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Big Titles
    Keywords: Culture & History, Tournament

Information about the current events in the world of Big Title Go may be found out at [ext] Momoyama go news.


International aka World Championships

(see also International Title Statistics)


Japan

The 7 big Japanese titles in order of importance (= prize money)

For an up to date list of title holders, jump to this [ext] web page at the Nihon Ki-in website. Here's the schedule for the seven Japanese big titles.


BobMcGuigan: The URLs for the go web pages of the newspapers sponsoring the seven big Japanese titles can be found at Japanese Go Column URLs


Tualha: In the Hikaru no Go manga, Chapter 4, Akira says there are "8 crowns". He seems to be talking about Japanese titles. Were there eight then? Mistranslated? Anyone know?

Answer: I THINK that there is a title called 10-dan.. atleast there is in HnG :)) But i'm not sure, anyone who is can tell?

Niklaus: The 10-dan title is listed here under it's japanese name Judan

SAS: Perhaps "8 crowns" includes the Fujitsu Cup, which the Nihon Ki-in seems to rank above the Gosei (judging by the list on the web page linked above).

Tualha: I just noticed, near the end of Chapter 61, Isumi mentions the "Student Meijin, Student Honinbo, and Student Juuketsu" titles (in reference to Kadowaki). Is there a Juuketsu title? Google came up empty...

mAsterdam: [ext] Cho Chikun's profile says " 1975: 12th Pro Juketsu (Best Ten) Title", but I don't know how to read that.

HolIgor: There was a tournament called "Best Ten". There is similar tournament for the best ten new players in Korea nowadays. Ten players a divided in two five player leagues and then the winners of the leagues meet in the final title match.


Other tournaments

China

Korea

Title holders in 2002



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