Tianyuan (Chinese: 天元; Pinyin: Tiān Yuán), literally meaning center or origin of heaven, is the center point on a Go board, i.e., tengen. It is also the name of a Go competition in China, which is the equivalent to the Nihon Ki-in's Tengen in Japan, and the Hanguk Kiwon's Chunwon. The winners of the Tianyuan and the Chunwon go on to play each other, in the annual China–Korea Tengen competition. [1]
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Tianyuan competition is sponsored by the Zhongguo Qiyuan, New People's Evening News and New People's Weiqi Monthly Magazine. The preliminaries is a direct knockout while the final is a best of three. The komi is 7.5 points. The winner's purse is 50,000 CY ($6,000).
| Player | Years Held |
|---|---|
| Ma Xiaochun | 1987, 1994 - 1996 |
| Liu Xiaoguang | 1988 - 1990, 1993 |
| Nie Weiping | 1991, 1992 |
| Chang Hao | 1997 - 2001 |
| Huang Yizhong | 2002 |
| Gu Li | 2003 - 2008 |
| Chen Yaoye | 2009 |