- Tengen (Go)
Go tournament
tournamentname=Tengen
fullname=Tengen
started=1975
honorarywinners=Rin Kaiho
sponsors=Three Newspaper Companies
prizemoney=14 millionYen ($122,000USD )
affiliation=Nihon Ki-in Tengen (天元, "center" or "origin of heaven") is the center point on a Go board. For the position, see the article about Go terms. It is also the name of a Go competition in
Japan .Tengen Competition (天元戦)
The Tengen competition is a Go competition used by the Japanese
Nihon-Kiin andKansai-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 singleknockout , 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.Past winners
Trivia
* The only player to repeat before the 6th Tengen was Kato Masao.
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Honorary Tengen
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