First is the SENKO CUP, organized by the Nihon Kiin, which will be held March 14-16 2018 in Tokyo. Eight players are invited, including the top four finishers from the Japanese domestic version of the Senko Cup: Hsieh Yimin, Fujisawa Rina, Mukai Chiaki, and Nyu Eiko; Joanne Missingham (Hei Jia-jia) from Taiwan; and one each from South Korea, China, and Europe.
The second event is the Wu Chingyuan Cup (“Go Seigen” in Japanese pronunciation) to be held in Wu’s birth city Fuzhou of Fujian Province in China. Twenty eight players will be invited for this late-April event, including possibly six from Europe and two from North America. This event is sponsored by the Fuzhou city government, with support from Go Seigen’s family who donated the naming right. In parallel, there will be an exhibition match between world champion Ke Jie and “a top AI program”.
– Thomas Hsiang
