LG Cup (Go)

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 sponsored by the LG Group of Korea. The LG Cup was created after the Kiwang 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.

• 2 from the holder and runner-up of the previous year.
• 5 from South Korea
• 4 from Japan
• 5 from China
• 1 from Chinese Taipei

The final is a best-of-three match. The komi is currently 6.5 points. The winner's purse is 250,000,000 Won ($200,000).^[1]

Winners & runners-up

Years	Nat.	Winner	Score	Nat.	Runner-up
1997		Lee Chang-ho	3–0		Yoo Changhyuk
1998		O Rissei	3–2		Yoo Changhyuk
1999		Lee Chang-ho	3–0		Ma Xiaochun
2000		Yu Bin	3–1		Yoo Changhyuk
2001		Lee Chang-ho	3–2		Lee Sedol
2002		Yoo Changhyuk	3–2		Cho Hunhyun
2003		Lee Sedol	3–1		Lee Chang-ho
2004		Lee Chang-ho	3–1		Mok Jin-seok
2005		Cho U	3–1		Yu Bin
2006		Gu Li	3–2		Chen Yaoye
2007		Zhou Junxun	2–1		Hu Yaoyu
2008		Lee Sedol	2–1		Han Sang-Hoon
2009		Gu Li	2–0		Lee Sedol
2010		Kong Jie	2–0		Lee Chang-ho
2011		Piao Wenyao	2–0		Kong Jie
2012		Jiang Weijie	2–0		Lee Chang-ho
2013		Shi Yue	2–0		Won Seong-jin
2014		Tuo Jiaxi	2-1		Zhou Ruiyang
2015		Park Junghwan	2-1		Kim Jiseok

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