Renju Newsletter No 63 - 1999

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>From the URL-address

http://www.lemes.se/renju/wc99/wc99.htm

you can now find the results from the final round in A-tournament in Renju WC in China.You can also find there the minutes from RIF General Assembly part 2.

Friendly Yours,

Rickard Johannesson

Renju Newsletter No 62 - 1999
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Now I have updated the tables which you can find from the URL- address
http://www.lemes.se/renju/wc99/wc99.htm

The tables are correct according to the referees.
Only the last round of A-tournament remains.
I hope to send it quick after the tournament isfinished,.
It is now 10.44 Chinese time. The last round will start 13.00.
I have also put some more games that you can find from the above mentioned page.

Friendly Yours,
Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html


Renju Newsletter No 61 - 1999
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On the following URL-address you can find news
from Renju WC in China and tables showing results from all the games.
You can also find some games from A-tournament.

http://www.lemes.se/renju/wc99/wc99.htm


Friendly Yours,
Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 60 - 1999
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Players in A-tournament in World Championship in China


1 Yoshima Hayakawa, Japan
2 Takashi Sagara, Japan
3 Stefan Karlsson, Sweden
4 Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan
5 Norio Nishizono, Japan
6 MIkhail Koshin, Russia
7 Igor Sinov, Russia
8 Ando Meritee, Estonia
9 Pavel Makarov, Russia
10 Vladimir Souchkov, Russia
11 Zhang Jinyu, China
12 Ants Soosorv,Estonia

Games from A-tournament will be found on the following URL- address:

http://www.pb.edu.jonkoping.se/renju/

The system is for example:
AR020806.jpg
A means A-tournament
R02 means round 2
08 means 08 is black
06 means 06 is white

Leader of Women WC
Savrasova 6,5
Metreveli 5,5

Leaders of B-tournament

Bai Tao 6,5
Gardstrom 6
Nara 6
Chen Wei 6

Friendly Yours,

Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 59 - 1999
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Players in A-tournament in World Championship in China

1 Yoshima Hayakawa, Japan
2 Takashi Sagara, Japan
3 Stefan Karlsson, Sweden
4 Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan
5 Norio Nishizono, Japan
6 MIkhail Koshin, Russia
7 Igor Sinov, Russia
8 Ando Meritee, Estonia
9 Pavel Makarov, Russia
10 Vladimir Souchkov, Russia
11 Zhang Jinyu, China
12 Ants Soosorv,Estonia

Results from A-tournament in World Championship in China

August 3rd
(8)
12:10     0-1
11:9     1-0
1:8     1-0
2:7     0-1
3:6     1-0
4:5     1-0
(9)
5:12     0-1
6:4     1-0
7:3     1-0
8:2     1-0
9:1     0-1
10:11     0-1

Standings after 9th round

Meritee     7,5
Sinov     6,5
Karlsson     6
Hasegawa     5
Koshin     4,5
Nishizono     4
Hayakawa     4
Zhang Jinya     4
Souchkov     3,5
Soosorv     3,5
Makarov     3
Sagara     2,5

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Friendly Yours,

Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 58 - 1999
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Players in A-tournament in World Championship in China

1 Yoshima Hayakawa, Japan
2 Takashi Sagara, Japan
3 Stefan Karlsson, Sweden
4 Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan
5 Norio Nishizono, Japan
6 MIkhail Koshin, Russia
7 Igor Sinov, Russia
8 Ando Meritee, Estonia
9 Pavel Makarov, Russia
10 Vladimir Souchkov, Russia
11 Zhang Jinyu, China
12 Ants Soosorv,Estonia

Results fom August 1st 1999
I reported 2:8 but it should have been
12:8 0-1

Results from August 2nd 1999
(6)
12:9     0-1
10:8     0-1
11:7     1-0
1:6     0-1
2:5     1-0
3:4     1-0
(7)
4:12     0-1
5:3     0,5-0,5
6:2     1-0
7:1     1-0
8:11     0,5-0,5
9:10     0-1

Standings after 7th round

Meritee     6,5
Karlsson     5
Hasegawa     4
Nishizono     4
Sinov     4,5
Koshin     3,5


Standings in Women WC after 6 rounds

Savrasova     5
Lebedeva     4,5
Yo Lu         4
Skuridina     4

Standings in B-tournament after 6 rounds

Wei Chen     5
Gardstrom     5
Lunkin         4,5
Henningsson 4,5
Tao Bai         4,5
Liadong Shao 4,5

