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Cao Dayuan
Cáo Dàyuán (曹大元), born January 26, 1962) is a professional Go player. Biography Cao started learning Go when he was 11. He won the 4th World Amateur Go Championship The World Amateur Go Championship (WAGC) is an international tournament for amateur Go players, held once a year since 1979. The organising body is the International Go Federation (IGF). Each participating country sends one player, although in ... in 1982 and turned professional in 1985. He was promoted to 9 dan in 1986. Titles & runners-up Ranks #10 in total number of titles in China. External linksSensei's Library profile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Go Individual
The Chinese Go Championship is a Go competition which determines the national champion of China. Outline The Chinese Go Championship is held with the Swiss system A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ... where there are many players who play through 11 rounds. The final two are chosen from whoever has the best 2 records. They then play one game to decide the winner. The komi is 2.75 with Chinese rules. The prize money is 2,500 CY/$300. Past Winners and Runners-up ''The competition was not held in 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967 - 1973, 1976.'' {{Chinese go titles Recurring sporting events established in 1957 Go Go competitions in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Births
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Asian TV Cup
The Asian TV Cup is a Go competition. Outline The Asian TV Cup is the oldest continental tournament, dating back to 1989. The winners and runner ups of the biggest hayago competitions from Asia (Japan: NHK Cup, Korea: KBS Cup, China: CCTV Cup) battle in the biggest hayago Players of the game of Go often use jargon to describe situations on the board and surrounding the game. Such technical terms are likely to be encountered in books and articles about Go in English as well as other languages. Many of these terms ... tournament of all. Past winners See also Asian TV Cup at Go News(in Japanese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Asian Tv Cup Go competitions in Asia China–Japan–South Korea relations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qiwang (competition)
The Weifu Fangkai Cup (), also sometimes known as the Qiwang (not to be confused with the defunct Qiwang), is a Go competition This is a list of professional Go tournaments, for competitors in the board game of ''Go''. The tradition, initiated by the Honinbo Tournament in Japan, is for an event to be run annually, leading up to a title match and the award of a title f ... in China. Outline The tournament is sponsored by the Wuxi people government. The tournament began in 2003. Past winners and runners-up References Go competitions in China {{Go-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NEC Cup
The NEC Cup was a Go competition, supported by NEC Corporation between 1982 and 2012. Biography The NEC Cup was a Go competition used by the Japanese Nihon-Kiin. Unlike the big three titles in Japan, the NEC Cup is a single knockout tournament where players have less time to think. The field of challengers was 16. The challengers were invited depending on who were the holders of Kisei, Meijin, Honinbo, Judan, Tengen, Oza, Gosei, NHK Cup, JAL Super Hayago Championship, NEC Shun-Ei The NEC Shun-Ei was a Nihon-Kiin Go competition. Outline The NEC Shun-Ei was made for young stars and was sponsored by the NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Mi ... and the top finishers from the last NEC Cup. The winner was awarded with 15,000,000 Yen ($130,000). Past winners References {{DEFAULTSORT:Nec Cup Go competitions in Japan NEC Corporation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingren
The Mingren () is a Go competition in China organized by the Chinese Weiqi Association. The word ''míngrén'' means "brilliant man". The Mingren is equivalent to the Nihon-Kiin's Meijin and the Hanguk Kiwon's Myungin titles. Outline The Mingren is sponsored by the Zhongguo Qiyuan and the '' People's Daily''. It consists of a preliminary tournament in which 32 players compete against one another to determine the challenger to the previous year's winner. The preliminary is a single-elimination format, and the title match is decided in a best-of-three. Prior to 2016, the final of the preliminary tournament was decided in a best-of-three, and the title match was decided in a best-of-five. The winner's purse is ¥300,000 ($46,834) and ¥80,000 ($12,486) for the runner-up, as of 2017. Past Winners and Runners-up See also *Meijin is one of the eight titles in Japanese professional shogi, and is the most prestigious title, along with Ryūō. The word ''meijin'' (名 ''mei'' "e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Sports Cup
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CCTV Cup
The CCTV Cup is a Chinese Go competition. Outline The CCTV Cup is the longest running fast game tournament in China and the sponsor is the Chinese CCTV station. The winner and the runner-up qualify for the Asian TV Cup, where they compete against the winners and runners-up of the Japanese NHK Cup and the South Korean KBS Cup. Each player has 1 hour of main time with one 60-second byoyomi period. The time control was changed in 2021 to be much slower than the previous time limit, which was one move every 30 seconds. The winner's prize is 300,000 RMB The renminbi (; symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB) is the official currency of the People's Republic of China and one of the world's most traded currencies, ranking as the fifth most traded currency in the world as of April 2022. ... (as of 2021). The prize money was last increased in 2020, from the previous prize of 250,000 RMB. Past winners and runners-up References {{Chinese go titles Go competitions in Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. With a population of 24.89 million as of 2021, Shanghai is the most populous urban area in China with 39,300,000 inhabitants living in the Shanghai metropolitan area, the second most populous city proper in the world (after Chongqing) and the only city in East Asia with a GDP greater than its corresponding capital. Shanghai ranks second among the administrative divisions of Mainland China in human development index (after Beijing). As of 2018, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of nearly 9.1 trillion RMB ($1.33 trillion), exceeding that of Mexico with GDP of $1.22 trillion, the 15th largest in the world. Shanghai is one of the world's major centers for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NEC Cup (China)
The NEC Cup was a Zhongguo Qiyuan Go competition, supported by NEC Corporation. It was held 14 times in total, from 1995 to 2009. Outline The winner's purse was 200,000 CY ($24,000). Past winners References See also *NEC Cup The NEC Cup was a Go competition, supported by NEC Corporation between 1982 and 2012. Biography The NEC Cup was a Go competition used by the Japanese Nihon-Kiin. Unlike the big three titles in Japan, the NEC Cup is a single knockout tournament ..., Japanese Go competition sponsored by the same company {{DEFAULTSORT:Nec Cup Go competitions in China NEC Corporation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Top Title Holders In Go
The lists below comprise the top title-winning professional Go players. Bold names indicate active players. International Continental Total by country *China – 29 *Japan – 13 *South Korea – 11 *Taiwan – 2 China Japan South Korea See also * List of Go players * International Go Federation * List of professional Go tournaments This is a list of professional Go tournaments, for competitors in the board game of ''Go''. The tradition, initiated by the Honinbo Tournament in Japan, is for an event to be run annually, leading up to a title match and the award of a title for ... References All information from gogameworld.com {{Go (game) Go top title holders Top title holders in Go * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
