The Fujitsu Cup (富士通杯) was an international Go competition that ran from 1988 to 2011.
Outline 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.
Past winners and runners-up Edition Year Nat. Winner Nat. Runner-up 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
The Fujitsu Cup games
References