Friendly Yours,
Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 57 - 1999
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Players in A-tournament in World Championship in China

1 Yoshima Hayakawa, Japan
2 Takashi Sagara, Japan
3 Stefan Karlsson, Sweden
4 Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan
5 Norio Nishizono, Japan
6 MIkhail Koshin, Russia
7 Igor Sinov, Russia
8 Ando Meritee, Estonia
9 Pavel Makarov, Russia
10 Vladimir Souchkov, Russia
11 Zhang Jinyu, China
12 Ants Soosorv,Estonia

Results from August 1st

(4)
2:8     0-1
9:7     0-1
10:6     0,5-0,5
11:5     0-1
1:4     0-1
2:3     0-1
(5)
3:12     1-0
4:2     1-0
5:1     1-0
6:11     1-0
7:10     1-0
8:9     1-0
E
The best in A-tournament

Meritee 5
Hasegawa 4
Nishizono 3,5
Karlsson 3,5
Siniov 3,5
Hayakawa 2
Makarov 2

The best in Woman WC

Yao Lu, China 3,5
Olga Skuridina, Russia 3,5
Elena Lebedeva, Russia 3
Yulia Saviasova, Russia 3
Irene Einberg, Estonia 2,5
Yihua Tsai, Chines Taipei 2,5

The best in B-tournament

Anders Henningsson, Sweden 3,5
Wei Chen, China 3,5
Xiadong Shao, China 3,5
Sergey Filippov, Russia 3,5


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RIF General Assembly Decisions

PROTOCOL FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE RENJU INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION
(RIF)
PLACE: Beijing, China
DATE: 26th of July 1999 (Part 1)

1. The President Tommy Maltell declared the General Assembly opened. Tommy
Maltell was appointed to be the chairman of the meeting.
2. Peter Jonsson was elected for the secretary of the meeting.
3. Elections of three persons for the signing of the protocol: Na Wei,
Hiroyuki Tatsutomi & Igor Sinyov. Three scrutineers: Anders Henningsson,
Norio Nishizono and Ants Soosorv.
4. The following persons had the right to vote:
Hiroyuki Tatsutomi (Japan)
Igor Sinyov (Russia)
Peter Jonsson (Sweden)
Irene Einberg (Estonia)
Na Wei (China)
Artis Gaujens (Latvia)
Other people present at the meeting:
Qiu Qiu Shen (China)
Wang Gang (China)
Xio Qi Ming (Victor) (China)
Zhang Qun (China)
Louis Mu (China)
Peng Jian Guo (China)
Lu Xiao Chun (China)
Hannah Hou (China)
David Hu
Dino Hsu (Chinese Taipei)
Hsien-chi Chung (Chinese Taipei)
Ando Meritee (Estonia)
Ants Soosyrv (Estonia)
Norio Nishizono (Japan)
Stefan Karlsson (Sweden)
Andrey Khramov (Uzbekistan)
Anders Henningsson
5. Decision. Number of participants in the A-tournament:
World Champion - Kazuto Hasegawa
Japan - 3 players
Estonia - 2 players
China - 1 player
From Qualification tournament - 5 players
6. Chinese Taipei was adopted as a member of the RIF.
Uzbekistan was adopted as a member of the RIF.
The statutes from the new member federations must be sent to the President
as soon as possible, but not later than January 1 2000.

7. Decision. Members with the right to take part with three players in the
QT: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, China, Chinese Taipei, Russia, Sweden
and Ukraine.
Because Latvia did not use their right to have one player in AT, they can
also take part with three players in QT.
Members with the right to take part with one player in the QT: Estonia
Russia will take part with two personal places (PP) from the WC 1997.
If the number of players in the QT should be odd, China has the right to
have one extra player, in order to make the number even.
8. Decisions:
a) Hiroyuki Tatsutomi was appointed as the Referee Assistant during the WC.
He should aid the Chief Referee . However, all decisions are to be made by
the Chief Referee.
b) A Referee Jury was established. The members are: Artis Gaujens, Peter
Jonsson, Hideki Nara, Alexander Nosovsky and Peng Jian Guo.
The Referee Jury can not change decisions made by the referees if not the
decisions contradict with the RIF official Renju rules
Complains must be given in written form to Hiroyuki Tatsutomi the same day.
The complain fee is 100 yuan. If the decision of the Jury is in favour of
the player he will get back all the money. If the decision of the Jury is
not in favour of the player, he gets back 50 yuan. Should the case be that
the complain is unreasonable no money will be returned.
For a valid decision of the Jury at least three members of the Jury have to
be present.
c) During the QT Peter Jonsson, Norio Nishizono and Ants Soosorv will act as
additional Referee Assistants.
9. Decision: Na Wei apologized for not having the possibility to offer free
lodging for all participants. However, for the following members, the
following number of people (who are participating in the WC) will have free
lodging:
Russia for five persons
Estonia for 3.5 persons
Armenia for three persons
Uzbekistan for one person.

