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At the age of 67 and 50 years old, Seo Bong-so, known as the "Field Commander", won the 1700th victory of his career. He was the third Korean player to achieve this feat, the other two being Cho Hwan-hyun (1949 wins) and Lee Chang-ho (1778 wins).
On August 12, Seo Bong-so won his 1,700th career victory in the third match of the fifth round of the Korean Elderly League, winning the 1,700th victory of his career.
Since entering the section, Xu Fengsu's total record is 1700 wins, 3 draws and 1007 losses, with a winning rate of 62.8%. Seo Bong-so reached a career 1,000 defeats in December last year, setting a record for the most losses by Korean professional chess players.
Seo Bong-so was born on February 1, 1953, and was born on September 14, 1970. 17 days after the finalization, he defeated Jiang Wenzhe, who was also in the first stage at the time, in the promotion competition, and won the first victory of his career.
In November 1983, he defeated Li Dongkui and won 500 victories. In October 1993 and March 2012, Seo Bong-so won 1,000 and 1,500 victories with Hwang Won-joon and Kim So-jin as the targets of victory respectively.
In the 4th Celebrity War in 1972, Seo Bong-so won the championship for the first time, becoming the youngest celebrity. Since then, until the eighth edition of the competition, he has won the championship for 5 consecutive times, and won a total of 7 times in the celebrity war. So far, he has won 30 professional championships and 67 runners-up.
In 1993, at the age of 41, Seo Bong-so won the 2nd Ying's Cup and won the first World Series of his career. In 1996, he won the championship for The Korean team with nine consecutive victories in the 5th Jinlu Cup National Competition. Seo Bong-so, along with Cho Hyun-hyun, Yoo Chang-hyuk, and Lee Chang-ho, is known as the "Four Kings of Korea" and was a leading figure in Korean Go from the 70s to the 90s.
(Gu Yao)