Samsung Fire Cup
Full nameSamsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk
Started1996
SponsorsSamsung Fire & Marine Insurance
Prize money300,000,000 Won

The Samsung Fire Cup (Korean: 삼성화재배, Hanja: 三星火災杯) is an international 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
EditionYearNat.WinnerScoreNat.Runner-up
1st1996JapanYoda Norimoto2–1South KoreaYoo Chang-hyuk
2nd1997South KoreaLee Chang-ho3–0JapanKobayashi Satoru
3rd1998-19993–2ChinaMa Xiaochun
4th19993–0JapanCho Son-jin
5th2000Yoo Chang-hyuk3–1Yamada Kimio
6th2001Cho Hun-hyun2–1ChinaChang Hao
7th2002-20032–0Wang Lei
8th2003JapanCho Chikun2–1South KoreaPak Yeong-hun
9th2004South KoreaLee Se-dol2–0ChinaWang Xi
10th2005-2006ChinaLuo Xihe2–1South KoreaLee Chang-ho
11th2006-2007Chang Hao2–0
12th2007-2008South KoreaLee Se-dol2–1Pak Yeong-hun
13th2008-20092–0ChinaKong Jie
14th2009ChinaKong Jie2–0Qiu Jun
15th2010Gu Li2–1South KoreaHeo Yeong-ho
16th2011South KoreaWon Seong-jin2–1ChinaGu Li
17th2012Lee Se-dol2–1
18th2013ChinaTang Weixing2–0South KoreaLee Se-dol
19th2014South KoreaKim Ji-seok2–0ChinaTang Weixing
20th2015ChinaKe Jie2–0Shi Yue
21st20162–1Tuo Jiaxi
22nd2017Gu Zihao2–1Tang Weixing
23rd2018Ke Jie2–1South KoreaAn Kukhyun
24th2019Tang Weixing2–1ChinaYang Dingxin
25th2020Ke Jie2–0South KoreaShin Jin-seo
26th2021South KoreaPark Junghwan2–1
27th2022Shin Jin-seo2–0Choi Jeong
28th2023ChinaDing Hao2–1[1][2]ChinaXie Erhao

By nation

Nation Winners Runners-up
 South Korea 14 11
 China 12 14
 Japan 2 3

See also

References

  1. ↑ "냉철한 승부사의 놀라운 질주, 中 딩하오 삼성화재배 우승". Joongang (in Korean). 2023-11-28.
  2. ↑ "00后围棋小将丁浩一年收获两个世界冠军，排名有望超越柯洁". thepaper.cn (in Chinese). 2023-11-28.


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