News No. 306, 2010-02-10
Published by Dmitry Epifanov
| | CORRESPONDENCE RENJU - CURRENT SITUATION, FUTURE OF CORRESPONDENCE | Dear renju players!
At first I have to apologize. World Championship in Correspondence Renju was missed for a year and it is completely my fault.
Sorry!
I have to congratulate the winners of WC in Correspondence Renju - 2008:
World Champion Zhang Jinyu, China
Vice-Champion Balanova Jelena, Latvia
and bronze medalist Potapov Aleksey, Russia.
Now let's go on.
World Renju is on the crossroads. We are choosing and deciding our future. And Correspondence Renju must go with the times. A lot of strong correspondence players decided to stop playing because of boring RIF rules, it is much more obvious in Correspondence than in a real game.
Now it's time to return because new renju theory is to be created. And we know that correspondence games are the best quality games so they push the theory far beyond.
But we have a couple of troubles on the way.
First of all, we have to decide which opening rule/rules to choose for this tournament. Since we are free to choose, let's do it ourself!
The second problem is that there is no servers which support all brand new opening rules and give an opportunity to hold a tournament at the same time.
RenjuOffline isn't ready for tournament holding and doesn't support e-mail playing, PBeM doesn't support some opening rules, only Yamaguchi. We are moving on to get an appropriate server, and any help will be highly appreciated.
If you are interested in Correspondence Renju WC restoring, please, send me a message with the following information:
1. Your name, country, city. If you speak for several players or club, please, note them.
2. Did you play in Correspondence Renju WC before?
Do you have Correspondence rating? You can find it here:
http://stepanov.lk.net/pbemrat/ret2007.html
3. Desired opening rule (any rules from the following set: RIF, Taraguchi, Yamaguchi, Soosorv, Sakata).
4. Will you play with rejection system?
5. Will you play by Taraguchi? Y/N
Yamaguchi? Y/N
Soosorv? Y/N
6. Any comments and notes are highly appreciated.
My contacts: renjusignup at narod.ru; owene at pisem.net; PBeM user Owen.
Friendly yours, Epifanov Dmitry aka Owen. | | |
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