There are 12 world Go competitions recognized by everyone, and in the order of holding are: Fujitsu Cup, Yingshi Cup, Toyo Securities Cup, Samsung Cup, LG Cup, Chunlan Cup, Toyota Cup , BC Card Cup, Bailing Cup , Mengbaihe Cup, New Ao Cup, Tianfu Cup, and the 13th World Championship will kick off in May this year, which is the Quzhou Lanke Cup, which is the latest World Competition founded. In the
or above world competitions, five items that have been suspended include the Fujitsu Cup, the Toyo Securities Cup, the Toyo Cup, the BC Card Cup, and the New Olympic Cup. In addition, there is no definite news whether the Bailing Cup will be resumed. The second Tianfu Cup will be confirmed to start this year.
What are the best history of these world competitions? Let me explain it to you. The first Fujitsu Cup, which started in the spring of 1988, was held first. It has been 34 years and is the oldest world competition in history. This is what we all know, but unfortunately it has been closed now.
But the earliest World Competition was brewing was not the Fujitsu Cup, but the Yingshi Cup. At that time, the Chinese and Japanese Go ring match was in full swing. Before the first competition, the Chinese Go team, which was generally believed to be behind the beaten one, saw the dawn of hope after Jiang Zhujiu won five consecutive victories for the first time. Then our stadium hero, Nie Weiping, showed his might, won 11 consecutive victories in cross-border wins, and won the first three championships for the Chinese team. In the process of defeating the generals, Nie Weiping defeated four top-notch chess players who had never won before. They were Kobayashi Koichi , Kato Masao , Takemiya Masaki and Otake Hero . This move was praised by Master Wu Qingyuan as "the world's number one in fact." It is in this situation that Mr. Ying Changqi, a super enthusiast of Go and a Taiwanese industrialist in , believes that the time to start the World Go Competition has come, and then the idea of holding the Yingshi Cup is now available. Unexpectedly, after learning about this news, the Japanese Go community took the lead and launched the Fujitsu Cup, which was the first to open the curtain.
Chang Hao won the Yingshi Cup
However, among the world competitions that are still being held, the Yingshi Cup, which started in the fall of 1988, is the longest. In addition, the World Championship with the highest championship prize is Yingshi Cup, with a quota of US$400,000. According to the latest exchange rate , equivalent to RMB 2.536 million. In the previous World Competitions of
, the least prize for the champion was the Toyo Securities Cup, which was only about 70,000 US dollars, or about 444,000 yuan. In the current world competition, the Chunlan Cup with the lowest bonus amount of is US$150,000, equivalent to RMB 951,000. If you can win a championship, there is no problem buying a property in the county-level city where I live. Which competition has the most held by
? This issue is a bit complicated. South Korea's Samsung Cup and LG Cup were founded in the same year in 1996, and have ended for 26 sessions so far, ranking first. The 27th LG Cup will start next month, but its championship will be decided early next year; there is no news at the moment of the Samsung Cup. If there is no accident, it should kick off in the second half of the year and the champion candidate will be decided within this year.
The Toyo Securities Cup hosted by South Korea was the first world competition to be suspended. It only lasted for seven sessions from its debut in 1992 to its death in 1998. But the shortest life span is the New Olympic Cup held by China. It has stopped after just one session in 2019, which is really unacceptable. The Samsung Cup has the most frequent changes in the competition system of
. The finals were first five games, and later changed to three games; the first few rounds were first single-elimination system, and then the first round was changed to the first round, and the last two games were single-elimination system; the schedule was first divided into several stages, and the last two games were all implemented in one-time concentrated competitions until the championship and runner-up were decided; even the name of the game was changed over and over. was first called "Samsung Fire Cup", but in 2007 it was renamed "Samsung Insurance Cup", and in 2009 it was also called "Samsung Property Cup World Go Masters", and now also called "Samsung Car Insurance Cup World Go Masters".
Samsung Cup champion Ke Jie
The first world competition of the Open nature is also the Samsung Cup. Any professional chess player can sign up for the qualifiers. It should be said that such a competition is the fairest for professional chess players.
The earliest world competition with 64 places in this competition was the BC Card Cup, and the first black chess posting was the Yingshi Cup. This rule was adopted since the first session. It seems that Mr. Ying Changqi is quite forward-looking.
Finally, I want to tell you that in the 122 World Championships that have ended so far, a total of 122 world champion trophysics have been produced, of which 65 were won by Korean masters, 45 Chinese chess players, 11 Japanese chess players, and 12 Taiwan. The 122 championships were shared by 45 chess players, including 15 in South Korea, 21 in China, 8 in Japan, and 1 in Taiwan. The top five in the world championship rankings are: Lee Chang-ho (17 championships), Lee Sedol (14 championships), Cho Hung-hyun (9 championships), Guli and Ke Jie (8 championships).
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