Fujitsu Cup

The Fujitsu Cup (富士通杯) was an international Go competition that ran from 1988 to 2011.

Outline

The Fujitsu Cup was an international Go competition hosted by Fujitsu and Yomiuri Shimbun. The players were selected as follows:

• The top 3 players from the previous year's competition
• 7 players from Japan
• 5 players from China
• 5 players from South Korea
• 1 player from Taiwan
• 1 player from North America
• 1 player from South America
• 1 player from Europe

All 24 players played through preliminaries, until 8 players with the best record were given automatic advancement to the second round. The other 16 played against each other in the first round. The format was a single knockout, with 5.5 komi until 2002, 6.5 komi from 2003. The time limit was 3 hours' thinking time, and the winner's purse was ¥15,000,000 (≈$142,000).

In December 2011, the Japanese Go Association announced the permanent closure of the tournament.

Past winners and runners-up

Edition	Year	Nat.	Winner	Nat.	Runner-up
1	1988		Takemiya Masaki		Rin Kaiho
2	1989
3	1990		Rin Kaiho		Nie Weiping
4	1991		Cho Chikun		Qian Yuping
5	1992		Otake Hideo		O Rissei
6	1993		Yoo Changhyuk		Cho Hunhyun
7	1994		Cho Hunhyun		Yoo Changhyuk
8	1995		Ma Xiaochun		Kobayashi Koichi
9	1996		Lee Chang-ho		Ma Xiaochun
10	1997		Kobayashi Koichi		O Rissei
11	1998		Lee Chang-ho		Chang Hao
12	1999		Yoo Changhyuk		Ma Xiaochun
13	2000		Cho Hunhyun		Chang Hao
14	2001				Choi Myung-Hoon
15	2002		Lee Sedol		Yoo Changhyuk
16	2003				Song Tae Kon
17	2004		Pak Yeong-hun		Yoda Norimoto
18	2005		Lee Sedol		Choi Cheol-han
19	2006		Park Jungsang		Zhou Heyang
20	2007		Pak Yeong-hun		Lee Chang-ho
21	2008		Gu Li
22	2009		Kang Dongyun
23	2010		Kong Jie		Lee Sedol
24	2011		Park Junghwan		Qiu Jun

External links

• Official website
• The Fujitsu Cup games