{"id":244,"date":"2018-04-04T12:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2022-12-29T07:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:07:20","slug":"lee-chang-ho-a-go-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Lee Chang-ho – A Go Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee Chang-ho<\/strong> (Korean:\uc774\ucc3d\ud638; born 29 July 1975 in Jeonju, North Jeolla) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank.<\/p>\n

Briefly about Go<\/strong><\/p>\n

Go was invented in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played today (backgammon is also a very old game). It has very simple rules, but despite that, it is very complex. The game is played on a board with a 19×19 grid of lines. The playing pieces are called \u201dstones\u201d. One player uses the white stones and the other, black. Beginners often play on a smaller 9×9 or 13×13 boards. The aim of the game is to capture territory. The players take turns placing the stones on the vacant intersections (”points”) of a board. The player with a greater territory at the end of the game wins the game.<\/p>\n

Currently, there are estimated to be well over 40 million Go players worldwide. Go is very popular in East Asia, particularly in China, Korea, and Japan.<\/p>\n

Said about Go<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Matti Siivola (a Finnish 4-dan amateur) and Lauri Paatero (a Finnish 2-dan amateur) at the back of their book \u201dGo \u2013 The Game of God\u00b4s\u201d: \u201dThe strategy and tactics of Go are overwhelmingly more difficult and subtle in comparison to other board games\u201d.<\/p>\n

Links about Go<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Anders Kierulf\u00b4s website SmartGo<\/a> is a place to buy Go and Othello software (SmartGo and SmartOthello) developed by Anders himself. At website one can buy also Go related ebooks. One can find Anders also on Twitter!<\/p>\n

– Drago is freeware Windows application<\/a> for editing and viewing Go game files and also playing against engines. I made the Finnish translation!<\/p>\n

– Leela is a strong freeware Go playing program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– Wikipedia\u00b4s article about Go<\/a>, good as always.<\/p>\n

Lee Chang-ho<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lee Chang-ho (born in 1975) is a living Go legend. He turned professional in 1986 at the young age of 11 (!). ”Stone Buddha” is one of Lee’s many nicknames. He is regarded by many as the best Go player in late 1990s and early 2000s. Around year 2000 I met Matti Siivola or Lauri Paatero (I do not remember any more) at an international Go tournament in J\u00e4rvenp\u00e4\u00e4, Southern Finland, and asked him why Lee Chang-ho is so overwhelming compared to other players. Matti\/Lauri answered that \u201dLee Chang-ho is very strong in the endgame\u201d. This view is also supported by Wikipedia, which states that \u201dhis endgame skill is one of the strongest in history\u201d.<\/p>\n

A link to Lee Chang-ho Wikipedia article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lee Chang-ho (Korean:\uc774\ucc3d\ud638; born 29 July 1975 in Jeonju, North Jeolla) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank. Briefly about Go Go was invented in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played today (backgammon is also a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Fvmv-3W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129,"url":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/?p=129","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":0},"title":"Yoshiharu Habu- A Shogi Legend","date":"2 joulukuun, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Yoshiharu Habu (\u7fbd\u751f \u5584\u6cbb Habu Yoshiharu, born September 27, 1970) is a professional Japanese chess (shogi) player and a chess FIDE Master. He is widely regarded as the greatest shogi player ever. Briefly about shogi According to researchers, the origin of chess and its regional variants was invented in Eastern\u2026","rel":"","context":"Kategoriassa "Shogi"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Habu-2-300x211.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":222,"url":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/?p=222","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":1},"title":"Fabiano Caruana – An Italian-American Chess Grandmaster","date":"27 maaliskuun, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian-American chess grandmaster. He is called \u201dFabi\u201d by fans and chess public. Caruana became a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months and 20 days\u2014the youngest grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Kategoriassa "Chess"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":192,"url":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/?p=192","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":2},"title":"Viswanathan Anand – the Tiger of Madras","date":"21 tammikuun, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Viswanathan \u201cVishy\u201d Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess Grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. He is called \u201dVishy\u201d or the \u201dTiger of Madras\u201d. I first heard about Anand way back in 1983 while reading a Finnish chess magazine called \u201cSuomen\u2026","rel":"","context":"Kategoriassa "Chess"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":256,"url":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/?p=256","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":3},"title":"Hikaru Nakamura – A Japanese-American Chess Grandmaster","date":"4 hein\u00e4kuun, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hikaru Nakamura (born December 9, 1987) is an Japanese-American chess grandmaster. In 2003, at the age of 15 years and 79 days, Nakamura become the youngest American to earn the grandmaster title, breaking the record of Bobby Fischer by three months. He began playing chess prior to the age of\u2026","rel":"","context":"Kategoriassa "Chess"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikakaakinen.fi\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}