LG Cup (Go)
Full nameLG Cup World Baduk Championship
Started1996; 28 years ago (1996)
SponsorsLG
Prize money300,000,000 Won ($266,000)

LG Cup World Baduk Championship (Korean: LG배 세계기왕전, Hanja: LG杯 世界棋王戰) is a Go competition.

Outline

The LG Cup is organized by the Chosun Ilbo newspaper and sponsored by the LG Group of Korea.[1] The LG Cup was created after the Kiwang (기왕; 棋王) title from Korea was abolished. There are 16 players who compete in a preliminary, and another 16 players are invited. The latest edition had 256 competitors in the preliminary, the biggest in history. The players are invited from the following Weiqi/Go/Baduk associations.

The final is a best-of-three match. The komi is 6.5 points, and each player has 3 hours main time and five 40-second byoyomi periods. The winner's purse is 300,000,000 won and the total prize pool is 1.3 billion won.[2]

Winners & runners-up

Edition Years Winner Score Runner-up
1st 1996–1997 South Korea Lee Changho 3–0 South Korea Yoo Changhyuk
2nd 1997–1998 Japan O Rissei 3–2 South Korea Yoo Changhyuk
3rd 1998–1999 South Korea Lee Changho 3–0 China Ma Xiaochun
4th 1999–2000 China Yu Bin 3–1 South Korea Yoo Changhyuk
5th 2000–2001 South Korea Lee Changho 3–2 South Korea Lee Sedol
6th 2001–2002 South Korea Yoo Changhyuk 3–2 South Korea Cho Hunhyun
7th 2002–2003 South Korea Lee Sedol 3–1 South Korea Lee Changho
8th 2003–2004 South Korea Lee Changho 3–1 South Korea Mok Jinseok
9th 2004–2005 Japan Cho U 3–1 China Yu Bin
10th 2005–2006 China Gu Li 3–2 China Chen Yaoye
11th 2006–2007 Chinese Taipei Chou Chun-hsun 2–1 China Hu Yaoyu
12th 2007–2008 South Korea Lee Sedol 2–1 South Korea Han Sang-hoon
13th 2008–2009 China Gu Li 2–0 South Korea Lee Sedol
14th 2009–2010 China Kong Jie 2–0 South Korea Lee Changho
15th 2010–2011 China Piao Wenyao 2–0 China Kong Jie
16th 2011–2012 China Jiang Weijie 2–0 South Korea Lee Changho
17th 2012–2013 China Shi Yue 2–0 South Korea Won Seongjin
18th 2013–2014 China Tuo Jiaxi 2–1 China Zhou Ruiyang
19th 2014–2015 South Korea Park Junghwan 2–1[3] South Korea Kim Jiseok
20th 2015–2016 South Korea Kang Dong-yun 2–1 South Korea Park Yeonghun
21st 2016–2017 China Dang Yifei 2–0 China Zhou Ruiyang
22nd 2017–2018 China Xie Erhao 2–1 Japan Iyama Yuta
23rd 2018–2019 China Yang Dingxin 2–1[4] China Shi Yue
24th 2019–2020 South Korea Shin Jin-seo 2–0 South Korea Park Junghwan
25th 2020–2021 South Korea Shin Min-jun 2–1[5] China Ke Jie
26th 2021–2022 South Korea Shin Jin-seo 2–0[6] China Yang Dingxin
27th 2022–2023 China Ding Hao 2–0[7] China Yang Dingxin
28th 2023–2024 South Korea Shin Jin-seo 2–0 South KoreaByun Sang-il

By nation

Nation Winners Runners-up
 South Korea 13 16
 China 12 11
 Japan 2 1
 Chinese Taipei 1 0

References

  1. ^ "LG Cup World Baduk Championship". Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Ke Jie loses LG Cup final 1-2 to top Korean Shin Min-jun, misses opportunity to become youngest nine-time champion". Tencent Sports (in Chinese). 4 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Park Junghwan wins 19th LG Cup – Breaking international title drought". Go Game Guru. 2015-02-12. Archived from the original on 2015-09-21.
  4. ^ "21岁的杨鼎新：仍是当年最值得期待的少年棋手". sina.com.cn (in Chinese). 2019-11-26.
  5. ^ "LG杯决赛柯洁1-2负韩国名将申旻埈 无缘成为最年轻九冠王". Tencent Sports (in Chinese). 2021-02-04.
  6. ^ "'직선 공격' 신진서, 짜릿한 재역전극으로 LG배 우승(종합)". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). 2022-02-09.
  7. ^ "22岁丁浩LG杯夺冠！00后棋手也是时候担起大任了". Xinmin Evening News (in Chinese). 2023-02-02.
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