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| The world’s oldest international Go contest in history, Fujitsu Cup, has come to an end after 24 consecutive years. On December 19, the Chinese Weiqi Association received the official letter from the Japanese Go Association informing of the decision to close the Fujitsu Cup. Coincidentally, another Chinese company-sponsored world Go tournament will launch early next year. | 2011-12-21 | |
| The first edition of the SportAccord World Mind Games is being held in Beijing. Players from all over the world gather to compete in Bridge, Chess, Draughts, Go and Xiangqi. The Chinese team swept the Go team tournament with 5-0 and China's Gu Li won all of his games. Korea beat Japan and ended up with the silver, followed by Japan who took the bronze. | 2011-12-15 | |
| In the third and decisive final game of the 16th Samsung Cup played on Dec 7 in the Shanghai Hotel, China Won SeongJin managed to defeat Gu Li to take home his first international title. | 2011-12-07 |  |
| The quarter final of 16th Samsung Cup was taken place on 10/5. Among three Chinese players, Gu Li and Chen Yaoye advanced to the semi final, Kong Jie unexpectedly lost to the dark horse Na Hyun 1p, the other winner is Won SeongJin. The best-of-3 semi final will take place from Oct 31st to Nov 3rd, the parings are Gu Li vs. Na Hyun and Chen Yaoye vs. Won SeongJin. | 2011-10-07 | |
| In the final sixteen round of 16th Samsung Cup held on 10/4, three Chinese and five Korean players advanced to the quarter final. Gu Li and Kong Jie knocked out Lee Changho and Lee Sedol respectively. The parings in the quarter final are, Kong Jie vs Na Hyun, Gu Li vs. Kim Jisuk, Chen Yaoye vs. Lee Yeongkyu and Park YuongHoon vs. Won SeongJin. | 2011-10-04 | |
| In the final of 13th Chinese Ahan Tongshan Cup held on 9/20, Piao Wenyao 9p defeated Chen Yaoye 9p by resignation and won the champion. The champion prize is 200,000 Yuan. This is Piao Wenyao's third national champion after CCTV Cup champion in 2007 and National Go Individual in 2010. | 2011-09-21 | |
| The first round of 16th Samsung Cup was held from August 24th-26th in Beijing China, as a result eight Chinese and eight Korean players advanced to the second round. The second round will take place from Oct. 4th to Oct 5th in South Korea, two interesting parings are Lee Sedol vs. Kong Jie and Lee Changho vs. Gu Li. | 2011-08-27 | |
| In the final of 24th Fujitsu Cup held on 8/14, Park Junghwan 9p of Korea defeated Qiu Jun 8p of China by resignation and becomes new world champion. Park Junghwan is just 18 years and 7 months old, the champion prize is 15 million Yen. | 2011-08-14 |
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| In the semi final of 24th Fujitsu Cup held on 8/13, Qiu Jun 8p defeated Jiang Weijie 5p by resignation and Park Junghwan 9p beat Iyama Yuta by 3.5 points. Tomorrow (8/14) Qiu Jun and Park Junghwan will fight for the champion, the final will be the most important game for both players, the winner will become world champion. | 2011-08-13 | |
| The quarter final of 24th Fujitsu Cup took place on 8/12 in Japan, Qiu Jun 8p knocked out Lee Sedol 9p by resignation, Jiang Weijie 5p defeated Xie He 7p by resignation, Park Junghwan 9p beat Piao Wenyao 9p by resignation and Iyama Yuta 9p eliminated Sakai Hideaki 9p by resignation. The semi final will continue on 8/13, Qiu Jun will meet with Jiang Weijie and Park Junghwan will fight with Iyama Yuta for the final ticket. | 2011-08-12 | |
| In the round two of 24th Fujitsu Cup held on 8/11, four Chinese, two Korean and two Japanese players defeated their opponents respectively and advanced to the quarter final. The parings in the quarter final are, Park Junghwan 9p vs. Piao Wenyao 9p, Sakai Hideaki 9p vs. Iyama Yuta 9p, Qiu Jun 8p vs. Lee Sedol 9p, Xie He 7p vs. Jiang Weijie 5p. | 2011-08-11 | |
| The 24th Fujitsu Cup starts to play in Japan. The first round was held on 8/10, six out of eight Chinese players advanced to the second round (final sixteen), together five Japanese, four Korean and one player from China Taipei. Among notables, in this round Gu Li lost to Iyama Yuta, Chang Hao was eliminated by teammate Tuo Jiaxi, and Cho U was knocked out by Chen Seuyen. The second round will continue on 8/11. | 2011-08-10 | |
| After five days of intensive fights, the 16th Samsung Cup preliminary came to the end on 8/5. As a result, nine Chinese and ten Korean players advanced to the main event, all players from Japan and China Taipei failed to advance. So far, for the main event, there are total 12 Chinese, 17 Korean and 2 Japanese players. | 2011-08-06 | |
| In the decisive game 7 of 66th Honinbo best-of-7 title match held from 7/20 to 7/21, Yamashita Keigo 9p defeated challenger Hane Naoki 9p by 4.5 points and successfully defended his title by total score 4:3. | 2011-07-21 | |
| In game 6 of 66th Honinbo title match held from 7/13 to 7/14, the challenger Hane Naoki 9p defeated Yamashita Keigo 9p by 7.5 points and tied the best-of-7 series at three a piece, the decisive game 7 will take place from 7/20 to 7/21. | 2011-07-14 | |
| The decisive game 3 of 8th Chunlan Cup was held on 6/30, Lee Sedol 9p defeated Xie He 7p by resignation and won the champion by 2:1. The champion prize is 150,00 USD. So far Lee Sedol already won total 13 world major Go champions. | 2011-06-30 | |
| In the game 2 of 8th Chunlan Cup best-of-3 final held on 6/29, Xie He 7p defeated Lee Sedol 9p by resignation and ties the series at one a piece. The decisive game 3 will take place tomorrow. | 2011-06-29 | |
| The best-of-3 final of 8th Chunlan Cup starts to play. In the first game held on 6/27, Lee Sedol 9p defeated Xie He 7p by resignation and takes 1:0 lead. The game 2 will take place on 6/29. | 2011-06-27 | |
| The second round of 16th LG Cup was held on 6/15. In the end, Xie He overpowered Park YuongHoon, the defending champion Piao Wenyao was eliminated by Kim Jisuk and Lee Changho knocked out the last Japanese player Iyama Yuta. The final eight are, four Korean (Lee Changho, Kim Jisuk, Won SeongJin and Heo Youngho), three Chinese (Xie He, Qiu Jun and Jiang Weijie), and one player (Chen Seuyen) from China Taipei. The quarter and semi final will take place on 11/21 and 11/23 respectively. | 2011-06-15 | |
| The 16th LG Cup main event starts to play. In the first round held on 6/13, Chinese team suffered serious blow, two leaders Gu Li and Kong Jie lost to Lee Changho and Park Jungsang respectively. Moreover Korean #1 player Lee Sedol lost to Park YuongHoon and failed to advance. The second round will continue on 6/15. | 2011-06-13 | |
