Lee Jun Hyeok is a South Korean

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player. He is the second highest rated player of his country, only behind Grandmaster

Alexey Kim Alexey Eduardovich Kim (born April 5, 1986) is a Soviet-born South Korean chess player. He is the only South Korean to hold the FIDE title of Grandmaster. Biography A third-generation ethnic Korean, Kim was born on April 5, 1986, in Tashkent, Uz ...

Chess career

Lee began playing chess at the age of 10. He is the highest-rated South Korean-born chess player and the first one to become an International Master. He has won the

South Korean Chess Championship The South Korean Chess Championship( ko, 전국 체스 선수권 대회, Korea National Championship) is organized by the Korea Chess Federation, which was established in 2008 after FIDE negotiated an agreement between three rival organizations to u ...

in several years: 2014, 2017, and 2021. In September 2018, he finished joint-third at the first Laos International Open. He then represented South Korea at the

43rd Chess Olympiad The 43rd Chess Olympiad ( ka, 43-ე საჭადრაკო ოლიმპიადა, ''43-e sach’adrak’o olimp’iada''; also known as the Batumi Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and c ...

, where he managed a draw against

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(who was rated over 300 points higher) in the first round. Lee played in the

Chess World Cup 2023 The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus ...

, where he was defeated by Frederik Svane in the first round.

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* Living people 1999 births South Korean chess players Chess International Masters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess players at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for South Korea {{Asia-chess-bio-stub