Full name Tengen Honorary Winners Rin Kaiho | Started 1975 Affiliation Nihon Ki-in | |
Sponsors Three Newspaper Companies Prize money 14 million Yen ($122,000 USD) | ||
Tengen (天元, center or origin of heaven) is a Go competition in Japan.
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The name Tengen refers to the center point on a Go board.
The event is held annually, and has run continuously since its inauguration in 1975.
Tengen competition (天元戦)
The Tengen competition is a Go tournament run by the Japanese Nihon-Kiin and Kansai-Kiin. The Tengen is the 5th of the 7 big titles in Japanese Go.
It has the same format as 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 Go players left from the single knockout tournament who then played a best-of-five match to determine the holder.