ymadis     guzzle     ymadis to start
b0611  ymadis     dumh       ymadis to start
b0612  ymadis     odetta     ymadis to start
b0701  lama       norihiko   lama to start
b0702  lama       jenaro     lama to start
b0703  lama       filippov   lama to start
b0704  lama       bjornw     lama to start
b0705  lama       evit       lama to start
b0706  lama       ymadis     lama to start
b0708  lama       tomwang    lama to start
b0709  lama       kvik       lama to start
b0710  lama       guzzle     lama to start
b0711  lama       dumh       lama to start
b0712  lama       odetta     lama to start
b0801  tomwang    norihiko   tomwang to start
b0802  tomwang    jenaro     tomwang to start
b0803  tomwang    filippov   tomwang to start
b0804  tomwang    bjornw     tomwang to start
b0805  tomwang    evit       tomwang to start
b0806  tomwang    ymadis     tomwang to start
b0807  tomwang    lama       tomwang to start
b0809  tomwang    kvik       tomwang to start
b0810  tomwang    guzzle     tomwang to start
b0811  tomwang    dumh       tomwang to start
b0812  tomwang    odetta     tomwang to start
b0901  kvik       norihiko   kvik to start
b0902  kvik       jenaro     kvik to start
b0903  kvik       filippov   kvik to start
b0904  kvik       bjornw     kvik to start
b0905  kvik       evit       kvik to start
b0906  kvik       ymadis     kvik to start
b0907  kvik       lama       kvik to start
b0908  kvik       tomwang    kvik to start
b0910  kvik       guzzle     kvik to start
b0911  kvik       dumh       kvik to start
b0912  kvik       odetta     kvik to start
b1001  guzzle     norihiko   guzzle to start
b1002  guzzle     jenaro     guzzle to start
b1003  guzzle     filippov   guzzle to start
b1004  guzzle     bjornw     guzzle to start
b1005  guzzle     evit       guzzle to start
b1006  guzzle     ymadis     guzzle to start
b1007  guzzle     lama       guzzle to start
b1008  guzzle     tomwang    guzzle to start
b1009  guzzle     kvik       guzzle to start
b1011  guzzle     dumh       guzzle to start
b1012  guzzle     odetta     guzzle to start
b1101  dumh       norihiko   dumh to start
b1102  dumh       jenaro     dumh to start
b1103  dumh       filippov   dumh to start
b1104  dumh       bjornw     dumh to start
b1105  dumh       evit       dumh to start
b1106  dumh       ymadis     dumh to start
b1107  dumh       lama       dumh to start
b1108  dumh       tomwang    dumh to start
b1109  dumh       kvik       dumh to start
b1110  dumh       guzzle     dumh to start
b1112  dumh       odetta     dumh to start
b1201  odetta     norihiko   odetta to start
b1202  odetta     jenaro     odetta to start
b1203  odetta     filippov   odetta to start
b1204  odetta     bjornw     odetta to start
b1205  odetta     evit       odetta to start
b1206  odetta     ymadis     odetta to start
b1207  odetta     lama       odetta to start
b1208  odetta     tomwang    odetta to start
b1209  odetta     kvik       odetta to start
b1210  odetta     guzzle     odetta to start
b1211  odetta     dumh       odetta to start
c0102  asoosorv   almi+      asoosorv to start
c0103  asoosorv   vbarykin   asoosorv to start
c0104  asoosorv   ratson     asoosorv to start
c0105  asoosorv   sergei     asoosorv to start
c0106  asoosorv   katrin     asoosorv to start
c0107  asoosorv   mima       asoosorv to start
c0108  asoosorv   freefish   asoosorv to start
c0109  asoosorv   ingus      asoosorv to start
c0110  asoosorv   star       asoosorv to start
c0111  asoosorv   rsamal     asoosorv to start
c0112  asoosorv   alibaba    asoosorv to start
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c0203  almi+      vbarykin   almi+ to start
c0204  almi+      ratson     almi+ to start
c0205  almi+      sergei     almi+ to start
c0206  almi+      katrin     almi+ to start
c0207  almi+      mima       almi+ to start
c0208  almi+      freefish   almi+ to start
c0209  almi+      ingus      almi+ to start
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c0306  vbarykin   katrin     vbarykin to start
c0307  vbarykin   mima       vbarykin to start
c0308  vbarykin   freefish   vbarykin to start
c0309  vbarykin   ingus      vbarykin to start
c0310  vbarykin   star       vbarykin to start
c0311  vbarykin   rsamal     vbarykin to start
c0312  vbarykin   alibaba    vbarykin to start
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c0403  ratson     vbarykin   ratson to start
c0405  ratson     sergei     ratson to start
c0406  ratson     katrin     ratson to start
c0407  ratson     mima       ratson to start
c0408  ratson     freefish   ratson to start
c0409  ratson     ingus      ratson to start
c0410  ratson     star       ratson to start
c0411  ratson     rsamal     ratson to start
c0412  ratson     alibaba    ratson to start
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c0504  sergei     ratson     sergei to start
c0506  sergei     katrin     sergei to start
c0507  sergei     mima       sergei to start
c0508  sergei     freefish   sergei to start
c0509  sergei     ingus      sergei to start
c0510  sergei     star       sergei to start
c0511  sergei     rsamal     sergei to start
c0512  sergei     alibaba    sergei to start
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c0603  katrin     vbarykin   katrin to start
c0604  katrin     ratson     katrin to start
c0605  katrin     sergei     katrin to start
c0607  katrin     mima       katrin to start
