Owen - 2018-12-13, 20:37 Temat postu: Correspondence Gomoku Dear friends, World Correpondence Gomoku Championship is about to start! We are waiting for your applications at renjusignup yandex ru. More details here: https://sites.google.com/site/correspondencegomoku/home (thanks Usiek for this site) Playing site is renju.su Registration deadline is 22 Dec, so please hurry! With best regards, Epifanov Dmitry. Owen - 2018-12-15, 09:10 Sorry, the deadline for registration is 20 Dec. 22 Dec is a scheduled start date. angst - 2018-12-15, 10:15 Uzupełniając powyższe ogłoszenie dodam jeszcze, że jako osobę autoryzującą z Polski, wymaganą do wskazania w zgłoszeniu, Dmitry wytypował Uśka. Alternatywnie mogę być wskazany również ja 
Zapraszamy do rywalizacji! Pozdrawiam Angst zukole - 2018-12-24, 11:48 Mistrzostwa rozpoczęte! W turniejach rywalizują Angst (grupa C) oraz Usiek (grupa A). sandra113 - 2019-02-26, 04:31 The world gomoku champion Zoltán László from Hungary is fighting a battle against the world correspondence renju champion Hao Tianyi from China in the world correspondence gomoku championship! The current position is shown below. The opening was put by Zoltán, and Hao Tianyi chose white. The time control is 135 days. The remaining time each player has is shown on the left. 
We see that the mighty Chinese is positionally outplaying the Hungarian, dominating and outpowering him. It seems obvious who is stronger, and it should not take too many moves before Zoltán gets pinned if he is not demoralised to continue at all. The last move made in this game was made more than a month ago. You can always check the current position position at: http://renju.in/en/igrat/game/?id=30274 In this championship, Zoltán and Hao Tianyi are also playing a second game between them in parallel, in which the opening was put by the Chinese. In that game, the position is less obvious than in the above described game, but visually it seems that the Chinese is again positionally outplaying the Hungarian. Here is the link to the game: http://renju.in/en/igrat/game/?id=30275 Correspondence gomoku is a battle of strategists. What decides in this sport is strategic planning, the ability to focus on important branches, systematic thinking, skills of computer analysis, and deep understanding of the game. Correspondence gomoku is devoid of tactical blunders, so you cannot trick your opponent by setting a simple tactical trap as you do in live tournaments. It is a sport for those who have a great passion for analysis and appreciate the deep beauty of the game. It seems that in this sport, the winner of the world gomoku championship is no match for the skilful Orient master. And it is no surprise to me. After all, gomoku is an oriental game. zukole - 2019-02-26, 17:45
sandra113 - 2019-04-15, 15:08
Is this why you play correspondence games, achieving already 311 virtual successes?
Or why do you play correspondence games?
And why do Vladimir Sushkov, Dmitry Epifanov, and Konstantin Nikonov play correspondence games? Vladimir Sushkov won the world correspondence renju championship in 2013 and 2014 and also won the world live renju championship in 2009 and 2017. Konstantin Nikonov won the world correspondence renju championship in 2001 and 2015 and won the Russian live renju championship in 2010 and 2016. Dmitry Epifanov won the world correspondence renju championship in 2007, took the silver medal of the same championship last year, and won the Russian live renju championship in 2013 and 2014. In the last world correspondence renju championship there were a number of strong live players, including Dmitry Epifanov, Vladimir Sushkov, Konstantin Nikonov, Aivo Oll, Tord Andersson, and Alexey Potapov. What makes these strong live players spend days and days to try to achieve virtual successes?
zukole - 2019-04-15, 19:56 Gram korespondencyjnie w Renju, ponieważ online za bardzo nie ma alternatywy. Ile znasz stron do grania Renju online z anglojęzycznym interfejsem i zasadą Soosyrv-8? Od kilku miesięcy takie kryteria spełnia piskvorky.net. Nie znam ich powodów, zapytaj 
Top 50 rankingu korespondencyjnego vs ranking live
Z korespondencyjnego top50 18 graczy ma ranking live 2000+ (178 miejsce na liście lub wyżej), 23 nie rozegrało żadnej partii, a 6 nie ustaliło rankingu. Viktor Barykin grał w lutym High League i w 15 partiach zdobył 2,5 pkt. Drugi gracz w korespondencyjnym rankingu Renju
sandra113 - 2019-04-17, 14:39
You can also play Soosyrv-8 renju with an English interface on renju.in (the former renju.su). Below is a screenshot illustrating how you can create a game with the same time control as in the Euroleague, 10 min +3 sec. 
(You can click on the image to better see it.) On that server you can also play in no-prog correspondence tournaments, i.e., correspondence tournaments in which it is NOT allowed to use programs. One of such tournaments in Soosyrv-8 renju starts in a week, on Wed 24 Apr, and its participants include Dmitry Epifanov and Alexey Lebedev: http://renju.in/en/turnaments/?tur=132 . The time control of that particular tournament is 45 days. So if you want to play without computer analysis, such tournaments are a good option. You only need to read the description of each tournament to see whether using programs is allowed or not. In no-prog correspondence tournaments you can use a real or virtual board to put stones for the purpose of analysing your position during the game, but are not allowed to run a gomoku engine. Practically all players there obey the rules, although there have been a few cheaters in the past. Looking at your statistics at renjuoffline.com, I see you that within the last six months, you finished 12 Soosyrv-8 renju games, 10 Tarannikov renju games, 10 Taraguchi renju games, and 10 Yamaguchi renju games, so you actually do not seem to strongly prefer Soosyrv-8. And if, as it seems, you just want a good balanced opening rule, not necessarily Soosyrv-8, you have a plenty of options to play renju online in real time. First, the Taiwanese renju community plays on tw.gamelet.com/game.do?code=fiveChess . You can play Yamaguchi renju there, and I saw, e.g., Ko-Han Chen in the statistics on that server. The interface is Chinese, but I wrote a detailed instruction how to use it: https://vk.com/topic-19499145_35809185?post=31841 . To write the instruction, I asked a Taiwanese friend of mine to explain me the interface and then verified his explanations by playing there. Below is a screenshot I took during one of my games. 
