The Samsung Fire Cup (Korean: 삼성화재배, Hanja: 三星火災杯) is an international Go competition.
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.
| Edition | Year | Nat. | Winner | Score | Nat. | Runner-up | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1996 | 2–1 | Yoo Chang-hyuk | ||||
| 2nd | 1997 | 3–0 | Kobayashi Satoru | ||||
| 3rd | 1998-1999 | 3–2 | Ma Xiaochun | ||||
| 4th | 1999 | 3–0 | Cho Son-jin | ||||
| 5th | 2000 | 3–1 | Yamada Kimio | ||||
| 6th | 2001 | 2–1 | |||||
| 7th | 2002-2003 | 2–0 | Wang Lei | ||||
| 8th | 2003 | 2–1 | Pak Yeong-hun | ||||
| 9th | 2004 | 2–0 | Wang Xi | ||||
| 10th | 2005-2006 | 2–1 | Lee Chang-ho | ||||
| 11th | 2006-2007 | 2–0 | |||||
| 12th | 2007-2008 | 2–1 | Pak Yeong-hun | ||||
| 13th | 2008-2009 | 2–0 | Kong Jie | ||||
| 14th | 2009 | 2–0 | Qiu Jun | ||||
| 15th | 2010 | 2–1 | Heo Yeong-ho | ||||
| 16th | 2011 | 2–1 | Gu Li | ||||
| 17th | 2012 | 2–1 | |||||
| 18th | 2013 | 2–0 | Lee Se-dol | ||||
| 19th | 2014 | 2–0 | Tang Weixing | ||||
| 20th | 2015 | 2–0 | Shi Yue | ||||
| 21st | 2016 | 2–1 | Tuo Jiaxi | ||||
| 22nd | 2017 | 2–1 | Tang Weixing | ||||
| 23rd | 2018 | 2–1 | An Kukhyun | ||||
| 24th | 2019 | 2–1 | Yang Dingxin | ||||
| 25th | 2020 | 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 | |||
| 29th | 2024 | Ding Hao | 2–1[3] | Dang Yifei |
| Nation | Winners | Runners-up | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 14 | align=center | 11 | ||
| align=center | 13 | align=center | 15 | ||
| align=center | 2 | align=center | 3 |