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Tengen (Go)
Full name	Tengen
Started	1975
Honorary Winners	Rin Kaiho
Sponsors	Three Newspaper Companies
Prize money	14 million Yen ($122,000 USD)
Affiliation	Nihon Ki-in

Tengen (天元, center or origin of heaven) is the name of a Go competition in Japan. The name Tengen refers to the center point on a Go board.

Contents 1 Tengen Competition (天元戦) 2 Past winners 3 Trivia 4 See also

[edit] Tengen Competition (天元戦)

The Tengen competition is a Go competition used by the Japanese Nihon-Kiin and Kansai-Kiin. The Tengen is the 5th of the 7 big titles in Japanese Go. It uses the format like the other tournaments. There is a preliminary tournament, which is single knockout, where the winner faces the holder in a best-of-five match. Before the 6th Tengen, the format was different. Instead of the title holder waiting for a challenger, it would be the two players left from the single knockout tournament who then played a best-of-five match to determine the holder.

[edit] Past winners

Player	Years Held
Fujisawa Hideyuki	1975
Kobayashi Koichi	1976, 1985, 1986, 1998, 1999
Shimamura Toshiohiro	1977
Kato Masao	1978 - 1981
Kataoka Satoshi	1982, 1983
Ishida Yoshio	1984
Cho Chikun	1987, 1988
Rin Kaiho	1989 - 1993
Ryu Shikun	1994 - 1996, 2000
Kudo Norio	1997
Hane Naoki	2001 - 2003
Yamashita Keigo	2004, 2009
Kono Rin	2005 - 2007
Cho U	2008

[edit] Trivia

• The only player to repeat before the 6th Tengen was Kato Masao.

[edit] See also

• Honorary Tengen

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