Irish Open (Confucius Cup)
Type
McMahon
Tournament Type
A
Friday evening: Irish Rapid Play. Saturday and Sunday: 5 round McMahon tournament. Time limit 60 minutes 5x30s byoyomi.
Web site
Venue
UCD, Dublin
Contact
Jos: dublin@irish-go.org
Current Champion
Cornel Burzo
Annual major weekend McMahon tournament - most recent events designated the Confucius Cup (shown + in winners list) - held in Dublin
Past Winners and Results
- 2025+ Cornel Burzo
- 2024+ Mateusz Surma
- 2023+ Kim, Seong-Jin
- 2022+ Stanislaw Frejlak
- 2020 Ye, Lucas Zhirui
- 2019+ Kim, Young-Sam
- 2019 Xie, Tunyang
- 2018 Lukas Podpera
- 2017+ Kim, Seong-Jin
- 2016+ Oh, Mingyu
- 2015+ Kim, Young-Sam
- 2014+ Fan Hui
- 2013+ Csaba Mero
- 2012+ Csaba Mero
- 2011 Antti Tormanen & Wei Wang
- 2010 Ondrej Silt
- 2009 Hwang, Inseong
- 2008 Cho, Seok Bin
- 2007 Kim, DK
- 2006 Hwang, Inseong
- 2005 Yung Chen
- 2004 Toshio Nishimura
- 2003 Marco Firnhaber
- 2002 Toby Manning
- 2001 Gerry Mills
- 2000 Richard Hunter
- 1998, 1999 Matthew Macfadyen
- 1997 Alistair Wall
- 1996 Zhang, Shutai
- 1995 Matthew Macfadyen
- 1994 Tony Goddard
- 1993 Gerry Mills
- 1992 Taro Matsumoto
- 1991 David Phillips
- 1990 Isao Toshima
Start Year
1997
Normal Month
September
Current?
Current
The Irish Open is the main tournament of the Irish Go Congress in Dublin. It is often part of the European Grand Prix. It was called the Confucius Cup from 2012 to 2018 and 2022 on.
Usually preceeded by the Irish Rapid Play on the Friday evening.
Due to snow, 2018 event reduced to 3-round rapid play. The Confucius Cup was held in September in 2022 and 2023, and then 21/22 September 2024 and 27/28 September 2025.
Last updated Sat Oct 04 2025.
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