Choi Jung

Choi Jung (최정, 崔精) is also known as Choi Jeong in Revised Romanization, and is a Korean female 9-dan professional player, born 1996-10-07, 1 dan from 2010-06-30, 2 dan in 2012-01-26 (by winning the Women's Myeongin), 3 dan in 2013-01-31 and 4 dan in 2013-11-22. 7 dan in 2017 and the #1 Korean female player; 8 dan 2017-11-10; 9 dan 2018-01-23. In 2011 she won 8 games in a row in the 5th Auction Cup against men professional over 45 and reached the final of the 5th Women's Kisung, but lost B+0.5 against Rui Naiwei. She is the only woman to have reached the final of the international Samsung Cup (27th, 2022).

Choi has been the world's strongest female player since 2017-01-01 (see https://www.goratings.org/en/ladies/), and at 2024-05-10 was rated 72 in the world; the next highest was Yu Zhiying, ranked #135. She is also #1 female and #21 ranked overall in Korea. No leading female player has a plus score against her, and only one (Li He) is tied with her. Choi has plus scores against the rest, many of them very dominant.

Choi is a close friend of fellow Korean female 9-dan professional O Yujin. ‘Fantasy combination’ Choi Jeong? and Oh Yu-jin “Thank you to the fans who supported us.” Baduk News, 2019.06.13 (in Korean)

Because Korean Romanization is not always intuitive, her family name Choi is pronounced something like "chweh". It does NOT rhyme with "boy" as the spelling might indicate. Her given name Jung/Jeong approximately rhymes with "lung" and "young" pronounced according to General American English.

Table of contents Titles and runners-up Notable victories over great male players Head-to-head scores against current female rivals Links Videos Video Reviews of Her Games vs assorted opponents vs Fujisawa Rina vs Park Junghwan vs Nakamura Sumire vs Zhou Hongyu Pictures

Titles and runners-up

• 2011: Runner-up of the 5th Women's Kisung.
• 2012: Winner of the 13th Women's Myeongin after defeating Kim Miri 2-0 at the challenger decision match (Rui Naiwei had been the Women's Myeongin, but is leaving Korea).
• 2013: Winner of the 14th Women's Myeongin, defeating Park Jiyun 2-1.
• 2013: Winner of the last three games of the 3rd Huang Longshi Shuang Deng Cup.
• 2013: Winner of the 6th Women's Kisung.
• 2014: Winner of the 15th Women's Myeongin, defeating Park Jiyun 2-1
• 2014: Winner of the 5th Bingsheng cup (d. Rui Naiwei)
• 2015: Winner of the 16th Women's Myeongin (d. O Yujin)
• 2016: Winner of the 17th Women's Myeongin (d. O Yujin)
• 2016: Runner-up of the 1st IMSA Elite Mind Games Women's Individual?.
• 2017: Winner of the 8th Bingsheng cup (d. Wang Chenxing)
• 2018: Winner of the 22nd Women's Kuksu (d. Kim Chaeyeong)
• 2018: Winner of the 23rd Women's Kuksu (d. Lee Sula)
• 2018: Winner of the 9th Bingsheng cup (d. O Yujin)
• 2018: Runner up of the 1st Go Seigen Cup
• 2018: Winner of the 2nd Women's Kisung (d. Kim Hyeoimin)
• 2019: Runner-up of the 2nd SENKO Cup
• 2019: Winner of the 10th Bingsheng cup (d. Zhou Hongyu)
• 2019: Winner of the 24th Women's Kuksu (d. O Yujin)
• 2019: Winner of the 2nd Go Seigen Cup (d. Wang Chenxing)
• 2019: Winner of the 3rd Women's Kisung (d. Kim Chaeyeong)
• 2021: Winner of the 4th Go Seigen Cup (d. Yu Zhiying)
• 2021: Winner of the 1st IBK Cup (d. O Junga)
• 2022: Runner-up of 27th Samsung Cup (lost to Shin Jinseo)
• 2022: Winner of the 27th Women's Kuksu (d. Kim Eunji)
• 2023: Winner of the 3rd IBK Cup (d. Kim Eunji)

Notable victories over great male players

(Based on Choi Jeong, Go Ratings and game list), as of 10 May 2024.

Choi has taken games from some of the greatest players, mainly of older generations, e.g.

