Fujitsu Cup

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Fujitsu Cup (富士通杯) is a Go competition.

[edit] Outline

The Fujitsu Cup is an international competition. Fujitsu and Yomiuri Shimbun host the oldest international Go competition. The players are picked like the following.

The top 3 players from the previous years competition
7 players from Japan
5 players from China
4 players from South Korea
2 players from Taiwan
1 player from North America
1 player from South America
1 player from Europe

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 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).

[edit] Winners & runners-up

Winner	Runner up	Years Played
Takemiya Masaki	Rin Kaiho	1988
Takemiya Masaki	Rin Kaiho	1989
Rin Kaiho	Nie Weiping	1990
Cho Chikun	Qian Yuping	1991
Otake Hideo	O Rissei	1992
Yoo Changhyuk	Cho Hunhyun	1993
Cho Hunhyun	Yoo Changhyuk	1994
Ma Xiaochun	Kobayashi Koichi	1997
Lee Chang-ho	Ma Xiaochun	1996
Kobayashi Koichi	O Rissei	1997
Lee Chang-ho	Chang Hao	1998
Yoo Changhyuk	Ma Xiaochun	1999
Cho Hunhyun	Chang Hao	2000
Cho Hunhyun	Choi Myung-Hoon	2001
Lee Sedol	Yoo Changhyuk	2002
Lee Sedol	Song Tae Kon	2003
Park Young-Hoon	Yoda Norimoto	2004
Lee Sedol	Choi Cheol-han	2005
Park Jungsang	Zhou Heyang	2006