After the first year of the 1988 World Go Tournament, let us have the opportunity to watch the top masters of China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan wrenching each other's wrists, who is the first in the world, need real knives and real guns to fight out, so-called: is a donkey is a horse, pull out and slip.
So far, the top eight in the world championship list are: 1, Lee Chang-ho (17+11 champions and runners-up), 2, Lee Sedol (14+6), 3, Cho Hwan-hyun (9+2), 4, Gu Li (8+4), 5, Ke Jie (8+2), 6, Liu Chang-hyuk (6+7), 7, Park Young-hwan (5+3), 8, Chang-ho (3+8).
Although Lee Chang-ho is indisputably ranked first in the number of champions and runners-up, and he also has records such as the youngest world champion (16 years and 6 months), the same world championship winning three consecutive championships (Samsung Cup 2-4), and the longest span of world series finals (1992-2012, a full 20 years), but good things can not be enjoyed by one person, he can not be absolutely first in every indicator.
Stone Buddha Lee Chang-ho
In fact, the number of Lee Sedol's 14 world championships is not far from Lee Chang-ho's 17, if Lee Sedol had not been suspended for half a year in 2009 and had almost struck out of the 10th LG Cup final before, then he would be the only candidate who could hope to break Lee Chang-ho's record. Lee Sedol has a record that is unique, in the 11 years between his first World Title in 2002 and his last World Title in 2012, only 2006 has failed to win, which is quite a remarkable statistic. Between 1992 and 2005, Lee Had Four Unwinned Years: 1994, 1995, 2000 and 2002.
Cho Isun-hyun is a master of the final success rate (81.8%), the time span of winning the championship (1989-2003), and the highest age to win the championship (close to 50 years old, slightly inferior to Otake Hero). I think at the beginning we all thought that the first Ying Cup final, the big battle between Cao Xuanxuan and Nie Weiping, and Cao Xuanxuan won a fluke, in hindsight, it may not be so, because he is far ahead of Nie Weiping in terms of attack, concentration, acuity, and lasting endurance.
China's first eight-time champion Gu Li also has his own proud record, that is, in the 10 months from July 2008 to May 2009, he won four world championship titles, which is unprecedented in the history of Go, and it is difficult to have a latecomer. Lee Chang-ho won the world series finals four times in a 12-month period between May 1998 and May 1999. In addition, when Coulee won his eighth crown in 2015, he was 32 years old, which is the highest record since Zhao Zhixun won the championship in 2003, and no one has broken it so far.
So, as China's second eight-time champion, what glorious music has Ke Jie composed in the world chess world? He has also won eight consecutive championships in six years, and Lee Sedol has also set a record; the record of four cups in total in the Three Star Cup, Lee Sedol also reached, and Lee Chang-ho also made four rounds in the LG Cup. Ke Jie's pride lies in the fact that once he reached the top, he won the championship at the fastest rate, double in the first year of 2015, reached four crowns in the second year, and then became the youngest seven crowns. But I also have the potential to create an embarrassing first: the first person with Progeria. If he hadn't concentrated all his energy on fighting, this terrible record would have become a reality. So far, there are still people who hope that Ke Jie surpassed Lee Chang-ho's record of 17 crowns, and I can only say that these people are too ignorant of the law of the development of things. Talent and imagination alone, rather than total dedication, cannot create a bright future at the pinnacle of world Go.
Ke Jie nine paragraphs
The most remarkable thing about the six-time champion Liu Changhe is that he was originally an amateur strongman, and he only entered the professional Go world at the age of 18, but since then his record has soared, which is not the second among the eight world Go leaders.
What is the superiority of the five-crowned king Park Tinghuan? That's his ability to fight back. In 2020, he was completely defeated by Shen Zhenchen, setting an embarrassing record of 12 consecutive defeats, but in 2021, he was able to fight back in the final of the 26th Samsung Cup, cut Shen Zhenchen under the horse, and win the gold cup of the fifth World Series of his Go career, which is really remarkable. Park Tinghuan, who is close to 29 years old, is still not old, and we young chess players who are already showing signs of decline in the years of playing are in a bad mood!
Finally, let's talk about "Rensheng" Chang Hao. His eighth place is temporary and is expected to be overtaken by Shin Soon. In any case, Chang Hao's excellence is worth remembering and worth learning from young people in the Chinese Go community. Specifically, after six consecutive failures, it was only after six consecutive failures that it was seen in the World Series that it won the honorific title of "Tough Saint". In addition, Chang Hao was the first Chinese player to beat Lee Chang-ho in the Fanqi competition of the World Series, which was the triple chess in the semi-finals of the sixth Samsung Cup in 2001.
The wind is always blown away by the rain and the wind, the wheel of history rolls forward, perhaps many records of Lee Chang-ho, who is the first in the world, will also become history, but as long as he pursues the first in his world and maintains the first, he has no regrets.