Professional Milestones
This page contains a list of milestones reached by professional players: either wins or games played in professional competition. I know of no unified source for this data, so this list will necessarily remain incomplete and out of date.
The number of official games per year has varied over the past century, though it has generally increased, while there is also inter-country variation in the number of games player per year.
Some 88 Japanese players have reached 500 wins, and 11 have reached 1000 as of July 2010.
1500 Wins
- Cho Hunhyun - 1822 wins as of June 2010
- Lee Changho - reached 2010-01-18
1200 Wins
- Seo Bongsoo - 1463 wins as of June 2010
- Rin Kaiho - 1352 wins as of July 2010
- Cho Chikun - 1300 wins as of July 2008
- Kobayashi Koichi - 1200 wins reached in 2005
- Kato Masao - 1200 wins reached in 2002 (1254 wins in his career)
1000 Wins
- Otake Hideo - 1100 wins reached 2004-07-22
- Hane Yasumasa - 1100 wins reached 2008-06-19
- Yoo Changhyuk - 1.118 as of June 2010
- Ishida Yoshio - reached 2010-05-20
- Yamashiro Hiroshi - reached 2008-07-07
- O Rissei - reached 2008-02-14
- Takemiya Masaki - reached 2006-02-09
- Sakata Eio - reached 1984-04 (1100 wins 1992-03-12, 1117 wins in his career)
- Hashimoto Shoji - reached 2001-09
- Honda Kunihisa - reached 2007-05
- Yuki Satoshi - reached 2011-04-13
- Yoda Norimoto - reached 2011-07-21
- Kudo Norio - reached 2011-10-06
- Kobayashi Satoru - reached 2011-12-01
2000 Games Played
- Cho Hunhyun - 2500 games reached 2008-08-10
- Seo Bongsoo - over 2200 games
- Rin Kaiho
- Cho Chikun
- Lee Changho
valerio: some statistics are on Go Igo Weiqi Baduk and on my other
Italian blog. The list is now complete, I think.
A complete list of Japanese players over 1,000 wins as of April 2011 is at the Italian blog Go Igo Weiqi Baduk.
See also: