Any novice player always wants to know whether there will be changes and innovations in the game in the near future. Qualified players say with almost 100% certainty that in the next 10-15 years there will be no significant changes in the rules. Fifty years of experience, taking into account all the modification changes (which relate only to a number of the first moves), practically level the possibilities of any player.

But one more argument in favor of the forbidden moves for Blacks (this is the “long row”, 4×4 and 3×3) should be noted: the introduction of prohibitions in the last century was quite unexpected even for the creators, but this led to many different variations, enriched the game tactical and strategic moves.

Thus, on the basis of prohibitions and changes in previous years, it is possible to say that Renju, mainly in Japan, grew out of the age of a teenager and entered adult life by an already established and well-established game.

Renju is modern, in scale of the world sports community, the game is very young. At the end of 1988 in Sweden created the RIF (International Renju Federation). At the beginning this federation united and was created by 3 countries: Japan, Sweden and the USSR. Tommy Malter from Sweden became the first president. In 2001, Peter Jonsson became the new president of the International Renju Federation.

Nowadays, more than twenty countries are members of the International Federation.

Since 1989 (a year later), the Renju World Championships have been held.
Here are the first five of them:

Year of the tournament City, country of the tournament Champion Country
1989 Kyoto, Japan Shigeru Nakamura Japan
1991 Moscow, USSR Shigeru Nakamura Japan
1993 Arjeplog, Sweden Ando Merite Estonia
1995 Tallinn, Estonia Norihiko Kawamura Japan
1997 St. Petersburg, Russia Kazuto Hasegawa Japan
Our athletes in the first ten championships did not rise above the 2nd place. The first champion from Russia was Vladimir Sushkov at the 11th championship.