c0608  katrin     freefish   katrin to start
c0609  katrin     ingus      katrin to start
c0610  katrin     star       katrin to start
c0611  katrin     rsamal     katrin to start
c0612  katrin     alibaba    katrin to start
c0701  mima       asoosorv   mima to start
c0702  mima       almi+      mima to start
c0703  mima       vbarykin   mima to start
c0704  mima       ratson     mima to start
c0705  mima       sergei     mima to start
c0706  mima       katrin     mima to start
c0708  mima       freefish   mima to start
c0709  mima       ingus      mima to start
c0710  mima       star       mima to start
c0711  mima       rsamal     mima to start
c0712  mima       alibaba    mima to start
c0801  freefish   asoosorv   freefish to start
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c0803  freefish   vbarykin   freefish to start
c0804  freefish   ratson     freefish to start
c0805  freefish   sergei     freefish to start
c0806  freefish   katrin     freefish to start
c0807  freefish   mima       freefish to start
c0809  freefish   ingus      freefish to start
c0810  freefish   star       freefish to start
c0811  freefish   rsamal     freefish to start
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c0903  ingus      vbarykin   ingus to start
c0904  ingus      ratson     ingus to start
c0905  ingus      sergei     ingus to start
c0906  ingus      katrin     ingus to start
c0907  ingus      mima       ingus to start
c0908  ingus      freefish   ingus to start
c0910  ingus      star       ingus to start
c0911  ingus      rsamal     ingus to start
c0912  ingus      alibaba    ingus to start
c1001  star       asoosorv   star to start
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c1003  star       vbarykin   star to start
c1004  star       ratson     star to start
c1005  star       sergei     star to start
c1006  star       katrin     star to start
c1007  star       mima       star to start
c1008  star       freefish   star to start
c1009  star       ingus      star to start
c1011  star       rsamal     star to start
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c1106  rsamal     katrin     rsamal to start
c1107  rsamal     mima       rsamal to start
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c1109  rsamal     ingus      rsamal to start
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c1208  alibaba    freefish   alibaba to start
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c1210  alibaba    star       alibaba to start
c1211  alibaba    rsamal     alibaba to start
d0102  apogh      sinyovi    apogh to start
d0103  apogh      nosovs     apogh to start
d0104  apogh      joachim    apogh to start
d0105  apogh      lunkin     apogh to start
d0106  apogh      mkolk      apogh to start
d0107  apogh      kaar       apogh to start
d0108  apogh      s02        apogh to start
d0109  apogh      volk       apogh to start
d0110  apogh      stfun      apogh to start
d0111  apogh      tibia      apogh to start
d0112  apogh      dufven     apogh to start
d0201  sinyovi    apogh      sinyovi to start
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d0205  sinyovi    lunkin     sinyovi to start
d0206  sinyovi    mkolk      sinyovi to start
d0207  sinyovi    kaar       sinyovi to start
d0208  sinyovi    s02        sinyovi to start
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d0210  sinyovi    stfun      sinyovi to start
d0211  sinyovi    tibia      sinyovi to start
d0212  sinyovi    dufven     sinyovi to start
d0301  nosovs     apogh      apogh's turn
d0302  nosovs     sinyovi    nosovs to start
d0304  nosovs     joachim    joachim's turn
d0305  nosovs     lunkin     lunkin's turn
d0306  mkolk      nosovs     nosovs's turn
d0307  nosovs     kaar       kaar's turn
d0308  nosovs     s02        s02's turn
d0309  nosovs     volk       volk's turn
d0310  nosovs     stfun      stfun's turn
d0311  nosovs     tibia      tibia's turn
d0312  dufven     nosovs     dufven's turn
d0401  joachim    apogh      joachim to start
d0402  joachim    sinyovi    joachim to start
d0403  joachim    nosovs     joachim to start
d0405  joachim    lunkin     joachim to start
d0406  joachim    mkolk      joachim to start
d0407  joachim    kaar       joachim to start
d0408  joachim    s02        joachim to start
d0409  joachim    volk       joachim to start
d0410  joachim    stfun      joachim to start
d0411  joachim    tibia      joachim to start
d0412  joachim    dufven     joachim to start
d0501  lunkin     apogh      lunkin to start
d0502  lunkin     sinyovi    lunkin to start
d0503  lunkin     nosovs     lunkin to start
d0504  lunkin     joachim    lunkin to start
d0506  lunkin     mkolk      lunkin to start
d0507  lunkin     kaar       lunkin to start
d0508  lunkin     s02        lunkin to start
d0509  lunkin     volk       lunkin to start
d0510  lunkin     stfun      lunkin to start
d0511  lunkin     tibia      lunkin to start
d0512  lunkin     dufven     lunkin to start
d0601  mkolk      apogh      mkolk to start
d0602  mkolk      sinyovi    mkolk to start
d0603  mkolk      nosovs     mkolk to start
d0604  mkolk      joachim    mkolk to start
d0605  mkolk      lunkin     mkolk to start
d0607  mkolk      kaar       mkolk to start
d0608  mkolk      s02        mkolk to start
d0609  mkolk      volk       mkolk to start
d0610  mkolk      stfun      mkolk to start
