Born in 1975, Lee Chang-ho is a legend in the world chess world, winning a total of 17 world championships and 11 world runners-up in his career, and a total of 28 world championship finals. He has won 19 wins in the Nongshim Cup Three Kingdoms Go Tournament and won nine (including the Zhenlu Cup) main general final victory, which is a veritable Grand Slam in the world chess world. From 1996 to 2005, Lee Chang-ho was the undisputed first person in the world and was known as the "Stone Buddha".
Lee Chang-ho won a total of 138 championships in his career, and the brilliance of his achievements was jaw-dropping!
International competitions
Toyo Securities Cup 4 times 3rd, 4th, 7th, 9th
Fujitsu Cup 2nd 9th and 11th Report
LG Cup 4 times 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th
Samsung Cup 3 times 2nd-4th
Ying's Cup 1 time 4th
Toyota Cup 1st 1st
Chunlan Cup 2 times 4th and 5th
Asian Cup 3 times 7th, 8th, 14th
Central Cup 1 time 3rd
Korean domestic competition
KBS11 8th, 11th, 13th, 17th, 20th, 21st, 23rd, 24th, 26th-28th
Highest 9th 29-31st, 33rd-38th
National Hand 10th 34th, 37th-41st, 45th, 46th, 49th, 53rd
New King 1 time 5th
Celebrity 13th 22nd-27th, 29th-34th, 37th
Throne 13th 25th, 30th-41st
Emperor 3 times 9th-11th
BC Card 5 times 2nd-5th, 7th
Bacchus 3 times 8th-10th
King 7 times 8-10, 12-15
National Chess 4 times 16th-19th
SBS3 1st-3rd
Beida King 4 times 1st-3rd, 5th
Chess Saint 11th 4th-14th
Chess King 2 times 18th, 19th
Overlord 4 times 29th, 30th, 35th, 36th
Tianyuan 4 times 1st-4th
GS5 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th, 9th
King of Kings 3 times 2nd, 3rd, 5th
10th dan 2nd 1st and 3rd notification
But in his heyday, Lee Chang-ho had a helpless nemesis. That is, Choi Chul-han, who was born in 1985, and in the face of Choi Che-han, who was 10 years younger than himself, Lee Chang-ho suddenly lost his temper. Choi Chul-han is an outstanding representative of South Korea's post-80s chess players. He was the runner-up of the 5th Ying's Cup in 2004 and the 6th Ying's Cup in 2008.
Choi Chul-han's record of a chess battle with Lee Chang-ho.
The record of the 7 chess matches between the two sides is as follows:
March 2004 47th Korea National Hand Battle Choi Chul-han defeated Lee Chang-ho 3-2
April 2004 15th Korean Chess Jihad Choi Chul-han defeated Lee Chang-ho 3-1
February 2005 48th Korea National Hand Match Choi Chul-han defeated Lee Chang-ho 3-0
July 2005 2nd Wang Zhongwang Battle Lee Chang-ho defeated Choi Chul-han 2-0
In December 2005, the 10th GS Caltex Cup, Choi Chul-han defeated Lee Chang-ho 3-2
January 2006 49th Korea National Hand Match Lee Chang-ho defeated Choi Chul-han 3-2
April 2009 6th Ying's Cup Choi Chul-han defeated Lee Chang-ho 3:1
Choi Chul-han's incredible record against Lee Chang-ho earned him the nicknames "Lee Chang-ho Nemesis" and "Choi Folding Pickaxe".
But such a super chess player who made Lee Chang-ho helpless, lost in front of a Chinese chess player, and this Chinese chess player is Chen Yaoye.
Born in 1989, Chen Yaoye reached the final of the 10th LG Cup in 2005 at the age of 15, and finally lost to Gu Li at the peak of 2:3. Although he failed to break the world record for Lee Chang-ho to win the championship at the age of 16, he set a record for the youngest world series finalist. In his career, Chen Yaoye has won three world championships, including the 9th Chunlan Cup in 2013, the 3rd Lark Cup in 2016, and the 1st Tianfu Cup in 2018. At the same time, it also won the eighth consecutive championship of the Chinese Go Tianyuan Tournament. Chen Yaoye is an outstanding representative of China's post-80s leopard chess players and is known as the leopard head. Chen Yaoye also has a nickname called Xiao Qiang. The origin of this nickname is because Chen Yaoye's chess style is particularly tenacious and tenacious, and he is known as an enhanced version of Zhao Zhixun. It is not easy to defeat Chen Yaoye.
