The Chunwon (
Korean
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People and culture
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* Korean culture
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: 천원전,
Hanja
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() ...
: 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 for ...
in
Korea
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. 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 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)
The Tianyuan () is a Go competition in China organized by the Chinese Weiqi Association. The word ''tiānyuán'' literally means the center or origin of heaven, and is the center point on a Go board; the name is similar to the Japanese Tengen a ...
*
Tengen (Go)
Tengen (天元, ''center'' or ''origin of heaven'') is a Go competition in Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the ...
References
External links
Sensei's Librarygotoeveryone.k2ss.infoKorea Baduk Association(in Korean)
Go competitions in South Korea
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