Cho Chikun25th HoninboHonorary Meijin is a professional Go player and a nephew of Cho Namchul. Born in Busan, South Korea, he is affiliated to Nihon Ki-in. His total title tally of 75 titles is the most in the history of the Japanese Nihon Ki-in. Cho is the first player to hold the top three titles—Kisei, Meijin, and Honinbo—simultaneously which he did for three years in a row. Cho is the first in history to win all of the "Top 7" titles in Japan which he achieved by winning the Oza in 1994. Cho U in 2011 and Iyama Yuta in 2013 would duplicate this feat, both by winning the Kisei. He is also one of the 'Six Supers' Japanese players that were most celebrated in the late twentieth century, along with Rin Kaiho, Otake Hideo, Takemiya Masaki, Kato Masao and his classmate and arch-rival Kobayashi Koichi. He is the author of several books on Go.
Yuta Iyama Kisei, Honinbo, Meijin is a Japanese professional Go player. In April 2016, he became the first player in Japanese history to hold all seven major titles simultaneously. In January 2018, Iyama became the first professional Go player to be awarded Japan's People's Honour Award.
The Agon Kiriyama Cup (阿含･桐山杯) is a Go competition.
The Gosei is a Go competition in Japan or a title of the competition's winner.
The Shinjin-Ō is a professional Go competition.
The Ing Cup is an international Go tournament with a cash prize of over US$400,000. It was created by, and is named after, Ing Chang-ki. The tournament is held once every four years and hence often nicknamed the Go Olympics.
The Nongshim Cup is a Go tournament sponsored by Nongshim, an instant noodle food company of South Korea.
The Women's Honinbo is a Japanese Go competition.
The Women's Meijin is a Go competition. The Women's Meijin is the female version of the Meijin title. This title is sponsored by Fuji Evening Newspaper and Nippon Life Insurance. The winner's purse is 5,100,000 Yen ($48,000).
The Igo Masters Cup was a Japanese Go competition. It was held nine times from 2011 until 2019, when it was discontinued. The tournament sponsor was Fumakilla, a chemical manufacturing company.
The Women's Hollyhock Cup, formerly known as Aizu Central Hospital Cup before 2017, is a Go competition for female Go players. The tournament was introduced in 2014.
Rina Fujisawa is a Japanese professional Go player.
Atsushi Ida is a professional Go player from Japan. He is affiliated with Nihon Ki-in Chubu branch.
Shibano Toramaru is a Japanese Go professional who won the prestigious Meijin tournament in 2019 at age 19, becoming the first teenager to achieve one of the seven major Japanese titles.
Ryo Ichiriki is a Japanese professional 9-dan Go player and journalist. As Go player, he was a pupil of So Kofuku. Since 2020 he has also worked as a journalist for Kahoku Shimpo.
Shin Min-jun is a South Korean professional Go player.
The MLily Cup, officially the MLily Meng Baihe Cup World Go Open Tournament is an international Go tournament. It is organized by the International Go Federation and the Chinese Weiqi Association. The tournament was created in 2013 and is held every two years.
Hsu Chia-yuan or Kyo Kagen is a Taiwanese Go player who plays professionally in Japan.
The Bingsheng Cup is an international women's Go tournament. It was created in 2010 and is held annually. The tournament is held at Qionglong Mountain in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. It is also known as the Qionglong Mountain Bingsheng Cup. The name bingsheng is in honor of Sun Tzu, who is said to have written The Art of War at Qionglong Mountain; the historicity of Sun Tzu is uncertain.
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