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Big Titles
    Keywords: Culture & History, Tournament, Index page

Information about the current events in the world of Big Title Go may be found out about at [ext] igo-kisen go news, [ext] Go 4 Go or [ext] Gobase.

The Go professionals battle it out in domestic titles in Japan, Korea or China, for which only members of the domestic association can contend, and in international titles which are also held in one of these countries (and Taiwan).


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.

The URLs for the go web pages of the newspapers sponsoring the seven[1] big Japanese titles can be found at Japanese Go Column URLs


Other tournaments in Japan


China


Korea

Title holders as of June 2004


See also:


[1] Dronak: Can I ask what might be a stupid question? I was just reading the latest chapters of HikaruNoGo in the US Shonen Jump and there it says there are 8 titles. Is that wrong? The story has a 5 Dan supervisor, so I'd think they'd get details like this right. Maybe things changed? But if there are 8 major titles, what's the eighth one?

kokiri - in terms of prize money the NEC cup pays more than the Gosei so maybe its this. Otherwise I'd guess that perhaps the shinjin-o - usually translated as something clumsly like 'king of the new stars', has quite a cachet to it because several of the winners have gone on to greater things



This is a copy of the living page "Big Titles" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.