d0611  mkolk      tibia      mkolk to start
d0612  mkolk      dufven     mkolk to start
d0701  kaar       apogh      kaar to start
d0702  kaar       sinyovi    kaar to start
d0703  kaar       nosovs     kaar to start
d0704  kaar       joachim    kaar to start
d0705  kaar       lunkin     kaar to start
d0706  kaar       mkolk      kaar to start
d0708  kaar       s02        kaar to start
d0709  kaar       volk       kaar to start
d0710  kaar       stfun      kaar to start
d0711  kaar       tibia      kaar to start
d0712  kaar       dufven     kaar to start
d0801  s02        apogh      s02 to start
d0802  s02        sinyovi    s02 to start
d0803  s02        nosovs     s02 to start
d0804  s02        joachim    s02 to start
d0805  s02        lunkin     s02 to start
d0806  s02        mkolk      s02 to start
d0807  s02        kaar       s02 to start
d0809  s02        volk       s02 to start
d0810  s02        stfun      s02 to start
d0811  s02        tibia      s02 to start
d0812  s02        dufven     s02 to start
d0901  volk       apogh      volk to start
d0902  volk       sinyovi    volk to start
d0903  volk       nosovs     volk to start
d0904  volk       joachim    volk to start
d0905  volk       lunkin     volk to start
d0906  volk       mkolk      volk to start
d0907  volk       kaar       volk to start
d0908  volk       s02        volk to start
d0910  volk       stfun      volk to start
d0911  volk       tibia      volk to start
d0912  volk       dufven     volk to start
d1001  stfun      apogh      stfun to start
d1002  stfun      sinyovi    stfun to start
d1003  stfun      nosovs     stfun to start
d1004  stfun      joachim    stfun to start
d1005  stfun      lunkin     stfun to start
d1006  stfun      mkolk      stfun to start
d1007  stfun      kaar       stfun to start
d1008  stfun      s02        stfun to start
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e1105  etienne    lents      etienne to start
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e1107  etienne    muppin     etienne to start
e1108  etienne    kai        etienne to start
e1109  etienne    alipsits   etienne to start
e1110  etienne    beppejb    etienne to start
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Date sent:      	Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:11:09 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 2 - 1999
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The 3-d Moscow open youth tournament was held 8-10.01.99.
9 rounds. Swiss system.
Here are the results.
 1. Ogorodov Sergey                  Moscow                    7  points
 2. Kazarin Mikhail                  Podyuga                   7
 3. Nekrasov Denis                   Podyuga                   7
 4. Krasnonosova Serafima            Moscow                    6,5
 5. Savrasova Yulia                  Podyuga                   6
 6. Zhukova Ekaterina                Podyuga                   5,5
 7. Lents Johann                     Tallinn                   5,5
 8. Tihkan Evelyn                    Tallinn                   5,5 
 9. Vershinin Pavel           	     Podyuga                   5
10. Strizhov Sergey                  Moscow                    5
11. Potapov Vyacheslav               Moscow                    5
12. Zvereva Anna                     Moscow                    5
13. Voznjuk Pavel                    Tallinn                   4,5
14. Mikrjukov Mikhail                Podyuga                   4,5
15. Viital Juri                      Tallinn		       4,5
16. Trofimov Yuri                    Moscow                    4,5
17. Novikov Nikolay                  Podyuga                   4
18. Latutin Roman                    Moscow                    4
19. Tuvikene Maris                   Tallinn                   4
20. Berezin Roman                    Nizhni Novgorod           4
21. Rakhmatullin Ajdar               Moscow                    4
22. Lapteva Ekaterina                Moscow                    4
23. Osepjants Alexander              Nizhni Novgorod           3
24. Markin Kirill                    Moscow                    3
25. Sherbakov Mikhail                Moscow                    3
26. Tarannikova Ekaterina            Moscow                    3
27. Kreek Liisa-Mari                 Tallinn                   2
Ogorodov-Kazarin 0:1
Ogorodov-Nekrasov 1:0
Ogorodov-Krasnonosova 1:0
Ogorodov-Zhukova 1:0
Nekrasov-Kazarin 1:0
Kazarin-Krasnonosova 0:1
Kazarin-Zhukova 1:0
Nekrasov-Krasnonosova 1:0
Savrasova-Nekrasov 0:1
Zhukova-Nekrasov 1:0
Savrasova-Krasnonosova 0:1
Zhukova-Krasnonosova =:=
Sincerely Yours
Dmitri Krasnonosov
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Date sent:      	Wed, 13 Jan 1999 22:40:27 +0100
Renju Newsletter No 1 - 1999 
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Stefan Karlsson from Sweden, several times participants of
Renju WC A-final and also as a member of the RIF Central Committee
the RIF treasurer has become engaged to
Irene Einberg, one of the best femal renjuplayers in Estonia. 
Congratulations 
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It is possible to search the RIF web site. A lot of RIF pages are
registered by Evreka and AltaVista but probably not all. You can try to search
on the following URL-address: 
http://www.renju.nu/search.htm 
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     Dear Tommy, 
      
