The Korean Chess Academy recently announced the latest ranking at the end of December, and Shin Jin-chan fulfilled his promise to top the list for 25 consecutive months and 33rd time, and exceeded the 1 billion prize money for two consecutive years, further widening the score difference with park Tinghuan, who ranked second.
Shin Shin-jin won 7-1 on December, won the KBS championship and the runner-up of the National Hand Mountains, dropped 2 points, and scored 10,310 points on total, leading the way without controversy since January 2020.
The 2021 prize list is shin jin-chan, Park Ting-hwan, Shin Min-hyun, Bian Sang-yi, Choi Jing, Kim Ji-seok, Kang Dong-yun, Lee Dong-hoon, Lee Chang-seok, Wu Youzhen, Won Sung-qin, and Cao Seung-ya.
Red = Shin Jin-chan, Blue = Park Young-hwan
Park Ting-hwan lost 54 points on December 6-4, ranking second for 25 consecutive months with 10,021 points. The score difference between the top two widened to 289 points from 237 points last month.
Bian Sang-yi, Lee Dong-hoon, Kim Ji-seok and Shin Min-woo are ranked 3-6 respectively. In the top 10, Lee Chang-seok (7 wins and 3 losses) ranked 7th, and Han Seung-joo (4 wins and 2 losses) ranked 9th, setting a new personal high. Yuan Shengqin (2 wins and 3 losses) and An Chengjun (4 wins and 3 losses) retreated to 8th and 10th places respectively.
Jun Kwun (8 wins and 1 loss) reached the GS Caltex Cup and rose five places to 11th place and is about to enter the top 10. Xu Rongluo," the protagonist of the "First Whirlwind" who entered the stage in July last year (9 wins and 2 losses), advanced to the strongest chess player battle, reached the standard of the number of matches (30 games), and entered the official list for the first time, ranking 66th.
In the ranking of female chess players, Cui Jing's record in December was 5 wins and 5 losses, down 31 points, maintaining the first position for 98 consecutive months, and the overall ranking dropped by 6 places to rank 28th. It was followed by Wu Youzhen (4 wins and 3 losses), Jin Caiying (7 wins and 3 losses), and Cao Chengya (7 wins and 2 losses). In the overall ranking, Wu Youzhen dropped 7 places to rank 83rd, while Jin Caiying rose 9 places to 90th. This was followed by Kim Lun Young (1 win and 1 loss), Cho Hye-yeung (1 loss), Oh Jeong-eun (1 win and 1 loss), Park Ji Juan (2 wins and 3 losses), Kim Eun-joo (1 win and 1 loss), and Heo Seo-young (3 wins and 5 losses).
The Korea rankings were first implemented in August 2005 and improved in February 2020, becoming the basis for calculating the qualifications for the World Series. Newcomers officially enter the list in 30 innings, and if there is no match in 1 year, they will be out of the list. At present, the number of first times to the top of the list is: Park Tinghuan (59 consecutive lists 74 times), Lee Sedol (27 consecutive lists 67 times), Shin Jin-chan (25 consecutive lists 33 times), Lee Chang-ho (12 consecutive lists 22 times), Choi Chul-han (2 times).
(Li Xinzhou)