List of top title holders in Go

A list of the top title winning professional Go players.

Lists updated on 21 December 2011.

Contents

International

# Nat. Player Total
1 Lee Chang-ho 21
2 Lee Sedol 15
3 Cho Hunhyun 11
4 Gu Li 7
5-t Kong Jie 6
5-t Yoo Changhyuk 6
5-t Masaki Takemiya 6
8 Norimoto Yoda 4
9-t Chang Hao 3
9-t Pak Yeong-hun 3
9-t Yu Bin 3
12-t Choi Cheol-han 2
12-t Cho Chikun 2
12-t Cho U 2
12-t Hideo Otake 2
12-t O Rissei 2
12-t Ma Xiaochun 2

Total by country

China

# Player Total Runners-up International
1 Gu Li 48 16 7
2 Ma Xiaochun 40 23 2
3 Chang Hao 28 25 3
4 Nie Weiping 21 14 0
5 Kong Jie 18 10 6
6 Zhou Heyang 12 15 1
7-t Yu Bin 10 19 3
7-t Qiu Jun 10 6 0
9-t Liu Xiaoguang 8 12 0
9-t Wang Xi 8 6 1
11 Chen Yaoye 7 6 0
12 Gu Lingyi 6 3 0

Japan

# Player Total Runners-up International
1 Cho Chikun
Meiyo Meijin, 25th Honinbo
73 42 2
2 Koichi Kobayashi
Meiyo Kisei, Meijin and Gosei
66 39 1
3 Eio Sakata (deceased)
23rd Honinbo
54 23 0
4 Masao Kato (deceased)
Meiyo Oza
46 47 0
5 Hideo Otake
Meiyo Gosei
44 32 2
6-t Rin Kaiho
Meiyo Tengen
36 40 1
6-t Cho U 36 25 2
8 Norimoto Yoda 34 23 4
9 Masaki Takemiya 24 21 6
10 Yoshio Ishida
24th Honinbo
23 18 1
11 Naoki Hane 22 19 0
12 O Rissei 21 23 2
13 Hideyuki Fujisawa (deceased)
Meiyo Kisei
20 20 0
14 Keigo Yamashita 19 18 0
15-t Hiroshi Yamashiro 16 18 0
15-t Kaku Takagawa (deceased)
22nd Honinbo
16 15 0
17 Utaro Hashimoto (deceased) 15 9 0
18-t Satoshi Yuki 13 15 0
18-t Shinji Takao 13 12 0
18-t Yuta Iyama 13 8 0

South Korea

# Player Total Runners-up International
1 Cho Hunhyun 150 72 11
2 Lee Chang-ho 140 50 21
3 Lee Sedol 38 17 15
4 Kim In 26 16 0
5 Yoo Changhyuk 24 30 6
7 Cho Namchul (deceased) 22 12 0
8 Seo Bongsoo 21 59 1
9 Pak Yeong-hun 19 8 3
10 Choi Cheol-han 13 15 2
11 Kang Dongyun 7 6 1
12-t Cho Hanseung 6 11 0
12-t Won Seong-jin 6 9 1
12-t Song Tae Kon 6 4 0
12-t Park Junghwan 6 0 1
16 Mok Jin-seok 5 9 0
Key

Bold indicates an active player

See also

Strategy games portal
Japan portal
China portal
Korea portal

References