According to hangame, shin jin-chan exceeded 1 billion won (more than 5.3 million yuan) for two consecutive years on the 2021 Korean chess player prize list, with an average value of 13.25 million won per win, which is about 70,000 yuan.
Shin Jin-chan, 22, earned 1059815330 won in 2021, occupying the first place in the professional chess player's prize money for two consecutive years. That's about 30 million won more than in 2020, ranking third in history in terms of annual prize money.
Shin won the Chunran Cup (179 million won) in the 2021 World Series and won the strongest chess player battle (70 million won), the GS Caltex Cup (70 million won), the Celebrity Battle (60 million won), the Dragon Star Battle (30 million won), and the KBS Go King Battle (20 million won) on the domestic stage.
In addition, Shin also won the runner-up of the Samsung Cup (100 million won), the runner-up of the Kokuden Mountains (15 million won), the team tournament Nongshim Shin Ramen Cup (163 million won), the KB Korean League (77.5 million won), and the China Weijia League (225 million won equal to about 1.2 million yuan).
(The annual total prize records are: Lee Se-seok, Park Young-hwan, Shin Jin-chan, Lee Chang-ho, etc.)
Shin Jin-chan entered the stage in 2012, and the prize money exceeded 1 billion won for two consecutive years, and the annual bonus ranking also topped the list for two consecutive years. This is about 30 million won more than the previous year, reaching 1059815330 won, which is equivalent to the third place in the historical annual prize money ranking (the highest record in history is 1.4 billion won in 2014 Lee Sedol's nine dans, including gu Lee Juban).
In second place is 29-year-old Park Young-hwan, whose annual prize is 758404600 won. The Samsung Cup winner (300 million won), the Chinese Weijia League (267 million won), and the Nongshim Shin Ramen Cup (80 million won) are the main sources of income, as well as the strongest runner-up 20 million won. Park's prize money was reduced by more than 54 million won from the previous year.
Shin Min-min refreshed his personal highest prize money for 558568685 billion won, ranking third in the list of personal highest bonuses. He has won the LG Cup (300 million won) against Ke Jie, and has been active in the Nongshim Shin Ramen Cup (88 million won), the Chinese Weijia League (89 million won), and the Korean League (42 million won).
Bian Sang-yi, who won the National Hand Mountain Championship, ranked 4th with 288800741 won.
Among women's chess players, Choi Jing, who earned 240 million won (Wu Qingyuan Cup 88 million won, IBK Corporate Bank Cup champion 30 million won, KB League 20 million won, Fangang Cup, women's national hand battle, women's chess saint runner-up) earned the most for 10 consecutive years since 2012, ranking 5th overall.
Mai Xin Cup champions Kim Ji-seok 217 million, Jiang Dongrun 191 million, Lee Dong-hoon 190 million, Lee Chang-seok 139 million ranked 6-9.
Top prize money for female chess players in previous years
Wu Youzhen won 20 million won for women's national players, 30 million won for women's chess, and 31 million won by 8 consecutive wins in Chinese women's weijia, ranking 2nd in women with 137.13 million won and 10th overall. This is the fourth time that individuals have entered the top 10 after 2016, 2017 and 2019.
The number of chess players has exceeded 100 million won over the years
As of last year, the revenue list showed a downward trend for three consecutive years. This year's list of hundreds of millions of dollars was expanded to 12 people, an increase of 4 people over the previous year (11th place was Won Seung-jin 130 million won, and 12th place was Cao Chengya's 114 million won).
The total from 1st to 10th place was KRW 3,781.95 million, an increase of about 450 million won from the previous year. In addition, the average of the top 10 is 378 million won, an increase of 45 million won over 2020, and the average of the top 30 is 169 million won, an increase of 25 million won over 2020.