Asahi Top Position

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| style="font-size: larger;" align="center" colspan="2" | '''Asahi Top Position'''
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| align="right" | '''Name'''
| Asahi Top Position
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| align="right" | '''Started'''
| 1955
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| align="right" | '''Ended'''
| 1961
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| align="right" | '''Honorary Winners'''
| none
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| align="right" | '''Sponsors'''
| [[Asahi shimbun]]
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| align="right" | '''Prize Money'''
| unknown
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| align="right" | '''Affiliation'''
| {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Nihon Ki-in]]
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The '''Asahi Top Position''' was a [[Go competitions|Go competition]].

== Outline ==
The final of the Top Position tournament would be a best of five with 10 hours of thinking time. There was no [[komidashi|komi]], unless the match had to be played out all 5 games, which then would be played with a 4.5 komi. The preliminaries also had no komi. This tournament ran from 1955 to 1961 and was subsequently replaced by the [[Meijin]] and [[Judan]] titles. The sponsor was [[Asahi shimbun]].

== Past Winners & Runner Up's ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Player || Years Held
|-
| [[Sakata Eio]]
| 1955, 1959, 1961
|-
| [[Kitani Minoru]]
| 1957, 1958
|-
| [[Fujisawa Hideyuki]]
| 1960
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!Player || Years Lost
|-
| [[Sakata Eio]]
| 1957, 1960
|-
| [[Shimamura Toshihiro]]
| 1958
|-
| [[Kitani Minoru]]
| 1959
|-
| [[Fujisawa Hideyuki]]
| 1961
|}

[[Category:Go competitions]]

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