Saturday, May 4, 2013

14th WYPS championship

14th championship in WYPS won labradors. He lost only one game with imperatore, who finished on 2nd place. There is final position of this game.


There is positions from game between labradors and bloke (finished 3rd). There is only one solution.

One hard problem from final group. In next position black resign his game. But there is a move to connect all three sides. 




Monday, May 7, 2012

WYPS in Japanese

On LittleGolem is possible to play WYPS in Japanese. Game is played only with Hiragana without diacritics. There is my game example in Japanese played on Little Golem.


Short video with game example:

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Review of WYPS

Czech magazine deskovehry.com (Deskove Hry = Board Games) publish review of WYPS. Review is in Czech and English too.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

WYPS in February 2012 - 11th Championship

In February finished 9th French WYPS championship (winner Paul Gautherot) and 11th Italian championship (winner Super Chicken). But in february finished main 11th WYPS championship too.

Winner of 11th became Allan Mertner. It is his first win in WYPS championship - congratulation !!

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There is final interesting position of game between Allan Mertner and beppi: hero game.org (finished 2nd). For last move Allan used all his stones, but there is no move for white player.

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In this position white player (Clint) resigns his game against Allan Mertner. White player could continue in game with move FORLORN, but black has letter F and after his move FORLORN is game finished. By the way in this position has winner 11 stones less than loser ! It is interesting but in game #1388597 had winner 23 stones less than loser !

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Longest word was played in this position. White (Nagy Fathy  - winner of group 1 in second league) found word MOISTURIZERS. The same player found in another game word DYOTHELITIC. And I lost only game with labradors - when he found word COROLLARIES.

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Position from game #1388517 from second league. Only three games in tournament finished with full board.



Sunday, February 5, 2012

WYPS in January 2012

In January 2012 was finished 8th championship of German WYPS. Final group won lehmans, who won all his games.

On 4th January started 10th championship in small WYPS. Tournament play 49 players in 6 group. link

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

WYPS in December 2011

In December finished 8th Spanish championship (winner is RoByN) and 10th Italian championship (winner imperatore).

In December started a first tournaments in a new Number variant played on very small board. This variants looks as very interesting variant.

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

WYPS in November 2011

WYPS - numeric version

In November was finished 6th championship in Numeric version. It was played according to a new rules. Tournament won Nevermind - won 10 games from 11. On Little Golem is a new number version too - played on small board. He lost only one - very short game with Luca Bruzzi (finished on 2nd place).
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WYPS - English on small board

On November start 9th championship on small board. Final group was very quick and already is finished. Winner is Nevermind too !! There are some interesting Nevermind's positions from his games:
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In all three positions white on move connect all three sides and fill all empty fields !

Some interesting facts:

Shortest game #1390168 has only 6 moves and whole board was filled !

Longest game #1390294 has 17 moves.

Longest word was MINISTERIAL and ANCHORETIC:
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Most popular words were QAT and QI (3x).