Although there are very few visitors on that server at any given moment of time, you can simply create a table with the settings you want, and sooner or later you will hear a notification sound informing you that someone joined your table and wants to play. In the meantime, you can simply do other things on your computer. I myself played many games there, albeit in gomoku, not renju. Second, the Russians organise online renju tournaments on gambler.ru . The tournaments are played with the opening rule called ''пять реверсов,'' literally ''five swaps.'' I guess this opening is known internationally as the Tarannikov rule, but I may be mistaken. The time control is 7 min + 4 sec. To play in Gamber tournaments, you have to install a special program, where you can choose an English interface. If you are interested, I am sure the Russians will gladly help you get started, as the interface is somewhat confusing if you see it for the first time. In the beginning of 2016 Dmitry Epifanov explained me the interface, so I played in a few renju tournaments there. Here are the links to some of those tournaments: https://www.gambler.ru/tour/527375 https://www.gambler.ru/tour/528167 https://www.gambler.ru/tour/528495 By following the links above, you can even have a look at the individual games. My nickname there was sandra113, spelt exactly as my Kurnik nickname. As you can see, in these tournaments I faced, in particular, Dmitry Epifanov (who played under the nickname Owen), Alexey Skuridin (who played under the nickname skuridin), and Alexander Razdevelyuk (who played under the nickname Полина_11). They are well-known Russian renju players. Being a complete novice in renju, I stood no chance against them, but it was an interesting experience. As you can see on the schedule (https://www.gambler.ru/tours/?online=1&game=35&first=1&lim=20&max=3037 ), the Gambler renju tournamaments are set to start at 21:00 Moscow time each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but are actually played once per two months or so. That is, usually no one or almost no one comes, which results in an insufficient number of people for the tournament to start, but sometimes people come together to play, apparently as a result of arranging in advance. The last played tournament was held about a month ago, on 22 Mar 2019: https://www.gambler.ru/tour/691593 . The last but one tournament was played about two months before that, namely on 29 Jan 2019: https://www.gambler.ru/tour/681356 , and fourteen players participated in it, including Denis Kachaev, Ilya Katsev and Alexey Skuridin. If you are interested to play in these tournaments, you can simply get in touch with the Russians. Here is the Gambler tournament thread on the Russian renju discussion forum: https://vk.com/topic-1735025_11813504?post=11848 Third, you can play Taraguchi renju on mindoku.com. This website is the international mirror of the Estonian website vint.ee and has an English interface. Just like on the Taiwanese website, there are generally very few visitors at any given moment of time, but you can simply enter the renju room and, if you see no one, wait for a notification sound while doing something else on your computer. The sound will notify you that you have been challenged. On that website you cannot create a table, but you can challenge anyone in the playing room. Yesterday I entered the renju room, saw no one, started doing other things on my computer, and got a few challenges within an hour or so. One Russian player recently told me she had recently played Taraguchi renju with Timo Ilu on that website. Timo's nickname there is allever. Sometimes tournaments in Taraguchi renju are played on that website, and Ants wrote about it on the Russian renju discussion forum: https://vk.com/topic-1735025_31490388 Finally, I have heard there are some very popular Chinese renju servers, and although they have no English interface, you can have the interface explained to you if you want. I was able to find a Taiwanese to explain me the interface of the Taiwanese renju server, so I believe you can find a Chinese who will recommend you a good Chinese renju server and explain you its interface. There are many Chinese renju players to contact. A friendly attitude and communication skills can do magic. Here is an advertisement poster of a Chinese renju server, namely 5ldh.net: 
Even if you are unwilling to ask anyone to help you, you can learn by trial and error, as I did one-and-a-half years ago on a Japanese renju server. I passed a Japanese captcha by using the Google handwriting tool, installed the required program in order to access the server, and, despite almost everything being in Japanese, managed to play renju games there. Below you can see a screenshot of one of my games, where you can see me under the nickname sandy113. The server is apparently no longer operational, but worked at that time. Its URL was casual.hangame.co.jp/omok . 
(You can click on the image to better see it.) Anyway, I believe that in renju, you do have online alternatives to correspondence games. After all, Alexey Skuridin played in about 200 renju tournaments on gambler.ru (https://www.gambler.ru/user/74662/tours?uin=74662&game=&first=1&lim=20&max=75 ), and you could do the same
And despite all these opportunities, you opted to play correspondence games on renjuoffline.com and played 450 renju games there
sandra113 - 2019-04-17, 15:50
After your post I showed these statistics to the Russian community, and here is what Dmitry Epifanov said:
My translation: - begin of the translation - Data on many people are really inappropriate or misleading there. Barykin became the world correspondence champion in about 2006, so take his live rating of that time. It is about 2200, I think. Concerning his participation in the last High League, he was invited just a couple of days before its start, so he did not prepare at all, hence such a result. Overall it is bad that while you take his correspondence rating earned a decade ago, his live rating is taken as recently changed. And, by the way, in his previous High League he took, if my memory serves me, the 8th place despite skipping two rounds. He bit off points from many strong players in that tournament. If he had had no travel issues (related to the high distance from his city, Volgograd), he might have finished in the top 6. Also, Sushkov's performance in his last two live tournaments was not his finest hour at all. Moreover, while Russia is traditionally very strong in correspondence renju, with the Chinese having finally become strong opponents only recently, the average live rating of Russians has been falling since years ago for various reasons (unrelated to the actual level of play), and this introduces a systematic error in this investigation. This error is not taken into account in this investigation and even affected where Sushkov is. Significant information is missing about many players on the list. For example, Balanova was very strong in live tournaments, with her level at that time being no worse than the current level of modern medal winners of woman's world renju championship at least. People who played at that time will correct me if I am mistaken. Coco Yuang, Sun Chengmin, Bai Shi, Qi Da Nei, Qi Ya, even Song Xian, and a few more are fakes that were operated by two relatively known and quite strong Chinese. Tatyana Fedulina and Mariam Ibragimova are, if my memory serves me, fakes that were operated by a known and relatively decent Russian player. So overall the investigation is not of good quality at all. - end of the translation - Motivated by him, I decided to perform a serious investigation to find out whether there is a correlation between the level of play in correspondence renju and the level of play in live renju. To do so, I decided to use only data of Russian players, because there are systematic differences in live ratings between different countries, i.e., one and the same level of play corresponds to different ratings in different countries. Furthermore, I decided to take only those players who are still on the live rating list of active players, i.e., only those players whose last live performance dates back to no more than five years ago. This removes the systematic error caused by the effective change of the rating scale with time, i.e., one and the same level of play corresponds to different ratings nowadays and many years ago, and I wanted to remove that factor. I also excluded Barykin from the statistics because of the reasons explained by Dmitry Epifanov. With the restrictions outlined above, I got the following data from the first 200 lines of the correspondence rating list:
I did not exclude anyone except Ekaterina Glibina, for she has a very odd live rating (1321) and may have been helped by others in her correspondence games, especially as the live rating list contains Alexey Glibin, apparently her relative. So I got 25 points, and here is how they look in a graph: 
