The MLily Cup (), officially the MLily Meng Baihe Cup World Go Open Tournament () is an international

Go tournament This is a list of professional go (game), Go tournaments, for competitors in the board game of ''Go''. The tradition, initiated by the Honinbo, Honinbo Tournament in Japan, is for an event to be run annually, leading up to a title match and the a ...

. It is organized by the

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and the

Chinese Weiqi Association Chinese Weiqi Association (), or Chinese Go Association, founded in Hefei, Anhui in 1962, is the major go organization in China. As a branch of the Zhongguo Qiyuan, it oversees professional players as well as strong amateurs, functioning in the s ...

. The tournament was created in 2013 and is held every two years.

Overview

The MLily Cup is played under Chinese rules with a 7.5 point komi. Each player has 2 hours of main time and five 60-second

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, ...

periods, except in the finals, where the main time is 3 hours instead. The tournament has 64 players in a

single-elimination A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

format, with best-of-3 semifinals and best-of-5 finals. The winner receives 1.8 million

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. ...

in prize money, and the runner-up receives 600,000 RMB.

Past tournaments

The 1st MLily Cup was won by 17-year-old

Mi Yuting Mi Yuting (; born 8 January 1996) is a Chinese professional go player. As of Oct 2018, he is ranking 1st in Go ratings with an Elo rating of 3645. Promotion record Titles and runners-up Head-to-head record vs selected players ''Players ...

, his first international title, defeating Gu Li. The 2nd MLily Cup champion was 18-year-old

Ke Jie Ke Jie () is a Chinese professional Go player of 9 dan rank. He was born on August 2, 1997 in Liandu District, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province. Career 2008–15: Early Career and Bailing Cup Breakthrough Ke Jie started to learn how to pla ...

, his third world championship within a span of one year. In the fifth and final game, Ke Jie as Black won on a half-point ko which counted toward his score under Chinese rules, but would not have by Japanese counting. In the 3rd MLily Cup, the organizers included Japanese Go AI DeepZenGo as a participant, a move which attracted some controversy; it was the first time a computer program was ever invited to an international Go tournament. DeepZenGo won in the first round against

Shin Min-jun Shin Min-jun ( ko, 신민준; born 11 January 1999) is a South Korean professional Go player. Biography Shin Min-jun was born in 1999. His father Shin Chang-seok is a television producer-director (PD) of popular KBS dramas. Shin became a pro ...

, and was eliminated in the second round by Wang Haoyang. The winner of the tournament was

Park Junghwan Park Junghwan (born 11 January 1993) is a South Korean professional Go (board game), Go Go players, player of Go ranks and ratings, 9-dan rank. Biography Early career Park became a professional Go player in 2006. He won the Fujitsu Cup i ...

. The 4th MLily Cup started in 2019 and was won by Mi Yuting, defeating

Xie Ke Xie Ke (; born 14 January 2000) is a Chinese professional Go player. Career Xie became a professional 1 dan in 2013. In 2017, he finished in the top four in the 3rd MLily Cup, after being eliminated by Park Junghwan in the semifinal. In a s ...

, on 5 May 2021.

Winners and runners-up

By nation

References

External links

Nihon Ki-in archive of the MLily Cup
(in Japanese) {{International go titles International Go competitions