Lee Chang-ho (left) and Lee Sedol
In November 2019, a generation of legends Li Sedol chose to withdraw from the chess world. Since then, he has frequently met with everyone in variety shows. A few days ago, South Korea's Lee Sedol Nine Dan appeared on a program on South Korean television and talked about his career in the past 24 years. Referring to the predecessor Lee Chang-ho Nine Duan, Lee Sedol said that in his heart, Lee Chang-ho is the highest existence in the Go world: "To tell the truth, in the end, I could not surpass him." Lee Chang-ho is on a high place, in fact he is the god of Go. ”
As two super-first-class chess players with great influence in South Korea, Lee Chang-ho and Lee Sedol have an age difference of 8 years, and are called "Big Lee" and "Little Lee" by chess fans. Big and Small Lee created two eras, and their peak periods did not coincide completely, but each led the way for decades. There is no doubt that the two go players are extremely talented, and they are both the proud sons of heaven who have met once in a hundred years in the chess world.
Who is more talented in Go, Lee Chang-ho and Lee Sedol? This is also an interesting topic that has been concerned about the media. I have made a few statistics to discuss this interesting topic with you.
"Stone Buddha" Lee Chang-ho Nine Duan
Here, we don't need to paste the two men's lengthy performance data and Baidu content, only the most important information. Born in South Korea in 1975, Lee Chang-ho Kyudan has won 17 world chess championships and 13 team championships since winning his first world championship in 1992 (8 times as the main player). He has won any world professional Go tournament held before 2007, including the Ying Cup, Fujitsu Cup, Toyo Securities Cup, LG Cup, Samsung Cup and other individual competitions, and truly achieved the "Grand Slam" of the World Professional Go Competition.
Lee Chang-ho is known as the "Stone Buddha". He was not alarmed at the time of the game, and he was able to turn the tide in the crisis, and also helped the Korean legion win the team championship such as the Nongshim Cup many times, creating the "Lee Chang-ho era" that shocked the world.
Lee Sedol Nine Duan
Let's talk about Lee Sedol's nine paragraphs. He was born in 1983, 8 years younger than Lee Chang-ho. Lee Sedol has a rebellious personality, and his chess style is even sharper and fiercer, which belongs to the typical power-fighting chess style, and is good at keenly grasping the opponent's weaknesses and taking the initiative to attack, crushing the opponent with strong strength. He is decisive and combative, and can often complete reversals at a disadvantage. Lee Sedol has won 14 world championships, a record second only to Lee Chang-ho.
Facing alphago, Lee Sedol played "One Hand of God"
In March 2016, Lee Sedol engaged in a "man-machine war" with "alphago", which attracted everyone's attention. In the end, although Lee Sedol lost 1:4, the fourth game surpassed ai's ghost hand and reversed in one fell swoop, making countless chess fans weep and move, this scene is forever engraved in Qingshi, which is a masterpiece of human wisdom.
Goratings "Player History Ranking" in the World Go Rating Score
Judging from the "historical ranking of chess players" listed in the goratings world Go rating score, since 1991, Lee Chang-ho, who is only 16 years old, has led the way. It was not until after 2007 that the world's first "jean" was given to Lee Sedol, and its peak period was as long as 16 years, which was jaw-dropping.
Since then, Lee Sedol has also opened his own era and dominated the lead. Until 2012, the world chess world became the world of Park Tinghuan and Ke Jie.
So to sum up simply, both men have created their own era. When it comes to Go talent, it is natural that there are different advantages and disadvantages, and it is difficult to score high. Does it have to be higher than one? From the countless wonderful battle scores of the two people, we have selected two wonderful duel scenes for everyone to appreciate.
"Big and Small Lee" discusses chess games
Time came in May 2001, the third game of the final of the 5th LG Cup World Go King Tournament. The finalists are naturally the two protagonists of this article: Lee Chang-ho and Lee Sedol. At that time, Lee Chang-ho was the first in the world for a long time, and the new chess player Lee Sedol Sandan was eager to move, and naturally had some ideas about the dominance of his predecessors.
At the beginning of the first two sets, Lee Sedol won two consecutive sets with a bamboo-breaking trend, and the senior Lee Chang-ho naturally felt the pressure. So much so that before the game, the arrogant Lee Sedol shouted: Lee Chang-ho's predecessors are not strong.
Situation Figure 1
The expressionless senior heard this and was not angry. The third set began, and Lee Chang-ho was black. However, by 120 hands, the field of white chess Li Sedol has clearly prevailed. Lee Sedol, who was in charge of the white, was in a very good situation at this time, and he described the good situation of that game as "not a situation that could be reversed".
Is Korea's no. 1 scepter about to be handed over?
Li Changhao's terrifying strength began to gradually emerge, and a strange force spread out from the end of the plate. Lee Sedol gradually felt this invisible pressure. The chessboard was changing rapidly, shocking the mountains and clouds, and after a dozen hands, the situation quietly changed suddenly.
Situation Figure 2
Black 151 hands, like flying knives, point into the white space on the left, turning the world upside down. "I am a Buddha of mercy, and I am also a lion roaring." The predecessor Lee Chang-ho took advantage of this to suddenly exert a strong hand and reversed it strongly.
From this victory, Lee Chang-ho won two more sets, and finally won the championship with a strong reversal of 3-2, giving his juniors an unforgettable lesson. Under the great excellence, Lee Se-seok was suddenly confused in front of his eyes, feeling that he could finally win Lee Chang-ho, and even had already thought about the scene when he was interviewed by reporters. But with the idea, the situation began to be less than good.
Many years later, Lee Sedol looked back on the scene at that time and said that he was a bit careless and complacent at that time, thinking that "I am Lee Sedol." This failure caused Lee Sedol to cry for the first time since he played chess.
From this situation, then, Lee Chang-ho's talent is definitely higher than Lee Sedol, right?
Two years later, it is still the LG Cup World Go King Tournament. Final, first set. The finalists standing at the top of the world are still Lee Chang-ho's nine dan and Lee Sedol's three dan.
Situation Figure 3
Lee Se-seok took the lead in black, the situation soon came to the 73 hand, Lee Chang-ho after a simple thought, white 1 big fly to make up, settled shape.
Did the seniors take a little bigger?
In other ways, this hand is unrestrained and positive, naturally not bad. However, he was facing Lee Sedol, who was as sharp as a cheetah!
Situation Figure 4
Lee Sedol shot, starting from black 1 o'clock into, to the black 5 a road, Lee Sedol prepared a strong hand is about to come out.
Situation Figure 5
A flash of black light, black 1 has been placed on the end of the plate. The white-shaped flaw could not escape the cheetah's eyes, and the white chess piece suddenly had no next hand.
Situation Figure 6
After that, Lee Chang-ho tried his best to move, but the dragon below was still unable to escape the hot hand of black chess. By this time, Black had benefited a lot, and the situation had been settled. Lee Se-seok's banner was victorious.
The world is like a leopard!
In this year's final series, Lee Sedol exchanged the regret of being reversed two years ago into bitter glory. However, compared to the rhetoric of two years ago, he is obviously much more mature at this time, so that when he held the cup and years later, he said that it felt as if he was laughing like the last time, the last time he was so happy. He also said that Lee Chang-ho's predecessors are the real first in the world: "When I was 13 years old, Lee Chang-ho was already a leading figure, and it was really an alphago-like existence at that time."
The scepter of the chess world has finally completed the handover smoothly at this time.
Lee Chang-ho and Lee Sedol, who has the higher go talent and who is stronger? Presumably you already have the answer by this time.
(Hu Bo)