Chunwon

The Chunwon (Korean: 천원전, Hanja: 天元戰) was a Go competition in Korea. Begun in 1996, it was held nineteen times and was discontinued after 2015.

The winner of the Chunwon went on to play the winner of the Chinese equivalent (the Tianyuan), in the annual China–Korea Tengen competition.

Outline The Chunwon Cup was the equivalent to the Tengen in Japan. This tournament replaced the Baccus Cup. The sponsors were Far East Pharmaceuticals and Daily Economic Newspaper. The komi was 6.5 points. The time limits were 5 hours in the final, 4 in the main knockout, and 3 in the preliminaries. The winner's purse was 20,000,000 ($17,000).

Past winners and runners-up Year Winner Score Runner-up1996 Yoo Changhyuk 3–2 Cho Hunhyun1997 Lee Changho 3–0 Choi Myunghoon1998 3–1 1999 3–0 Seo Bongsoo2000 Lee Sedol 3–0 Yoo Jaehung2001 Park Yeonghun 3–1 Yoon Seounghyun2002 Song Taekon 3–2 Cho Hunhyun2003 Choi Cheolhan 3–1 Won Seongjin2004 3–0 An Dalhun2005 Ko Geuntae 3–2 Park Yeonghun2006 Cho Hanseung 3–1 Lee Sedol2007 Won Seungjin 1–0 Kang Dongyun2008 Kang Dongyun 3–2 Lee Sedol2009 Park Junghwan 3–0 Kim Jiseok2010 Choi Cheolhan 3–0 Lee Taehyun2011 2–1 Yun Junsang2012 Park Yeonghun 2–0 Choi Cheolhan2013 Park Junghwan 2–0 2014 Na Hyun 2–0 Shin Minjun

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