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Cho Chikun
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Cho Chikun was born in Seoul, Korea in 1956. His uncle Cho Nam-ch'eol was one of the leaders of professional Go in Korea in the post-war period. He was brought to Japan at the age of 6 by his older brother Cho Shoen (who was himself a young pro in Japan) to become a student at the Kitani dojo. He qualified as a professional shodan at the age of 11, the youngest person to ever do so in Japan. Cho has been the champion of the two-day matches. Between 1980 and 2000 he won nearly 50% of the big three Japanese titles (Kisei, Meijin and Honinbo). He is the only person to have held all three of these titles simultaneously. On August 17th, 2002 Cho won the 2002 Haya Go Championship (broadcast Sunday mornings on TV Tokyo, channel 12; although the final won't be shown until October!). As reported in Go Weekly, this gives him 64 titles in his lifetime, tying Sakata for the most titles won among Japanese pros (third is Kobayashi Koichi with 55). Cho will challenge Yoda Norimoto for the Meijin starting in September and defend the Oza against O Meien starting in October. If he wins either, he will become the leader in Japan for titles won. -- Dave Sigaty
Kim Kwang-sik and Kimu Sujun are his pupils.
A large biography and more than 1370 games of Cho Chikun can be found
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Books in English by Cho Chikun include The Magic of Go, Positional Judgment High Speed Game Analysis, All About Life and Death, and The 3-3 point. Main author: Jan van Rongen This is a copy of the living page "Cho Chikun" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |