They usually don't study either literature or theory, leave tournaments and don't pay member's fees. Experience show that their interest for renju decrease after 2-3 months and after a couple of years they go out of renju sight even if the work in the club is organized in the best possible way. It is interesting that after the first acquaintance with forbidden moves almost all the players prefer to play white, because you don't need to care about not making a forbidden move. But further progress is possible only with mastering all the methods possible according to the rules. How can I describe the first satisfaction that appears when you carry out a several moves combinations forcing to make a forbidden move, and look at the puzzled opponent who stops the direct threats but step by step comes to the fine final.
Victories using overline or double-four is prticulary pleasing.
A double-forbidden move. Even if it is Black's move, he can not escape from the forbidden moves in 1 and 3. There is a characteristic mistake, typical for this stage of mastering renju - a kind of eiphory of forbidden moves, when the player tries to win all the white games by forcing the opponent to make a forbidden move. This excess, as all others, must be got rid of, sometimes at cost anoying defeats. The next stage is mastering such methods as VCF-threats and counterfour.