Ando Meritee (born July 30, 1974) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

Renju ''Renju'' (Japanese: 連珠) is a professional variant of gomoku. It was named renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa (黒岩涙香) on December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper ''Yorozu chouhou'' (萬朝報). The name "renju" comes from t ...

player currently residing in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

. He was Renju World Champion in 1993, 1999, 2001, 2005, and won the Team World Championship in 2014. He has also won

European Renju Championship The European Renju Championship is an official Renju championship organized by the Renju International Federation (RIF). It was started in 1994. History The first European Championship was held in 1994 in Tallinn, Estonia. In 1995, it was dec ...

3 times, in 1996, 1998, 2006.Ando Meritee tuli rendžus kolmandat korda Euroopa meistriks
In 1999 Ando Meritee played a "match of two titans" against the Japanese legend Shigeru Nakamura, winning the match 3,5-2,5.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meritee, Ando 1974 births Living people Estonian Renju players Renju world champions Sportspeople from Tallinn