Samsung Fire Cup

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Samsung Fire Cup
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Full nameSamsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk
Started1996
SponsorsSamsung Fire & Marine Insurance
Prize money300,000,000 Won ($216,600)

The Samsung Fire Cup (Korean: 삼성화재배, Hanja: 三星火災杯) is a Go competition.

Outline[]

The Samsung Cup is an international Go competition. The official name is The Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk. The Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance of South Korea (which is a branch of the Samsung Group) and Hanguk Kiwon host the competition. The format starts with a preliminary tournament in which even amateur players are allowed to play. After the preliminaries, 16 players who advance plus the last four players of the previous year make up the main event. The semi-finals have a best-of-3 format, while the final has a best-of-3 match.

Before 2020 the tournament starts off with the preliminaries, and then it is followed by splitting the players into 8 groups, with 4 players in each. There are three rounds, which are used to determine the 16 players that will be in the main tournament. The players must win two of their matches in order to advance to the round of 16. If there is someone with one win and one loss, they will play each other to see who can gain the second win. Obviously the people with two losses, whether they have a win or not, will be eliminated from the tournament.

Past winners and runners-up[]

Lee Chang-ho receiving the 11th Samsung Fire Cup Runner-up trophy
Edition Year Nat. Winner Score Nat. Runner-up
1st 1996 Japan Yoda Norimoto 2–1 South Korea Yoo Chang-hyuk
2nd 1997 South Korea Lee Chang-ho 3–0 Japan Kobayashi Satoru
3rd 1998-1999 3–2 China Ma Xiaochun
4th 1999 3–0 Japan Cho Son-jin
5th 2000 Yoo Chang-hyuk 3–1 Japan Yamada Kimio
6th 2001 Cho Hun-hyun 2–1 China Chang Hao
7th 2002-2003 2–0 China Wang Lei
8th 2003 Japan Cho Chikun 2–1 South Korea Pak Yeong-hun
9th 2004 South Korea Lee Se-dol 2–0 China Wang Xi
10th 2005-2006 China Luo Xihe 2–1 South Korea Lee Chang-ho
11th 2006-2007 Chang Hao 2–0
12th 2007-2008 South Korea Lee Se-dol 2–1 South Korea Pak Yeong-hun
13th 2008-2009 2–0 China Kong Jie
14th 2009 China Kong Jie 2–0 China Qiu Jun
15th 2010 Gu Li 2–1 South Korea Heo Yeong-ho
16th 2011 South Korea Won Seong-jin 2–1 China Gu Li
17th 2012 Lee Se-dol 2–1
18th 2013 China Tang Weixing 2–0 South Korea Lee Se-dol
19th 2014 South Korea Kim Ji-seok 2–0 China Tang Weixing
20th 2015 China Ke Jie 2–0 China Shi Yue
21st 2016 2–1 China Tuo Jiaxi
22nd 2017 2–1 China Tang Weixing
23rd 2018 Ke Jie 2–1 South Korea An Kukhyun
24th 2019 Tang Weixing 2–1 China Yang Dingxin
25th 2020 Ke Jie 2–0 South Korea Shin Jin-seo
26th 2021 South Korea Park Junghwan 2–1 South Korea Shin Jin-seo

By nation[]

Nation Winners Runners-up
 South Korea 13 10
 China 11 13
 Japan 2 3

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