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Samsung Cup

The Samsung Cup (Samsung Fire Cup, Samsung Cup World Open Baduk Championship, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk, 삼성화재배, 三星火災杯) is an international tournament where also amateur players are allowed to play.

Komi was 5.5 the first three editions, and 6.5 afterwards.
Time available was 3h for editions 1-9, and 2h afterwards.

Below we give the sgfs of the final games. The first column gives links to more information on the separate tournaments.

#yearwinneropponentscoresgf
1 1996 Yoda Norimoto Yoo Changhyuk 2-1 1 2 3
2 1997 Lee Changho Kobayashi Satoru 3-0 1 2 3
3 1998 Lee Changho Ma Xiaochun 3-2 1 2 3 4 5
4 1999 Lee Changho Cho Sonjin 3-0 1 2 3
5 2000 Yoo Changhyuk Yamada Kimio 3-1 1 2 3 4
6 2001 Cho Hunhyun Chang Hao 2-1 1 2 3
7 2002 Cho Hunhyun Wang Lei (b) 2-0 1 2
8 2003 Cho Chikun Park Yeonghun 2-1 1 2 3
9 2004 Lee Sedol Wang Xi 2-0 1 2
10 2005 Luo Xihe Lee Changho 2-1 1 2 3
11 2006 Chang Hao Lee Changho 2-0 1 2
12 2007 Lee Sedol Park Yeonghun 2-1 1 2 3
13 2008 Lee Sedol Kong Jie 2-0 1 2
14 2009 Kong Jie Qiu Jun 2-0 1 2
15 2010 Gu Li Heo Yeongho 2-1 1 2 3
16 2011 Won Seongjin Gu Li 2-1 1 2 3
17 2012 Lee Sedol Gu Li 2-1 1 2 3
18 2013 Tang Weixing Lee Sedol 2-0 1 2
19 2014 Kim Jiseok Tang Weixing 2-0 1 2
20 2015 Ke Jie Shi Yue 2-0 1 2
21 2016 Ke Jie Tuo Jiaxi 2-1 1 2 3
22 2017 Gu Zihao Tang Weixing 2-1 1 2 3
23 2018 Ke Jie An Kukhyun 2-1 1 2 3
24 2019 Gu Zihao Tang Weixing 2-1 1 2 3
25 2020 Ke Jie Shin Jinseo 2-0 1 2
26 2021 Park Junghwan Shin Jinseo 2-1 1 2 3
27 2022 Shin Jinseo Choi Jeong 2-0 1 2
28 2023 Ding Hao Xie Erhao 2-1 1 2 3
29 2024 Ding Hao Dang Yifei 2-1 1 2 3
30 2025 Liao Yuanhe Ding Hao 2-0 1 2