Choi Jeong | |||||||||||||||
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Hangul | 최정 | ||||||||||||||
Hanja | 崔精 | ||||||||||||||
Born | South Korea | 7 October 1996||||||||||||||
Residence | South Korea | ||||||||||||||
Teacher | Yoo Chang-hyuk | ||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Rank | 9 dan | ||||||||||||||
Affiliation | Hanguk Kiwon | ||||||||||||||
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Choi Jeong (born 7 October 1996), or Choi Jung, is a South Korean professional Go player.
A student of Yoo Chang-hyuk, Choi Jeong became a professional Go player in 2010. Her first tournament championship was the Female Myungin in 2012,[1] a title which she held for five years up to end of the tournament in 2016.[2]
She has won seven women's international titles: four times in the Bingsheng Cup (2014, 2017, 2018, 2019) and three times in the Wu Qingyuan Cup (2019, 2021, 2023).[3][4][5] In December 2019, she became the first woman to reach the top 20 in the Korea Baduk Association's official ranking of Korean Go players.[6] In the 2022 Samsung Cup, she became the first woman to reach the finals of a major world tournament.[7]
Choi has been the world's highest-rated female Go player since 2017. She has a dominant head-to-head score against many of her leading female rivals, and none has a plus score against her.[8]