- Rui Naiwei
Infobox Go player
playername=Rui Naiwei
fullname=Rui Naiwei
hangul=루이나이웨이
hanja=芮乃偉
chinese=Trad. 芮乃偉 Simp. 芮乃伟
pinyin=Ruì Nǎiwěi
dateofbirth=birth date and age|1963|12|28
cityofbirth=flagicon|ChinaShanghai
countryofbirth=China
residence=flagicon|South KoreaSeoul ,South Korea
turnedpro=1985 (full time)
rank=9 dan
affiliation=Zhongguo Qiyuan (1985-19??)American Go Association (19??-1999)Hanguk Kiwon (1999-present)Rui Naiwei (Traditional: 芮乃偉; Simplified: 芮乃伟;
Pinyin : Ruì Nǎiwěi; born onDecember 28 ,1963 ) is a Chinese professional go player, now active in South Korea. She is probably the strongest recorded female go player, and is the only woman to have won one of the major open go titles.Biography
She was born in Shanghai,
China , and as of2005 lives inSeoul ,South Korea , with her husband,Zhujiu Jiang , also a 9-dan professional. She and Mr. Jiang participate actively in Korean tournaments.After starting to play around 1975 (at the age of 11--the age some other players go pro) she became a pro for the
Zhongguo Qiyuan in 1985, being promoted all the way to 7-dan that year. She reached 9-dan in 1988, becoming the first woman ever to achieve that rank.Leaving China in 1989, she moved to Japan. While the
Nihon Ki-in did not allow her to play in any Japanese tournaments, she was able to make it to the semi-finals of the international Ing Cup in1992 . She spent several years in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, then they moved to Korea, where she has dominated the women's events and has won two open events, always previously won by men: theGuksu (the 43rd open Guksu title in South Korea,1999 ) and the Maxim Cup (2004 ).Naiwei's style tends to be extremely aggressive, and often characterized by large scale
semeai .Titles & runners-up
Ranks #6-t in total amount of titles in Korea.
External links
* [http://gobase.org/information/players/?pp=Rui%20Naiwei Go Base]
* [http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/special/ruinaiwei.html MSO World]
* [http://senseis.xmp.net/?RuiNaiwei Rui Naiwei] - Biographical link on Sensei's library.
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