I calculated the Pearson correlation coefficient, and it turned out to be equal to 0.27. That is, the correlation is 27%. The actual correlation between the live and correspondence levels must be even stronger, because a number of players in the above statistics (e.g., Berezin and Kozhin) failed to finish many games in their last correspondence championships, which resulted in automatic losses and big negative changes of the ratings. The resulting ratings of such players do not reflect the actual correspondence level of play and thus worsen the correlation. Taking only those players who are above Berezin on the above list, i.e., the first 13 players, I got the following graph: 
For these 13 points the Pearson correlation coefficient is 0.54, i.e., the correlation is as strong as 54%! The correlation is so strong that it can be easily seen in the graph by the naked eye. The conclusion is simple: There is a certain substantial correlation between the level of play in correspondence renju and the level of play in live renju. Of course, correspondence renju and live renju are different sports, but there are some factors resulting in that strong live players are more likely to succeed in correspondence renju and vice versa. sandra113 - 2019-04-17, 16:12
Live games are about the ability to solve things in mind. You sit at the board for hours and think, think, and think, being not allowed to even make records of your thoughts. The competition is in a large extent about the ability to store and process heaps of data in your short-term memory without writing anything. The greatest legend of the gomoku world, Attila Demjan, was famous for his exceptional calculation skills. But is this ability - the ability to solve complex things in mind without writing anything - really needed in real life? I worked in science for many years and can assure you that even top scientists are not really different from ordinary people in the ability to, for example, multiply big numbers in mind. When people analyse complex things, they make records. They do not think for hours without writing anything. In research, we use many tools - computers, programs, equipment, etc. Even when we make simplest calculations to derive some simple formulas, we use at least a pen and paper. In real life, you need two abilities: (i) the ability to quickly think in, e.g., oral negotiations, and in order to quickly get routine things done, (ii) the ability to carefully and scrupulously analyse and decide on complex issues by using any means you can use, such as a pen, paper, computer, books, data records, etc. Ability (i) corresponds to blitz games, and ability (ii) corresponds to correspondence games. The ability to solve complex things in mind by thinking for hours without making any records - as required in classic live games - is something not really needed in real life. And if someone is an outstanding player in correspondence games and just an average player in live games, he may simply not have developed the ability to calculate far in his mind. He may have simply not been motivated to develop this ability, in the first place. What, after all, use could he make of this ability beyond live tournaments? And if you see only, say, 3-5 moves ahead, you cannot do much in live tournaments regardless of how well you understand the game. Correspondence games are about the ability to perform a great analysis and about research skills. By playing correspondence games, you learn a serious approach to strategy and planning. You learn a serious approach to analytical work. You learn long-term discipline. You learn to make very elaborated plans and stick to them. You become a great analyst and develop very useful analytical skills. And you can use these skills in everyday life to take important decisions - e.g., devising a tax evasion scheme, starting a business, making important career decisions, etc. You do not need to make decisions on such matters in your mind without making any records, but you need to be able to perform serious analytical work using any means you can. So playing correspondence games well may be, in fact, more useful than playing live games, contrary to what many people might think. sandra113 - 2019-07-22, 04:20 The climax of the world correspondence gomoku championship is rapidly approaching. More than a half of the games have already ended, and not much time is left in the remaining games, but it is still very unclear as to who will win the first ever world correspondence gomoku championship title. It is still very unclear as to who will prove to be the best analyst. It is still very unclear as to who will prove to be the wisest, most skilled, most disciplined, and most devoted to our beautiful game. It is still very unclear as to whose analysis is longer and most skilful. The main contenders are perhaps the most charismatic people in the gomoku world. Great Lord Lamaza, whose secular name is Alex Popiel, is the godfather of the strongest and most fearsome gomoku clan, The Lords of XO, which won the largest number of the Euroleague titles as compared to all other clans and includes such strong players as Gergo, Adifek, Gelo, and Peking. Only a true leader could unite such ambitious players from various countries into a single family. The Great Lord's charisma, passion for analysis, charm, organisational skills, and result-orientedness are known to everyone. In terms of effort spent for analysis in his life he is probably second to no one. His clan possesses a unique database, to which a lot of effort was invested. The Great Lord is fighting for the honour of his clan. Sensei Owen, whose secular name is Dmitry Epifanov, is a great renju trainer and the winner of the world correspondence renju championship 2007. He wrote perhaps the most detailed renju opening theory book ever, "The Caged Tiger," which includes 1400+ diagrams. Sensei Owen is also a vice-president of the Renju International Federation and won the Russian renju championship in 2013 and 2014. By participating in this correspondence championship, the great renju sensei challenges the might of best gomoku analysts, including the Great Lord himself, in their own game. Usiek, whose secular name is Łukasz Majksner, is the only non-ex-USSR country analyst out of 10 players who managed to qualify to the High League of this championship. Also known as Grizzlyman, this aggressive Pole was the founder and captain of the Euroleagueo team "Get Rekt," whose name says it all, and is the current King of the Hill in real-time advanced gomoku. He is the Polish gomoku champion of 2016 and a team world champion of the same year. In the last world team championship, the aggressive grizzly was put by his teammates on the first board, where he defeated Martez in the decisive round and thereby brought the bronze to the Polish team. And now the brave grizzly fights alone against the Russian horde. The hearts of many Polish gomoku fans are definitely with their hero. Popovich, whose secular name is Andrey Litvinenko, fights for the honour of the Tyumen gomoku clan, known as Polar Bears. Appearing pretty friendly and kind, this mighty Russian bear is in fact highly ambitious and a great analyst who is well known for his past analysis of a number of legendary openings. With a live rating of 1727, he is the highest rated Siberian player. His nickname, Popovich, is the name of a folk hero of Kievan Rus who is described in Russian ballads as a clever-minded warrior who wins by tricking and outsmarting his foes. It stands to reason that all three medals of this correspondence championship will be distributed among the above four warriors, but who will win which medal? This is what is being decided now. And one of the key games is between Sensei Owen and Usiek. The current position is shown in the diagram below. Sensei Owen put a new opening invented by himself, placing two stones on an edge to exclude them from the game, so the opening basically consists of only one stone. According to the grizzly, the opening is so astonishingly tricky that he elected to add two stones, which is an extremely rare thing in correspondence gomoku because the player who chooses a colour is considered to be at an advantage. Thus, in effect, by putting such an opening the great renju sensei was able to turn the tables and get the right to choose a colour. Yet Usiek chose an elegant way of adding two stones, converting the sensei's opening to a well-balanced edge opening and thereby rendering the sensei's deep analysis of the opening superfluous. A positional fight ensued, and the mighty grizzly now appears to have positionally out-powered his foe and to be finishing him off. The timing of Usiek's last moves leaves little doubt that the bloody grizzly sees his win. And the A1 stone, which was intended by the sensei to be excluded from the game, may well end up being a stepping stone for the final attack by the grizzly! 
