The Chunwon (
Korean: 천원전,
Hanja: 天元戰) was a
Go competition
This is a list of professional Go tournaments, for competitors in the board game of ''Go''. The tradition, initiated by the Honinbo Tournament in Japan, is for an event to be run annually, leading up to a title match and the award of a title f ...
in
Korea. Begun in 1996, it was held nineteen times and was discontinued after 2015.
The winner of the Chunwon went on to play the winner of the Chinese equivalent (the
Tianyuan), in the annual
China–Korea Tengen The China–Korea Tengen was a Go competition. It was played between China's Tianyuan titleholder and Korea's Chunwon titleholder each year in a best-of-three match. The competition was held 19 times, from 1997 to 2015. China won 10 times and Korea ...
competition.
Outline
The Chunwon Cup was the equivalent to the
Tengen in
Japan
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. This tournament replaced the
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. The sponsors were
Far East Pharmaceuticals and
Daily Economic Newspaper. The
komi was 6.5 points. The time limits were 5 hours in the final, 4 in the main knockout, and 3 in the preliminaries. The winner's purse was 20,000,000 ($17,000).
Past winners and runners-up
See also
*
Tianyuan (Go)
*
Tengen (Go)
References
External links
Sensei's Librarygotoeveryone.k2ss.infoKorea Baduk Association(in Korean)
Go competitions in South Korea
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