Tengen

Founded in 1975 as the successor to the Nihon Ki-in Championship, the Tengen ("Origin of Heaven") takes its name from the center point of the Go board -- the intersection at the very heart of the 19x19 grid. Sponsored by the Sankei Shimbun group, it offers a winner's prize of approximately 12 million yen. The format is a single-elimination preliminary followed by a best-of-five title match. Rin Kaiho (Lin Haifeng), a Taiwanese-born player who dominated Japanese Go in the 1960s-80s, set the first dynasty with five consecutive titles and earned the rank of Honorary Tengen. Iyama Yuta later surpassed that record, winning the title eight times.

Pays Japan Type Title Match Format Knockout Title Cycle 1 a Komi 6.5 Éditions 53

2002 · Édition #28

Champion : Hane Naoki · Finaliste : Cho Sonjin

Final 3 parties

7 nov. Hane Naoki B+R Cho Sonjin 21 nov. Cho Sonjin W+R Hane Naoki 28 nov. Hane Naoki B+R Cho Sonjin

Challengers' Final 1 partie

3 oct. Yamashita Keigo W+0.5 Cho Sonjin

Semi-final 2 parties

15 août Yamashita Keigo B+3.5 Akiyama Jiro 29 août Cho Sonjin B+R O Rissei

Quarter-final 4 parties

30 mai Iwata Tatsuaki W+3.5 Akiyama Jiro 6 juin Kobayashi Koichi W+R O Rissei 27 juin Takanashi Seiken W+R Cho Sonjin 25 juil. Ryu Shikun W+1.5 Yamashita Keigo

Round of 16 8 parties

21 févr. Iwata Tatsuaki B+0.5 O Meien 14 mars Kobayashi Koichi B+R Yokota Shigeaki 4 avr. Akiyama Jiro B+R Kubo Katsuaki 4 avr. Nakamura Shinya W+R Yamashita Keigo 11 avr. Yoda Norimoto W+R Takanashi Seiken 9 mai O Rissei B+5.5 Kato Atsushi 30 mai Takao Shinji W+R Cho Sonjin 13 juin Ryu Shikun B+R Rin Kaiho

Semifinals 2 parties

20 déc. Ueki Yoshio W+2.5 Kubo Katsuaki 24 janv. Obuchi Morito B+R Matsuoka Hideki

Round of 32 16 parties

20 déc. Akiyama Jiro B+R Yukawa Mitsuhisa 24 déc. Ogaki Yusaku W+R O Rissei 10 janv. Rin Shien W+6.5 Yoda Norimoto 17 janv. Yokota Shigeaki B+R Kamimura Kunio 17 janv. Kobayashi Koichi B+R Takahara Shuji 17 janv. Iwata Tatsuaki B+R Sonoda Yuichi 24 janv. Nakano Yasuhiro W+3.5 O Meien 24 janv. Takanashi Seiken B+7.5 Miyamoto Naoki 31 janv. Ishida Atsushi W+R Nakamura Shinya 7 févr. Yamashiro Hiroshi W+R Yamashita Keigo 14 févr. Rin Kaiho B+3.5 Ishida Yoshio 21 févr. Kato Atsushi B+0.5 Cho Chikun 21 févr. Obuchi Morito W+9.5 Takao Shinji 4 mars Kubo Katsuaki B+2.5 Kato Masao 4 avr. Ryu Shikun B+R Kurahashi Masayuki 25 avr. Cho Sonjin B+0.5 Otake Hideo

Kansai Ki-in Preliminary 1 partie

27 juin Moriyama Naoki B+0.5 Yuki Satoshi

2nd Preliminary 2 parties

11 oct. Abe Yoshiteru W+3.5 Kataoka Satoshi 13 déc. Otake Hideo B+R Cho U