In the other game between the same players Sensei Owen seems to have an advantage, and the key question is whether Usiek's thin red line will hold the attack. If it will, the mighty Polish analyst will emerge victorious in this principal two-game duel. Usiek also impressively scalped Popovich, as shown in the diagram below. Popovich must have believed he had achieved a highly advantageous position. He put stone 47 at the upper flank, obviously intending to build his win there. In response, Usiek put a stone near the lower edge. It was a very tricky VCT that Popovich had missed. The VCT threat had been created by move 46, which was a blocking move. Popovich surely will remember this game for the rest of his life. Yet again Usiek made the name "Get Rekt" come true. As the other game between these two contenders ended as a draw, Usiek emerged victorious in the two-game duel against the Siberian bear. 
Even the Great Lord himself fell victim to the grizzly's claws. Usiek chose a colour in the Great Lord's sharp opening and made him surrender already after move 37. The other game between them in underway and looks drawish. Such a great performance by Usiek is somewhat spoiled by his underestimating some other participants and losing some points to them, so even his great performance in the direct encounters against his principal opponents may be not enough to win the title. The decisive ability in this championship may prove to be the ability to avoid losing points to second-class opponents, and this is something at which Sensei Owen appears to be the best. After all, he is the only participant who technically has not yet lost even a half-point. His utmost care and extremely serious, professional approach are likely to bring him the title. A very interesting battle is unfolding between the Great Lord and Popovich, who have some old Euroleague scores to settle. The current position is shown below. The Great Lord put quite a tricky scheme, and then Mikhail Kozhin intervened by publicly posting his own analysis of that scheme. Following this, Popovich chose a colour, but it is the Great Lord who now seems to be getting the upper hand. If he crushes the polar bear directly from the scheme put by the Great Lord himself, it will be an excellent demonstration of the Lords' power. 
Have a look at the battles of this correspondence championship yourself: http://renju.in/en/turnaments/?tur=121&table . These games are perhaps the highest-quality gomoku games ever played. Who will become the champion? Whoever wins the gold, he will most likely win it by the skin of his teeth. bbj - 2019-07-23, 21:57
I think that everyone of us will remeber this game to the our last days. The most outstanding game ever of whole gomoku history forever! sandra113 - 2019-08-06, 19:47
Got your attention, Bobby
If your remark was meant to be sarcastic, I would like tell you that correspondence players invest really many, many hours to each game. They make strategic plans and analyze, analyze, and analyze. Being unable to calculate the game to the end, they make intuitive decisions based on their understanding of the game. It is hard work and an art. And winning a game to which you invested so much efforts means a lot for you. And losing a game to which you invested a lot of efforts is hurtful. This is why I wrote that "Popovich surely will remember this game for the rest of his life." sandra113 - 2019-08-06, 19:50 I recently wrote an article comparing live games and correspondence games and am re-posting it here. Hopefully you will find my observations useful and thought-stimulating. - begin of the article - I recently found myself thinking about which kind of gomoku games - live games or correspondence games - is more useful in terms of developing qualities or abilities needed in real life. I made some interesting observations and decided to share them in this article. Live games are about the ability to solve things in mind. You sit at the board for hours and think, think, think, being not allowed to make records of your thoughts. The competition is about the ability to store and process heaps of data in your short-term memory. Of course, knowledge of deep gomoku principles, gomoku shapes, tricks, or opening variants can give you some advantage or compensate for a somewhat inferior calculation ability, but you cannot do much if you see only 3-5 moves ahead. The greatest gomoku legend, Attila Demjan, was famous for his exceptional calculation skills. But is this ability - the ability to solve complex things in mind without writing anything - really needed in real life? I worked in science (physics) for many years and well know that even top scientists are not really different from ordinary people in the ability to, for example, multiply big numbers in mind or visualise complex things in mind. When people analyse complex things, they make records. They do not think for hours without writing anything. In research, we use many tools - computers, programs, equipment, etc. Even when we make simple calculations to derive simple formulas, we use a pen and paper. In real life, you need two basic thinking abilities: (i) the ability to quickly think in, e.g., oral negotiations, and in order to quickly get routine things done, (ii) the ability to do ''homework,'' i.e., the ability to carefully and scrupulously analyse complex issues step-by-step by using any means you can use, such as a pen, paper, computer, books, written materials (e.g., laws or statistics), etc. Ability (i) corresponds to blitz games, and ability (ii) corresponds to correspondence games. The ability to solve things in mind by thinking for hours without making any records - as required in classic live games - seems to be something not really needed in real life. If someone is an outstanding player in correspondence games and just an average player in live games, he may simply have not developed the ability to calculate far in his mind. He may have simply not been motivated to develop this ability, in the first place. What, after all, use could he make of this ability beyond live tournaments? Some people might argue that live games are a brain training that physiologically develops the short-term memory (i.e., the physiological ability to store and process data in mind without writing), and might argue that a well-developed short-term memory is useful in that it helps you think more effectively and ''see more things'' when you think about something in real life, even when you can make records. This argument might seem appealing to many, but there are two very strong counter-arguments. First of all, is an overly developed short-term memory a good thing, in the first place? Is it a healthy habit to keep many things in the short-term memory? This is what top chess players are used to do, and a number of them ended up being pretty weird, with perhaps the most known examples being Paul Morphy and Bobby Fischer. They behaved in a very weird way and made bizarre statements, with Bobby Fischer even publicly saying, ''I want to see the U.S. wiped out.'' I heard many weird things from top gomoku players as well, including ideas about becoming the ruler of a country and organising a society built on some utopian principles. Mikhail Lomakin, a prominent Russian gomoku player, promoted the idea that the Mongols who conquered Russia centuries ago belonged to the white, not yellow, race. He also wrote a book whose central idea is that gomoku is the historic origin of all board games. I am therefore afraid that overly developing the short-term memory may create an unbalanced brain. I recall a related argument I had in Australia with a friend of mine. He told me there was a proof or evidence that regular music exercises (e.g., playing piano) help develop the neural connection between the brain hemispheres in children, increasing the brain part that serves as the ''bridge.'' He used this to explain why children should attend music classes. I responded that it is for a reason that the neural connection between the hemispheres was designed by Mother Nature to have a very small transmission capacity. The hemispheres need to be almost entirely isolated from each other, as otherwise there would be no need for the mankind to develop two visually distinct hemispheres, in the first place. If it were beneficial to have a great transmission capacity between the hemispheres, such a capacity would naturally develop in the course of natural selection. Thus, I argued, if music classes indeed result in increasing the transmission capacity between the hemispheres, then music classes well may actually do harm, and then it is a good reason why children should NOT attend music classes. Analogously, overly developing the short-term memory well may be a bad thing, and I can see a potential reason why. When you think about something, you have to focus on the most important or most relevant things. This prevents you from being distracted and helps you make decisions effectively. So you need to store quite a limited number of things in your short-term memory. If you have an overly developed short-term memory due to unnatural exercises such as live games, you may often get distracted and strayed