Fujitsu Cup

The Fujitsu Cup (富士通杯) was an international Go competition that ran from 1988-2011.

Outline

The Fujitsu Cup was an international Go competition hosted by Fujitsu and Yomiuri Shimbun. The players were selected as follows:

• The top 3 players from the previous year's competition
• 7 players from Japan
• 5 players from China
• 5 players from South Korea
• 1 player from Taiwan
• 1 player from North America
• 1 player from South America
• 1 player from Europe

All 24 players played through preliminaries, until 8 players with the best record were given automatic advancement to the second round. The other 16 played against each other in the first round. The format was a single knockout, with 5.5 komi until 2002, 6.5 komi from 2003. The time limit was 3 hours' thinking time, and the winner's purse was ¥15,000,000 (≈$142,000).

In December 2011, the Japanese Go Association announced the permanent closure of the tournament.^[1]

Past winners and runners-up

Edition	Year	Nat.	Winner	Nat.	Runner-up
1	1988		Takemiya Masaki		Rin Kaiho
2	1989
3	1990		Rin Kaiho		Nie Weiping
4	1991		Cho Chikun		Qian Yuping
5	1992		Otake Hideo		O Rissei
6	1993		Yoo Changhyuk		Cho Hunhyun
7	1994		Cho Hunhyun		Yoo Changhyuk
8	1995		Ma Xiaochun		Kobayashi Koichi
9	1996		Lee Chang-ho		Ma Xiaochun
10	1997		Kobayashi Koichi		O Rissei
11	1998		Lee Chang-ho		Chang Hao
12	1999		Yoo Changhyuk		Ma Xiaochun
13	2000		Cho Hunhyun		Chang Hao
14	2001				Choi Myung-Hoon
15	2002		Lee Sedol		Yoo Changhyuk
16	2003				Song Tae Kon
17	2004		Pak Yeong-hun		Yoda Norimoto
18	2005		Lee Sedol		Choi Cheol-han
19	2006		Park Jungsang		Zhou Heyang
20	2007		Pak Yeong-hun		Lee Chang-ho
21	2008		Gu Li
22	2009		Kang Dongyun
23	2010		Kong Jie		Lee Sedol
24	2011		Park Junghwan		Qiu Jun

External links

• Official website
• The Fujitsu Cup games

References