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
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 26th2021 Park Junghwan2–1 27th2022Shin Jin-seo2–0Choi Jeong 28th2023Ding Hao2–1Xie Erhao 29th2024Ding Hao2–1Dang Yifei 30th2025Liao Yuanhe2–0Ding Hao
By nation Nation Winners Runners-up 14 16 14 11 2 3
See also Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance
References
External links Official Samsung Fire Cup announcement for 26th edition