Fujitsu Cup
The International Go Federation Fujitsu Cup (富士通杯) was the first world go championship. The first event was held in 1988, and it has taken place every year since then, reportedly discontinued after the 24th edition in 2011. The winner's prize is ¥15,000,000.
The 1st Fujitsu Cup was a 16-player knockout tournament, but in subsequent years it has been 24-player knockout with 8 players being seeded into the second round. Starting in 2011, it will be a 32 player single knockout. There are also preliminary events to qualify for a place in the 24-player knockout. In contrast to most other international titles, even the final is just a single game rather than a match.
Below is a list of winners and defeated finalists.
(Full results for each event through 2009 can be found on Jan van der Steen's site.)
1st 1988 Takemiya Masaki (d. Rin Kaiho) 2nd 1989 Takemiya Masaki (d. Rin Kaiho) 3rd 1990 Rin Kaiho (d. Nie Weiping) 4th 1991 Cho Chikun (d. Qian Yuping, by forfeit) 5th 1992 Otake Hideo (d. O Rissei) 6th 1993 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok (d. Cho Hun-hyeon) [1] 7th 1994 Cho Hun-hyeon (d. Yu Ch'ang-hyeok) 8th 1995 Ma Xiaochun (d. Kobayashi Koichi) 9th 1996 Yi Ch'ang-ho (d. Ma Xiaochun) 10th 1997 Kobayashi Koichi (d. O Rissei) 11th 1998 Yi Ch'ang-ho (d. Chang Hao) 12th 1999 Yu Ch'ang-hyeok (d. Ma Xiaochun) 13th 2000 Cho Hun-hyeon (d. Chang Hao) 14th 2001 Cho Hun-hyeon (d. Ch'oe Myeong-hun) 15th 2002 Yi Se-tol (d. Yu Ch'ang-hyeok) 16th 2003 Yi Se-tol (d. Song T'ae-kon) 17th 2004 Pak Yeong-hun (d. Yoda Norimoto) 18th 2005 Yi Se-tol (d. Ch'oe Ch'eol-han) 19th 2006 Pak Cheong-sang (d. Zhou Heyang) 20th 2007 Pak Yeong-hun (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho) 21st 2008 Gu Li (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho) 22nd 2009 Kang Dongyun (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho) 23rd 2010 Kong Jie (d. Yi Se-tol) 24th 2011 Park Junghwan (d. Qiu Jun)
External Links
Wikipedia article
Official Fujitsu Cup Website (Japanese)
Fujitsu cup news and commentary at Go Game Guru
[1] See also Fujitsu 1993 Teire Incident.