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

1988 · Édition #14

Champion : Cho Chikun · Finaliste : Sonoda Yuichi

Kansai Ki-in Final Preliminary, Group Final 1 partie

13 janv. Yokota Shigeaki B+R Miyamoto Yoshihisa

Final 5 parties

17 nov. Sonoda Yuichi B+0.5 Cho Chikun 25 nov. Cho Chikun B+R Sonoda Yuichi 2 déc. Sonoda Yuichi W+R Cho Chikun 21 déc. Cho Chikun W+0.5 Sonoda Yuichi 26 déc. Sonoda Yuichi W+R Cho Chikun

Challengers' Final 1 partie

3 nov. Kobayashi Satoru W+2.5 Sonoda Yuichi

Semi-final 1 partie

29 sept. Kobayashi Satoru B+5.5 Ogata Masaki

Quarter-final 1 partie

4 août Goto Shungo W+R Ogata Masaki

Round 3 1 partie

1 sept. Kobayashi Satoru B+R Fujisawa Hideyuki

Round of 16 6 parties

5 mai Kudo Norio W+R Sonoda Yuichi 11 mai Goto Shungo B+9.5 Yukawa Mitsuhisa 19 mai Ishii Kunio W+0.5 Fujisawa Hideyuki 9 juin Kobayashi Satoru B+R Kato Masao 21 juil. Kobayashi Koichi B+R Honda Kunihisa 28 juil. Tokimoto Hajime W+0.5 Yoda Norimoto

Round of 32 15 parties

23 janv. Koyama Yasuo W+1.5 Ishii Kunio 28 janv. Honda Kunihisa B+R Tsuchida Masamitsu 4 févr. Yoda Norimoto B+R Hisajima Kunio 11 févr. Goto Shungo B+2.5 Oyama Kunio 18 févr. Kusaka Kaneo W+R Miyamoto Naoki 25 févr. Kamimura Kunio W+4.5 Fujisawa Hideyuki 3 mars Michael Redmond W+4.5 Sonoda Yuichi 3 mars Fukui Masaaki W+R Tokimoto Hajime 3 mars Hikosaka Naoto W+3.5 Kobayashi Satoru 10 mars Ko Mosei W+R Ogata Masaki 10 mars Yamashiro Hiroshi W+2.5 Yukawa Mitsuhisa 23 mars Yokota Shigeaki W+R Yoda Norimoto 24 mars Abe Yoshiteru W+7.5 Kudo Norio 5 mai Ohira Shuzo W+0.5 Kato Masao 26 mai Kamimura Haruo W+4.5 Kobayashi Koichi

Preliminaries 7 parties

23 sept. Moriyama Naoki W+2.5 Kiyonari Tetsuya 10 févr. Oda Hiromitsu B+R Mizuno Hiromi 10 févr. Yoshida Shoji B+R Yahata Koichi 25 févr. Takemiya Masaki B+R Kubo Katsuaki 28 juil. Miyamoto Naoki W+R Takemiya Masaki 15 sept. Takemiya Masaki B+R Kobayashi Koichi 13 oct. Takemiya Masaki W+R Sonoda Yuichi

Kansai Ki-in Preliminary 2 parties

19 août Cho Rosho B+0.5 Ushinohama Satsuo 4 nov. Kubo Katsuaki B+0.5 Hashimoto Shoji

Kansai Ki-in Preliminaries 2 parties

11 nov. Hashimoto Utaro W+2.5 Yokota Shigeaki 1 janv. Yoshida Mika B+R Araki Masako