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
| Year | Winner | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Ma Xiaochun | 2–1 | Nie Weiping |
| 1988 | Liu Xiaoguang | 3–2 | Ma Xiaochun |
| 1989 | 3–2 | Jiang Zhujiu | |
| 1990 | 3–2 | Qian Yuping | |
| 1991 | Nie Weiping | 3–0 | Liu Xiaoguang |
| 1992 | 3–1 | Ma Xiaochun | |
| 1993 | Liu Xiaoguang | 3–1 | Nie Weiping |
| 1994 | Ma Xiaochun | 3–0 | Liu Xiaoguang |
| 1995 | 3–1 | Nie Weiping | |
| 1996 | 3–1 | Liu Xiaoguang | |
| 1997 | Chang Hao | 3–1 | Ma Xiaochun |
| 1998 | 3–2 | Wang Lei | |
| 1999 | 3–1 | Liu Xiaoguang | |
| 2000 | 3–1 | Dong Yan | |
| 2001 | 3–0 | Ding Wei | |
| 2002 | Huang Yizhong | 2-0 | Chang Hao |
| 2003 | Gu Li | 2–1 | Huang Yizhong |
| 2004 | 2–0 | Xie He | |
| 2005 | 2–1 | Zhou Heyang | |
| 2006 | 2-1 | Zhou Ruiyang | |
| 2007 | 2-1 | Liu Shizhen | |
| 2008 | 2-1 | Zhou Heyang | |
| 2009 | Chen Yaoye | 2–0 | Gu Li |
| 2010 | 2-1 | ||
| 2011 | 2–0 | Zhou Hexi | |
| 2012 | 2–0 | Zhou Hexi | |
| 2013 | 2–0 | Gu Lingyi | |
| 2014 | 2–1 | Ke Jie | |
| 2015 | 2–0 | Mi Yuting | |
| 2016 | 2–0 | Tang Weixing | |
| 2017 | Lian Xiao | 2-0 | Chen Yaoye |
| 2018 | 2-1 | Xie Ke | |
| 2019 | 2-1 | Fan Yunruo |