     We worked out a rough schedule for the 6th World Championship. I would  
     like present it to RIF and all Renju players for comments. 
      
     Qualification Tournament (Men's Group A) 
      
                27th July 
      
      9:00-12:00        Round 1 
     14:00-17:00        Round 2 
      
                28th July 
      
      9:00-12:00        Round 3 
     14:00-17:00        Round 4 
      
                29th July 
      
      9:00-12:00        Round 5 
     14:00-17:00        Round 6 
      
                30th July 
      
     Opening Ceremony 
      
      
     Men's Group A & B, Women's Group 
      
                31th July 
      
      9:00-12:00        Round 1 
     14:00-17:00        Round 2 
      
                1st August 
      
      9:00-12:00        Round 3 
     14:00-17:00        Round 4 
      
                2nd August 
      
      9:00-12:00        Round 5 
     14:00-17:00        Round 6 
      
                3rd August 
      
      9:00-12:00        Round 7 
     14:00-17:00        Round 8 
      
                4th August 
      
      9:00-12:00        Round 9 
     (Close of Men's Group A and Women's Group)  
     14:00-17:00        Round 10 
      
                5th August 
      
      9:00-12:00        Round 11 
     14:00-17:00        Round 12 
      
                6th August 
      
     Closing Ceremony 
      
                7th August 
      
     Sightseeing 
      
     Your comments to above schedule is much appreciated. 
      
     Sincerely, 
     Na Wei 
     President of RIF China 
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On the RIF page you can find links to a lot of other
places with Renju information. Please, let me know 
if you miss a link to some interesting site.  
On the RIF page you can also find some friendly links 
to other games sites. These sites also include links back to
the RIF site.   
The latest of such links goes to
the Swedish Othello Federation with the URL-address: 
http://w1.218.telia.com/~u21800007/SOF/ 
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Friendly Yours,
Tommy Maltell
President of RIF
Old news: January 1995 - December 1998