On August 12, the 5th round of the 2020 Korea Elders League was over. Kh Energy team coach Seo Bong-so after a 305-hand battle, 5 and a half eyes to defeat the Lingyan Moon Out of the mountain team coach Cha Min-so five dan. Reached the milestone of 1,700 wins in his chess career.
Seo Bong-so is the third player in the Korean chess world to achieve this milestone after Cho Hwan-hyun (1949 wins) and Lee Chang-ho (1778 wins). At the time of achievement, the record was 1700 wins, 1007 losses and 3 no wins, and the winning percentage was 62.8%. In December last year, Seo also took the lead in reaching South Korea's first 1,000 negative record.
It is worth mentioning that this year coincides with the 50th anniversary of Xu Fengsu's entry into the section. On September 14, 1970, at the age of 17, Seo Bong-so joined the ranks of professional chess players. Seventeen days later, on October 1, Xu Bong-so defeated Kang Boon-cheol Chuduan (then, transliteration) in the Dingdan Tournament to win the first victory of his chess career. In November 1983, Seo Bong-so defeated Lee Dong-kyu Rokudan to reach a 500-win, in October 1993 he defeated Hwang Won-joon-7-dan to achieve a 1,000-win, and in March 2012 he defeated Kim So-jin-jin-san-dan to achieve a 1,500-win.
Xu Bong-so, who has learned chess and experienced "pure domestic production", has always been regarded as a pure representative of the Korean stream, and is therefore widely loved by Korean chess fans. A year after entering the stage, Seo Bong-so won the celebrity battle challenge and defeated Cho Nam-chol, the father of Modern Go in South Korea, 3:1. Xu Bongsu won a total of 30 championships and 67 runners-up in his career, won the 2nd Ying's Cup in 1992-93, joined the ranks of world champions, and completed the great record of 9 consecutive victories over Qingtai in the 6th Zhenlu Cup Three Kingdoms Tournament from 1996 to 97.
In addition, in the 3rd and 4th rounds of the 14th GG Auction Cup Korean Veteran Women's Ring Tournament held on August 10 and 11, Park Ji-juan staged consecutive reversals, successively Kim So-so-so and Baek Dae-hyun to help the women's team establish a lead.
This issue of the gg auction cup is still a long fight between the elders and the women's team with 12 people each. Two rounds are played every Monday and Tuesday. In last week's vanguard battle, the women's team Kim So-jin defeated Kim Young-sam and then lost to Kim So-soo. This week, the women's team sent Park Ji-juan to attack. Park Ji-juan's past performance in the Elder Women's Ring is remarkable, and she participated in the first period and won three consecutive victories, which can be called a witness to this event. In the 4th period, Park Ji-juan won four consecutive victories, and in the 9th period, she defeated Yoo Chang-hyuk to personally win the ring for the women's team.
This week's two games of chess are the same, park Ji juan, who has continuously guessed white chess, has fallen into a desperate situation of winning less than 1% in the middle game, but they have relied on tenacious struggle to force the energy-deprived elders to make mistakes in the second half of the game and complete the reversal. The women's team collectively played inaccurately in the last competition, losing the winner for two consecutive years. Playing again this year, Park Ji Juan is making a good start for the women's team.