Fujitsu Cup

The Fujitsu Cup (富士通杯) is an international Go competition that ran from 1988-2011.

Outline

The Fujitsu Cup is an international competition. Fujitsu and Yomiuri Shimbun host the oldest international Go competition. The players are picked as follows:

All 24 players play through preliminaries, until 8 players with the best record are given automatic advancement to the second round. The other 16 play against each other in the first round. The format is a single knockout, with 5.5 komi. The time limit is 3 hours' thinking time, and the winner's purse is 15,000,000 Yen ($142,000). Up until this point, only three people have ever defended their title, Lee Sedol, Cho Hunhyun and Takemiya Masaki. Kang Dongyun was the defending Champion, but lost in the 2010 playoffs in the quarter-finals to Qiu Jun by half a point with the Black stones. The other three semi-finalists are Lee Sedol, Kong Jie and Piao Wenyao. The semifinal and final would be held on the 3rd and 5 July.

In December 2011, the Japanese Go Association announced the permanent closure of the tournament.[1]

Past winners and runners-up

YearNat.WinnerNat.Runner-up
1988JapanTakemiya MasakiJapanRin Kaiho
1989
1990Rin KaihoChinaNie Weiping
1991Cho ChikunChinaQian Yuping
1992Otake HideoJapanO Rissei
1993South KoreaYoo ChanghyukSouth KoreaCho Hunhyun
1994Cho HunhyunSouth KoreaYoo Changhyuk
1995ChinaMa XiaochunJapanKobayashi Koichi
1996South KoreaLee Chang-hoChinaMa Xiaochun
1997JapanKobayashi KoichiJapanO Rissei
1998South KoreaLee Chang-hoChinaChang Hao
1999Yoo ChanghyukChinaMa Xiaochun
2000Cho HunhyunChinaChang Hao
2001Cho HunhyunSouth KoreaChoi Myung-Hoon
2002Lee SedolSouth KoreaYoo Changhyuk
2003Lee SedolSouth KoreaSong Tae Kon
2004Pak Yeong-hunJapanYoda Norimoto
2005Lee SedolSouth KoreaChoi Cheol-han
2006Park JungsangChinaZhou Heyang
2007Pak Yeong-hunSouth KoreaLee Chang-ho
2008ChinaGu Li
2009South KoreaKang Dongyun
2010ChinaKong JieSouth KoreaLee Sedol
2011South KoreaPark JunghwanChinaQiu Jun

References

  1. ↑ http://www.usgo.org/news/2011/12/fujitsu-cup-ends-after-24-year-run/
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