away by excessive thoughts and excessive data accumulated in your short-term memory. You may get overwhelmed by various ideas or even get obsessive thoughts. We are given quite a limited short-term memory by Mother Nature for a reason. The second counter-argument is that all intellectual qualities needed in everyday life naturally get developed to the extent you actually need them: For example, if you have a job that requires a certain intellectual quality, this quality naturally gets developed simply by your everyday work. So if you have not developed a certain intellectual ability to a certain extent, you probably do not need it. Why then do you need to develop it by doing mental exercises such as live games? You could spend your time for something more useful in terms of your life goals. Some people might argue that live games help develop visuospatial and pattern recognition abilities. But, again, is overly developing visuospatial and pattern recognition abilities a good and useful thing in real life? I have doubts, and my reasoning goes along the same lines as above. People who have overly developed imagination well may be prone to wild thoughts, analogies, and distractions. Everything you need in everyday life gets naturally developed on its own. And these observations prompt a fundamental question: Actually why do people play live games? I asked many players why they play live games, and practically no one mentioned the idea that live games may be useful in terms of developing abilities or qualities needed in real life. My impression is that a majority of people play live gomoku simply because they like it. But exactly why do people like playing live gomoku? Based on my talks with various players, my impression is that there are many reasons, including (but not necessarily limited to): (i) self-affirmation, enjoying the taste of victory, feeding the ego, (ii) enjoying being an artist by creating things on the board, (iii) a refreshing change from everyday life, and (iv) social interaction. Component (i) seems to be prevalent for many. For example, Vladimir Semenov, a prominent Russian renju player and a talented writer, wrote (as translated by me from Russian): ''Playing on a real board with a good time control, i.e., a time control exceeding one hour, has its charm incomparable with that of one-minute gomoku or other kinds of online gomoku games. Here is one thing out of many that you cannot experience online: Catching the decaying hopeless look of the opponent at the moment he realises that he lost and has no escape route. The feeling you experience at that moment is something to which practically nothing in real life is comparable. Figuratively speaking, one can give everything in exchange for that feeling.'' Live games appear to be well suitable for self-affirmation if you need it. You physically see your opponent, you beat him on a real board and catch his decaying hopeless look, then he stops the clock and congratulates you, and then real people around you talk about your success and award you a medal. The victory is for all to see and indisputable, as live tournaments are devoid of cheating. Have you ever wondered why live tournaments are characterised by a low proportion of females? Is it because, as some people believe, females are physiologically less capable? I do not think so, because, for example, in 2005 the Russian female renju player Yulia Savrasova won the Russian renju championship among men, finishing above such monsters as Sergey Artemyev, Pavel Salnikov, Konstantin Chingin, Vlad Kareev, and Konstantin Nikonov. I think the real reason for the low female proportion is that on average, females do not have such a strong need for self-affirmation as men do. Females tend to be more practical, more materialistic, more focused on real life matters, and less motivated to develop game skills and less interested in glory unless they can derive a profit from it. Moreover, self-affirmation due to winning live gomoku tournaments is delusional to a great extent, because in live gomoku tournaments nothing real is at stake. Okay, you won a live gomoku tournament, but who said your opponents were really motivated? Ask yourself the following powerful question: Would you be able to win the same tournament against the same players if the prize were 100,000$ and announced well in advance so that the players could really prepare? It would be very different play, wouldn't it? So maybe you won simply because you were more motivated than your opponents were? What is then the reason to be proud? What is the reason to be proud of having been more motivated, as compared to others, to play a game that brings no real benefits? Despite having never played in live gomoku tournaments, I well know what live games are like, as I participated in official live chess tournaments for children when I was about 10 years old. My parents wanted me to become a professional chess player, and I studied chess at a chess club at that time. I suppose I was more motivated than most gomoku players are. I saw chess as a profession, I saw games as a job, and I saw tournaments as exams. I did not feel that by studying and playing chess I developed something needed outside chess. And later I quit chess as a result of realising the extent to which professional chess requires studying and learning opening variants. I simply did not want to devote my life to studying and learning opening variants of a game with artificial rules. I played a considerable amount of online gomoku games with time controls of 20-30 min, which must be comparable to live gomoku games in terms of developing various abilities, and at such time controls I clearly felt that everything boiled down to calculation. I clearly felt that it was primarily about who can see more. I clearly felt that it was simply about the ability to solve things in mind. Summarising all of the above, I find it highly questionable that live gomoku games have a substantial value, especially in terms of developing qualities and abilities needed in real life. I started playing gomoku in 2015 and since then have been unable to find any motivation to participate in live tournaments. But what about correspondence games? They are about the ability to perform a great analysis and about research skills. By playing correspondence games, you learn a serious approach to strategy and planning. You learn a serious approach to analytical work. You learn long-term discipline. You learn to make very elaborated plans and to stick to them. You learn general principles of strategy. You become a great analyst and develop very useful analytical skills. And you can use these skills in everyday life to take important decisions - e.g., devising a tax evasion scheme, starting a business, making important career decisions, etc. You do not need to make decisions on such matters in your mind without making any records, but you need to be able to perform serious analytical work using any means you can. Correspondence games do not physiologically train your brain, but rather teach you useful concepts and approaches to analytical work and strategy. Correspondence games do not require keeping a lot of information in your short-term memory and thus do not subject your brain to unnatural loads, in contrast to live games. Successful correspondence players are generally great people. For example, the main favourites of the current world correspondence gomoku championship are Great Lord Lamaza (aka Alex Popiel) and Sensei Owen (aka Dmitry Epifanov). The former is a successful scientist, a linguist, and the latter was very successful in Russian physics Olympiads and currently works at Yandex, the Russian analogue of Google. The last two world correspondence renju championships were won by Hao Tianyi, who also won a gold medal in the 25th Chinese Mathematical Olympiad. So playing correspondence games well may be, in fact, more useful than playing live games, contrary to what many people might think. - end of the article - zukole - 2019-08-14, 23:39
Nie jesteś w stanie zmierzyć poziomu czyjejś motywacji w grze live, a tym bardziej wielomiesięcznej grze korespondencyjnej.
sandra113 - 2019-08-19, 00:40
Now tell mathematicians, "It is hard to develop math skills if you use a pen, paper, calculator, and computer. To become a great mathematician, you have to solve everything in mind." You will sound as hilarious as you just did
Counting VCFs, VCTs, and VC2s is a stupid routine work, just as multiplying big numbers is. It should be left to computers, just as mathematicians use tools like computers and calculators. In my research work, I use mathematical software to quickly calculate definite and indefinite integrals numerically and analytically, to solve differential equations, etc. Computers undertake routine tasks, letting humans focus on creative parts of the work. We live in the era of computers, not in the Stone Age. Wake up, get out of your cave, and catch up
It eludes me what you want to say with that I mentioned Savrasova to illustrate the point that females are no less intellectually capable than males. Do you really want to challenge that point? Do you want to confess that you are a sexist?
