Who is the strongest man in the history of Human Go? This is a very interesting topic, and it is also a focus topic that chess fans are very concerned about, and it is also a topic of endless debate, and it is also a topic with no standard answer.
Go is first and foremost a competitive game. But all competitive games must be "Wen Wu first, Wu Wu second", that is to say, in the same era, there will be one of the most powerful Go players, such as Wu Qingyuan, Sakata Rongnan, Cao Xuanxuan, Lee Chang-ho, Lee Se-seok, Gu Li, Park Tinghuan, Ke Jie, Shin Jin-chen, etc., they are all recognized as the first people of the era. The record of the confrontation between the players is the most convincing, especially the record of the two sides at the peak of the game is the most convincing. As the saying goes, "It's the mule that comes out to walk" is what it means. Several of the players listed above have overwhelmed the other major players of their time in terms of record.
However, the kings of the past in the history of Go, their peak state is not in the same era, and the comparison directly related to the public war Qin Qiong is not objective. Although there is now an IMPORTANT reference for AI coincidence, it is also easily controlled by human factors and is not completely objective and accurate.
However, with the entry of Go into modern Go, competition intensified, and the golden career of professional chess players was greatly shortened, and the careers of many chess players overlapped. We can't see, and can't see, a 50-year-old chess player like Cho Hyun Hyun who can still win the world championship. If there is absolute chess power, it is definitely the back wave of the Yangtze River pushing the front wave now. That is to say, the current chess players are stronger than the chess players of the 2000 era; the chess players of the 2000 era are stronger than the chess players of the 90s; the chess players of the 90s are stronger than the chess players of the 80s; and the chess players of the 80s are stronger than the chess players of the 70s. This should not be too controversial.
After entering the 90s, there were several top chess players in human history, such as Lee Chang-ho, Lee Sedol, Gu Li, Park Tinghuan, Ke Jie, and Shin Jin-chan. If the strongest chess players in human history were to emerge between them, there should be no controversy. So who is stronger between them? Lee Chang-ho was born in 1975, Gu Li and Lee Sedol were born in 1983, Park Young-hwan was born in 1993, Ko Jie was born in 1997, and Shin Jin-chan was born in 2000. Between them, Lee Sedol and Gu Li fought with Lee Chang-ho at the peak and Park Tinghuan and Ke Jie at the peak. The record of the confrontation between them can be regarded as a fairly authoritative reference.
Lee Sedol's achievements:
vs Lee Chang-ho 73 innings / 35 wins / 48% vs Choi Chul-han 53 innings / win 32 innings / 60% vs Coulee total 51 innings / win 25 innings / and 1 inning / 50% vs Park Yong-hoon totaled 49 innings / win 31 innings / 63% vs Mu Jin Shuo totaled 40 innings / win 28 innings / 70% vs Jiang Dongrun totaled 37 innings / 24 wins / 65% vs Liu Chang-hyuk totaled 35 innings / win 20 innings / 57% vs Park Ting-hwan totaled 32 innings / win 18 innings / 56% vs Kim Ji-seok totaled 26 innings / win 13 innings / 50% vs Cho Hwang-hyun totaled 25 innings / 19 wins / 76% vs Chang Hao totaled 25 innings / 18 wins / 72% vs Kong Jie totaled 25 innings / win 18 innings / 72% vs Yuan Shengqin totaled 22 innings / win 14 innings / 64% vs Ke Jie totaled 18 rounds / win 5 rounds / 28% vs Chen Yaoye totaled 17 innings / 9 wins / 53% vs Sheikh total 13 innings / 7 wins / 54% vs Lee Anh-kyu totaled 12 innings / won 6 innings / 50% vs 12 innings / 7 wins / 58% vs Song Tae-kun totaled 12 innings / 9 wins / 75% vs Seo Bong-so 12 innings / 10 wins / 83% vs Choi Myung Hoon 11 innings / 7 wins / 64% vs Shin Shin-chan totaled 11 innings / win 5 innings / 45% vs Xu Yinghao totaled 10 rounds / won 8 rounds / 80% vs Yuta Iyama 9 stations/ 7 stations / 78% vs Hu Yaoyu totaled 6 innings / win 5 innings / 83% vs 6 innings / 5 wins / 83% vs Zhou Heyang totaled 6 innings / won 5 innings / 83% vs Noriki Ida totaled 5 innings / won 4 innings / 80% vs Keigo Yamashita 4 innings / 4 wins / 100% vs Tang Weixing totaled 4 innings / win 2 innings / 50% vs Yang Dingxin 4 innings / 3 wins / 75%
We can clearly see that Lee Sedol basically maintains an advantage over his contemporaries, and he is not inferior to the major post-90s chess players besides Ke Jie. Focus results: 35:38 Lee Chang-ho; 25:25 Gu Li; 18:7 Kong Jie; 18:14 Park Tinghuan; 9:8 Chen Yaoye; 7:5 Shiyue; 2:2 Tang Weixing; 13:13 Kim Ji-seok; 3:1 Yang Dingxin; 5:1 Lian Laugh; 6:5 Shen Zhenchen; 5:13 Ke Jie.
