World Championship

The idea of World Championships was discussed in the first RIF meeting in 1988. At that time, there were only 3 renju countries Japan, Sweden, USSR. It was decided that the First Renju World Championship should be held in Kyoto a year later - in 1989.Everybody was waiting for this big event excitedly. It was the first time the peope from western countries could have a chance to see the legendary Shigeru Nakamura playing the tournament games. That was the beginning of the history of Renju World Championships...

World Championships

Event	Location
World Championship 1989	(Kyoto Japan)
World Championship 1991	(Moscow Russia)
World Championship 1993	(Arjeplog Sweden)
World Championship 1995	(Tallinn Estonia)
World Championship 1997	(Saint Petersburg Russia)
World Championship 1999	(Beijing China)
World Championship 2001	(Kyoto Japan)
World Championship 2003	(Vadstena Sweden)
World Championship 2005	(Tallinn Estonia)
World Championship 2007	(Tyumen Russia)
World Championship 2009	(Pardubice Czech Republic)
World Championship 2011	(Huskvarna Sweden)
World Championship 2013	(Tallinn Estonia)
World Championship 2015	(Suzdal Russia)
World Championship 2017	(Taipei Chinese Taipei)
World Championship 2019	(Tallinn Estonia)
World Championship 2022	(Istanbul Turkey)

Qualification Tournament (QT) and Open Tournament (BT)

The System and Rules of World Championship

The Participants of World Championships of all times

No.	Name	Country	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	1999	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011	2013	2015	2017	2019	Times	Points
1	Vladimir Sushkov	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	5	9	8.5	8	7	9	6.5	6.5	-	9.5	7	10	76
2	Ando Meritee	Estonia	-	-	8.5	8	8	9.5	11	7.5	8.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	61
3	Tunnet Taimla	Estonia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	5.5	6.5	9	6.5	9.5	5	-	-	7	51
4	Hiroshi Okabe	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6.5	5	3.5	4	5	5	6.5	-	6	8	41.5
5	Hideki Nara	Japan	7	7	8	6	6.5	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	40.5
6	Stefan Karlsson	Sweden	-	-	3.5	3	3.5	7	5	4.5	3.5	4.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	34.5
7	Kazuto Hasegawa	Japan	5.5	7	6.5	-	9	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	34
8	Shigeru Nakamura	Japan	8.5	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7.5	-	-	-	7	-	4	33
9	Dong Cao	China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	9	6	-	-	9	4	32
10	Mikhail Kozhin	Russia	2.5	5	7	-	5	5.5	-	-	-	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	7	31
11	Igor Sinyov	Russia	-	3	-	-	5	7	8	4.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	27.5
12	Ants Soosõrv	Estonia	-	-	6.5	3.5	6	5.5	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	26.5
13	Aldis Reims	Latvia	-	7	7.5	5.5	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	26
14	Konstantin Chingin	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6.5	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	22.5
15	Petter Gardstrom	Sweden	2	3.5	-	6	1	-	5.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4.5	6	22.5
16	Andry Purk	Estonia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6.5	6.5	7.5	-	-	-	-	-	3	20.5
17	Shunsuke Kamiya	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6.5	6.5	7	3	20
18	Huang-Yu Lin	Chinese Taipei	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	7.5	4	-	3	19.5
19	Yusui Yamaguchi	Japan	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	19
20	Takashi Sagara	Japan	-	-	5.5	-	7.5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	16
21	Aivo Oll	Estonia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	3.5	5.5	-	-	5	4	16
22	Di Wu	China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	6.5	-	-	-	-	-	2	15.5
23	Guan Qi	China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8.5	6.5	-	2	15
24	Norihiko Kawamura	Japan	-	-	-	9	5.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	14.5
25	Yuuki Oosumi	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	8	-	-	-	2	14
26	Ingvar Sundling	Sweden	3	5.5	5.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	14
27	Ko-Han Chen	Chinese Taipei	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	6	5.5	-	-	3	13.5
28	Zhiren Lan	China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	7	-	-	2	13
29	Pavel Salnikov	Russia	-	-	-	5.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	4	-	-	3	11.5
30	Tomoharu Nakayama	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	6	2	11
31	Fan Mei	China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	6	2	11
32	Yulia Savrasova	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	10
33	Dmitry Epifanov	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	3.5	2	9.5
34	Sergey Artemyev	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6.5	-	-	2.5	-	-	-	-	2	9
35	Tord Andersson	Sweden	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	3	9
36	Nikolay Mikhailov	Uzbekistan	4.5	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	8.5
37	Jianfeng Zhu	China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	1	8
38	Shu-Hsuan Lin	Chinese Taipei	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7.5	-	1	7.5
39	Jin-xian Huang	Hong Kong, China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7.5	-	-	-	-	1	7.5
40	Dmitry Ilyin	Russia	-	-	-	7.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	7.5
41	Jan Palmgren	Sweden	2	5.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	7.5
42	Yoshihiro Iio	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4.5	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	7.5
43	Xiaohan Dai	China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6.5	-	-	-	-	1	6.5
44	Joachim Gaulitz	Sweden	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	6.5
45	Konstantin Nikonov	Russia	-	-	2.5	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	6.5
46	Stepan Peskov	Russia	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	6
47	Toshio Nishimura	Japan	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	6
48	Martin Hõbemägi	Estonia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.5	3.5	-	-	2	6
49	Pavel Makarov	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.5	1.5	-	3	6
50	Yuriy Tarannikov	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	5.5
51	Oleg Fedorkin	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.5	-	-	1	5.5
52	Jun Koyama	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.5	1	5.5
53	Kai Lam Tang	Macao, China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	1	5
54	Denis Fedotov	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	1	5
55	Yoshimi Hayakawa	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	4.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4.5
56	Jinyu Zhang	China	-	-	-	-	-	4.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4.5
57	Shin-ichi Ishitani	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	4.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4.5
58	Norio Nishizono	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	4.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4.5
59	Maxim Karasyov	Russia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	1	4
60	Arnis Veidemanis	Latvia	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4
61	Evgeniy Bobkov	Russia	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4
62	Martin Carlsson	Sweden	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4
63	Byoung-Jun Kim	Korea	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	4
64	Ondrej Nykl	Czech Republic	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.5	-	-	-	-	-	1	3.5
65	Eduard Voskanyan	Armenia	-	3.5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3.5
66	Liu-Min Lin	Chinese Taipei	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.5	-	1	3.5
67	Qingqing Wang	China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	1	3
68	Alexander Klimashin	Russia	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3
69	Albert Poghosyan	Armenia	-	-	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3
70	Takayuki Ono	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	1	2
71	Yu-Chien Chou Huang	Chinese Taipei	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	1	2
72	Hannes Hermansson	Sweden	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2
73	I-Cheng Hou	Chinese Taipei	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	1	2
74	Fumiya Inoue	Japan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.5	1	1.5
75	Sheng-Min Lin	Chinese Taipei	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1
76	Michael Unterweger	Austria	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1