Shinjin-O

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The Shinjin-O (新人王, King of the New Stars) is a Go competition.

[edit] Biography

The Shinjin-O is used by the Japanese Nihon-Kiin. The tournament started in 1976 and is only open to players under 7 dan and younger than 30 years of age. It is a single knockout tournament. In 2006, the tournament was changed to the Shinjin-O U-25 (King of the New Stars U-25) and the age restriction was lowered to 25 years old. The original thinking time was 4 hours, but along with the new age restriction, the thinking time was shortened to 3 hours. The winner's purse is 3,280,000 Yen ($29,000)

[edit] Past winners

Player Years Held
Koichi Kobayashi 1976, 1977
Akira Ishida 1978, 1979
Goro Miyazawa 1980, 1985
O Rissei 1981
Satoshi Kataoka 1982
Norimoto Yoda 1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990
Toshiya Imamura 1984
Hideki Komatsu 1988, 1992
Cho Sonjin 1991
Satoshi Yuki 1993
Tomoyasu Mimura 1994, 1995
Shinji Takao 1996
Kimio Yamada 1997
Keigo Yamashita 1998 - 2001
Cho U 2002
So Yokoku 2003
Tomochika Mizokami 2004
Kim Shushun 2005
Takehisa Matsumoto 2006
Yuta Iyama 2007
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