• Cho Hun-hyeon, 9p: 2–1
• Cho Chikun, 9p: 2–0
• Yi Ch'ang-ho, 9p: 3–5
• Ichiriki Ryo, 9p: 1–0

Head-to-head scores against current female rivals

• Yu Zhiying, 8p, #2 female in world, #1 female in China: 21–19
• Kim Eunji, 9p, #3 female and #1 female teenager in world, #2 female in South Korea: 14–4
• Zhou Hongyu, 7p, #4 female in world, #2 female in China: 4–0
• Ueno Asami, 5p, #5 female in world, #1 female in Japan: 3–2
• Lu Minquan, 6p, #6 female in world, #3 female in China: 3–0
• O Yujin, 9p, #7 female in world, #3 female in South Korea: 25–9
• Kim Chaeyeong, 8p, #8 female in world, #4 female in South Korea: 25–6
• Fujisawa Rina, 7p, #9 female in world, #2 female in Japan: 12–4
• Li He, 5p, #10 female in world, #4 female in China: 6–6
• Wu Yiming, 4p, #11 female and #2 female teenager in world, #5 female in China: 1–0
• Cho Seunga, 6p, #12 ranked female player and #304 overall, and #5 ranked player in Korea: 6–2
• Tang Jiawen, 5p, #13 female in world, and #6 female in China: 0–0
• Wang Chenxing, 5p, #17 female in world, #8 female in China: 9–2
• Rui Naiwei, 9p, #18 female in world, many years #1 female in world: 4–3
• Cho Hyeyeon, 9p, #20 female in world, once #1 and many years #2 female in world: 9–2
• Ueno Risa, 2p, #21 female and #4 female teenager in world, #4 female in Japan: 0–0
• Nakamura Sumire, 3p, #22 ranked female and #3 ranked female teenager in the world, #3 ranked female in Japan: 2–0
• Kim Hye-min, 9p, #25 female in the world, #8 female player in Korea: 18–1
• Kim Dayoung, 5p, Kim Chaeyeong's younger sister, #28 ranked female in the world and #9 female in Korea: 12–1
• Xie Yimin, 7p, #30 ranked female in the world, #5 ranked female in Japan (#1 for many years): 4–1
• Joanne Missingham aka Hei Jiajia, 7p, #39 female in world, #1 ranked female player in Taiwan: 15–2

Links

• Wikipedia page
• Korean profile

Videos

• A post-game interview after winning the IBK Cup in August 2023.

Video Reviews of Her Games

vs assorted opponents

Opponent	Year	Reviewer	Video
Byun Sangil	2023	Eunkyo Do	video
Byun Sangil	2023	Jr4yA	video
Cho Hanseung	2020	Evan Cho	video
Cho Hunhyun	2020	Evan Cho	video
Kang Dongyoon	2019	Yoonyoung	video
Lee Changho	2021	Yoonyoung	video
Lee Changseok	2021	Yeonwoo	video
Lee Changseok	2023	Jr4yA	video
Na Hyun	2021	Baduk Lawyer	video
O Yujin	2019	Yeonwoo	video
Rui Naiwei	2014	Littlelamb	video
Seol Hyunjun	2019	Yoonyoung	video
Xie Erhao	2023	Jr4yA	video
Yu Zhiying	2022	Young Sun Yoon	video
Zhao Chenyu	2020	Baduk Doctor	video

vs Fujisawa Rina

Year	Reviewer	Video
2016	dwyrin	video
2023	Eunkyo Do	video
2023	Jr4yA	video
2023	Jr4yA	video

vs Park Junghwan

Year	Reviewer	Video
2020	Yeonwoo	video
2022	Yeonwoo	video
2023	Eunkyo Do	video

vs Nakamura Sumire

Year	Reviewer	Video
2019	Haylee	video
2023	Eunkyo Do	video
2023	Telegraph Go	video
2023	Yeonwoo	video

vs Zhou Hongyu

Year	Reviewer	Video
2019	Ryan Li	video
2023	Eunkyo Do	video

Pictures

choi jeong dec2022 (Image credit: Foxwq.com)

choi jeong aug2023 (Image credit: Foxwq.com)

choi jeong asian games 2023 (Image credit: Foxwq.com)

Choi Jung holding her close friend O Yujin, 9th Hwangnyongsa Cup, 2019 (Image credit: http://m.baduk.or.kr/

Choi Jung with her close friend O Yujin, 9th Hwangnyongsa Cup, 2019 (Image credit: http://m.baduk.or.kr/