Tianyuan

Keywords: Tournament

Corresponding Titles
China: Tianyuan
Japan: Tengen
Korea: Chunwon
Taiwan: Taiwan Tianyuan

The Tianyuan is one of the major Chinese tournaments. (天元 or tiānyuán is Chinese for "Origin of Heaven", the centre point of the board.)

Time control: two hours and forty five minutes of main time, followed by five periods of 60-second byo-yomi.

Winners and defeated finalists
Ed.	Year	Winner	Result	Runner-up
1st	1987	Ma Xiaochun	2-1	Nie Weiping
2nd	1988	Liu Xiaoguang	3-2	Ma Xiaochun
3rd	1989	Liu Xiaoguang	3-2	Jiang Zhujiu
4th	1990	Liu Xiaoguang	3-2	Qian Yuping
5th	1991	Nie Weiping	3-0	Liu Xiaoguang
6th	1992	Nie Weiping	3-1	Ma Xiaochun
7th	1993	Liu Xiaoguang	3-1	Nie Weiping
8th	1994	Ma Xiaochun	3-0	Liu Xiaoguang
9th	1995	Ma Xiaochun	3-1	Nie Weiping
10th	1996	Ma Xiaochun	3-1	Liu Xiaoguang
11th	1997	Chang Hao	3-1	Ma Xiaochun
12th	1998	Chang Hao	3-2	Wang Lei Sr.
13th	1999	Chang Hao	3-1	Liu Xiaoguang
14th	2000	Chang Hao	3-1	Dong Yan
15th	2001	Chang Hao	3-0	Ding Wei
16th	2002	Huang Yizhong	2-0	Chang Hao
17th	2003	Gu Li	2-1	Huang Yizhong
18th	2004	Gu Li	2-0	Xie He
19th	2005	Gu Li	2-1	Zhou Heyang
20th	2006	Gu Li	2-1	Zhou Ruiyang
21st	2007	Gu Li	2-1	Liu Shizhen
22nd	2008	Gu Li	2-1	Zhou Heyang
23rd	2009	Chen Yaoye	2-0	Gu Li
24th	2010	Chen Yaoye	2-1	Gu Li