Ing Cup

Ing Cup
Full name	Ing Cup
Started	1988
Sponsors	Ing Chang-ki Weiqi Educational Foundation
Prize money	US$400,000

This article is about the Go tournament. For other uses, see ING Cup (cricket) and ING Cup (football).

This article is about an international Go tournament. Not to be confused with Chang-ki Cup, an affiliated annual domestic Go tournament in China.

The Ing Cup (Chinese: 应氏杯) is an international Go tournament with a cash prize of over US$400,000. It was created by, and is named after, Ing Chang-ki. The tournament is held once every 4 years and hence often nicknamed the Go Olympics.

In the 7th Ing Cup (2012/13), Fan Tingyu (b. 1996) defeated Park Junghwan (b. 1993) [3-1] and became the youngest Ing Cup winner in history. In the semifinal, Fan defeated Xie He, and Park defeated Lee Chang-ho.

Overview

The Ing Cup is sponsored by Ing Chang-ki Weichi Educational Foundation, Yomiuri Shimbun, the Nihon-Kiin, and Kansai-Kiin, and held every 4 years (and thus often nicknamed Go Olympics). The competition has its own rules and an 8-point komi. The time allotment is 3.5 hours for each player, while players are available to buy an extra 35 minutes for an additional 2-point komi a maximum of three times. The first rounds are knockouts, while the semi-finals and finals are a best-of-3 and best-of-5 respectively.

Past winners and runners-up

Edition	Year	Nat.	Winner	Score	Nat.	Runner-up
1st	1988–1989		Cho Hunhyun	3–2		Nie Weiping
2nd	1992–1993		Seo Bongsoo	3–2		Otake Hideo
3rd	1996		Yoo Changhyuk	3–1		Yoda Norimoto
4th	2000–2001		Lee Changho	3–1		Chang Hao
5th	2004–2005		Chang Hao	3–1		Choi Cheolhan
6th	2008–2009		Choi Cheolhan	3–1		Lee Changho
7th	2012–2013		Fan Tingyu	3–1		Park Junghwan
8th	2016		Tang Weixing	3–2

By nation

Nation	Winners	Runners-up
South Korea	5	4
China	3	2
Japan	0	2

External links

• Ing Cup games