Fujitsu Cup
The Fujitsu Cup (富士通杯) was an international Go competition that ran from 1988 to 2011.
Outline
[edit]The Fujitsu Cup was an international Go competition hosted by Fujitsu and Yomiuri Shimbun. The players were selected as follows:
- The top 3 players from the previous year's competition
- 7 players from Japan
- 5 players from China
- 5 players from South Korea
- 1 player from Taiwan
- 1 player from North America
- 1 player from South America
- 1 player from Europe
All 24 players played through preliminaries, until 8 players with the best record were given automatic advancement to the second round. The other 16 played against each other in the first round. The format was a single knockout, with 5.5 komi until 2002, 6.5 komi from 2003. The time limit was 3 hours' thinking time, and the winner's purse was ¥15,000,000 (≈$142,000).
In December 2011, the Japanese Go Association announced the permanent closure of the tournament.[1]
Past winners and runners-up
[edit]| Edition | Year | Nat. | Winner | Nat. | Runner-up |
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| 1 | 1988 |  |
Takemiya Masaki | |
Rin Kaiho |
| 2 | 1989 | ||||
| 3 | 1990 | Rin Kaiho |  |
Nie Weiping | |
| 4 | 1991 | Cho Chikun | Qian Yuping | ||
| 5 | 1992 | Otake Hideo | |
O Rissei | |
| 6 | 1993 |  |
Yoo Changhyuk | |
Cho Hunhyun |
| 7 | 1994 | Cho Hunhyun | Yoo Changhyuk | ||
| 8 | 1995 | |
Ma Xiaochun | |
Kobayashi Koichi |
| 9 | 1996 | |
Lee Chang-ho | |
Ma Xiaochun |
| 10 | 1997 | |
Kobayashi Koichi | |
O Rissei |
| 11 | 1998 |  |
Lee Chang-ho | |
Chang Hao |
| 12 | 1999 | Yoo Changhyuk | Ma Xiaochun | ||
| 13 | 2000 | Cho Hunhyun | Chang Hao | ||
| 14 | 2001 | |
Choi Myung-Hoon | ||
| 15 | 2002 | Lee Sedol | Yoo Changhyuk | ||
| 16 | 2003 | Song Tae Kon | |||
| 17 | 2004 | Pak Yeong-hun |  |
Yoda Norimoto | |
| 18 | 2005 | Lee Sedol | |
Choi Cheol-han | |
| 19 | 2006 | Park Jungsang | |
Zhou Heyang | |
| 20 | 2007 | Pak Yeong-hun | |
Lee Chang-ho | |
| 21 | 2008 | |
Gu Li | ||
| 22 | 2009 | |
Kang Dongyun | ||
| 23 | 2010 | |
Kong Jie | |
Lee Sedol |
| 24 | 2011 | |
Park Junghwan | |
Qiu Jun |
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Fujitsu Cup Ends After 24-Year Run". American Go e-Journal. 2011-12-19. Archived from the original on 2021-09-24.
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