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An Cho-young

South Korean Go player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ484299 ↗
Source-derived summary

An Choyoung (Korean: 안조영; born September 25, 1979) is a professional Go player.

Biography

An became a professional in 1993 at the age of 14. He was promoted to 8 dan in 2004, then 9 dan in 2005. He participated in the first China-Korea Kangwon-Land Cup where he won 2 games.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “An Cho-young” as south Korean Go player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cho-young, South and Korean.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1993, 2004, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-09-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cho-young, South and Korean providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “An Cho-young”, the useful work is to connect “south Korean Go player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q484299. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1993, 2004 and 2005.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “An Cho-young”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow An Cho-young primary sources, An Cho-young archive and Cho-young research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “An Cho-young”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “An Cho-young” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.