Park Junghwan (born 11 January 1993) is a South Korean professional Go

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of 9-dan rank.

Biography

Early career

Park became a professional Go player in 2006. He won the

Fujitsu Cup The Fujitsu Cup (富士通杯) was an international Go competition that ran from 1988-2011. Outline The Fujitsu Cup was an international Go competition hosted by Fujitsu and Yomiuri Shimbun. The players were selected as follows: * The top 3 play ...

in 2011. Park defeated

Lee Chang-ho Lee Chang-ho ( ko, 이창호; born 29 July 1975 in Jeonju, North Jeolla) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank. He is regarded by many as the best Go player of the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was a student of Cho Hu ...

to advance to the final of the 2012

Ing Cup The Ing Cup () is an international Go tournament with a cash prize of over US$400,000. It was created by, and is named after, Ing Chang-ki. The tournament is held once every four years and hence often nicknamed the Go Olympics. In the 7th Ing ...

, where he faced

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for the title. He lost three games to one. He won the 19th LG Cup in 2015, defeating Kim Ji-seok in the final, 2–1.

2016-2017: Ing Cup runner-up

After a series of strong performances, in which during a span of 2 months he was able to defeat World No.1

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in two consecutive international tournaments, namely the LG Cup and the

, Park was able to reach the final of the latter, and the round of 8 in the former. Park faced

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in the final of the 2016 Ing Cup, with the first two games being played in mid-August. The first 2 games of the

were played, with Park winning the first by resignation whilst losing the second. In both games the margin of victory was small, but Park was able to produce a comeback in the second game, with Tang lamenting that he went wrong after the midgame. Park's most recent results were the

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, where despite his best efforts, he was not able to defeat the Chinese Tianyuan holder Chen Yaoye. During that game, both sides opened up securing territory and doing big territorial exchanges, but a slip-up by Park allowed Chen to win an important ko that ultimately led to loss of territory. Chen was then able to capitalize and win the game, thereby ending the Korean player's string of dominance in the international tournaments. From the 22nd to 26 October 2016, Park contested the final 3 games of the 8th

with former World Champion and one of China's highest ranked players, Tang Weixing, with the score standing at 1:1 (after the first 2 games were played in mid August). Despite Park winning the third game, and bringing the score to 2:1 and having 2 chances to win his first Ing Cup after losing the previous edition, Tang came from behind to win once with white (up to game 4 all games had been won by the player with the white stones), and once more with Black (by 5 points, after Ing komi was applied), thereby securing China's third Ing Cup victory out of 8, 2nd behind Korea who has 5. Park, however, was left with bitter disappointment for being the first player to lose 2 back to back Ing cup finals, despite also joining the ranks of a few well known pros of previous generations, such as compatriots

and

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and former World Champion Chang Hao 9p of China, who had also played 2 finals. Incidentally, all 3 players listed above secured victories once over each of their rivals whilst losing to the other, spanning 3 consecutive Ing Cups from the 4th edition to 6th. The record between all of them is 1 Title, 1 runners up. Park later played in the LG Cup quarterfinals on mid November (14th), where is opponent will be former world champion and 2x LG Cup winner Gu Li 9p. He defeated Gu Li by resign, but subsequently fell to another Chinese player Zhou Ruiyang 9p, thus ending his 2016-17 season.

2017-2018

Park won the 2017 World Go Championship, a special invitational tournament organized by the

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, defeating

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, Japanese Go program DeepZenGo and

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. Park performed strongly in 3rd

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, defeating

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, Chen Zijian and

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. His opponent in the finals will be Park Yeonghun 9p.

Promotion record

Career record

Titles & runners-up

Individual Titles

Ranks #5 in total number of individual titles in Korea and tied for #5 in total number of international titles.

Team Titles

Head-to-head record vs selected players

''Players who have won international go titles in bold.'' * Chen Yaoye 16:22 *

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14:18 * Park Yeonghun 21:9 * Kim Jiseok 20:6 *

Lee Changho Lee Chang-ho ( ko, 이창호; born 29 July 1975 in Jeonju, North Jeolla) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank. He is regarded by many as the best Go player of the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was a student of Cho Hu ...

16:7 *

11:10 *

Choi Cheolhan Choi Cheol-han is a South Korean professional Go player. He is the fourth youngest (12 years 2 months) to become a professional Go player in South Korean history behind Cho Hun-hyun (9 years 7 months), Lee Chang-ho (11 years 1 months) and ...

14:6 *

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11:9 *

Tan Xiao Tan Xiao (; born 10 March 1993) is a Chinese professional Go player. He won the 11th RICOH Cup. In 2017, he defeated Park Yeong-hun to win the 11th Chunlan Cup The Chunlan Cup, officially the Chunlan Cup World Professional Weiqi Championship ...

12:5 * Yun Junsang 9:8 *

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13:3 *

11:5 *

9:7 *

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13:2 * Shin Jinseo 10:5 *

8:7 *

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7:7 * Baek Hongseok 11:2 *

7:6 * Won Seongjin 7:4 * On Sojin 7:3 * Mok Jinseok 6:4 * Gu Li 5:5 * Hong Seongji 8:1

References

External links

GoGameWorld.com profileKorea Baduk Association profile
(in Korean) {{DEFAULTSORT:Park, Junghwan 1993 births Living people South Korean Go players Asian Games medalists in go Go players at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games