Nie Weiping

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Nie Weiping
Full name	Nie Weiping
Chinese	Trad. 聶衛平 Simp. 聂卫平
Pinyin	Niè Wèipíng
Date of birth	August 17, 1952 (age 54)
Place of birth	, China
Residence	China
Turned pro	1985 (full time)
Rank	9 dan
Affiliation	Zhongguo Qiyuan

Nie Weiping (Traditional: 聶衛平; Simplified: 聂卫平; Pinyin: Niè Wèipíng; born August 17, 1952) in China is a professional Go player.

[edit] Biography

Nie Weiping is a professional Go player who plays for China. He has won many titles, but he's become famous winning China-Japan Supermatches. He's beaten Kobayashi Koichi, Kato Masao, Fujisawa Hideyuki, Kataoka Satoshi, Yamashiro Hiroshi, Sakai Takeshi, Takemiya Masaki, Otake Hideo, Yoda Norimoto, and Awaji Shuzo in the process. For doing this, he was widely regarded as one of the strongest players in the world during the 1980's. He was married to Kong Xiangming. They have a son, Ko Reibun, who plays for the Nihon Ki-in. Chang Hao, Wang Lei and Gu Li are his disciples.

[edit] Titles & Runner Up's

Ranks #4 in total amount of titles in China.

Title	Years Lost
Current	9
Mingren	1991
Tianyuan	1987, 1993, 1995
CCTV Cup	1989, 1992, 1995
New Sports Cup	1984, 1991
Defunct	1
Qiwang	1996
International	3
Fujitsu Cup	1990
Ing Cup	1988
Tong Yang Cup	1995