Since 1988 there has been an annual best-of-three match between the Japanese Tengen and the Chinese Tianyuan. So far the Tianyuan leads 9-6.
1st 1988 Cho Chikun 2-0 Liu Xiaoguang 2nd 1989 Cho Chikun 2-0 Liu Xiaoguang 3rd 1990 Rin Kaiho 2-1 Liu Xiaoguang 4th 1991 Rin Kaiho 2-1 Nie Weiping 5th 1992 Nie Weiping 2-0 Rin Kaiho 6th 1993 Liu Xiaoguang 2-0 Rin Kaiho 7th 1994 Ma Xiaochun 2-0 Rin Kaiho 8th 1995 Ma Xiaochun 2-0 Ryu Shikun 9th 1996 Ma Xiaochun 2-0 Ryu Shikun 10th 1997 Chang Hao 2-0 Ryu Shikun 11th 1998 Chang Hao 2-0 Kudo Norio 12th 1999 Chang Hao 2-1 Kobayashi Koichi 13th 2000 Kobayashi Koichi 2-1 Chang Hao 14th 2001 Chang Hao 2-0 Ryu Shikun 15th 2002 Hane Naoki 2-0 Huang Yizhong