WYPS in January 2012
Sun, Feb 5 2012 05:47
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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
On 4th January started 10th championship in small WYPS. Tournament play 49 players in 6 group. link
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WYPS in December 2011
Wed, Jan 4 2012 03:24
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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.
In December started a first tournaments in a new Number variant played on very small board. This variants looks as very interesting variant.
WYPS in November 2011
Thu, Dec 1 2011 05:41
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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).
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:
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:
Most popular words were QAT and QI (3x).
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).
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:
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:
Most popular words were QAT and QI (3x).
WYPS and Siri
WYPS in October 2011
10th championship in WYPS
In October was finished 10th championship in WYPS. It was first championship played according to new rules. Winner is Malaj from Hungary, winner of 9th championship too. Most important game was between Malaj and Paradoxx.
In this position Malaj found ingenious move: MAQUILA and won game in next move.
Interesting game was game #1348948 from final group. Game was played to last letter.
Several statistics:
Number of games: 261
Longest game: 50 moves.
First player won 46% of games.
Number of moves: 4443
Longest words 11 letters: MANTELSHELF (played in line !), FIELDSTONES, NEUTRALISER, PARASELENAE. All four players who found so long words lost these games !!
Most popular words: ZEE, QI, TEE, TRY, JET
8th WYPS championship on small board
In October finished 8th championship on small board too. Winner is imperatore.
There was found two 11 letters too: TEPEFACTION and ESTERIFYING. Both found Nagy Fathy and he will be play in final group in next championship.
Other championships
October was really rich for finished championship. Finished:
7th German championship
7th Spanish championship
8th French championship
9th Italian championship
WYPS in September 2011
Numeric WYPS
In the last month finished 5th championship in the international version of WYPS. Winner is klaashaas from the Netherlands. Tournament was played according to old rules, where letter after flip became not flippable. New 6th championship is played according to new rules, similar to the standard version of WYPS.
French WYPS
Jean Herbert from Canada won 7th championship in WYPS - french version. He had the same number of points as Paul Gautherot - both lost one game. Jean Herbert probably won next French championship too, because he already won with Paul Gautherot.
Small WYPS
40 players are played in 8th championship in small WYPS. Tournament started on 5th September and probably will be finished in October.
In the last month finished 5th championship in the international version of WYPS. Winner is klaashaas from the Netherlands. Tournament was played according to old rules, where letter after flip became not flippable. New 6th championship is played according to new rules, similar to the standard version of WYPS.
French WYPS
Jean Herbert from Canada won 7th championship in WYPS - french version. He had the same number of points as Paul Gautherot - both lost one game. Jean Herbert probably won next French championship too, because he already won with Paul Gautherot.
Small WYPS
40 players are played in 8th championship in small WYPS. Tournament started on 5th September and probably will be finished in October.
WYPS in store
Finally is possible again to buy WYPS. Price is until now 24.00€ and shipping 5.00€ and I hope it will be not higher. You could buy WYPS in store. 
Handicaps in WYPS
When I played WYPS with children it is not very interesting game because I am very strong. We invent a handicap version, where I have only a few stones in rack - for example three or four. Our rules for handicap WYPS:
In this video is example of handicaps where black player win with only two stones in rack.
- Stronger player is black and has less stones in rack - 6,5,4,3 or 2.
- Weaker player is white and starts games
- There is no swap move.
In this video is example of handicaps where black player win with only two stones in rack.
Rules in PDF
Finished tournaments in August
In August were finished several championships.
On August 1st finished 8th Italian championship. Championship won beppi. He won 7th, 3rd and 2nd championship too.
On August 14th finished 7th English Small championship. Tournament won gpallis. About interesting game between 1st and 2nd player we wrote in previous blog.
On August 17th finished 6th Spanish championship. jose.ibiza won all his games.
Longest word in 7th English Small Championship
White player - maguire from Germany - played FLUTTERED.
On August 1st finished 8th Italian championship. Championship won beppi. He won 7th, 3rd and 2nd championship too.
On August 14th finished 7th English Small championship. Tournament won gpallis. About interesting game between 1st and 2nd player we wrote in previous blog.
On August 17th finished 6th Spanish championship. jose.ibiza won all his games.
Longest word in 7th English Small Championship
White player - maguire from Germany - played FLUTTERED.