My view is simple: Females are no less intellectually capable, but are less motivated to invest time and effort to progress in a game from which they cannot derive any real benefit. And I have a lot of evidence to support my view: (1) Almost all players who play games like World of Tanks, chess, gomoku, etc. are males. Females tend to avoid wasting time on such activities. (2) IQ tests show no difference between males and females. Despite many scientific studies and years of research, scientists have been unable to find any proof or evidence of male intellectual superiority. (3) In Australia, the average male and female salaries are practically equal. What matters in life is money, and women in developed countries are no less capable of earning money than males are. (4) If really trained and motivated, women can play strategy games no worse than men can (e.g., Judith Polgar reached the 8th position on the world chess rating list, Yulia Savrasova became the Russian renju champion, etc.). If there were some real physiological obstacle related to the female brain structure or anything like that, no female would ever have been able to come even close to the level of the best players of the world.
No, but I am not saying that it makes sense to play correspondence gomoku for self-affirmation What I am saying is these two things:
(1) There are good reasons to play correspondence gomoku, and these reasons are unrelated to self-affirmation. By playing correspondence games, you learn a serious approach to strategy and planning. You learn a serious approach to analytical work. You learn long-term discipline. You learn to make very elaborated plans and to stick to them. You learn general principles of strategy. You become a great analyst and develop very useful analytical skills. (2) I do not see good reasons to play live gomoku. Many players play live gomoku for self-affirmation, but self-affirmation due to winning live gomoku tournaments is delusional to a great extent, because nothing real is at stake. Live gomoku games develop the ability to solve things in mind, but that ability is not needed in real life. Now back to your question. Actually, people often get really motivated in correspondence games. The thing is that correspondence players invest really many, many hours to each game, and winning a game to which a player invested so much time and effort means a lot for him. It is a psychological phenomenon known as sunk cost fallacy.
Do not make my stockings laugh The view that correspondence games are about running a program and brainlessly copying moves from it is utterly nonsensical.
There is no such thing as the optimal move If you think otherwise, tell me the optimal fourth move for the opening 1-c3 2-c4 3-d3 and for Angst's opening 1-g1 2-h15 3-h1. Come on, tell me
Correspondence gomoku is an art, and there are a variety of factors involved in choosing a move: global strategical considerations, game tree width, game plans, amount of calculational work required to ensure safety, amount of time left, distributing computational resources over your games, strengths and weaknesses of the opponent, time management, deciding where to stop analyzing a certain branch, etc. A move can be good for one plan and bad for another plan. It is a real art, and it is a much deeper and more nuanced art than live games are. Comparing correspondence gomoku and live gpmoku is like comparing Formula One and the 5K run.
It is like asking a prominent mathematician to comment a competition in which people compete in multiplying big numbers in mind
I think you are totally missing my point Just read what I wrote. My point is that great correspondence players are often successful outside the gomoku world, too. I am just looking at the correlation between two things: (i) success in correspondence gomoku, (ii) success outside the gomoku world. This point has nothing to do with live tournaments at all. The Great Lord Lamaza is a successful scientist, a linguist, and Sensei Owen was very successful in Russian physics Olympiads and currently works at Yandex, the Russian analogue of Google. The last two world correspondence renju championships were won by Hao Tianyi, who also won a gold medal in the 25th Chinese Mathematical Olympiad.
zukole - 2019-08-19, 13:58
Dla matematyka dzielisz zajęcia na rutynowe i kreatywne. Na czym polega kreatywność w graniu korespondencyjnym? Sprawdzanie, który ruch jest najlepszy jest zajęciem rutynowym. Stawiasz-sprawdzasz i tak do momentu finalnego wyboru. Jeżeli masz do wyboru ruchy o sile +150 i +50, to analiza ANALIZY PROGRAMU faktycznie może sprawiać problem 
Z drugiej strony gdy ktoś wierzy, że średni gracz live jest w stanie być najlepszym korespondencyjnie dzięki swoim umiejętnościom analitycznym to widzę sens w tym braku sensu
sandra113 - 2019-08-20, 19:11
And this way of thinking of yours is why, Zukole, you have never achieved anything in correspondence games Or did I get my facts crossed? Show me a medal won by you in a world correspondence renju championship
Top correspondence players do not see correspondence games as primitively as you do. And this is precisely why they are top correspondence players
You can read my English translation of sensei Owen's narrative of his correspondence match against Barbos here: Link. I hope that this piece of excellent writing by a great sensei will help you understand what correspondence games are about. And you can publicly ask sensei Owen on the Russian gomoku discussion board whether correspondence games are about blindly copying moves from a program. Just be considerate and humble in asking your question, and the great sensei will kindly share his wisdom with you. As a great sensei, he has always been nice to those who want to understand something and progress. And he actually has already made a statement about the matter: "Посмотрел бы я на программу, которая этот выигрыш способна найти - это к контексту дискуссии о том, ограничивается ли заочная игра тыканием в компьютер." (Translation: "I would gladly have a look at a program that could find this win. I am saying this in the context of the discussion about whether correspondence games are about brainlessly copying things on your computer.")
