Samsung Fire Cup

Samsung Fire Cup
Full name Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk
Started 1996
Sponsors Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance
Prize money 300,000,000 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.

The latest edition 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 get 11th Samsung Fire Cup Runner-up trophy
YearNat.WinnerScoreNat.Runner-up
1996JapanYoda Norimoto2–1South KoreaYoo Chang-hyuk
1997South KoreaLee Chang-ho3–0JapanKobayashi Satoru
1998-19993–2ChinaMa Xiaochun
19993–0JapanCho Son-jin
2000Yoo Chang-hyuk3–1JapanYamada Kimio
2001Cho Hun-hyun2–1ChinaChang Hao
2002-20032–0ChinaWang Lei
2003JapanCho Chikun2–1South KoreaPak Yeong-hun
2004South KoreaLee Se-dol2–0ChinaWang Xi
2005-2006ChinaLuo Xihe2–1South KoreaLee Chang-ho
2006-2007ChinaChang Hao2–0
2007-2008South KoreaLee Se-dol2–1South KoreaPak Yeong-hun
2008-20092–0ChinaKong Jie
2009ChinaKong Jie2–0ChinaQiu Jun
2010ChinaGu Li2–1South KoreaHeo Yeong-ho
2011South KoreaWon Seong-jin2–1ChinaGu Li
2012South KoreaLee Se-dol2–1
2013ChinaTang Weixing2–0South KoreaLee Se-dol
2014South KoreaKim Ji-seok2–0ChinaTang Weixing
2015ChinaKe Jie2–0ChinaShi Yue
20162–1ChinaTuo Jiaxi
2017 Gu Zihao 2-1 China Tang Weixing

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