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Professional promotion tournaments
Path: Rank · Prev: RankAmateurAndPro · Next: Oteai
Keywords: Culture & History, Tournament
The basic model for many years of professional promotion through the dan ranks has been the Oteai of the Nihon Ki-in. Except for a few cases, in which title-winning pros have been promoted on the basis of proven strength, it has been assumed in Japan (in the Kansai Ki-in as well as the Nihon Ki-in) that new pros start at 1 dan and work up towards 9 dan step by step, in a special ongoing tournament. The original Spring and Autumn Oteai sessions were therefore similar in spirit to what goes on in sumo. In South Korea a similar system has applied, but an annoucement at the start of 2003 has been made that the system has been abolished. In Japan too the Oteai has been in flux. Promotion in China (and Taiwan) has probably always been on more of an ad hoc basis, though there have been promotion tournaments. John Fairbairn I can't work out how to add new pages but one may be needed for the Korean promotion system. Their equivalent of the Oteai is about to be abolished. It will be replaced by a system of counting all games played in Rounds 1 of all tournaments (or sections of tournaments, I believe). The qualifying standard is to be a score made 50 per cent (in place of 65) so that the older players are not left behind by the younger ones. There are other rules like (from memory) getting 3 dans for winning an international event. Yi Se-tol will thus get promoted at long last. Path: Rank · Prev: RankAmateurAndPro · Next: Oteai This is a copy of the living page "Professional promotion tournaments" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |