The Tianyuan () is a

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organized by 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 word ''tiānyuán'' literally means the center or origin of heaven, and is the center point on a Go board; the name is similar to the Japanese Tengen and Korean

Chunwon The Chunwon (Korean: 천원전, Hanja: 天元戰) was a Go competition in Korea. Begun in 1996, it was held nineteen times and was discontinued after 2015. The winner of the Chunwon went on to play the winner of the Chinese equivalent (the Tianyu ...

. The competition was established in 1987 and is held annually. Formerly, the winner went on to face Japan's Tengen winner in the China–Japan Tengen from 1988 to 2002, and Korea's Chunwon winner in the China–Korea Tengen from 1997 to 2015. Both of those competitions have been discontinued.

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The Tianyuan competition is sponsored by the

Zhongguo Qiyuan China Qiyuan () is an official agency responsible for board games and card games such as go, bridge, chess and Chinese chess affairs under the All-China Sports Federation of the People's Republic of China. It oversees the Chinese Weiqi Association ...

, '' New People's Evening News'', and '' New People's Weiqi Monthly Magazine''. 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. As of 2023, the winner receives 400,000

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in prize money and the runner-up receives 200,000.

Past winners and runners-up

References

{{Chinese go titles Tianyuan Recurring sporting events established in 1987