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KBS Cup

South Korean Go tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ491505 ↗
Source-derived summary

The KBS Cup is a South Korean Go competition.

Outline

The KBS Cup is sponsored by KBS. From 1980 to 2003, the tournament was named the KBS Baduk Wang, but was recently renamed to the KBS Cup. The main tournament consists of 16 players who compete in a knockout tournament. There is a winner's and a loser's round to decide the challenger. The thinking time is 5 minutes with byo-yomi.

Formerly, the final was a best-of-3 match. In 2023, the final match was a single game.

Editorial summary

“KBS Cup” enters the record as south Korean Go tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what South, Korean and tournament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2003, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980. Its strongest next move is a source search built around South, Korean and tournament.
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Why this record matters

“KBS Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, South, Korean and tournament provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 10, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q491505. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2003 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “KBS Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.