Ing Cup

The Ing Cup (Chinese: 应氏杯) is an international Go tournament with a cash prize of over US$400,000. It was created by, and is named after, Ing Chang-ki.[1] The tournament is held once every 4 years and hence often nicknamed the Go Olympics.

Ing Cup
Full nameIng Cup
Started1988
SponsorsIng Chang-ki Weiqi Educational Foundation
Prize moneyUS$400,000
This article is about the Go tournament. For other uses, see ING Cup (cricket) and ING Cup (football).
This article is about an international Go tournament. It is not to be confused with Chang-ki Cup, an affiliated annual domestic Go tournament in China.

In the 7th Ing Cup (2012/13), Fan Tingyu (b. 1996) defeated Park Junghwan (b. 1993) [3-1] and became the youngest Ing Cup winner in history. In the semifinal, Fan defeated Xie He, and Park defeated Lee Chang-ho.

Overview

The Ing Cup is sponsored by Ing Chang-ki Weichi Educational Foundation, Yomiuri Shimbun, the Nihon-Kiin, and Kansai-Kiin, and held every 4 years (and thus often nicknamed Go Olympics). The competition has its own rules and an 8-point komi. The time allotment is 3.5 hours for each player, while players are available to buy an extra 35 minutes for an additional 2-point komi a maximum of three times. The first rounds are knockouts, while the semi-finals and finals are a best-of-3 and best-of-5 respectively.[2][3]

Past winners and runners-up
EditionYearNat.WinnerScoreNat.Runner-up
1st 1988–1989 Cho Hunhyun 3–2 Nie Weiping
2nd 1992–1993 Seo Bongsoo 3–2 Otake Hideo
3rd 1996 Yoo Changhyuk 3–1 Yoda Norimoto
4th 2000–2001 Lee Changho 3–1 Chang Hao
5th 2004–2005 Chang Hao 3–1 Choi Cheolhan
6th 2008–2009 Choi Cheolhan 3–1 Lee Changho
7th 2012–2013 Fan Tingyu 3–1 Park Junghwan
8th 2016 Tang Weixing 3–2

By nation
Nation Winners Runners-up
 South Korea 5 4
 China 3 2
 Japan 0 2


References
  1. "应昌期之子应明皓辞世享年76岁 父子俩为推广围棋贡献巨大_体育_腾讯网". sports.qq.com. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  2. "Go Tournament: Ing Cup". gogameworld.com. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
  3. "Introduction". gobase.org. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
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