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
Year Nat. Winner Score Nat. Runner-up
1996 Japan Yoda Norimoto 2–1 South Korea Yoo Chang-hyuk
1997 South Korea Lee Chang-ho 3–0 Japan Kobayashi Satoru
1998-1999 South Korea Lee Chang-ho 3–2 China Ma Xiaochun
1999 South Korea Lee Chang-ho 3–0 Japan Cho Son-jin
2000 South Korea Yoo Chang-hyuk 3–1 Japan Yamada Kimio
2001 South Korea Cho Hun-hyun 2–1 China Chang Hao
2002-2003 South Korea Cho Hun-hyun 2–0 China Wang Lei
2003 Japan Cho Chikun 2–1 South Korea Pak Yeong-hun
2004 South Korea Lee Se-dol 2–0 China Wang Xi
2005-2006 China Luo Xihe 2–1 South Korea Lee Chang-ho
2006-2007 China Chang Hao 2–0 South Korea Lee Chang-ho
2007-2008 South Korea Lee Se-dol 2–1 South Korea Pak Yeong-hun
2008-2009 South Korea Lee Se-dol 2–0 China Kong Jie
2009 China Kong Jie 2–0 China Qiu Jun
2010 China Gu Li 2–1 South Korea Heo Yeong-ho
2011 South Korea Won Seong-jin 2–1 China Gu Li
2012 South Korea Lee Se-dol 2–1 China Gu Li
2013 China Tang Weixing 2–0 South Korea Lee Se-dol
2014 South Korea Kim Ji-seok 2–0 China Tang Weixing
2015 China Ke Jie 2–0 China Shi Yue

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