The Igo Masters Cup was a Japanese Go competition. It was held nine times from 2011 until 2019, when it was discontinued. The tournament sponsor was Fumakilla, a chemical manufacturing company.
Outline The tournament was open only to players over the age of 50 and who have won at least one Top 7 title (Kisei, Meijin, Honinbo, Tengen, Oza, Judan, Gosei). The format was single knockout and each player was allotted two hours thinking time. The winners' purse was 5 million Yen ($62,000), while the runner-up received 1.5 million yen.
Past winners and runners-up Year Winner Runner-up2011 Cho Chikun Kobayashi Koichi2012 O Meien Cho Chikun2013 Kobayashi Satoru Ishii Kunio2014 Cho Chikun Kobayashi Satoru2015 Takemiya Masaki2016 Kobayashi Koichi Awaji Shuzo2017 Kobayashi Satoru Cho Chikun2018 Yoda Norimoto Kataoka Satoshi2019 Cho Chikun Komatsu Hideki
References
External links Nihon Ki-in archive (in Japanese)