The Ing Cup () is an international Go tournament with a cash prize of over US$400,000. It was created by, and is named after,

Ing Chang-ki Ing Chang-ki (; 23 October 1916 – 27 August 1997) was a Chinese industrialist, Go player, and Go promoter. He was the founder of the Ing Cup. He is also known for promoting the Ing rules of Go. He also promoted one of the first digital ...

. The tournament is held once every four years and hence often nicknamed the Go Olympics. In the 7th Ing Cup, held in 2012/13,

Fan Tingyu Fan Tingyu (born 6 August 1996) is a Chinese professional Go player. He won the 17th Xinren Wang and 18th Xinren Wang. Fan defeated Park Junghwan (b. 1993) -1in the final of the 7th (2012/13) Ing Cup The Ing Cup () is an internation ...

defeated

Park Junghwan Park Junghwan (born 11 January 1993) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank. Biography Early career Park became a professional Go player in 2006. He won the Fujitsu Cup in 2011. Park defeated Lee Chang-ho to advance to ...

and became the youngest Ing Cup winner in history. In the semifinal, Fan defeated Xie He, and Park defeated Lee Chang-ho.

Overview

The Ing Cup is sponsored by Ing Chang-ki Weichi Educational Foundation,

Yomiuri Shimbun The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are ...

, the Nihon-Kiin, and

Kansai-Kiin The Kansai Ki-in (), i.e., Kansai Go Association, is an organizational body for the game of Go in Japan, which was founded by Hashimoto Utaro in 1950. Though it is not as large as its chief rival, the Nihon Ki-in, it also issues diplomas to stron ...

, and is held every four years (and thus often nicknamed Go Olympics). The competition has its own special rules. The time allotment is three hours for each player, with no ''

byoyomi A time control is a mechanism in the tournament play of almost all two-player board games so that each round of the match can finish in a timely way and the tournament can proceed. Time controls are typically enforced by means of a game clock, ...

''; instead, players who run out of time pay a two-point penalty to receive an extra twenty minutes, and can receive extra time this way at most twice. The '' komi'' is 8 points, but Black wins ties. The first rounds are knockouts, while the semi-finals and finals are a best-of-three and best-of-five respectively.

Overview

Past winners and runners-up

By nation

References

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