The Shinjin-Ō (, King of the New Stars) is a professional Go competition.
An annual Japanese tournament, it has been held continuously since 1976.
Format The Shinjin-Ō tournament is organised by the Japanese Nihon Ki-in. The tournament started in 1976 and is only open to players under 7-Dan and below 30 years of age. It is a single knockout tournament.
In 2006, the tournament was renamed the Shinjin-Ō U-25 (King of the New Stars U-25) and the age restriction was lowered to 25. The original thinking time was 4 hours but, along with the new age restriction, the time was shortened to 3 hours. The winner's purse is 2,000,000 yen.
Past winners Player Years Held Kobayashi Koichi 1976, 1977 Ishida Akira 1978, 1979 Miyazawa Goro 1980, 1985 Ō Rissei 1981 Kataoka Satoshi 1982 Yoda Norimoto 1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 Toshiya Imamura 1984 Hideki Komatsu 1988, 1992 Cho Sonjin 1991 Satoshi Yuki 1993 Tomoyasu Mimura 1994, 1995 Shinji Takao 1996 Kimio Yamada 1997 Keigo Yamashita 1998 - 2001 Cho U 2002 So Yokoku 2003 Tomochika Mizokami 2004 Kim Shushun 2005 Takehisa Matsumoto 2006 Iyama Yuta 2007 Uchida Shuhei 2008 Ri Ishu 2009 Shiraishi Yuichi 2010Murakawa Daisuke2011Kanazawa Makoto2012Fujita Akihiko2013Ichiriki Ryo2014Hsu Chia Yuan2015Onishi Ryuhei2016Shibano Toramaru2017Hirose Yuichi2018Son Makoto2019Kotaro Seki2020Sebun Sotoyanagi2021Sakai Yuki2022Ueno Asami2023Miura Taro2024Hsiao Yu-yang2025
See also
List of professional Go tournaments
References
External links Shinjin-Ō finals Nihon Ki-in archive of the Shinjin-Ō (in Japanese)