Women's Kisei

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The Women's Kisei (女流棋聖戦) is a Japanese Go competition.

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The Women's Kisei is sponsored by NTT DoCoMo, and uses a hayago format, unlike the Kisei, which uses an eight-hour thinking time format. The winner's purse is 35,000,000 Yen ($330,000).

Past winners[]

Winners in chronological order:

Year Winner Score Runner-up
1. 1998 Kobayashi Izumi 2–0
2. 1999 2–1
3. 2000 Chinen Kaori 2–0 Kobayashi Izumi
4. 2001 2–1
5. 2002 2–1
6. 2003 2–1 Kato Reiko
7. 2004 Mannami Kana 2–1 Chinen Kaori
8. 2005 Chinen Kaori 2–0 Mannami Kana
9. 2006 Mannami Kana 2–1 Chinen Kaori
10. 2007 Umezawa Yukari 2–1 Mannami Kana
11. 2008 2–0 Mukai Chiaki
12. 2009 2–1 Kato Reiko
13. 2010 Xie Yimin 2–0 Umezawa Yukari
14. 2011 2–0
15. 2012 Aoki Kikuyo 2–1 Xie Yimin
16. 2013 Xie Yimin 2–0 Aoki Kikuyo
17. 2014 2–0
18. 2015 2–0
19. 2016 2–0 Yoshihara (nee Umezawa) Yukari
20. 2017 2–1
21. 2018 Ueno Asami 2–0 Xie Yimin
22. 2019 2–0 Fujisawa Rina
23. 2020 2–0 Ueno Asami
24. 2021 Ueno Asami 2–0 Suzuki Ayumi

Winners by number of titles:

Player Titles Years Held
Xie Yimin 7 2010 - 2011, 2013 - 2017
Chinen Kaori 5 2000 - 2003, 2005
Yoshihara Yukari 3 2007 - 2009
Ueno Asami 3 2018 - 2019, 2021
Kobayashi Izumi 2 1998 - 1999
Mannami Kana 2 2004, 2006
Aoki Kikuyo 1 2012
1 2020

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