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Rui Naiwei

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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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Birth Year
1963 1
Birth Date
1963-12-28 1
Nationality
Chinese 1
Career Highlight
The 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
Competition Category
Individual 1
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1. Wikipedia: Rui Naiwei
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  • Lead paragraph, birth date clause
    born December 28, 1963) is a Chinese professional Go player, once active in South Korea.
  • Lead paragraph, birth year only
    born December 28, 1963) is a Chinese professional Go player, once active in South Korea.
  • Lead paragraph, nationality clause
    born December 28, 1963) is a Chinese professional Go player, once active in South Korea.
  • Lead paragraph, Guksu title sentence
    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
  • Wikipedia, article summary lead
    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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