Hello everyone, The SENKO CUP 2025 is coming! This tournament is the World Women’s Go Championship and will take place from March 14th to 16th in Tokyo, Japan. 🇯🇵 🏆
The SENKO CUP features two sections: Professional and Amateur. In both sections, there are 8 players, who will play in a knockout system. The professional section includes some of the world’s top female players Choi Jeong 9p 🇰🇷, Ueno Asami 6p 🇯🇵, Fujisawa Rina 7p 🇯🇵, and Tang Jiawen 6p 🇨🇳 among others. A young wildcard player from Vietnam, Quynh Anh Ha 6d 🇻🇳, is also competing. She won last year’s edition of the amateur section. This promises to be an exciting tournament, with a large prize pool and a world title at stake. The winner of the professional section will receive 10 million yen (~62,000 EUR).
In the amateur section, our teacher Manja Marz 4d 🇩🇪 will be one of the European representatives. She finished 2nd in the last European Women’s Championship. Two more European representatives are Olesia Malko 4d 🇺🇦 and Rita Poscai 5d 🇭🇺, who finished 3rd and 4th in the last championship. Olesia also won the European U18 Youth Championship this weekend in Romania – BIG congratulations to her! 👏 They will compete against representatives from the US 🇺🇸, Australia 🇦🇺 (winner from 2 years ago), Singapore 🇸🇬, Thailand 🇹🇭, and Malaysia 🇲🇾. The amateur section takes place on a single day, March 14th, with all three rounds—starting from the quarterfinals—being played.
The first round of the amateur tournament will be played at 10:00 Japanese time (2:00 CET), the second round at 13:00 Japanese time (5:00 CET), and the final at 15:30 Japanese time (7:30 CET).
You can find more information about the tournament here: https://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/special/senkocup/2025/
PS: You might be wondering why the tournament is called the SENKO CUP. SENKO is a Japanese company specializing in logistics and supply chain solutions, and they actively support the game of Go through sponsorships and events like this one.
Fingers crossed for the European team! 🤞
