The Asahi Top Position was a 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 komi

Komidashi

in the game of Go are points added to the score of the player with the white stones as compensation for playing second. Black's first move advantage is generally considered to equal somewhere between 5 and 7 points by the end of the game. Standard komi is 6.5 points under the Japanese and Korean...

, 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

Meijin

Meijin , literally translated, means "Brilliant Man." It is the name of the second most prestigious Japanese Go Tournament. It also refers to a traditional Japanese title given to the strongest player of the day during the Edo period.- The tournament :...

 and Judan

Judan

Judan can refer to:# The 10th degree black belt in Dan rank in Japan,# Judan : a Go competition in Japan,# A Shogi competition in Japan between 1962 and 1987. Now it was changed Ryu-oh....

 titles. The sponsor was Asahi shimbun

Asahi Shimbun

The is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...

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Past Winners & Runner Up's

Player	Years Held
Sakata Eio	1955, 1959, 1961
Kitani Minoru	1957, 1958
Fujisawa Hideyuki	1960

Player	Years Lost
Sakata Eio	1957, 1960
Shimamura Toshihiro	1958
Kitani Minoru	1959
Fujisawa Hideyuki	1961