World Championship 1999 - part 2 五子棋比赛技巧 知识.docVIP

The Renju World Championship 1999 Part 2 When the Qualification Tournament was finished, all 12 finalists became clear. Russians had recovered from last World Championship (1997) failure and they were represented in A-final with 3 players coming from QT. Here is the list of all finalists: Japan: Kazuto Hasegawa (The World Champion of 1997) Yoshimi Hayakawa Takashi Sagara Norio Nishizono Russia: Mihail Kozhin Igor Sinyov Vladimir Sushkov Pavel Makarov Estonia: Ants Soosyrv Ando Meritee Sweden: Stefan Karlsson China: Zhang Jin-Yu This time, it was really hard to predict the skill and final results of those 12 players. The 5 players never played in World Championship finals before, so nobody knew what they might be able to do in finals for the first time. I try to describe and evaluate those 12 players as they were before the beginning of that tournament. Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan, 9 dan. He has played renju for a long time but yet he didn’t show any top results in serious competitions until the last World Championship in 1997 where he got the first place. As he had to try to defend his Champion title, he must have had lots of pressure. We all knew he was very strong player, but sometimes his play style had some weaknesses. Two years ago, the d11 was his lucky opening and actually that gave him the champion title in 1997. This time everybody had prepared that opening, so it would have been hard for him to show any surprises there. I believed though that he will manage to fight a place among the top three, especially because Nakamura was absent and the competition was weaker because of that. My earlier score with him before the tournament – Meritee-Hasegawa, 1:1. Yoshimi Hayakawa, Japan, 9 dan. He is a great renju veteran. He has played renju for 43 years. He really has lots of experience and knowledge about renju. He is probably the most important key person for Japan renju. However, his play style is very strange. He can sometimes play very strong and win a