19 Aug:

The RINIWA Committee is proud to announce a new tournament for this year's calendar - the RINIWA DBM Quads. A 1-day, 400AP, Open competition with a new format. Players will be grouped into 4's (quads) by rating and play 2 rounds of swiss chess. The winner of the highest rated quad will be awarded 1st place, the winner of the 2nd quad will be awarded 2nd place, etc
Date: Sunday, 7th Oct (as part of Warcon)
Location: NUI Maynooth
Cost: 8 euros
List checking deadline: 19th Sept
List checking address: quads@iworg.com

In addition to supporting Warcon by running a DBM competition, RINIWA has been asked to solicit Demo/Particpation games for the event (especially Saturday the 6th of Oct). If you'd be interested in running a demo game please contact us at riniwa@iworg.com.

Our annual DBM survey results are now on the web. This year the questions were more focused on the issue of the potential for rules change since there is some international discussion on this. (The green answers are the most popular ones). Any further comments? Mail us.

A new RINIWA committee was elected at the 2007 AGM, Tim Snoddy (NI) stepped down and was replaced by David Houston. Many thanks to Tim for his years of service. Richard Aynsley becomes our new President and David Houston will fill the Vice-President role.

18 June:

This year's AGM will be held at 1pm in QUB students union building on the 22nd of June as part of the Q-Con convention and the Alan Neil Cuchulainn Trophy DBM competition.

The biggest news this year is that we are hosting the 1st IWF European Individual Championships for DBM in November.