Ding Hao (; born 13 June 2000
) is a Chinese professional
Go player.
Ding was born in
Datong
Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province, China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east. As of the 2020 census, it had a population o ...
,
Shanxi
Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...
.
He began to attend Go classes when he was seven years old. To continue his studies, he moved to
Taiyuan
Taiyuan; Mandarin pronunciation: (Jin Chinese, Taiyuan Jin: /tʰai˦˥ ye˩˩/) is the capital of Shanxi, China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. It is an industrial base foc ...
and then to
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
.
He earned professional status in 2013, at age 13.
He won the 2019
CCTV Cup, a tournament with fast time controls.
This qualified him as one of China's two representatives for the
Asian TV Cup
The Asian TV Cup is a Go competition.
Outline
The Asian TV Cup is the oldest continental tournament, dating back to 1989. The winners and runner ups of the biggest hayago competitions from Asia
Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the ...
, where he finished as runner-up to
Shin Jinseo.
In 2021 he won three Chinese tournaments within a span of three months:
the
Changqi Cup in October,
on December 12,
and the on December 30.
He successfully defended the Weiqi Master title in 2022,
and lost it to
Yang Kaiwen in 2023. He also successfully defended the Guoshou title in October 2023.
He won an international championship at the
LG Cup in February 2023 with a victory over
Yang Dingxin in the finals.
The same year, he won his second major international title at the
Samsung Cup in November.
In December 2023, he became the number one ranked Chinese player in the Chinese Weiqi Association's official rankings.
He won the Samsung Cup again in 2024.
Titles
International:
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LG Cup 2023
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Samsung Cup 2023,
2024
Chinese:
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CCTV Cup 2019
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Changqi Cup 2021
* () 2021–2022
* 2021–2023
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Qiwang 2025
References
External links
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2000 births
Living people
Chinese Go players
Sportspeople from Shanxi
People from Datong