Chunwon

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The Chunwon Cup (Korean: 천원전, Hanja: 天元戰) is a Go competition in Korea.

[edit] Outline

The Chunwon Cup is the equivalent to the Tengen in Japan. This tournament replaced the Baccus Cup. The sponsors are Far East Pharmaceuticals and Daily Economic Newspaper. The komi is 6.5 points. The time limits are 5 hours in the final, 4 in the main knockout, and 3 in the preliminaries. The winner's purse is 13,000,000 ($11,300).

[edit] Past winners

Player	Years Held
Yoo Changhyuk	1996
Lee Chang-ho	1997 - 1999
Lee Sedol	2000
Park Young-Hoon	2001
Song Tae Kon	2002
Choi Cheol-han	2003, 2004
Ko Geuntae	2005
Cho Hanseung	2006