Park Junghwan

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Park Junghwan
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Hangul 박정환
Hanja 朴廷桓
Born (1993-01-11) 11 January 1993 (age 32)
South Korea
Residence South Korea
Teacher Kweon Kab-yong
Turned pro2006
Rank 9 dan
Affiliation Hanguk Kiwon
Medal record
Men's Go
Representing Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Asian Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Hangzhou Men's team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Guangzhou Men's Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Guangzhou Mixed doubles

Park Junghwan (born 11 January 1993) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank.

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Biography

Early career

Park became a professional Go player in 2006. He won the Fujitsu Cup in 2011. Park defeated Lee Chang-ho to advance to the final of the 2012 Ing Cup, where he faced Fan Tingyu for the title. He lost three games to one. [1] He won the 19th LG Cup in 2015, defeating Kim Ji-seok in the final, 2–1. [2] [3]

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 Ke Jie in two consecutive international tournaments, namely the LG Cup and the Ing Cup, Park was able to reach the final of the latter, and the round of 8 in the former. Park faced Tang Weixing in the final of the 2016 Ing Cup, with the first two games being played in mid-August. The first 2 games of the Ing Cup 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 Bailing Cup, 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 22 to 26 October 2016, Park contested the final 3 games of the 8th Ing Cup 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 Lee Chang-ho and Choi Cheol-han 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 Nihon Ki-in, defeating Iyama Yuta, Japanese Go program DeepZenGo and Mi Yuting. [4]

Park performed strongly in 3rd Mlily Cup, defeating Tuo Jiaxi, Zhou Ruiyang, Ke Jie, Chen Zijian and Xie Ke. His opponent in the finals will be Park Yeonghun 9p.

Promotion record

RankYearNotes
1 dan2006Promoted to professional dan rank after passing qualifying test.
2 dan2007
3 dan2008
4 dan2009Won the 4th Siptan against Baek Hongseok.
5 dan2009Won the 14th Chunwon against Kim Jiseok.
6 dan2010Won the 5th Siptan against Lee Changho.
7 dan2010Qualified for the 2nd BC Card Cup main tournament.
8 dan2010Skipped over due to the Hanguk Kiwon promotion rules.
9 dan2010Won the 2010 Asian Games, becoming the youngest Korean 9 dan at 17 years old.

Career record

As of 1 June 2020 [5] [6]
YearWinsLossesWin %
200711857.9%
2008151451.7%
2009241463.2%
2010351570.0%
2011411968.3%
2012793171.8%
2013792873.8%
2014752674.3%
2015582074.4%
2016572470.4%
2017551677.5%
2018581975.3%
2019722375.8%
202017965.4%
Total67626971.5%

Titles & runners-up

As of 1 November 2020

Individual Titles

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

Domestic
TitleWinsRunners-up
Baduk Masters Fighting God1 (2007)
Siptan 2 (2009-2010)
GS Caltex Cup 1 (2011)
Prices Information Cup 1 (2013)
Chunwon 2 (2009, 2014)
Guksu 2 (2014–15)
Myungin 1 (2016)
Maxim Cup 3 (2012–13, 2017)1 (2014)
KBS Cup 5 (2011–2013, 2016, 2018)3 (2014–15, 2019)
Crown Haitai Cup 1 (2018)
Baduk TV Cup 1 (2019)
Yongseong 1 (2019)1 (2020)
Korea Strongest Player 1 (2020)
Total207
Continental
TitleWinsRunners-up
China-Korea Tengen 1 (2010)
Total10
International
TitleWinsRunners-up
Fujitsu Cup 1 (2011)
Asian TV Cup 2 (2013, 2015)
Ing Cup 2 (2013, 2016)
LG Cup 1 (2015)1 (2020)
IMSA Elite Mind Games, Men's Blitz1 (2017)
Mlily Cup 1 (2018)
Kuksu Mountains Championship 1 (2018)
World Go Championship 3 (2017–19)
Chunlan Cup 1 (2019)
Total86
Career total
Total2913

Team Titles

TitleWinsRunners-up
Asian Games, Men's Team1 (2010)
Asian Games, Mixed Double2 (2010)
SportAccord World Mind Games, Team1 (2011)
SportAccord World Mind Games, Men's Team1 (2013)
Nongshim Cup1 (2013)4 (2014-2017)
IMSA Elite Mind Games, Mix Double1 (2016)
IMSA Elite Mind Games, Men's Team1 (2017)
Total75

Head-to-head record vs selected players

As of 1 July 2019 [5] [6]

Players who have won international go titles in bold.

References

  1. "Ing Cup". igokisen.web.fc2.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  2. An, Younggil (2015-02-12). "Park Junghwan wins 19th LG Cup – Breaking international title drought". Go Game Guru. Archived from the original on 2016-12-25.
  3. "-바둑- 박정환, 김지석 꺾고 LG배 세계기왕전 우승(종합)" (in Korean). Yonhap News Agency. 2015-02-12.
  4. "World Go Championship". Nihon Ki-in. Archived from the original on 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  5. 1 2 "Park Junghwan | Search by Player | Go4Go".
  6. 1 2 "朴廷桓 统计数据". 弘通围棋网. Retrieved 1 November 2018.