That is to say, take Lee Se-seok as the yardstick: the strongest are Ke Jie, Lee Chang-ho, Lee Se-seok, Gu Li, and Park Tinghuan.
Coulee's achievements:
vs Lee Sedol 51 innings / win 25 innings / and 1 inning / 50% vs Kong Jie totaled 44 innings / win 26 innings / 59% vs Hu Yaoyu totaled 37 innings / win 24 innings / 65% vs Liu Xing totaled 35 innings / win 21 innings / 60% vs Zhou Ruiyang totaled 35 innings / win 25 innings / 71% vs Chang Hao 31 innings / 20 wins / 65% vs Chen Yaoye totaled 31 innings / win 10 innings / 32% vs Rochehe 30 innings / 17 wins / 57% vs Qiu Jun totaled 27 innings / win 18 innings / 67% vs Sheikh total 27 innings / 16 wins / 59% vs Zhou Heyang totaled 27 innings / win 15 innings / 56% vs Ding Wei totaled 25 innings / 17 wins / 68% vs 24 innings / 7 wins / 29% vs Choi Chul-han 20 innings / 12 wins / 60% vs Lee Chang-ho totaled 18 innings / 9 wins / 50% vs Yu Bin totaled 13 innings / win 11 innings / 85% vs Park Yong-hoon 12 innings / win 7 innings / 58% vs Ma Xiaochun 11 innings / 7 wins / 64% vs Nie Weiping 11 innings / win 10 innings / 91% vs Yuan Shengqin totaled 11 innings / win 7 innings / 64% vs Kim Ji-seok totaled 10 innings / win 6 innings / 60% vs Park Young-hwan 10 innings / 5 wins / 50% vs Laughter 9 innings / Win 2 innings / 22% vs Jiang Dongrun 8 innings / 5 wins / 63% vs Ke Jie totaled 8 rounds / win 0 rounds / 0%
Gu Li's dominance is obviously slightly inferior to Lee Sedol, and he also did not surpass Lee Chang-ho, and his record against the main representatives of the post-90s generation was not good. Players' focus on the results: 25:25 Lee Sedol; 9:9 Lee Chang-ho; 6:4 Kim Ji-seok; 2:7 Lian Xiao; 0:8 Ke Jie; 5:5 Park Tinghuan; 12:8 Choi Chul-han; 7:17 ShiYue; 10;21 Chen Yao-ye; 21:10 Chang Hao; 26:18 Kong Jie.
Taking Gu Li as the yardstick, the strongest order in the world should be: Ke Jie, Lee Chang-ho, Lee Sedol, Gu Li, Park Tinghuan.
Gu Li also once said that Ke Jie may be the strongest in the history of human Go. Ke Jie is the strongest person in the history of human Go, there is basically no controversy, there is nothing more than that Shen Zhenchen should also be the strongest, but Shen Zhenchen's record of 7:11 against Ke Jie, I am afraid that Shen Zhenchen is not embarrassed to say that he is the strongest. Just like Lee Sedol never thought he was better than Lee Chang-ho, because in addition to the 14:17 world championship gap, there was also a 35:38 record between the two sides.
But Shin Jin-hyun has already shown the posture of the world's strongest, and hopes that Shin Jin-chan will remain in this state, and also hope that Ke Jie will extend his peak state to 30 years old like Lee Chang-ho, Lee Sedol, and Park Tinghuan. This is the world chess world is wonderful!