Last year's holder Ch'oe Myeong-hun 7-dan and runner-up Rui Naiwei 9-dan head the seeds of the 6th LG Refined Oils Cup, Korea's richest event, for which the qualifiers were decided on 15 December 2000.
Also seeded are Yi Ch'ang-ho 9-dan and Yi Se-tol 3-dan.
The qualifiers were:
Seo Pong-su 9d
Kim Su-chang 9d
Seo Neung-uk 9d
Kim Tong-yeop 7d
Yun Seong-hyeon 6d
Kim Yeong-hwan 6d
Yang Keon 5d
Paek Tae-hyeon 4d
Cho Han-seung 4d
An Yeong-kil 3d
Yi Yong-su 3d
Pak Yeong-hun 2d
HOW DOES THE LG REFINED OILS/TECHRON CUP TOURNAMENT WORK?
The Techron Pro Go Cup, which appears to have been renamed the LG Petroleum Cup in 1999, is sponsored by LG-Caltex Oil Corporation and the Mae-il Kyeong-che Sin-mun (Daily Economic News).
It culminates in a best-of-five final. Full details of the revamp are awaited, but as there is already an international LG Cup, we will stick with the name Techron Cup for the time being.
The winner's prize is 35 million won, about one-sixth of the total prize fund. Second prize is 7 million won. This is slightly down on Term 1 when first and second prizes were 30 million and 8 million won.
The main tournament is a 16-man knockout culminating in a best-of-five final played in the Autumn. Komi is 5.5 points. Time limits 5 hours each.
Techron (NB not Tekron) is a gasoline brand name.
LG REFINED OILS/TECHRON CUP FINALISTS
Year
Term
Winner
Score
Losers
1996
1
Yu Ch'ang-hyeok 9d
3-2
Cho Hun-hyeon 9d
1997
2
Yi Ch'ang-ho 9d
3-0
Ch'oe Myeong-hun 5d
1998
3
Yi Ch'ang-ho 9d
3-0
Ch'oe Myeong-hun 6d
1999
4
Seo Pong-su 9d
3-2
Yu Ch'ang-hyeok 9d
2000
5
Ch'oe Myeong-hun 7d
3-1
Rui Naiwei 9d
Note: All Korean names are in McCune-Reischauer transcription.
