Play WC Renju/Gomoku/Five-In-A-Row? From: Tommy Maltell <tommy.maltell@lemes.se> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 22:20:17 +0000 Dear members, I am the president of RIF (Renju International Federation), Within RIF we intend to play our next World Championship via Internet e-mail. I hope that announcing such a competition can be made this way. So, if you are interested, please, write to me.. IF you are a beginner it is also possible to enter because we can arrange both groups for elite and for beginners. Maybe you do not know what renju is? Renju is the game where two o opponent are playing against each other and the one to win is the player who gets five in a row. In somme countries the game is played on usual paper and the marks are crosses and circles made with a pencil in the squares for example in a paper ment for mathematics writing. However, serious playing are on a board. As a matter of fact the renju board many years ago was the same as the Go-board,, but now in renju only 15x15 intersections are used. As in Go serious playing are with stones in the intersections and not in the squares. Play alterntes between Black (player) who starts and White(player). To play without any additional rules is in great favour of Black. Therefore during about 80 years different rules have been tested. Now we have rules that gives equal positions for both black and white. Certain moves are not allowed for black and in the opening we also use special rules. Plese, write to me if you want to know the c complete rules or if you want to play renju by mail. Renju is a very old game and many years ago the development of the game only took place in Japan. The first book was published in Japan in 1856. One of the oldest names of the game is Go-Moku or GoMoku narabe. Also the following names are sread all over the w world: Pegety, Morpion, Raster, Criss Cross, Gobang, Five-In-A-Row, Luffarschack. The names Noughts and Crosses and Tic-tac-toe usually means the simple Three in a row game which is played within 9 s squares. For much people this game is a very simple game maybe played during boring math lessons. However Renju is played veryy sesriouslyy. We have played World Chhampionships in Kyoto, Min oscowow anand in Arjeplog, Sweden. kWe have pplayed a lot of World Championships via usual letters but the time to wait for answer is to boring for many players so now we hope to play via e-mail. There are more than 2000 publications about renju and we have also international magazines. There are also a lot of computer programs that can play renju and gomoku without additional rules for beginners. There are also programs with and for bulletins with many games played in international tournaments and program for help to analyse. I hope you want to play renju via e-mail. Pleasee, write to me if y you want or if you have any questiions. Friendly Yours, Tommy Maltell, President of RIF Internet e-mail: tommy.maltell@lemess.se Usual mail-address: Box 249, S-551 14 J�nk�ping, SWEDEN Fax +46 36 120417 Up