Tianyuan (Go)

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The Tianyuan (Chinese: 天元; pinyin: Tiānyuán) is 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 name is similar to the Japanese Tengen and Korean Chunwon. The competition was established in 1987 and is held annually.

Formerly, the winner went on to face Japan's Tengen winner in the China–Japan Tengen from 1988 to 2002, and Korea's Chunwon winner in the China–Korea Tengen from 1997 to 2015. Both of those competitions have been discontinued.

Outline[]

The Tianyuan competition is sponsored by the Zhongguo Qiyuan, New People's Evening News, and . 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. As of 2021, the winner receives 400,000 RMB in prize money and the runner-up receives 200,000.[1]

Past winners and runners-up[]

Edition Year Winner Score Runner-up
1st 1987 Ma Xiaochun 2–1 Nie Weiping
2nd 1988 Liu Xiaoguang 3–2 Ma Xiaochun
3rd 1989 3–2 Jiang Zhujiu
4th 1990 3–2 Qian Yuping
5th 1991 Nie Weiping 3–0 Liu Xiaoguang
6th 1992 3–1 Ma Xiaochun
7th 1993 Liu Xiaoguang 3–1 Nie Weiping
8th 1994 Ma Xiaochun 3–0 Liu Xiaoguang
9th 1995 3–1 Nie Weiping
10th 1996 3–1 Liu Xiaoguang
11th 1997 Chang Hao 3–1 Ma Xiaochun
12th 1998 3–2 Wang Lei
13th 1999 3–1 Liu Xiaoguang
14th 2000 3–1
15th 2001 3–0 Ding Wei
16th 2002 Huang Yizhong 2-0 Chang Hao
17th 2003 Gu Li 2–1 Huang Yizhong
18th 2004 2–0 Xie He
19th 2005 2–1 Zhou Heyang
20th 2006 2–1 Zhou Ruiyang
21st 2007 2–1
22nd 2008 2–1 Zhou Heyang
23rd 2009 Chen Yaoye 2–0 Gu Li
24th 2010 2–1 Gu Li
25th 2011 2–0 Zhou Hexi
26th 2012 2–0 Zhou Hexi
27th 2013 2–0 Gu Lingyi
28th 2014 2–1 Ke Jie
29th 2015 2–0 Mi Yuting
30th 2016 2–0 Tang Weixing
31st 2017 Lian Xiao 2–0 Chen Yaoye
32nd 2018 2–1 Xie Ke
33rd 2019 2–1 Fan Yunruo
34th 2020 Yang Dingxin 2–1[2] Lian Xiao
35th 2021 2–1[1] Yang Dingxin

References[]

  1. ^ a b "天元赛辜梓豪2-1胜杨鼎新夺冠 同里再出新天元", sina.com.cn (in Chinese), 2021-04-17
  2. ^ "天元赛决胜局连笑告负 杨鼎新成第9位"天元"", sina.com.cn (in Chinese), 2020-12-03
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