The 14th LG Cup World Baduk Championship Best-of-3 Final is going to be held in the Baduk TV studio located in the 1st floor of the Korea Baduk Association building starting from Feb. 22nd. 

Since Lee Changho 9p and Kong Jie 9p are No.1 players in Korea and China respectively, there is much attention toward the result of the game.

In terms of their game record against each other, Lee Changho is leading by 4 wins and 3 loses (by 5 wins and 3 loses when including an unofficial match) but each player has taken 1 win from the other in the last year.

Lee Changho 9p has defeated China's Tuo Jiaxi 3p, Japan's Iyama Yuta 9p, Qui Jun 8p and "Korean Chinese" Piao Wen Yao 5p one after another to make it to the final and give a challenge to recapture the LG Cup that was taken by China last year and win the LG Cup for the 5th time in his career.

Lee Changho 9p has lost to Park Junghwan 7p and Han Taehee, the Korea Baduk Association student, in succession in the 5th Wonik Cup Sibdan Tournain and the 2nd BC Card Cup World Baduk Championship in the beginning of this year respectively but after that he is back in his own condition and won 5 straight games. As of Feb. 20th, his record is 7 wins and 3 loses.

The last year's international tournament game record of Kong Jie 9p who is determined to win his first LG Cup championship was 16 wins and 5 loses so his percentage of victory was 76.2%. Especially, he won the 21st Asian TV Cup (in June) and the 14th Samsung Cup World Baduk Masters Championship (in December) to make the year one of the best in his career.

Winning the Samsung Cup World Baduk Masters Championship, making it to the final in LG Cup World Baduk Championship and doing a good job in the Chinese Jia League, Kong Jie 9p was ranked as No.1 for the 3rd time in his career after 2 years and 4 months to push away Gu Li 9p to the 2nd place and take his place which had appeared to be unchangeable. In the LG Cup World Baduk Championship, he made it to the final as he won 4 straight games against Korean players only including Lee Sedol 9p, Kang Yutaek 3p, Choi Chulhan 9p and Park Younghoon 9p.

In the previous LG Cup World Baduk Championship, China's Gu Li 9p has defeated Lee Sedol 9p by 2-0 and won the LG Cup which was his second LG Cup after the 10th LG Cup.

Being sponsored by LG, the 14th LG Cup World Baduk Championship allows each player 3 hours and 1 minute's overtime counting for 5 times for the time control and instead of automatically deciding color according to the result of grabbing stones, according to the result of grabbing stones, one can decide their own color. To ban conversation related to the game while eating lunch, a supervisor from a third party country eats lunch together with the players and this is the LG Cup World Baduk Championship's unique rule.

The LG Cup World Baduk Championship has the largest scale (the scale in total is 1  billion and 250 million Won and Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan have won the title at least once and it is the only international baduk championship that no player has won for consecutive years.

¡Þ The schedule of the 14th LG Cup World Baduk Championship Best-of-3 Final
-The Game 1: Feb. 22nd, 2010 (Baduk TV Studio)
-The Game 2: Feb. 23rd, 2010 (Baduk TV Studio)
-The Game 3: Feb. 25th, 2010 (Baduk TV Studio)

- Cyberoro.com