Up

The Sankei pro-ama tournament

The Sankei pro-ama tournament (産経プロ・アマトーナメント) is a yearly go tournament organised by Kansai Ki-in in Osaka and sponsored by Sankei Shinbun. The first edition was held in 2005. In separate preliminaries pros and amateurs earn a place in the main tournament. The first round of the main tournament consists of 16 pro-ama games. Twelve of the amateurs and ten of the pros are selected via the preliminaries, the rest by recommendation.

Komi is 6.5, but in pro-ama games komi is 0 (and the amateur has black). A female amateur gets a 2-stone handicap against a pro.

# year winner runner-up final
1 2005 Yuki Satoshi Kiyonari Tetsuya B+R
2 2006 Yuki Satoshi Sakai Hideyuki W+1.5
3 2007 Yuki Satoshi Sakai Hideyuki W+R
4 2008 Seto Taiki Hiraoka Satoshi (ama) W+4
5 2009 Yuki Satoshi Hon Seisen (ama) W+12
6 2010 Yuki Satoshi Yata Naoki B+1.5
7 2011 Murakawa Daisuke Kurahashi Masayuki B+R
8 2012 Murakawa Daisuke Nakano Yasuhiro W+R
9 2013 Nakano Yasuhiro Yanagida Tomoya (ama) W+6
10 2014 Murakawa Daisuke Seto Taiki W+R
11 2015 Seto Taiki Murakawa Daisuke B+2.5
12 2016 Sakai Hideyuki Murakawa Daisuke W+R
13 2017 Furuya Yutaka Aragaki Shun B+R
14 2018 Murakawa Daisuke Kiyonari Tetsuya W+4.5