ZHOU WINS ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL TICKET
Zhou Heyang 9-dan beat Shao Weigang on 14 October 2000 in Kunming to take the 2nd China Agon-Kiriyama Cup.
This victory also assures Zhou of another international outing to play the winner of the Japanese Agon-Kiriyama Cup, Cho Sonjin 9-dan, in December.
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Older News From 8th October 2000:
AGON FINALISTS DECIDED
Finalists for the 2nd China Agon-Kiriyama Cup in October will be Shao Weigang 9-dan and Zhou Heyang 8-dan.
Zhou beat Xie He, a youngster who has just made 5-dan, in the first semi-final on 10 September, while Shao beat Chang Hao 9-dan in the other the day after.
We have not seen any earlier results yet.
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Older News From 9 July 2000:
AGON A-COMING ROUND AGAIN
Stage 1 of the 2nd China Agon-Kiriyama Cup has just begun (6-8 July 2000) in Beijing, bringing together 148 pros and four amateurs - one of the rare occasions when the lower-ranked players and players from the remote regions now get a chance to rub shoulders with the elite players.
Stage 2 takes place in late August and by then eight players will have qualified to join eight seeds for the final knockout.
The seeds are last year's winner and runner up, Ma Xiaochun 9d and Zhou Heyang 8d, plus Yu Bin 9d, Chang Hao 9d, Shao Weigang 9d, Ding Wei 7d, Liu Shizhen 5d and woman player Li Chunhua 4d.
AGON ARCHIVES
HOW DOES THE CHINESE AGON-KIRIYAMA CUP WORK?
The Chinese Agon-Kiriyama Cup is the Chinese counterpart to a Japanese event that in 1999 replaced the ACOM Cup, an event more properly called the All-Japan Quickplay Open Tournament.
It is a knockout tournament in which 144 players participated in the first term. As usual in China, each round is played in a single venue at the same time. The top eight players from Stage 1, held over three days, join seeds in Stage 2. The eight seeds are taken from the winners of the main tournaments and the biennial ranking list. These 16 players play a straight knockout down to a one-game final.
Top prize is 150,000 yuan (about half the value of the Japanese first prize). Second prize is 50,000 yuan. The winner of the Japan-China match gets a further 200,000 yuan.
The sponsors are the Buddhist sect Agon-shu. See under the Japanese Agon-Kiriyama Cup for further details of this.
Agon is the Japanese form of the Sanskrit Agama, referring to teachings of the Smaller Vehicle doctrine. In Chinese it is Ahan and Kiriyama is Tong-shan.
CHINESE AGON-KIRIYAMA CUP FINALISTS
| Year |
Term |
Winner |
Score |
Loser |
| 1999 |
1 |
Ma Xiaochun 9d |
1-0 |
Zhou Heyang 8d |
| 2000 |
2 |
Zhou Heyang 9d |
1-0 |
Shao Weigang 9d |
