RIF rating list is an official ranking system maintained by the Renju International Federation (RIF), to indicate the rankings of Renju players all over the world.[1][2] The rating system was established in General Assembly 1995 of RIF. Games between Renju players in formal tournaments are counted in the calculation of the ranking list, including World Championships, European Championships, National Championships and some other important tournaments. The RIF rating list is usually updated daily. [3] The ratings are maintained by the Qualification Commission of RIF.[4] According to the qualification system of the World Renju Championship, all the players with at least 10 games with established players, and within the top-20 of the RIF rating list, have the tickets to take part in the qualification tournament of the World Renju Championship.[5] The RIF rating list had been based on the Elo rating system before 2021, and was migrated to the whole-history rating system in August 2021.[3]

Top players

The top 20 players of the RIF rating list (updated on April 27, 2023) are listed as follows:[2]

Rank Player Rating
1 Japan Shigeru Nakamura 2902
2 Chinese Taipei Lin Shu-Hsuan 2888
3 Russia Vladimir Sushkov 2846
4 China Yang Yanxi 2842
5 Japan Shunsuke Kamiya 2821
6 Japan Tomoharu Nakayama 2764
7 China Li Yi 2762
8 China Qi Guan 2752
9 Chinese Taipei Lin Shih-Pin 2740
10 Macau Wai Chan Keong 2727
11 Chinese Taipei Lin Huang-Yu 2695
12 Russia Dmitry Epifanov 2688
13 Estonia Ants Soosõrv 2683
14 South Korea Hwang Do-hoon 2678
15 China Ni Zhongxing 2667
16 China Mei Fan 2659
17 Russia Maxim Orlov 2657
18 China Ge Lingfeng 2652
19 Russia Mikhail Kozhin 2651
20 China Wang Qingqing 2642

Historical top players by year

The list of historical top 5 players by year (retrieved on December 31 every year) is listed as follows:[1][2]

Year 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1998 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Kazuto Hasegawa Japan Norihiko Kawamura Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Takashi Sagara
1999 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Norihiko Kawamura Japan Kazuto Hasegawa Russia Dmitry Ilyin
2000 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Norihiko Kawamura Japan Hideki Nara Russia Igor Sinyov
2001 Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Norihiko Kawamura Russia Vladimir Sushkov Russia Igor Sinyov
2002 Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Norihiko Kawamura Russia Vladimir Sushkov Japan Makoto Yamaguchi
2003 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Norihiko Kawamura Russia Vladimir Sushkov Russia Konstantin Chingin
2004 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Norihiko Kawamura Estonia Ando Meritee Russia Alexandr Klimashin Russia Konstantin Chingin
2005 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Norihiko Kawamura Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Kazuto Hasegawa Russia Konstantin Chingin
2006 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Kazuto Hasegawa Japan Norihiko Kawamura Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Yusui Yamaguchi
2007 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Kazuto Hasegawa Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Norihiko Kawamura Japan Yusui Yamaguchi
2008 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Kazuto Hasegawa Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Norihiko Kawamura Japan Hiroshi Okabe
2009 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Kazuto Hasegawa Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Norihiko Kawamura Estonia Tunnet Taimla
2010 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Estonia Ando Meritee Estonia Tunnet Taimla Japan Yuuki Oosumi Japan Kazuto Hasegawa
2011 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Estonia Ando Meritee China Cao Dong China Yang Yanxi Japan Yuuki Oosumi
2012 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Estonia Ando Meritee China Yang Yanxi Japan Yuuki Oosumi China Li Yi
2013 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Yuuki Oosumi China Yang Yanxi Estonia Tunnet Taimla China Li Yi
2014 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Estonia Ando Meritee China Yang Yanxi Japan Yuuki Oosumi Estonia Tunnet Taimla
2015 Estonia Ando Meritee China Yang Yanxi Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Yuuki Oosumi Russia Konstantin Chingin
2016 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Estonia Ando Meritee China Yang Yanxi Russia Konstantin Chingin Japan Yuuki Oosumi
2017 Estonia Ando Meritee Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan Tomoharu Nakayama China Zhu Jianfeng Russia Vladimir Sushkov
2018 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Estonia Ando Meritee China Yang Yanxi Russia Konstantin Chingin Japan Tomoharu Nakayama
2019 Japan Shigeru Nakamura China Yang Yanxi Japan Shunsuke Kamiya China Li Yi Japan Yuuki Oosumi
2020 Japan Shigeru Nakamura China Yang Yanxi Japan Tomoharu Nakayama China Li Yi Japan Shunsuke Kamiya
2021 Japan Shigeru Nakamura China Yang Yanxi Russia Vladimir Sushkov Chinese Taipei Lin Shu-Hsuan Japan Shunsuke Kamiya
2022 Japan Shigeru Nakamura Chinese Taipei Lin Shu-Hsuan Russia Vladimir Sushkov China Yang Yanxi Japan Tomoharu Nakayama

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Renju Rating List (before 2021)". Renju Offline. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  2. 1 2 3 "Renju Rating List". Renju International Federation. Retrieved 2022-08-06.
  3. 1 2 "International Qualification System of RIF". Renju International Federation. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  4. ↑ "Qualification Commission". Renju International Federation. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  5. ↑ "Qualification System of The World Championship". Renju International Federation. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
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