It eludes me what you are trying to say with that. Do you mean to say that females are intellectually less capable than males? Don't beat around the bush. Make your point straight, and then we can discuss it. I do not want to read between the lines. My view is simple: Females are no less intellectually capable than males, but are less motivated than males to progress in games that give no practical benefit (e.g., gomoku, World of Tanks, etc.). If you want to challenge that view, first state your own view in a clear and explicit way. If you believe that females are intellectually less capable than males for biological reasons, just say so explicitly. Otherwise it is unclear what we are actually arguing about. So far you have only cowardly produced some implicit hints between the lines. It is pretty pitiful when a man is afraid to clearly and openly state his view and stand up for it. It is pretty pitiful to see that a man hasn't got the balls. There is at least one brave compatriot of yours who has got the balls to directly speak his mind about the matter: https://youtu.be/40hhc0cjYyg. And have you got the balls to directly speak your mind? Will you state your view in a straight way like a real man, or will you continue cowardly beating around the bush? And I also would like to draw an analogy here. I speak English and Russian at the level of a native speaker and also fluently speak German, whilst you are bad at languages, speaking only your native language. Does it mean that you are really INCAPABLE of learning foreign languages? Following your logic, I could say, "Jeżeli komuś nie zależy na nauce języków obcych i jest z nich fatalny, to jest to wyłącznie problem tej osoby." Face your own argument, Zukole
Programs sometimes suggest strong moves and sometimes suggest strategically weak moves. Blindly following a program's suggestions in a correspondence game is something the Japanese have a special word for: 腹切り. A perfect illustration of my point comes from a specially arranged gomoku game between one of the top gomoku players, Gergő Tóth, and the best gomoku program, Yixin (to be exact, its 2015 version running on an average laptop). The time control was 60+30, and Gergő was allowed only to look at the board and use nothing but his own brain. The game was spectacularly won by Gergő. The program calculated much deeper and wider than Gergo did, but lost because of its poor strategic, positional play. Here is a nice report on the game: https://www.facebook.com/...831350010352214
If you claim that there is such a thing as optimal move, then why have you been unable to tell me the optimal fourth move for two standard openings, 1-c3 2-c4 3-d3 and 1-g1 2-h15 3-h1, as asked in my previous post? I have been waiting for your answer about the optimal moves for these openings since yesterday. Just tell the optimal move for each of these openings, and I will pass your statement to the Russians, who will surely have a long laugh
Jeżeli ponadprzeciętne osoby grają korespondencyjnie, oznacza to, że warto grać korespondencyjnie
zukole - 2019-08-20, 19:52
Medalu wprawdzie nie mam, ale wskaż mi gracza gomoku, który ma medal w korespondencyjnym renju. Pomogę Ci, nie ma takiego
Co do Twojego przykładu, to przecież nie obwiniam nikogo. Poziom znajomości jest wyłącznie moim problemem. Odwracając kota ogonem, mógłbym napisać że mi nie zależy (skoro kobietom nie zależy na rywalizacji)
sandra113 - 2019-08-21, 00:26
Yury Tarannikov, who won the Russian gomoku championship in 2016 and played in the GAT 2015 and the GAT 2017, won the world correspondence renju championship in 1997, six years after he won the world gomoku championship 1991. Viktor Balabhai, who nicely beat you in the GQT this year, won the bronze medal of the world correspondence renju championship in 2013. Tarannikov has 153 official gomoku games shown on Gomokuworld, and Balabhai - 204. They play various games and, in particular, are gomoku players, too.
Your fear to explicitly speak your mind has been noted. I am not willing to engage in an argument with someone who is unable to directly formulate his position and resorts to hints between lines. Get the balls first
Once again, my view is simple: Females are no less intellectually capable, but are less motivated to invest time and effort to progress in a game from which they cannot derive any real benefit. If you cannot say you disagree with this, there is nothing to argue about. And here is what research says about comparing males and females in chess:
You won't be able to solve any these openings. The best move is the one that maximizes your chance of success in the game, but there is no established routine to calculate that chance (unless you can solve the position). There are many factors to consider, including strategical situation, strengths and weakness of the opponent, amounts of time left, etc. It is an art and not a routine. I thus strongly disagree with your statement that "sprawdzanie, który ruch jest najlepszy jest zajęciem rutynowym." If finding the best move were a routine, then all serious correspondence players would be more or less equal, as they would simply implement that routine. But in reality some correspondence players are much stronger than others. The last two world correspondence renju championships were won by one and the same person, who also won a gold medal of the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad. The brain matters. I also wrote a detailed article about my investigation uncovering a strong correlation between live and correspondence ratings: http://renjunews.com/is-t...spondence-games
I am not eligible to play in the world correspondence gomoku championship, because a real name is required. For reasons that I already explained, I am not prepared to tell my real name anyone in the gomoku world. zukole - 2019-08-21, 13:33
Viktor ma rozegrane na żywo ponad 900 gier. Medal w Renju korespondencyjnym zdobył w 2013 roku, gdzie przed WC 2013 w Tallinie miał rozegrane 3 turnieje Gomoku (z czego dwa odbyły się podczas WC 2011). Owen - 2019-08-24, 23:05 Just to clarify. Balabhai is probably renju player mainly (as well as Karasyov, for example). But Tarannikov definitely prefers gomoku. He was forced to play renju because there were no proper gomoku organizations and tournaments for a while in 90s, 00s, but he still loves gomoku. And personally me. Of course, I'm a renju player mainly. But I have to say that the main two things which brought me to my level are playing correspondence and teaching children. It's about renju, but I believe it works with gomoku as well =) zukole - 2019-09-19, 14:53 Zakończono wszystkie partie. Wyniki: A- http://renju.in/en/turnaments/?tur=121&table (Usiek na drugim miejscu!) B- http://renju.in/en/turnaments/?tur=122&table C- http://renju.in/en/turnaments/?tur=123&table (Angst ex aequo z Rentimo na 3. miejscu) zukole - 2019-12-23, 20:39
Do 18 stycznia można się rejestrować do kolejnej edycji, która rozpocznie się 20 stycznia. Zgłoszenie powinno zawierać: 1. Imię i nazwisko 2. Nick do gry na renju.in 3. Miejsce i kraj zamieszkania oraz obywatelstwo 4. Kontaktowy adres mailowy 5. Imię i nazwisko oraz e-mail znanego gracza Gomoku/Renju, który potwierdzi tożsamość Zgłoszenie należy wysłać na adres renjusignup@yandex.ru Usiek - 2019-12-24, 02:38
Gwoli wyjaśnienia powyższej decyzji: W końcowej fazie wspomnianej partii (która notabene była ostatnią partią turnieju), gdy pozycja na planszy była już bezsprzecznie remisowa, Lamaza zaczął grać zdecydowanie wolniej niż wcześniej i ostatecznie zabrakło mu trzech ruchów do automatycznego remisu (następuje on gdy na planszy pojawi się 150 kamieni) - przegrał na czas. W wyniku tej porażki 1. miejsce w tabeli zajął Dmitry Epifanov (Owen), prześcigając mnie dzięki punktacji Sonneberga-Bergera. Spowodowało to wiele wątpliwości zarówno po stronie organizatorów, jak i innych graczy, dlatego Komitet Sędziowski podjął decyzję jak wyżej: - Lamaza otrzymał oficjalne ostrzeżenie (silne podejrzenie nieczystej gry we wspomnianej partii - możliwość celowej porażki na czas), - Owen i ja rozegramy dodatkowy mecz, który rozstrzygnie o tytule mistrzowskim - dwie partie, limit czasowy taki sam jak w turnieju, w przypadku remisu tytuł pozostaje w rękach Dmitrija, - przypomniano uczestnikom WCGC o obowiązku gry fair. W imieniu swoim i całego Komitetu Sędziowskiego serdecznie zapraszam do udziału w kolejnym sezonie!
