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

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

Outline

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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

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Lee Chang-ho receiving the 11th Samsung Fire Cup Runner-up trophy
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

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

See also

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References

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  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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