The Samsung Fire Cup (Korean: 삼성화재배, Hanja: 三星火災杯) is an international Go competition.
| Samsung Fire Cup | |
|---|---|
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| Full name | Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk |
| Started | 1996 |
| Sponsors | Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance |
| Prize money | 300,000,000 Won |
Outline edit
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 edit
| Edition | Year | Nat. | Winner | Score | Nat. | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1996 |  |
Yoda Norimoto | 2–1 |  |
Yoo Chang-hyuk |
| 2nd | 1997 |  |
Lee Chang-ho | 3–0 | |
Kobayashi Satoru |
| 3rd | 1998-1999 | 3–2 |  |
Ma Xiaochun | ||
| 4th | 1999 | 3–0 |  |
Cho Son-jin | ||
| 5th | 2000 | Yoo Chang-hyuk | 3–1 | Yamada Kimio | ||
| 6th | 2001 | Cho Hun-hyun | 2–1 | |
Chang Hao | |
| 7th | 2002-2003 | 2–0 | Wang Lei | |||
| 8th | 2003 | |
Cho Chikun | 2–1 | |
Pak Yeong-hun |
| 9th | 2004 | |
Lee Se-dol | 2–0 | |
Wang Xi |
| 10th | 2005-2006 | |
Luo Xihe | 2–1 | |
Lee Chang-ho |
| 11th | 2006-2007 | Chang Hao | 2–0 | |||
| 12th | 2007-2008 | |
Lee Se-dol | 2–1 | Pak Yeong-hun | |
| 13th | 2008-2009 | 2–0 | |
Kong Jie | ||
| 14th | 2009 | |
Kong Jie | 2–0 | Qiu Jun | |
| 15th | 2010 | Gu Li | 2–1 | |
Heo Yeong-ho | |
| 16th | 2011 | |
Won Seong-jin | 2–1 | |
Gu Li |
| 17th | 2012 | Lee Se-dol | 2–1 | |||
| 18th | 2013 | |
Tang Weixing | 2–0 | |
Lee Se-dol |
| 19th | 2014 | |
Kim Ji-seok | 2–0 | |
Tang Weixing |
| 20th | 2015 | |
Ke Jie | 2–0 | Shi Yue | |
| 21st | 2016 | 2–1 | Tuo Jiaxi | |||
| 22nd | 2017 | Gu Zihao | 2–1 | Tang Weixing | ||
| 23rd | 2018 | Ke Jie | 2–1 | |
An Kukhyun | |
| 24th | 2019 | Tang Weixing | 2–1 | |
Yang Dingxin | |
| 25th | 2020 | Ke Jie | 2–0 | |
Shin Jin-seo | |
| 26th | 2021 | |
Park Junghwan | 2–1 | ||
| 27th | 2022 | Shin Jin-seo | 2–0 | Choi Jeong | ||
| 28th | 2023 | |
Ding Hao | 2–1[1][2] | |
Xie Erhao |
By nation edit
| Nation | Winners | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|
| South Korea
|
14 | 11 |
| China
|
12 | 14 |
| Japan
|
2 | 3 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "냉철한 승부사의 놀라운 질주, 中 딩하오 삼성화재배 우승". Joongang (in Korean). 2023-11-28.
- ^ "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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