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Yi Ch'ang-ho
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Yi Ch'ang-ho is generally considered the strongest player in the world. His name is commonly written Lee Changho.

Yi was born on 29 July 1975, and became a live-in disciple of Cho Hun-hyeon in 1984. In the early 1990s he started winning the Korean titles which Cho had long dominated, and in 1992 won his first international title, the 3rd Tong Yang Securities Cup. His record in major international titles is now unrivalled (see International Title Statistics).

His web-site (in Korean): [ext] http://www.leechangho.com

A list of titles he has won, as of March 2001: [ext] http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/special/yi_milestones.html

Some [ext] excerpts from an interview with Yi Ch'ang-ho.


HolIgor: Yi Ch'ang-ho is currently number one player in the world according to hearsay and my personal rating. So, why cannot I be his fan? Let us see why does he win his 75% of games against the top opponents. I have created a folder called StoneBuddha where I put sgf file of his games and then look through them.

It is widely believed that Yi has a superior endgame technique and that he starts to play endgame moves faster in the middle game than his opponents. But a dozen games or so that I looked through show some other interesting aspects. It seems that he likes to play tenuki even more than the other guy. Of course, this is based on very good reading of the position, but the impression is that he plays contrary to the proverb. He plays big moves rather than urgent moves. Well, it turns out that he had read it out and found that the "urgent" move was not so urgent.

It seems also that he is fond of approach ko. Quite often rather large groups are at stake because he preferred a big move to a safe move earlier.



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