The Mind Sports Zine has been in touch with several of the leading forces in the game, which we hope will allow us to bring recent news. 

Here we present late-breaking developments from the game's hotline, the Renju Newsletter. The e-mail service is a must for interested players. Our thanks to Tommy Maltell, President of RIF. http://www.lemes.se/renju/

Renju links

Renju mailing list

From now on you can subscribe or unsubscribe to Renju mailing list or change your e-mail address by yourself on http://www.lemes.se/renju/subscribe.htm.

There is also made a new link for subscribers on the first page of the RIF Web site.

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RIF ratings

On http://www.lk.net/~stepanov/ you can see RIF ratings be Oleg Stepanov.

- Oleg Stepanov, Russia, Temporary Chairman of Qualification Commission of RIF

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Test your Renju moves

On http://hem.netlink.se/~sfp3610/RenjuTest.html you can find Renju Test Program - a Japanese program which contains 100 renju problem positions, where black is in turn and has to find a win - comments by Frank Arkbo.

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Meijin news

Meijin-sen Tournament Games: http://homepage1.nifty.com/crow-renju/a-class1.htm (in Japanese)

2nd Game of Meijin Match: http://www.ucatv.ne.jp/~obakyu/ (in Japanese).

- Alexander Nosovsky

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Jöngköping Renju Club celebration

On the 15th of November the Jönköping Renju club had its 20-year anniversary. On http://www.lemes.se/renju/jkpgimages/ you can find some images from this event.

Some very short comments (in Swedish) you can also find on the updated version of the Web site of the club: http://www.lemes.se/kfumjkpg/kfjluff.htm.

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Klimashin wins European Championship 2000

A.Klimashin (Russia) beat A.Soosyrv (Estonia) to in the final to take the championship. In the bronze match S.Karlsson from Sweden beat P.Salnikov (Russia).

There were some problems with clocks, with hotel and organization of Tournament. An extra day was added to the tournament, which resulted to some of the players not finishing the last round.

Final standings:

1 Klimashin A. (RUS)
2 Soosyrv A. (EST)
3 Karlsson S. (SWE)
4 Salnikov P. (RUS)
5 Nikonov K. (RUS)
6 Sushkov V. (RUS)
7 Sirategyan K. (RUS)
8 Nazarov V. (UKR)
9 Drozd O. (UKR)
10 Eriksson B. (SWE)
11 Lents J. (EST)
12 Shereverov A. (UKR)
13 Filippov S. (RUS)
14 Tihkan E. (EST)
15 Umantsiv R. (UKR)
16 Karlsson I. (SWE)

Finals 11 November 2000

Semifinals 10 November 2000

Main referee - K. Piddubny.

- Alexander Nosovsky

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7 November 2000
Wettercupen

Results from Wettercupen 21-22 October, 2000:

1 Rickard Johannesson
2 Martin Carlsson
3 Peter Jonsson
4 Martin Karlsson
5 Jan Paulander
6 Olga Skouridina-Jonsson
7 Bengt Nyberg
8 Håkan Möller