European Renju Championship

European Renju Championship - A biennial renju competition organized by RIF . It has been held since 1994 . The current winner (2018) is Fedotov Denis from Russia .

Content

Appearance

The first European Championship was held in 1994 in Tallinn , Estonia. Then the decision to hold European Championships on a regular basis was made at the RIF General Assembly in 1995 ^[1] . In the same year, the second championship was held in St. Petersburg. Since 1996, the regularity of the event has been changed, the tournament began to be held once every two years.

Tournament System

In different years the tournament was held in different ways. So, in 1994 and 1995, the Swiss system was used, in 1996 there were two group stages, after which the winners were determined by semifinal and final matches. A similar scheme, with only one group stage, was applied until 2002, starting with which the Swiss system was installed. In 2016, a round robin system with final matches was applied.

Winners and Prizewinners

No.	Year	Country city	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
one	1994 European Renju Championship	Tallinn Estonia	Arnis Weidemanis	Stepan Peskov	Igor Sinev
2	European Renju Championship 1995	Saint Petersburg Russia	Alexander Klimashin	Mikhail Kozhin	Vladimir Semenov
3	1996 European Renju Championship	Stockholm Sweden	Ando Merite	Aldis Reims	Igor Sinev
four	1998 European Renju Championship	Tallinn Estonia	Ando Merite	Vladimir Sushkov	Ants Soosyrv
five	2000 European Renju Championship	Yellow Waters Ukraine	Alexander Klimashin	Ants Soosyrv	Stefan Karlsson
6	2002 European Renju Championship	Karepa Estonia	Igor Sinev	Timel Tunnet	Pavel Makarov
7	2004 European Renju Championship	Puff Russia	Alexander Kadulin	Johann Lents	Pavel Vershinin
eight	2006 European Renju Championship	Havlichkow Brod , Czech	Ando Merite	Alexander Kadulin	Ants Soosyrv
9	2008 European Renju Championship	Saint Petersburg Russia	Ivo All	Sergey Artemyev	Timel Tunnet
ten	2010 European Renju Championship	Karepa Estonia	Maxim Karasev	Timel Tunnet	Mikhail Kozhin
eleven	2012 European Renju Championship	Suzdal Russia	Oleg Fedorkin	Ants Soosyrv	Yuri Tarannikov ^[2]
12	2014 European Renju Championship	Tallinn Estonia	Ants Soosyrv	Martin Hybemägi	Pavel Makarov
13	2016 European Renju Championship	Tashkent Uzbekistan	Dmitry Epifanov	Johann Lents ^[3]	Timel Tunnet ^[4]
14	2018 European Renju Championship	Tallinn Estonia	Denis Fedotov	Ivo All	Martin Hybemägi ^[5]

Notes

↑ The Protocol of General Assembly 1995 . RIF Date of treatment April 18, 2013. Archived April 22, 2013.
↑ With the actual fourth place, since the third place went to the out-of-competition representative of Japan, Norihiko Kawamura .
↑ With the actual third place, since the second place went to the out-of-competition representative of China, Wang Qingqing .
↑ With the actual fourth place, since the second place went to the out-of-competition representative of China, Wang Qingqing .
↑ With the actual fourth place, since the third place went to the out-of-competition representative of China, Wang Qingqing .

Links

[1] The Protocol of General Assembly 1995 . RIF Date of treatment April 18, 2013. Archived April 22, 2013.

[2] With the actual fourth place, since the third place went to the out-of-competition representative of Japan, Norihiko Kawamura .

[3] With the actual third place, since the second place went to the out-of-competition representative of China, Wang Qingqing .

[4] With the actual fourth place, since the second place went to the out-of-competition representative of China, Wang Qingqing .

[5] With the actual fourth place, since the third place went to the out-of-competition representative of China, Wang Qingqing .