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 !!



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.



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 !



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.



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

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

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.

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).


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

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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.