Chunlan Cup

Path: BigTitles   · Prev: SamsungCup   · Next: FujitsuCup
    Keywords: Tournament

The Chunlan Cup is a relatively new world go championship, and is the only one in which games are played according to Chinese rules. Twenty four players are invited to compete in a knockout tournament, with eight players being seeded into the second round. The final is then a best of three match, with a winner's prize of $150,000.

Winners and defeated finalists:

  1st  (Dec 1998 - Jun 1999)  Cho Hun-hyeon   (d. Yi Ch'ang-ho 2-1)
  2nd  (Dec 1999 - Jun 2000)  O Rissei        (d. Ma Xiaochun 2-1)
  3rd  (Dec 2000 - Jun 2001)  Yu Ch'ang-hyeok (d. O Rissei 2-1)
  4th  (May 2002 - Mar 2003)  Yi Ch'ang-ho    (d. Hane Naoki 2-0)
  5th  (Dec 2003 - Mar 2005)  Yi Ch'ang-ho    (d. Zhou Heyang 2-1)
  6th  (Dec 2006 - Mar 2007)  Gu Li           (d. Chang Hao)

The 3rd Chunlan Cup was the scene of the infamous incident where Kobayashi Satoru injured Ryu Shikun during a drinking session in Taizhou, China. The Nihon Ki-in moved swiftly and suspended Kobayashi Satoru from all professional go activities for one year. That suspension was later commuted to eight months, and he was allowed to return to active play in September 2001.


Path: BigTitles   · Prev: SamsungCup   · Next: FujitsuCup
This is a copy of the living page "Chunlan Cup" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2007 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]
StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About