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

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

Outline

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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

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

By nation

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

References

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  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.