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

External links

• The Fujitsu Cup games