The is a Go competition.
Biography 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 + Ryusei 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 Iyama Yuta Yuki Satoshi 32 2023 Iyama Yuta Shibano Toramaru 33 2024 Fukuoka Kotaro Iyama Yuta 34 2025 Shibano Toramaru Iyama Yuta
References
External links Ryusei finals Official website (in Japanese) Nihon Ki-in archive (in Japanese)