Professional tournaments
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This page is dedicated to professional tournaments in general. Pro-amateur tournaments are also included in this section. However, I've tried to indicate the "big titles" in brackets for each country, and the international tournaments. Tournaments which are no longer being held can be found under Obsolete Titles
Information about the current events in professional tournaments may be found at Go News.
Go professionals battle it out in domestic tournaments in Japan, Korea, China or Taiwan (for which only members of the relevant domestic associations can contend), and also in international tournaments which are also usually held in one of these countries. These international tournaments often involve players from only 2 or 3 of these countries, and sometimes all 4. Some international tournaments (particularly pro-amateur tournaments) also have participants from outside these 4 countries.
See Also Professional Tournament Time Limits
International Tournaments
- Ing Cup US$400,000 (Big Title)
- LG Cup ₩250,000,000 (Big Title)
- Samsung Cup ₩200,000,000 (Big Title)
- Chunlan Cup US$150,000 (Big Title)
- Tengen Tianyuan Match (Playoff)
- China Korea Tengen (Playoff)
- Southern Great Wall Cup US$ 30,000 (China-Korea playoff)
- Japan China Agon Cup (Playoff)
- China Korea New Star (Playoff, new Pros)
- IGS World Rapid Championship ¥3,000,000 (Rapid go, Pro-Am)
- Asian TV Cup (Lightning go)
- Yayi Cup (Team tournament, China-Taiwan)
- Nongshim Cup ~$127,000 (Team tournament)
- All Asia New Star (team tournament)
- Jiyexing Cup (Team tournament)
- Pro Pair-Go Championship? (Pair-go)
- BCcard Cup World Baduk Championship
- Taiwan-Nihon Kiin Tournament
- Bingsheng Cup (Female)
- China-Korea-Japan Meijin
- Bosai Cup
- Huang Longshi Shuang Deng Cup (Female Team tournament)
(see also International Title Statistics)
Japanese domestic tournaments
(Prize money info last updated September 2005)
- Kisei ¥42,000,000 (Big Title)
- Meijin ¥37,000,000 (Big Title)
- Honinbo ¥32,000,000 (Big Title)
- NEC Cup ¥15,000,000
- Tengen ¥14,000,000 (Big Title)
- Oza ¥13,500,000 (Big Title)
- Judan ¥12,000,000 (Big Title)
- Agon-Kiriyama Cup ¥10,000,000 (lightning go)
- Gosei ¥7,770,000 (Big Title)
- NHK Cup ¥5,000,000
- Ryusei Tournament ¥5,000,000 (lightning go)
- Shinjin O ¥3,280,000 (pros 7 dan and under, 30 years or younger - 25 years from 2006)
- Kansai Ki In First Place Championship (Kansai Ki-in players only)
- Okan Tournament ¥1,500,000 (Players from Nihon Ki-in Nagoya branch only)
- Female Honinbo ¥5,800,000 (ladies only)
- Female Meijin ¥5,100,000 (ladies only)
- Female Kisei ¥5,000,000 (ladies only)
- Nakano Cup (under-20)
- Ricoh Pair Go Cup ¥5,000,000 (pair go, lightning go)
- Daiwa Shoken Cup
- Yugen Cup
- Okage ¥3,000,000 (for players under 30 and at most 7 dan)
- Hiroshima Arumi Cup
- Sankei Pro-Ama
For an up to date list of title holders, jump to this web page at the Nihon Ki-in website (seems to be obsolete as of Sept 2010). 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
Chinese domestic tournaments
- Mingren RMB 50,000 (Big Title)
- Tianyuan RMB 200,000 (Big Title)
- CCTV Cup (Big Title)
- Xinren Wang (new pros)
- Ahan Tongshan Cup (Chinese Agon Cup) (rapid) - about 15,000 Yuan
- Liguang Cup (Ricoh Cup) 80, 000 Yuan - about $10, 000 (mainly invitational)
- Chang-ki Cup 400,000 Yuan
- Quzhou-Lanke Cup 500,000 Yuan
- Xinan Wang (West-South King)
- China Weiqi League (Jinli Cup. Past results at China Weiqi League Results)
- Female Mingren (ladies only)
- Jiangqiao Cup (aka Xianye Cup) (ladies only) RMB 100,000
- National Go Individual
- National Women Individual
- Female Xinren Wang
- Xinxiu
- Weifufang (sometimes called Qiwang)
- Longxing
- Huang Longshi (Female Mingren)
- National Sports Meeting
- Female National Sports Meeting
- National Intelligence Games of Go
Korean domestic tournaments
- Myeongin ₩ 100, 000, 000
- Kuksu (Big Title)
- Ch'eonweon (Big Title)
- Siptan (Wonik Cup)
- GS Caltex Cup (aka LG Refined Oils Cup, until 2004 Korean LG Cup) ₩50, 000, 000
- KBS Cup
- KPI Cup (lightning, pros 6 dan and over)
- Maxim Cup (9-dans only)
- Women's Myeongin (ladies only) ₩ 12, 000, 000
- Women's Kuksu (ladies only)
- Women's Kisung (ladies only)
- Korea Cup?
- Korean Baduk League (team league)
- Olleh KT Cup
- Auction Cup (team)
- Daejoo Cup (over 50's)
- Shinin Wang
Taiwanese domestic tournaments
- Taiwan Qiwang
- Tianyuan
- Haifeng Cup
- Wangzuo (sometimes also spelled Wangjia?)
- Guoshou
- Taiwan Qisheng
- Taiwan Zhonghuan Cup
- Aixin
- Donggang Cup
- Siyuan
- Ganen (tournament for young players, not a title)
- Youshi Shiduan
- Female Taiwan Mingren
Other tournaments allowing professionals
[1] Hikaru No Go fans may wonder... shouldn't there be 8 big titles? First, Hikaru no Go is fiction so why would you expect it to agree with the real-world number? And second, there used to be an eighth title called the Kakusei, and similar had a Women's Kakusei as well, but it was discontinued after 2002.