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{{Go tournament
|tournamentname=Asahi Top Position
|fullname= Asahi Top Position
|started= 1955
|defunct= 1961
|honorarywinners=  none
|sponsors= [[Asahi shimbun]]
|prizemoney= unknown
|affiliation= {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Nihon Ki-in]]
}}

The '''Asahi Top Position''' was a [[Go competitions|Go competition]].

==Outline==
The final of the Top Position tournament would be a best of five with 10 hours of thinking time. There was no [[komidashi|komi]], unless the match had to be played out all 5 games, which then would be played with a 4.5 komi. The preliminaries also had no komi. This tournament ran from 1955 to 1961 and was subsequently replaced by the [[Meijin (go)|Meijin]] and [[Judan (Go)|Judan]] titles. The sponsor was [[Asahi shimbun]].

==Past winners and runners-up==
{|  class="wikitable"
!Player || Years held
|-
| [[Sakata Eio]]
|  1955, 1959, 1961
|-
| [[Kitani Minoru]]
|  1957, 1958
|-
| [[Fujisawa Hideyuki]]
|  1960
|}

{|  class="wikitable"
!Player || Years runner up
|-
| [[Sakata Eio]]
|  1957, 1960
|-
| [[Shimamura Toshihiro]]
|  1958
|-
| [[Kitani Minoru]]
|  1959
|-
| [[Fujisawa Hideyuki]]
|  1961
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Japanese go titles}}
[[Category:Go competitions in Japan]]


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