Agon Cup
Keywords: Tournament
The Agon Cup is a single knockout title in Japan, properly the Agon-Kiriyama Cup. This is a pro-am event, called the Acom Cup until 1998. The winner's prize is ¥10,000,000.
Winners:
1st 1994 O Rissei (d. Cho Chikun) 2nd 1995 Kato Masao (d. Kobayashi Satoru) 3rd 1996 Kato Masao (d. Yoda Norimoto) 4th 1997 Yoda Norimoto (d. Kato Masao) 5th 1998 Kobayashi Satoru (d. Cho Chikun) 6th 1999 Kobayashi Koichi (d. Takao Shinji) 7th 2000 Cho Sonjin (d. Cho Chikun) 8th 2001 Cho Sonjin (d. O Rissei) 9th 2002 Cho Chikun (d. Cho U) 10th 2003 Kato Masao (d. Cho U) 11th 2004 Hane Naoki (d. Kobayashi Koichi) 12th 2005 Iyama Yuta (d. Kobayashi Satoru) 13th 2006 Cho U (d. Hane Naoki) 14th 2007 Cho U (d. Cho Chikun) 15th 2008 Cho U (d. Takanashi Seiken) 16th 2009 Hane Naoki (d. Cho U) 17th 2010 Yamashita Keigo (d. Cho Chikun)
John Fairbairn has written about the structure of the Agon. http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/japan/agon.html