10. Decision: Number of participants in WT .
Russia 5 players
China 5 players
Japan 2 players
Chinese Taipei 2 players
Estonia 1 player

If the number of participants in WT should be odd, China has the right to
participate with an extra player, in
order to make the number of participants even.

11. Decision: The number of rounds in the BT and WT should be reduced to
nine. Round 1 will start on July 31 , 9 AM.
12. Decision: Additional rules for the WC 1999.
a) The time limits for the different tournaments. QT, 100 min/30 moves (59
and 60 are control moves). After that 10 min/10 moves. For AT, WT and BT 120
min (no control moves) and after that 30 min/30 moves.
b) If a player is late for more than 30 minutes, he will lose the game. (If
the player does not have a very good reason.)
c) It is not allowed to move a stone around the board while making a move.
If you touch an intersection by the stone, you have to make your move on the
intersection.
d) If the stone by accident is dropped on the board, the player who dropped
it may take it up again and put this stone where he intended to place it.
e) If you move a stone around the board (according to point c) you are
breaking the rules and the referee should be called upon. If you by accident
drop a stone, you will have a warning. If you get two warnings, the referee
will state that you are breaking the rules.
f) If you by purpose make disorder to the stones on the board, you will
lose.
g) Except for children below the age of nine, both players must record the
moves. If one player has less than five minutes left before a control move,
he is not required to record the moves. The player may ask the referee for
assistance of recording the game.
h) For AT: After the final round the players scores will be compared. If
they are the same, the defeated counterparts scores plus half of the draw
scores will be compares (Berger Coefficient). If it is still the same, the
standings will be decided by the internal game between the players
concerned. If it is still the same, a Blitz game will be added ( but only
for places 1-3 and 7). The time limit for the first Blitz game is 20 minutes
for each player. In case of a draw, the time limit for the second game is 10
minutes. In case of a draw, the time limit will be 5 minutes. In case of a
draw the 5 min game will be repeated until the winner comes out.
i) For BT, QT and WT. (Tie-breaking rules)
1) Points
2) Buchgolz coefficient (all opponents points are summed)
3) Berger coefficient (the defeated counterparts scores plus half of the
draw scores)
4) The points in round 2-9
5) The points in round 3-9
6) Etc, etc
13. Flash photographing is allowed only during the first 30 minutes.
Exceptions can be made for the newspapers, TV etc by Chief Referees
decision. (Only for AT, WT and QT)
14. All tournaments are public, but the referee can ask people to leave the
tournament room if they disturb the order.
15. After finishing the game, players are not allowed to analyse the game in
the tournament room.
16. No smoking is allowed in the tournament area.
17. The pairing in the Swiss System used.
1) first the pairing is decided, then the colour.
2) The pairing of the first round will be carried out according to the RIF
rating . For players without rating, their numbers will be decided by lot.
3) If two players who have different tentative number of Black games before
meeting, the player who has less Black games is the tentative Black player.
4) If two players have the same number of tentative Black games before
meeting, the player who has the smallest playing number is tentative Black
in rounds with odd numbers and the player who has the biggest playing number
is tentative Black in the rounds with even numbers.
18. If Armenia shows up with only one player, the QT goes on with an odd
number of players.
19. The President declared the first part of the General Assembly to be
closed. The second part will be held on August 4 1999.


Secretary Chairman Signed
Peter Jonsson     Tommy Maltell     Na Wei

Signed Signed
Hiroyuki     Tatsutomi     Igor Sinyov

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Friendly Yours,

Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 56 - 1999
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A table with all results from QT will be found on the following URL- address:
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html
Players in A-tournament in World Championship in China

1 Yoshima Hayakawa, Japan
2 Takashi Sagara, Japan
3 Stefan Karlsson, Sweden
4 Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan
5 Norio Nishizono, Japan
6 MIkhail Koshin, Russia
7 Igor Sinov, Russia
8 Ando Meritee, Estonia
9 Pavel Makarov, Russia
10 Vladimir Souchkov, Russia
11 Zhang Jinyu, China
12 Ants Soosorv,Estonia

