Igo Masters Cup

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The Igo Masters Cup is a Go competition in Japan.

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The tournament is open only to players over the age of 50 and who have won at least one Top 7 title (Kisei, Meijin, Honinbo, Tengen, Oza, Judan, Gosei). The format is single knockout and each player is allotted two hours thinking time. The winners' purse is 5 million Yen ($62,000), while runner-up will get 1,500,000 yen. [1]

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Past winners and runners-up

YearWinnerRunner-up
2011 Cho Chikun Kobayashi Koichi
2012 O Meien Cho Chikun
2013 Kobayashi Satoru Ishii Kunio
2014Cho ChikunKobayashi Satoru
2015 Takemiya Masaki
2016 Kobayashi Koichi Awaji Shuzo
2017Kobayashi SatoruCho Chikun

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References

  1. "Brand New Tournament: Go Master's Cup". nihonkiin.org.jp/english. Retrieved 12 June 2011.