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# Chunlan Cup

The Chunlan Cup (春兰杯) is a Go world championship started in 1998, with a best-of-three final. The rules are Chinese. The time limit was 3h in the first eleven editions, and 2.5h afterwards. Komi was 5.5 in the first three editions, 7.5 afterwards.

The main tournament has 24 participants: the #1, #2, #3 from the previous edition, 8 from China, 5 from Japan, 4 from Korea, 2 from Taiwan, 1 from North America, and 1 from Europe. (For the 1st edition, 9 from China, 6 from Japan, 5 from Korea.) Since the 13th edition there is no longer a 3rd Place Playoff.

Below we give the sgfs of the final games. The first column gives links to more information on the separate tournaments.

# | year | winner | second | third | score | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | 1999 | Cho Hunhyun | Lee Changho | Choi Myeonghun | 2-1 | 1 2 3
2 | 2000 | O Rissei | Ma Xiaochun | Kong Jie | 2-1 | 1 2 3
3 | 2001 | Yoo Changhyuk | O Rissei | Cho Hunhyun | 2-1 | 1 2 3
4 | 2003 | Lee Changho | Hane Naoki | Luo Xihe | 2-0 | 1 2
5 | 2005 | Lee Changho | Zhou Heyang | Peng Quan | 2-1 | 1 2 3
6 | 2007 | Gu Li | Chang Hao | Xie He | 2-0 | 1 2
7 | 2009 | Chang Hao | Lee Changho | Kong Jie | 2-0 | 1 2
8 | 2011 | Lee Sedol | Xie He | Gu Lingyi | 2-1 | 1 2 3
9 | 2013 | Chen Yaoye | Lee Sedol | Jiang Weijie | 2-1 | 1 2 3
10 | 2015 | Gu Li | Zhou Ruiyang | Chen Yaoye | 2-0 | 1 2
11 | 2017 | Tan Xiao | Park Yeonghun | Ke Jie | 2-1 | 1 2 3
12 | 2019 | Park Junghwan | Park Yeonghun | Ke Jie | 2-0 | 1 2
13 | 2021 | Shin Jinseo | Tang Weixing |  | 2-0 | 1 2
14 | 2023 | Byun Sangil | Li Xuanhao |  | 2-0 | 1 2

(Here "year" is the year of the final.)