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{{Short description|Chinese Go player (born 1963)}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Rui (surname)|Rui]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox go player
|name=Rui Naiwei
|image = 圍棋九段選手芮迺偉女士 (cropped).jpg
|hangul=루이나이웨이
|hanja=芮迺偉
|chinese=[[Traditional Chinese character|Trad.]] 芮迺偉 [[Simplified Chinese character|Simp.]] 芮迺伟
|pinyin=Ruì Nǎiwěi
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1963|12|28}}
|birth_place= [[Shanghai]], China
| teacher = [[Go Seigen|Wu Qing-yuan]] 
|turnedpro=1985 (full time)
|rank=9 dan
|affiliation=[[Zhongguo Qiyuan]] (1985–19??)<br>[[American Go Association]] (19??–1999)<br>[[Hanguk Kiwon]] (1999–2011)<br>Zhongguo Qiyuan (2011–<small>present</small>)
}}
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{{MedalCountry|{{CHN}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Asian Games]]}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2010 Asian Games|2010 Guangzhou]]|[[Weiqi at the 2010 Asian Games|Women's Team]]}}
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'''Rui Naiwei''' ({{zh|t=芮迺偉|s=芮迺伟|p=Ruì Nǎiwěi}}; born December 28, 1963) is a Chinese professional [[Go (game)|Go]] player, once active in South Korea. 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 (the oldest and one of the most prestigious Go competitions in Korea), on the way beating [[Lee Chang-Ho]] and [[Cho Hun-hyun]], the two strongest players in the world at the time.

== Biography ==
Rui was born in [[Shanghai]], China. 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 [[Go ranks and ratings|7-dan]] that year. She reached 9-dan in 1988, becoming the first woman ever to achieve that rank. After that, Chinese [[Feng Yun (Go player)|Feng Yun]] and Korean [[Park Jieun (Go player)|Park Jieun]] became the second and third female go players to reach 9 dan, following Rui Naiwei.

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 in 1992. She spent several years in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]].

She then moved to South Korea (with the help of [[Cho Hun-hyeon]] 9-dan). She participated actively in Korean tournaments. She dominated the women's events and won two open events, always previously won by men: the [[Guksu]] (the 43rd open Guksu title in South Korea, 1999) and the [[Maxim Cup]] (2004).

She returned to China in 2011.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.usgo.org/news/2012/01/10-minutes-with-jujo-jiang-and-naiwei-rui/ |title=10 Minutes With: Jujo Jiang & Naiwei Rui |date=2012-01-09 |website=American Go E-Journal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911082149/https://www.usgo.org/news/2012/01/10-minutes-with-jujo-jiang-and-naiwei-rui/ |archive-date=2017-09-11}}</ref>

Rui's style tends to be extremely aggressive, and often characterized by large scale [[semeai]].

Her husband is [[Jiang Zhujiu]], also a 9-dan professional.

== Titles & runners-up ==
Ranks #6-t in [[List of top title holders in Go|total number of titles in Korea]].

{|  class="wikitable"
!Title || Years Held
|-
| align="center" | '''Current'''
| align="center" | '''17'''
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Guksu]]
|  1999
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}}  [[Maxim Cup]]
|  2004
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}}  [[Women's Myungin]]
|  2000–2002, 2004–2007
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}}  [[Women's Guksu]]
|  2000–2002, 2006, 2007
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}}  [[Women's Kisung]]
| 2006
|-
| {{flagicon|China}}  [[National Women's Individual]]
|  1986–1989
|-
| align="center" | '''International'''
| align="center" | '''7'''
|-
|  {{flagicon|South Korea}}  {{flagicon|China}}  {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Jeongganjang Cup]]
|  2003
|-
|  {{flagicon|South Korea}}  {{flagicon|China}}  {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Hungchang Cup]]
|  2000, 2001
|-
|  {{flagicon|South Korea}}  {{flagicon|China}}  {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Eastern Airlines Cup]]
|  2000
|-
|  {{flagicon|South Korea}}  {{flagicon|China}}  {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Bohae Cup]]
|  1994, 1996, 1997
|}

{|  class="wikitable"
!Title || Years Lost
|-
| align="center" | '''Current'''
| align="center" | '''4'''
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}}  [[Guksu]]
|  2000
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}}  [[Maxim Cup]]
|  2003
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}}  [[Women's Guksu]]
|  2003
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}}  [[Women's Myungin]]
|  2003
|-
| align="center" | '''Defunct'''
| align="center" | '''4'''
|-
| {{flagicon|South Korea}}  [[LG Refined Oil Cup]]
|  2000
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}}  [[North American Masters Tournament]]
|  1996, 1999, 2000
|}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://gobase.org/information/players/?pp=Rui%20Naiwei Go Base]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050309210456/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
*[http://www.baduk.or.kr/record/player_view.asp?pkey=10000928 Korea Baduk Association profile] (in Korean)

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[[Category:1963 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Go players from Shanghai]]
[[Category:Asian Games medalists in go]]
[[Category:Go players at the 2010 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Asian Games silver medalists for China]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Chinese female Go players]]
[[Category:20th-century Go players]]
[[Category:People from Shanghai]]