RIF rating list is an official ranking system maintained by the Renju International Federation (RIF), to indicate the rankings of Renju players all over the world. The rating system was established in General Assembly 1995 of RIF. Games between Renju players in formal tournaments are counted in the calculation of the ranking list, including World Championships, European Championships, National Championships and some other important tournaments. The RIF rating list is usually updated daily. The ratings are maintained by the Qualification Commission of RIF. According to the qualification system of the World Renju Championship, all the players with at least 10 games with established players, and within the top-20 of the RIF rating list, have the tickets to take part in the qualification tournament of the World Renju Championship. The RIF rating list had been based on the Elo rating system before 2021, and was migrated to the whole-history rating system in August 2021.
Top players The top 20 players of the RIF rating list (updated on August 6, 2026) are listed as follows:
RankPlayerRating1 Vladimir Sushkov29003 Lin Shu-Hsuan28493 Tomoharu Nakayama28474 Shunsuke Kamiya28445 Ling Shijie28426 Ants Soosõrv28177 Wai Chan Keong27898 Jiang Qiwen27889 Qi Guan278210 Hiroshi Okabe276511 Zhu Jianfeng276212 Ai Xianping275913 Huang Liqin275814 Ni Zhongxing275715 Wu Di275716 Mei Fan274917 Huang Shengming274418 Danila Gromov272419 Maxim Orlov272220 Zhao Yun2720
Historical top players by year
The list of historical top 5 players by year (retrieved on December 31 every year) is listed as follows:
Year1st2nd3rd4th5th1998 Shigeru Nakamura Kazuto Hasegawa Norihiko Kawamura Ando Meritee Takashi Sagara1999 Shigeru Nakamura Ando Meritee Norihiko Kawamura Kazuto Hasegawa Dmitry Ilyin2000 Shigeru Nakamura Ando Meritee Norihiko Kawamura Hideki Nara Igor Sinyov2001 Ando Meritee Shigeru Nakamura Norihiko Kawamura Vladimir Sushkov Igor Sinyov2002 Ando Meritee Shigeru Nakamura Norihiko Kawamura Vladimir Sushkov Makoto Yamaguchi2003 Shigeru Nakamura Ando Meritee Norihiko Kawamura Vladimir Sushkov Konstantin Chingin2004 Shigeru Nakamura Norihiko Kawamura Ando Meritee Alexandr Klimashin Konstantin Chingin2005 Shigeru Nakamura Norihiko Kawamura Ando Meritee Kazuto Hasegawa Konstantin Chingin2006 Shigeru Nakamura Kazuto Hasegawa Norihiko Kawamura Ando Meritee Yusui Yamaguchi2007 Shigeru Nakamura Kazuto Hasegawa Ando Meritee Norihiko Kawamura Yusui Yamaguchi2008 Shigeru Nakamura Kazuto Hasegawa Ando Meritee Norihiko Kawamura Hiroshi Okabe2009 Shigeru Nakamura Kazuto Hasegawa Ando Meritee Norihiko Kawamura Tunnet Taimla2010 Shigeru Nakamura Ando Meritee Tunnet Taimla Yuuki Oosumi Kazuto Hasegawa2011 Shigeru Nakamura Ando Meritee Cao Dong Yang Yanxi Yuuki Oosumi2012 Shigeru Nakamura Ando Meritee Yang Yanxi Yuuki Oosumi Li Yi2013 Shigeru Nakamura Yuuki Oosumi Yang Yanxi Tunnet Taimla Li Yi2014 Shigeru Nakamura Ando Meritee Yang Yanxi Yuuki Oosumi Tunnet Taimla2015 Ando Meritee Yang Yanxi Shigeru Nakamura Yuuki Oosumi Konstantin Chingin2016 Shigeru Nakamura Ando Meritee Yang Yanxi Konstantin Chingin Yuuki Oosumi2017 Ando Meritee Shigeru Nakamura Tomoharu Nakayama Zhu Jianfeng Vladimir Sushkov2018 Shigeru Nakamura Ando Meritee Yang Yanxi Konstantin Chingin Tomoharu Nakayama2019 Shigeru Nakamura Yang Yanxi Shunsuke Kamiya Li Yi Yuuki Oosumi2020 Shigeru Nakamura Yang Yanxi Tomoharu Nakayama Li Yi Shunsuke Kamiya2021 Shigeru Nakamura Yang Yanxi Vladimir Sushkov Lin Shu-Hsuan Shunsuke Kamiya2022 Shigeru Nakamura Lin Shu-Hsuan Vladimir Sushkov Yang Yanxi Tomoharu Nakayama2023 Shigeru Nakamura Yang Yanxi Vladimir Sushkov Shunsuke Kamiya Lin Shu-Hsuan2024 Shigeru Nakamura Vladimir Sushkov Shunsuke Kamiya Lin Shu-Hsuan Ants Soosõrv2025 Shigeru Nakamura Vladimir Sushkov Shunsuke Kamiya Lin Shu-Hsuan Tomoharu Nakayama
See also Renju Renju International Federation World Championships in Renju
References
External links Official RIF rating list