The Bingsheng Cup () is an international women's
Go tournament
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. It was created in 2010 and is held annually. The tournament is held at
Qionglong Mountain in
Suzhou
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,
Jiangsu
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, China. It is also known as the Qionglong Mountain Bingsheng Cup. The name ''bingsheng'' is in honor of
Sun Tzu
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, who is said to have written ''
The Art of War
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'' at Qionglong Mountain;
the
historicity of Sun Tzu is uncertain.
Rules
The Bingsheng Cup is a Go competition for female players from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Europe, North America, and Oceania. It is a 16-player knockout tournament. Games are played under Chinese rules with a 7.5 point
komi. Each player has 2 hours of main time with five 60-second
byoyomi
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periods.
The winner's prize is 300,000
RMB
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and the runner-up's prize is 100,000 RMB (as of the 10th cup).
Formerly, from the 1st to the 3rd Bingsheng Cup, the winner received 200,000 RMB in prize money and the runner-up received 80,000 RMB.
From the 4th to the 6th cup, the prizes were 250,000 RMB and 100,000 RMB, respectively.
In the 7th cup, the winner's prize was further increased to the current 300,000 RMB.
History
The Bingsheng Cup was first held in 2010. At the time of its creation, the Bingsheng Cup was the only international women's individual Go tournament. Other such tournaments had been held before, such as the
Bohai Cup, but were discontinued or were one-off events.
It remained the only one until the
Wu Qingyuan Cup was established in 2018.
The 1st Bingsheng Cup winner was
Park Jieun, and the runner-up was
Joanne Missingham. Missingham, who was born in Australia and is a
Taiwan Qiyuan
The Taiwan Chi Yuan Culture Foundation (Chinese: 台灣棋院文化基金會 Pinyin:Táiwān Qíyuàn Wénhuà Jījīnhuì ), also known as the Taiwan Chi Yuan or Taiwan Go Association, is a professional Go association in Taiwan. The Taiwan Qiyua ...
professional player, represented Oceania in the tournament, achieving the best-ever international tournament result for a player born outside Asia.
Korean players have won the title 7 times and Chinese players have won 3 times. Japan's best result was a semifinals appearance by
Rina Fujisawa
Rina Fujisawa (藤沢 里菜 ''Fujisawa Rina'', born 18 September 1998) is a Japanese professional Go player.
Biography
Fujisawa is the daughter of Kazunari Fujisawa, an 8-dan professional Go player. She is also the granddaughter of the late H ...
in 2019.
Winners and runners-up
References
External links
Nihon Ki-in archive(in Japanese)
* https://gotoeveryone.k2ss.info/news/wr/ql/ – game records
{{International go titles
International Go competitions