Dear Forum,

I have recently gotten into 巡將/순장바둑/順丈 바둑 sunjan baduk, or the old style of Korean go rules. I wanted to find the best records of the best players/games in book form for my go book collection, but could not find any mostly due to the fact that Hanja is no longer widely used.

I am particularly interested in the players as quoted on this website: "Famous strong Baduk players included Lee Deok-won who played with Li Rusong, the general of the reinforcing Chinese army, Yun Hong-yim, Yu Chang-hong, the artist Choi Buk, Sin Gyeong, Whang-O and others". The only name I know is Li Rusong as he is Chinese 李如松. https://web.archive.org/web/20210225011 ... m?menu=f11

My one other major lead is that there is this pro mentioned by the legendary John Fairbairn named 权庆彦 Kweon Kyeongun • Kwon Kyeongun who apparently wrote a comprehensive book which might include legendary game records of Sunjang Baduk. Does anyone know what it is called? On a chinese website the title is translated as 韩国围棋人物史.

Can any Korean forum members help me track down a copy of some book related to the game and its players? I think it would be awesome for the community to put alongside Dosaku, Longshi etc.

Thank you so much!
EH

Not exactly what you asked for but, during the late 1930s, evening editions of the Chosun Ilbo often featured a sunjang game. Here is for instance a game played between 蔡極文 and 柳鎭河, that I converted into a sgf file. It was published in fourteen installments from March 29, 1936 to April 15, 1936.

The print is often hard to read, especially black moves, but each move's coordinates are printed above the figure (using a mix of numbers and characters taken from the sexagenary cycle).