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{{short description|Taiwanese Go player}}
{{Infobox go player
| name=Chou Chun-hsun
| fullname=Chou Chun-hsun
| chinese=[[Traditional Chinese character|Trad.]] 周俊勳 [[Simplified Chinese character|Simp.]] 周俊勋
| pinyin=Zhōu Jùnxūn
| birth_date={{Birth date and age|1980|2|23}}
| birth_place={{Flag icon|Taiwan}} [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]]
| residence={{Flag icon|Taiwan}} [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]]
| rank=9 dan
| affiliation=[[Taiwan Qiyuan]]
}}

'''Chou Chun-hsun''' ([[Taiwanese Minnan|Taiwanese]] [[Pe̍h-ōe-jī|POJ]]:  Chiu Chùn-hun; born February 23, 1980) is a [[Go (board game)|Go]] [[Go players|player]].<ref name="ing">"Youngsters dominate Ing Cup". [[Xinhua News Agency]]. April 22, 2004 (via [[Lexis-Nexis]]). Retrieved February 13, 2010.</ref>

==Biography==
Chou was born in [[Taipei]], Taiwan.<ref name="ing"/> During the 1980s and 1990s, professional Go was not a very established game in Taiwan and did not present many opportunities for its players, but unlike many other professional Taiwanese players who relocated to Japan to further their careers, Chou decided that he would compete solely in Taiwan. Chou became a professional in 1993. He would later achieve a 7 dan ranking in 1997, then finally a 9 dan in 1998. He was the first professional player to achieve a 9 dan ranking while competing only in Taiwan .<ref name="int">[[Alexandre Dinerchtein|Dinerchtein, Alexandre]] (editor in chief). "[http://gogame.info/samples.html?id=50 An interview with Chou Junxun, 9-dan]", Issue 48. ''Goama&nbsp;– International Go Newsletter''. Gogame.info. Retrieved May 21, 2008.</ref> He is widely credited as the best player of the [[Taiwan Qiyuan]], although with the increasing popularity of Go in his country, his status has been challenged by other opponents.<ref name="int"/> He won his first international title, [[LG Cup (Go)|LG Cup]], in 2007 beating [[Hu Yaoyu]] 2 to 1. He is the only player from Taiwan Qiyuan to win an international as of 2022 ([[Hsu Hao-hung]] became the next Taiwanese international winner in 2023).

He is nicknamed as the "red-faced ''go'' master" due to the presence of a large [[birth mark]] on his right face. In the west his name is often rendered as "Chun-Hsun Chou".

==References==
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==Titles & runners-up==
{|  class="wikitable"
!Title || Years Held
|-
| align="center" | '''Current'''
| align="center" | '''8'''
|-
| {{Flag icon|Taiwan}} [[Tianyuan (Taiwan)]]
|  2002–2006
|-
| {{Flag icon|Taiwan}} [[Wangjia]]
| 2005, 2006
|-
| {{Flag icon|Taiwan}} [[Mingren (Taiwan)]]
|  1994–2006
|-
| {{Flag icon|Taiwan}} [[Donggang Cup]]
| 2006
|-
| align="center" | '''International'''
| align="center" | '''1'''
|-
| {{Flag icon|South Korea}} {{Flag icon|Japan}} {{Flag icon|Taiwan}} {{Flag icon|China}} [[LG Cup (Go)|LG Cup]]
|  2007
|-
| align="center" | '''Defunct'''
| align="center" | '''9'''
|-
| {{Flag icon|Taiwan}} [[Taiwan Qiyuan Cup]]
|  2004, 2005
|-
| {{Flag icon|Taiwan}} [[Taiwan High Pro]]
|  1995–1997
|}

{|  class="wikitable"
!Title || Years Lost
|-
| align="center" | '''Defunct'''
| align="center" | '''2'''
|-
| {{Flag icon|Taiwan}} [[Taiwan Zhonghuan]]
|  1996, 1997
|}

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[[Category:1980 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Taiwanese Go players]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Taipei]]
[[Category:Go players at the 2010 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei]]


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