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.

WYPS - idea for universal version

Spiel des Jahres 2011 became game QWIRKLE - http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25669/qwirkle. Stones for Qwirkle and definition of word could be used in WYPS too. Rules for international version of WYPS - Q version:

• Size board 8. It is 36 fields.
• 36 stones. There is 6 characters in 6 different colors.
• Rack size is 5 stones.
• Other rules are the same as in last version of WYPS.

Two interesting games

There are two interesting games from ongoing tournaments on LitteGolem.

Full Board

This game was played in 10th WYPS championship between JeanHerbert and chianti. Game was played to last stone and last 13 moves were atari moves. There is final position:


The win with a few stones

Second game is played in 7th WYPS championship on small board. Game is played between gpallis and Michal Piszczalka. gpallis is a new champion on small board and this interesting games is his only lost. In this position:

gpallis plays excellent move REFILTER.



White is not only connected, but there is only one free field in corner, very distant from important letter R. But Michal Piszczalka found right solution.



In final position has black only 9 stones against 19 white's stones. But it is enough to be connected.

New videos on YouTube

I create two new videos. There is a new special page with these videos too. Video with game on small board has every move commented - there are explained rules.

WYPS - new rules and new tournaments

There are a new  official rules for WYPS. In short:

• Size of board - 13.
• Every player has 7 stones in rack.
• First move is choice. 
• ZigZag move is allowed and player could turn one opponent's stone.
• If move is in line, player turns all opponent's stones.
• Atari is move, when player connect all three sides of board.
• Game is finished, when opponent is not able break off opponent's atari.

And changes on Little Golem:

• Championship is played according to new rules: groups
• Monthly cup is played according to quick variant - first atari won game
• Championship on small board is played too according to new rules: groups.
• New rules will be in variant with numbers too. Next championship will start probably in August.

Ultimate WYPS tournament finished

On March 16th I wrote about Ultimate variant of WYPS. It is variant where is no luck influence. On LittleGolem was played small tournament with this variant.

Winner of tournament become JeanHebert. He won all his games.

Tournament Table.

I am champion !!

I won 6th championship on small board. I love playing on small board, because my English is not very good for searching long words on bigger board. I was successful in 1st championship too, where I was 3rd and lost only 4 games from 27 games.