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Eight-time world champion

Biography

Ke Jie (born 1997) turned professional in 2008 and was ranked world #1 on goratings for long stretches between 2014 and 2017. He has won eight world championships, seven of them before he turned 22, including four Samsung Cups and the 2nd MLily Cup, where he beat Lee Sedol in the final.

In May 2017 he played AlphaGo Master in Wuzhen and lost 0-3, the program's last public match. He has since remained China's most recognisable player and a national team leader.

He beat Shin Jinseo 2-0 in the 2020 Samsung Cup final for his eighth world title, finished runner-up at the LG Cup in 2021 and 2025, and took silver in the men's individual event at the 2023 Asian Games.

vs. Shin Jinseo, 25th Samsung Cup, Final Game 2

November 3, 2020

Leading 1-0, Ke Jie took Black against Shin Jinseo, by then the world's number one, and won by half a point to complete a 2-0 sweep. It was his eighth world title and his fourth Samsung Cup.

This final game swung late. Shin Jinseo was ahead, and Ke Jie was down to 10% when he played N2 on move 233. White's L19 on move 234, a small move at the top edge, let Ke Jie back in: his winrate rose to 36%, and he squeezed out a half-point win in the endgame that followed. J14 was the move for Shin, one about 25% of 9-dan players find.