At the peak of Ke Jie's time, the only one who defeated Ke Jie in Fanqi was Chen Yaoye in the world chess world. Before 2020, Ke Jie participated in a total of 21 chess battles, including the semi-finals and finals, winning 19 of them and losing 2 times. The 21 battles are:
2014 28th Tianyuan Challenge 1:2 Chen Yaoye
2014 2nd Lark Cup Semi-Final 2:0 Park Young-hwan
2015 2nd Lark Cup Final 3:2 Qiu Jun
2015 20th Samsung Cup Semi-Final 2:0 Lee Sedol
2015 2nd Dream Lily Cup Semi-Final 2:1 Park Yong-hoon
20th Samsung Cup Final 2015 2:0
2nd Dream Lily Cup Final 2016 3:2 Lee Sedol
2016 3rd Lark Cup Semi-Final 2:1 Yuan Shengqin
2016 21st Samsung Cup Semi-Final 2:1 Lee Sedol
2016 21st Samsung Auto Insurance Cup Final 2:1 Ng Ka-hee
2016 3rd Lark Cup Final 1:3 Chen Yaoye
2017 SUP Semi-Final 2:0 Li Zhe
2017 8th China Dragon Star Wars Final 2:0 Li Qincheng
2017 1st New Olympic Cup Final 3:2 Peng Liyao
2018 9th Chinese Go Dragon Star Wars 2:1 Laugh
2018 23rd Samsung Cup Semi-Final 2:1 Cherhow
2018 23rd Samsung Cup Final 2:1 Ahn Kok-hyun
2019 4th Lark Cup Final 2:0 Shen Zhenchen
2019 16th Advocate Chess Cup Semifinals 2:0 Yang Dingxin
2019 4th Chinese Chess Jihad Final 2:1 laugh
2019 16th Advocate Chess Cup Final 2:0 Zhou Ruiyang
The two defeats were the 28th Tianyuan Challenge in 2014 and the 3rd Bailing Cup final in 2016, and the opponent was Chen Yaoye.
The third generation of South Korea's first person Park Tinghuan has always been a headache opponent for Chinese chess players, even China's first person Ke Jie has no obvious advantage over Park Tinghuan, the two are half a pound and eight two; but Chen Yaoye is a clear advantage of 21:15 against Park Tinghuan, and there has been a wave of 7 consecutive wins. The fourth generation of South Korea's first person, Shin Jin-chan, was also once suppressed by Chen Yaoye very strongly.
In the 7-china-South Korean Tianyuan Confrontation in which Chen Yaoye participated, all of them won, including two 2:0 clean sheets against Choi Chul-han. Due to the one-sided results, the China-South Korea Tianyuan Competition was discontinued in 2015.
On December 5, 2013, in the 8th round of the 15th Nongshim Cup Three Kingdoms Go Tournament, Chen Yaoye, who ranked first in China's ranking, defeated Cui Zhehan with 18 and a half eyes, creating the largest eye number gap in the history of the Nongshim Cup.
Prior to 2014, Chen Yaoye and Cui Zhehan had met 14 times in official matches, leading a large margin with 10 wins and 4 losses, and had won 9 consecutive wins against Cui Zhehan. For Chen Yaoye, Cui Zhehan simply had no way to do anything. Once, when Cui Zhehan talked about Chen Yaoye's chess on the Internet, he once said that "it is most annoying for him to play this way." Later, Park Tinghuan also said that the most difficult person in Chinese chess is Chen Yaoye.
At the peak of his time, Chen Yaoye's strength was terrifying, and his achievements were brilliant. Therefore, chess fans and friends like Chen Yaoye very much and affectionately call him Xiao Qiang.