The China-Japan Supermatches (中日围棋擂台赛) was a Go competition.

Outline

The China-Japan Supermatches were a series of team competition between China

China

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 and Japan

Japan

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 in the board game of Go

Go (board game)

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. The tournament was hosted by NEC; it began in 1984, and has been held 13 times until 1997. It was held one last time in 2000. The matches are in the knock-out format with 8 players on each side.

Before the late 1980s top Japanese players were generally considered to be at a higher level than the rest of the world, but in the end China managed to win 9 times in total. The result has had great impact on the development of the game in China afterwards.

Past winners

Team	Years Held
Mainland China China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...	1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1994 - 1997, 2000
Japan Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	1988, 1990 - 1993

The competition was not played in 1986, 1998, and 1999.