Rui Naiwei is a Chinese professional Go player born December 28, 1963, who holds the 9 dan rank, becoming the first woman ever to reach 9 dan in 1988. She won the Guksu title in 1999, defeating Lee Chang-ho and Cho Hun-hyun, the two strongest players in the world at the time, and won the Maxim Cup in 2004 along with multiple Women's Myungin and Women's Guksu titles between 2000 and 2007. She is regarded as the strongest recorded female Go player and remains the only woman to have won one of the major open Go titles.
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Career HighlightThe strongest recorded female Go player and the only woman to win one of the major open Go titles, winning the 1999 Guksu title in South Korea. 1 Classification
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Where did Rui Naiwei play professionally after leaving China?
She moved from Japan to California in 1996 and to Korea in 1999.
Rui Naiwei was born in Shanghai and left China in 1990 for Tokyo, where she studied Go as a student of Go Seigen. She was not allowed to enter the Japanese professional associations, so she could not play professionally there. In 1996 she moved to the Bay Area of California, and in 1999 she became a guest professional of the Hankuk Kiwon and moved to Korea to play in professional tournaments.
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Rui Naiwei (simplified Chinese: 芮迺伟; traditional Chinese: 芮迺偉; pinyin: Ruì Nǎiwěi; born December 28, 1963) is a Chinese professional Go player, once active in South Korea.
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Rui Naiwei (simplified Chinese: 芮迺伟; traditional Chinese: 芮迺偉; pinyin: Ruì Nǎiwěi; born December 28, 1963) is a Chinese professional Go player, once active in South Korea.
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Rui Naiwei (simplified Chinese: 芮迺伟; traditional Chinese: 芮迺偉; pinyin: Ruì Nǎiwěi; born December 28, 1963) is a Chinese professional Go player, once active in South Korea.
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Rui Naiwei (simplified Chinese: 芮迺伟; traditional Chinese: 芮迺偉; pinyin: Ruì Nǎiwěi; born December 28, 1963) is a Chinese professional Go player, once active in South Korea.
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She is the strongest recorded female Go player, and is the only woman to have won one of the major open Go titles. She achieved this by winning the 1999 Guksu title
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Rui Naiwei (simplified Chinese: 芮迺伟; traditional Chinese: 芮迺偉; pinyin: Ruì Nǎiwěi; born December 28, 1963) is a Chinese professional Go player, once active in South Korea.
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is a Chinese professional Go player, once active in South Korea.
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