Results from July 31th

(2)
12:7     0,5 - 0,5
8:6       1 - 0
9:5       0 - 1
10:4     0 - 1
11:3     0 - 1
1:2        0 - 1
(3)
2:12    0 - 1
3:1       0 - 1
4:11    1 - 0
5:10    0,5-0,5
6:9      0 - 1
7:8      0 - 1

The best players after 3 rounds

Meritee 3p
Hayakawa 2p
Hasegawa 2p
Makarov 2p

Woman WC - Players with 2p after 2 rounds

Elena Lebedeva, Russia
Julia Savraaspva, Russia
Anastasia Leshukova, Russia

B-tournament - Players with 2p after 2 rounds

Goran Holgersson, Sweden
Vitaly Lunkin, Russia
Wei Chen, China
Anders Henningsson, Sweden
Tao Bai, China
Xiaodong Shao, China
Seregey Volkov, Russia
Sergey Filippov, Russia

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Friendly Yours,

Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 55 - 1999
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Players in A-tournament in World Championship in China

1 Yoshima Hayakawa, Japan
2 Takashi Sagara, Japan
3 Stefan Karlsson, Sweden
4 Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan
5 Norio Nishizono, Japan
6 MIkhail Koshin, Russia
7 Igor Sinov, Russia
8 Ando Meritee, Estonia
9 Pavel Makarov, Russia
10 Vladimir Souchkov, Russia
11 Zhang Jinyu, China
12 Ants Soosorv,Estonia

The rounds for A-tournament in World Championship in China

Round Table of Group A
Round No.
July 30th
(1) 1:12     2:11     3:10      4:9     5:8     6:7
July 31th
(2) 12:7     8:6        9:5      10:4    11:3   1:2
(3) 2:12     3:1        4:11    5:10    6:9     7:8
August 1st
(4) 12:8     9:7     10:6       11:5    1:4     2:3
(5) 3:12     4:2     5:1         6:11    7:10   8:9
August 2nd
(6) 12:9     10:8   11:7      1:6       2:5     3:4
(7) 4:12     5:3     6:2         7:1      8:11    9:10
August 3rd
(8) 12:10   11:9   1:8        2:7       3:6      4:5
(9) 5:12     6:4     7:3         8:2      9:1       10:11 
August 4th
(10) 12:11 1:10   2:9        3:8       4:7      5:6
Augusts 5th
(11) 6:12    7:5     8:4         9:3      10:2    11:1

Results from July 30th

(1)
1:12 1-0
2:11 0,5-0.5
3:10 0,5-0.5
4:9 0-1
5:8 0-1
6:7 0-1

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Friendly Yours,

Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 54 - 1999
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Results from Qualification Tournament in WC in Renju in China:
The 5 best players will play in the A-
tournament i.e. 4 players from Russia and 1 player from Sweden.

Friendly Yours,
Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html


Renju Newsletter No 53 - 1999
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Short report July 28th 1999 after 6 rounds in Qualification tournament in
World Championship in Beijing in China.

The last round will be played tomorrow morning.
The 5 best players will be qualified to play in in the World Chammpionship A-tournament.
The other players in A-tournament is:

Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan (World Champion 1997)
Norio Nishizono, Japan
Takashi Sagara, Japan
Yoshimi Hayakawa, Japan
Ando Meritee, Estonia
Ants Soosorv, Estonia
Zhang Jinyu, China

Friendly Yours,
Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 52 - 1999
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As some of the players did not confirme enrollment, above name list
subject to change.

--END--

Friendly Yours,
Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 46 - 1999
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This is a short Renju Newsletter sent by Rickard Johannesson in Sweden. During Renju World Championship in China you will receive Renju Newsletter from me. All Renju Newsletters that I have sent will also be published on the URL-adress:
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Friendly Yours,
Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html

Renju Newsletter No 45 - 1999
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During WC in China I hope that it will be possible several times to send some Renju Newsletters with new info from WC tournaments. While I am in China myself Richard Johannesson from Joenkoping, Sweden will send you Renju Newsletter. Therefore if you have some renju news that you think should be included in next Renju Newsletter during July 21st - August 6th, please, send it to Richard (with a copy to me). The latest day that I will check my mail before I go is on the 20th of July. Richard has e-mail rickard.j@telia.com Organizer of Renju WC in China Na Wei has e-mail hannahhou@snc.schmidtgroup.com

Friendly Yours,
Rickard Johannesson
https://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html