Agon Kiriyama Cup

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Agon Kiriyama Cup
Full nameAgon Kiriyama Cup
Started1994
SponsorsAgon Shu
Prize money10,000,000 Yen ($86,000)
AffiliationNihon Ki-in

The Agon Kiriyama Cup (阿含･桐山杯) is a Go competition.

Outline[]

The Agon Kiriyama Cup is a Go competition endorsed by the Nihon Kiin. It was started in 1994[1] by Agon Shu. The name was originally the "Acom Cup" but it changed its sponsor in 1999 and became the Agon Kiriyama Cup. It is a single knockout tournament, but unlike the big titles in Japan, the title holder does not wait for a challenger, hence the difficulty of defending the title. The prize for the winner is 10,000,000 yen, a larger prize than some of the top-seven major titles.[2]

The tournament has a counterpart in China, the Ahan Tongshan Cup; the winners of the two tournaments face off in the China-Japan Agon Cup.

Past winners[]

Year Winner Runner-up
O Rissei Cho Chikun
1995 Kato Masao Kobayashi Satoru
Yoda Norimoto
Yoda Norimoto Kato Masao
Kobayashi Satoru Cho Chikun
Kobayashi Koichi Takao Shinji
Cho Sonjin Cho Chikun
O Rissei
Cho Chikun Cho U
Kato Masao Cho U
Hane Naoki Kobayashi Koichi
Iyama Yuta Kobayashi Satoru
Cho U Hane Naoki
Cho Chikun
Hane Naoki Cho U
Yamashita Keigo Cho Chikun
2011 Iyama Yuta Yamashita Keigo
Cho U
Murakawa Daisuke
Iyama Yuta Kono Rin
Kyo Kagen
2016 Kono Rin Cho Chikun
2017 Takao Shinji
2018[2] Ichiriki Ryo Shibano Toramaru
2019 Cho U Ichiriki Ryo
2020 Iyama Yuta Yamashita Keigo
2021 Kyo Kagen Iyama Yuta

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Nihon Ki-in, Japanese language tournament results page, retrieved on June 3rd, 2015
  2. ^ a b "The Power Report: Hirose wins King of New Stars; Iyama eliminated from Samsung; New tournament for non-winners; Ichiriki wins Agon Kiriyama Cup; Onishi wins again in Kisei knock-out". American Go E-Journal. 2018-10-13.

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