Start time: 1996
Organizer: Korea Chosun Ilbo
Sponsor: LG Group
Competition scale: about 13 billion won.
First prize: 250 million won, second prize 80 million won.
Rules of the game: each party is limited to 3 hours, counting down 1 minute, 5 times.
Sticking rules: black stickers for 6 and a half eyes
Competition mode: 32 players were eliminated in the first round of the semi-final, and the first and second finalists had five pieces, instead of 1 1 session, they had three pieces.
Participation places: 5 Korean chess institutes, 4 Chinese chess institutes, 4 Japanese chess institutes, 1 China Taipei, the last champion and runner-up. Another 16 places were created through large-scale open qualifiers.