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| Tengen (Go) |
| Full name |
Tengen |
| Started |
1975 |
| Honorary Winners |
Rin Kaiho |
| Sponsors |
Three Newspaper Companies |
| Prize money |
14 million Yen ($122,000 USD) |
| Affiliation |
Nihon Ki-in |
Tengen (天元, center or origin of heaven) is the center point on a Go board. For the position, see the article about Go terms. It is also the name of a Go competition in Japan.
[edit] Tengen Competition (天元戦)
The Tengen competition is a Go competition used by the Japanese Nihon-Kiin and Kansai-Kiin. The Tengen is the 5th of the 7 big titles in Japanese Go. It uses the format like the other tournaments. There is a preliminary tournament, which is single knockout, where the winner faces the holder in a best-of-five match. Before the 6th Tengen, the format was different. Instead of the title holder waiting for a challenger, it would be the two players left from the single knockout tournament who then played a best-of-five match to determine the holder.
[edit] Past winners
[edit] Trivia
- The only player to repeat before the 6th Tengen was Kato Masao.
[edit] See also
