| The Chunlan Cup World Go Championship is sponsored by the Chunlan Group of China. 24 participants are invited, from China (9), Japan (6), Korea (5), Taiwan (2), America (1) and Europe (1). The early rounds are arranged to avoid players from the same country playing each other. It is a knockout with round 1 limited to 16 players. The 8 winners combine with 8 seeds in a knockout culminating in a best-of-three final. Komi is 2.75 stones (5.5 points) with Chinese rules, time limits are 3 hours each. The champion prize is US$ 150 thousands, roughly one eighth of the total prize fund of 10 million yuan. |
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Chang Hao
Lee Changho
Hane Naoki
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