Tianyuan (Go)

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 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. As of 2023, the winner receives 400,000 RMB in prize money and the runner-up receives 200,000.[1]

Past winners and runners-up
EditionYearWinnerScoreRunner-up
1st1987Ma Xiaochun2–1Nie Weiping
2nd1988Liu Xiaoguang3–2Ma Xiaochun
3rd19893–2Jiang Zhujiu
4th19903–2Qian Yuping
5th1991Nie Weiping3–0Liu Xiaoguang
6th19923–1Ma Xiaochun
7th1993Liu Xiaoguang3–1Nie Weiping
8th1994Ma Xiaochun3–0Liu Xiaoguang
9th19953–1Nie Weiping
10th19963–1Liu Xiaoguang
11th1997Chang Hao3–1Ma Xiaochun
12th19983–2Wang Lei
13th19993–1Liu Xiaoguang
14th20003–1Dong Yan
15th20013–0Ding Wei
16th2002Huang Yizhong2-0Chang Hao
17th2003Gu Li2–1Huang Yizhong
18th20042–0Xie He
19th20052–1Zhou Heyang
20th20062–1Zhou Ruiyang
21st20072–1Liu Shizhen
22nd20082–1Zhou Heyang
23rd2009Chen Yaoye2–0Gu Li
24th20102–1Gu Li
25th20112–0Zhou Hexi
26th20122–0Zhou Hexi
27th20132–0Gu Lingyi
28th20142–1Ke Jie
29th20152–0Mi Yuting
30th20162–0Tang Weixing
31st2017Lian Xiao2–0Chen Yaoye
32nd20182–1Xie Ke
33rd20192–1Fan Yunruo
34th2020Yang Dingxin2–1[2]Lian Xiao
35th2021Gu Zihao2–1[3]Yang Dingxin
36th2022Mi Yuting2–1[4]Gu Zihao
37th20232–0[1][5]Dang Yifei

References
  1. "天元赛同里收枰 芈昱廷2-0胜党毅飞卫冕天元", sina.com.cn (in Chinese), 2023-04-16
  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
  3. "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
  4. "天元赛决赛决胜局战罢 芈昱廷屠龙获胜加冕新天元", sina.com.cn (in Chinese), 2022-09-23
  5. "芈昱廷战胜党毅飞，中国围棋时隔三年再次见证"天元连庄"", The Paper (in Chinese)
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