Shin Jinseo
Shin Jinseo (신진서, 申眞諝) is a Korean professional player born in 2000-03-17, pro from 2012-07-16, promoted 2 dan in 2013-11-22, 9 dan by 2018.
Shin has been the best player in the world for several years. Recently he has been a long way ahead of his rivals in terms of both rating and head-to-head scores. As of 2024-05-06, Shin's rating is 3877, while the next highest Ke Jie is 3694.
Since 2019-01-01, Shin has been the highest rated player in the world ( GoRatings). In the 2018-01-01, list, he was second only to Park Junghwan, and in the 2017-01-01, list, he was second behind Ke Jie and Park Junghwan. Since 2019-01-01, Park and Ke have been second and third behind Shin, not necessarily in that order.
Shin's nickname is 신진격(新進擊, New Attack)
Because Korean Revised Romanization is not always intuitive, his given name Jinseo is pronounced something like "jin-suh". It is NOT pronounced "jin-say-oh" or "jin-see-oh" as the spelling might indicate.
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Achievements
- In January 2013 aged 12 he beat Lee Changho 9d in a young players vs legends exhibition match. See GoGameGuru's report (archived).
- Winner in 2013 of the 2nd Yeongjae.
- Winner in 2015 of 2nd Let's Run Park Cup.
- Winner in 2015 of 3rd Shinin-Wang.
- Made last 8 of 21st LG Cup in 2016.
- April 2017: won 4th Globis Cup
- Winner of 2017 Korean Baduk League as top player (15 wins, 3 losses) of Team Jungkwangjang.
- In December 2017, he was the highest-rated under-20 player in the world (on GoRatings), at #2 overall in Korea and #4 in the world
- February 2018: runner up of 1st Crown Haitai Cup, losing 1-2 to Park Junghwan
- April 2018: 3rd place in 5th Globis Cup
- May 2018: won 23rd GS Caltex Cup, beat Lee Sedol 3-2
- Since July 2018, he has consistently held the top-ranked position worldwide on GoRatings and continues to maintain that rank
- 2nd place in 2018 Korean Baduk League as top player (14 wins, 3 losses) for Team Jungkwangjang.
- December 2018: runner up in 1st Tianfu cup, losing 1-2 to Chen Yaoye
- January 2019: runner up in 4th Bailing cup, losing 0-2 to Ke Jie
- June 2019: won 31st Asian TV cup, beat Ding Hao
- February 2020: won 24th LG cup, beat Park Junghwan
- June 2020: won the first Supreme Player's tournament in 2020, and has successfully defended it in every year since (four times).
- September 2021: won 13th Chunlan Cup, defeating Tang Weixing 2-0
- February 2022: won 26th LG cup, beat Yang Dingxin
- August 2022: won 8th Kuksu Mountains Cup, beat Byun Sangil
- November 2022: Won 27th Samsung cup beat Choi Jung
- July 2023: Won 2nd YK Geonggi Cup, beat Shin Minjun
- August 2023: Won 9th ING Cup, beat Xie Ke 2-0
- February 2024: Won 28th LG Cup, beat Byun Sangil 2-0
Head to head scores against leading rivals
Based on Shin Jinseo, Go ratings, as of 2024-05-11.
- Ke Jie, World #2, China #1: 1211 (Shin won the most recent 7 games in a row)
- Park Jung Hwan, World #3, Korea #2: 3122 (Shin won the most recent 11 games in a row)
- Wang Xinghao, World #4, China #2: 10
- Gu Zihao, World #5, China #3: 116
- Li Qincheng, World #6, China #4: 66
- Ding Hao, World #7, China #5: 63
- Li Xuanhao, World #8, China #6: 22
- Yang Dingxin, World #9, China #7: 108
- Byun Sangil, World #10, Korea #3: 337 (Shin won the most recent 13 games in a row)
- Zhao Chenyu, World #11, China #8: 51
- Iyama Yuta, World #22, Japan #1: 20
- Ichiriki Ryo, World #26, Japan #2: 60
- Choi Jeong, World #65, Female World and Korean #1: 60
- Kim Eunji, World # 147, Female World #3, Korean #2; Female teenager World and Korean #1: 20
Career record
Korean games
Scores from Korea players win-loss, Go for Everyone. For the last few years, he has been top or second in total number of wins, and with very high winning rate.
Year | total | wins | losses | rate |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | 64 | 40 | 24 | 62% |
2015 | 81 | 59 | 22 | 73% |
2016 | 66 | 51 | 15 | 77% |
2017 | 61 | 47 | 14 | 77% |
2018 | 102 | 77 | 25 | 75% |
2019 | 93 | 74 | 19 | 80% |
2020 | 91 | 81 | 10 | 89% |
2021 | 98 | 82 | 16 | 84% |
2022* | 95 | 80 | 14 | 85% |
2023 | 111 | 97 | 14 | 87% |
2024 | 39 | 35 | 4 | 90% |
International tournament games
Scores from World players win-loss, Go for Everyone.
Year | total | wins | losses | rate |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | 24 | 19 | 5 | 71% |
2017 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 68% |
2018 | 28 | 17 | 11 | 61% |
2019 | 25 | 17 | 8 | 68% |
2020 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 80% |
2021 | 24 | 22 | 2 | 92% |
2022* | 23 | 22 | 2 | 91% |
2023 | 24 | 19 | 5 | 71% |
2024 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 90% |
- In 2022, Shin also had a draw.
Books
His match against Park Junghwan in 2020 is covered in SEVEN. The Go Super Match.
Fun Facts
- He has never won an international title, if he has lost the first game of the final match
- In the first game of 2020 Samsung Cup final versus Ke Jie he played the famous "mouso" move that caused him to lose the game. The accidental misclick was caused by a mouse cord accidentally touching the touchpad of the laptop. In the following Korean article you can see a picture from the mouso-game. The picture shows how the mouse cord travels over the touchpad waiting for the disaster to happen. ( Link to ilyo.co.kr article )
- The previous evening before the Quzhou Lanke Cup World Go Open second final Shin Jinseo and Shin Minjun played chess in the hotel, a video was posted in the chinese social media. Playing chess before an international major final was probably not a good idea, Shin Jinseo lost his 1-0 lead and lost the title 2-1 to Gu Zihao. Weibo link
Links
- Wikipedia page
- GoRatings page
- Korean Namu Wiki profile (in Korean)
- cyberoro.com profile (in Korean)
Videos
- The "mouso" misclick moment on K바둑's stream
- A pre-game interview in the first round game of 46th Myeongin in August 2023
Pictures
Shin Jinseo, Dec 2022 (Image credit: Foxwq.com)