Tianyuan (Go)

The Tianyuan (Chinese: 天元; Pinyin: Tiān Yuán) is the name of 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 Tianyuan is equivalent to the Nihon Ki-in's Tengen and the Hanguk Kiwon's Chunwon.

Outline

The Tianyuan competition is sponsored by the Zhongguo Qiyuan, New People's Evening News, and New People's Weiqi Monthly Magazine. It consists of a preliminary tournament in which 32 players compete against one another to determine the challenger to the previous year's winner. The preliminary is a single-elimination format, and the title match is decided in a best-of-three. The winner's purse is ¥250,000 ($39,026) and ¥100,000 ($15,611) for the runner-up, as of 2018.

Past Winners and Runners-up
YearWinnerScoreRunner-up
1987Ma Xiaochun2–1Nie Weiping
1988Liu Xiaoguang3–2Ma Xiaochun
19893–2Jiang Zhujiu
19903–2Qian Yuping
1991Nie Weiping3–0Liu Xiaoguang
19923–1Ma Xiaochun
1993Liu Xiaoguang3–1Nie Weiping
1994Ma Xiaochun3–0Liu Xiaoguang
19953–1Nie Weiping
19963–1Liu Xiaoguang
1997Chang Hao3–1Ma Xiaochun
19983–2Wang Lei
19993–1Liu Xiaoguang
20003–1Dong Yan
20013–0Ding Wei
2002Huang Yizhong2-0Chang Hao
2003Gu Li2–1Huang Yizhong
20042–0Xie He
20052–1Zhou Heyang
20062-1Zhou Ruiyang
20072-1Liu Shizhen
20082-1Zhou Heyang
2009Chen Yaoye2–0Gu Li
20102-1
20112–0Zhou Hexi
20122–0Zhou Hexi
20132–0Gu Lingyi
20142–1Ke Jie
20152–0Mi Yuting
20162–0Tang Weixing
2017Lian Xiao2-0Chen Yaoye
20182-1Xie Ke
2019 2-1 Fan Yunruo
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See also
  • Go players

References
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