The Agon Kiriyama Cup (阿含･桐山杯) is a Japanese Go competition.
Outline The Agon Kiriyama Cup is a Go competition endorsed by the Nihon Kiin. It was started in 1994Nihon Ki-in, Japanese language tournament results page, retrieved on December 27, 2023 by Agon Shu. The name was originally the "Acom Cup" but it changed its sponsor in 1999 and became the Agon Kiriyama Cup. It is a single knockout tournament, but unlike the big titles in Japan, the title holder does not wait for a challenger, hence the difficulty of defending the title. The prize for the winner is 10,000,000 yen, a larger prize than some of the top-seven major titles.
The tournament has a counterpart in China, the Ahan Tongshan Cup; the winners of the two tournaments face off in the China-Japan Agon Cup.
Past winners + Agon Kiriyama CupYear Winner Runner-up 1994 O Rissei Cho Chikun1995 Kato Masao Kobayashi Satoru 1996 Yoda Norimoto 1997 Yoda Norimoto Kato Masao 1998 Kobayashi Satoru Cho Chikun 1999 Kobayashi Koichi Takao Shinji 2000 Cho Sonjin Cho Chikun 2001 O Rissei 2002 Cho Chikun Cho U 2003 Kato Masao Cho U 2004 Hane Naoki Kobayashi Koichi 2005 Iyama Yuta Kobayashi Satoru 2006 Cho U Hane Naoki 2007 Cho Chikun 2008 Takanashi Seiken 2009 Hane Naoki Cho U 2010 Yamashita Keigo Cho Chikun 2011 Iyama Yuta Yamashita Keigo 2012 Cho U Rin Shien 2013 Murakawa Daisuke Shida Tatsuya 2014 Iyama Yuta Kono Rin 2015 Kyo Kagen2016Kono RinCho Chikun2017Mutsuura YutaTakao Shinji2018 Ichiriki Ryo Shibano Toramaru 2019 Cho U Ichiriki Ryo 2020 Iyama Yuta Yamashita Keigo 2021 Kyo Kagen Iyama Yuta 2022 Hirata Tomoya Iyama Yuta 2023 Ichiriki Ryo Iyama Yuta 2024 Ichiriki Ryo Shibano Toramaru 2025 Ichiriki Ryo Shibano Toramaru
See also
Go competitions International Go Federation List of professional Go tournaments
References
External links Agon Cup