zukole - 2020-01-17, 20:41 Rejestrację przedłużono do 01.02. Turnieje mają się zacząć 03.02. sandra113 - 2020-01-31, 06:56 The registration deadline for the World Correspondence Gomoku Championship is rapidly approaching: only two days are left, as the deadline is Sat 01 Feb! So hurry up to join the most epic championship in terms of the game quality! If you love to analyse gomoku positions and enjoy the deep beauty of gomoku, this championship is right for you. To register, just send an email to Dmitry Epifanov (renjusignup@yandex.ru). In your email, write your full name and your userid at renju.in if you have one. If you don't have one, just create one - it takes a minute. You also need to write your city of residence, your citizenship, and your email address. Additionally, since it is a very serious tournament, Dmitry will have to verify that you are who you claim you are, unless it is obvious. This will be generally done in the same way as in the World Correspondence Renju Championship - via a so-called contact person. A contact person is someone from the gomoku or renju community who can vouch for you and is well-known to Dmitry as a very reputable community member. This may sound a bit complicated, but is very easy in practice. Also, there are other options to verify your identity. Just get in touch with Dmitry, and he will talk to you about it. Together you will easily sort it out. The previous season of the World Correspondence Gomoku Championship proved to be really epic in terms of game quality. You can have a look at the games here: http://renju.in/turnaments/?tur=121&table And here is the official website of the tournament: https://sites.google.com/site/correspondencegomoku/home The biggest favourite of the upcoming season is Tianyi Hao, the talented Chinese analyst who won the World Correspondence Renju Championship in 2017 and 2018. He has successfully advanced to the High League of the World Correspondence Gomoku Championship and will try to become the world correspondence gomoku champion this year. However, to become the champion, he will have to finish above, in particular, Łukasz Majksner from Poland, also known as Usiek, and this may prove to be very difficult! Usiek is exceptionally skilled both as an analyst and as a player, having won the Polish gomoku championship of 2016 and been keeping the title of King of the Hill in real-time advanced gomoku. Here are a couple of links to my articles describing his skills: http://forum.gomoku.pl/viewtopic.php?p=59216#59216 , http://forum.gomoku.pl/viewtopic.php?p=59235#59235 And one of the greatest intrigues of the upcoming season is this: How will Nikolay Verevkin, the biggest surprise of the previous season, perform in the High League? Nikolay is a player from the Russian outback, namely the city of Balakovo in Saratov oblast, and was little known to the gomoku community before the previous season and has never played in live tournaments in gomoku or renju, but he made it to the High League last season by spectacularly winning Group C, where he beat, in particular, Wang Qichao, who won the World Correspondence Renju Championship of 2019! Might Nikolay become the world correspondence gomoku championship this year? Join the upcoming championship! You have two days left to do so
zukole - 2020-02-11, 18:41 Mistrzostwa ruszyły. Rywalizuje 20 graczy w 2 grupach: Grupa A - mistrzowska Majksner Łukasz POL usiek Rostovtsev-Popiel Alexander RUS yoda Smirnov Anatoly RUS anatoliy Drozdov Vladimir RUS valdemar52 Lebedev Alexey RUS alleb Hao Tianyi CHN wind23 Jakub Horák CZE 3ifndef Nikolay Verevkin RUS Melstagen Wang Qichao CHN heihei Małowiejski Piotr POL Angst Grupa B Gasan Babaev RUS/AZE bulldozer Matei Andrei ROM earth Alexeev Valentin RUS Валентин Алексеев Kozlov Igor RUS Игорь Saik Alexey UKR Алексей Саик Tao Tao CHN Мюстровский Kurochkin Viktor RUS boor Ryumkin Konstantin ISR Константин Рюмкин Kozmin Alexander RUS aleks9 Miroshnichenko Alexander UKR Александр Мирошниченко angst - 2020-02-11, 19:00 Wow. Nie wiem, jak załapałem się do elity, ale przynajmniej wiadomo, kto będzie outsiderem
Pozdrawiam Angst zukole - 2020-02-11, 19:34 Rankingiem. Przed pierwszą edycją na renju.net Dmitry napisał
Z poprzedniej grupy A zapisało się 5 osób (więc wszyscy się utrzymali). Z grupy B awansowali 1. wind23 i 4. 3ifndef (eurogomoku i lz się nie zgłosili), zaś z grupy C 1. Melstagen i 2. heihei. Na vk są podane rankingi i masz wyższy niż gracze z grupy B. Usiek - 2020-03-10, 15:32 Rozpoczął się zapowiedziany wcześniej dodatkowy mecz o tytuł Mistrza Świata w Gomoku Korespondencyjnym 2019 pomiędzy Dmitrijem Epifanovem a mną: Gra nr 1, Gra nr 2. protiz - 2020-03-10, 17:42 Niesamowity pojedynek się szykuje. Będę śledził. zukole - 2020-10-17, 16:03
Wyniki. Rostovtsev-Popiel Alexander zagrał na nicku lamaza, a Hao Tianyi 芝茵. zukole - 2020-10-27, 18:17
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zukole - 2021-03-27, 15:18 Grupa A Grupa B zukole - 2021-11-04, 08:01 Turnieje zostały zakończone. W grupie A triumfował Melstagen przed Lamazą i Barbosem. Angst zajął 8. miejsce. zukole - 2022-08-12, 18:16 Na stronie games.renjucaffe.com rozpoczął się turniej Super Gomoku Cup. 16 graczy rywalizuje w podwójnym systemie kołowym przy parametrach 100 dni na grę / 20 dni na ruch. Jednym z uczestników jest Angst
zukole - 2024-11-17, 17:35 Wczoraj rozpoczął się 3rd “Super Gomoku Cup” World Open Tournament. 15 zawodników rywalizuje w podwójnym kołowym. Na każdą grę przeznaczone jest 100 dni, w tym 20 dni na ruch. Kibicujemy Angstowi - https://www.renjucaffe.com/tournament/406/
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