Ke Jie

Ke Jie (August 2, 1997 -), native of Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, is a professional nine-dan Go player of the China Chess Academy. He has a combative playing style and is good at seeking changes. He has won eight world championships and was the ring terminator in the Nongshim Cup Three Kingdoms Go Tournament twice. In 2017, he won the China Top Ten Lawrence Champion Award for Best Non-Olympic Athlete. In 2019, Ke Jie was recommended to enter Tsinghua University. As of January 23, 2025, Ke Jie ranked third with 3686 points on the unofficial world ranking website GoRatings.org, second only to Korean chess player Shin Jin-soo and Chinese chess player Wang Xinghao. He was nicknamed "Agent" because his Yehu Go ID is "Latent". On January 14, 2015, Ke Jie, who was under 18 years old at the time, defeated Qiu Jun in the fifth game of the second Bailing Cup World Go Open final and won the ninth-dan championship. This was the first time Ke Jie won the world championship trophy and was promoted to ninth-dan according to the promotion rules of the Chinese Chess Academy. Entering its heyday after 2015, he won four Samsung Cups from 2015 to 2020, becoming the second Chinese chess player to achieve eight crowns after Gu Li's 9th Dan. According to the unofficial world ranking website Go Ratings, from August 2014 to November 2017, Ke Jie has maintained the world's number one, and was later surpassed by South Korean chess player and former world number one Park Ting-hwan 9th Dan. In 2019, Ke Jie surpassed Park Ting-hwan and Shin Jin-seok in the Go ratings ranking and returned to the first place. As of the end of 2019, Ke Jie has played white in 378 games and won 278, so he is known as "White Undefeated". His Fanqi winning rate is extremely high, also known as "Fanqi Undefeated" (8 wins in 10 times).