NHK Cup (Go)

For other uses, see NHK Cup (disambiguation).

The NHK Cup is a Go competition.

Biography

The NHK Cup is a Go competition used by the Japanese Nihon Ki-in. The tournament is televised on the NHK network. Before 1963, the competition was broadcasted on the radio. The winner's purse is 5,000,000 Yen ($43,000).

Past winners

Player	Years Held
Shimamura Toshihiro	1954
Iwamoto Kaoru	1955
Hashimoto Utarō	1956, 1963
Sakata Eio	1957 - 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1982
Kitani Minoru	1960
Takagawa Shūkaku	1966
Hashimoto Shōji	1967, 1980, 1985
Ōtake Hideo	1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1994
Rin Kaiho	1970, 1974, 1978
Tōno Hiroaki	1979
Fujisawa Hideyuki	1969, 1981
Cho Chikun	1983, 1992, 1996, 2007
Honda Kunihisa	1984
Kobayashi Kōichi	1986, 2004
Ishida Yoshio	1987, 1990, 2001
Katō Masao	1988
Takemiya Masaki	1989
Yoda Norimoto	1991, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000
Kobayashi Satoru	1995
Ō Rissei	1997
Cho U	2002, 2005, 2008
Mimura Tomoyasu	2003
Hane Naoki	2006
Yuki Satoshi	2009, 2010
Yamada Kimio	2011