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Ryusei (competition)

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The Ryusei (竜星戦, Ryūsei-sen) is a Go competition.

Biography

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The Ryusei is a Go competition used by the Japanese Nihon-Kiin. It was started in 1991 and is a fast go tournament. The tournament consists of four sections. The winner from each section, along with the player who won the most games in each section play in a single knockout tournament. The winner is decided this way. The winner's purse is 5,000,000 Yen ($43,000).

Past winners

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No. Year Winner Runner-up
1 1991 Cho Chikun Ishida Yoshio
2 1992 Otake Hideo Cho Chikun
3 1993 Cho Chikun Ryu Shikun
4 1994 Morita Michihiro Rin Kaiho
5 1996 Kobayashi Satoru Nakaonoda Tomomi
6 1997 Kobayashi Koichi Komatsu Hideki
7 1998 Kato Masao Cho Chikun
8 1999 Yamada Kimio Morita Michihiro
9 2000 Takao Shinji Takagi Shoichi
10 2001 Kato Masao Cho U
11 2002 Kobayashi Koichi O Meien
12 2003 Kobayashi Koichi Hane Naoki
13 2004 Takao Shinji Yamada Kimio
14 2005 Yuki Satoshi Cho U
15 2006 Cho U Yuki Satoshi
16 2007 Cho U Yuki Satoshi
17 2008 Kono Rin Cho U
18 2009 Iyama Yuta Cho U
19 2010 Yamashita Keigo Nakano Hironari
20 2011 Iyama Yuta Yuki Satoshi
21 2012 Iyama Yuta Rin Kanketsu
22 2013 Yamashita Keigo Kono Rin
23 2014 Kono Rin Yu Zhengqi
24 2015 Yuki Satoshi Cho Chikun
25 2016 Ichiriki Ryo Iyama Yuta
26 2017 Shibano Toramaru Yu Zhengqi
27 2018 Ichiriki Ryo Motoki Katsuya
28 2019 Ichiriki Ryo Ueno Asami
29 2020 Ichiriki Ryo Iyama Yuta
30 2021 Shibano Toramaru Hsu Chia-yuan
31 2022[1] Iyama Yuta Yuki Satoshi
32 2023 Iyama Yuta Shibano Toramaru

References

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  1. ^ "The Power Report: Ida sets new record in Crown; China wins 23rd Agon Kiriyama Play-off; Iyama wins Ryusei title after life-and-death hallucination". American Go E-Journal. 2023-01-24. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05.
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