Japan-based Taiwanese professional Go player, Hsieh Yi-min has won a prestigious Go tournament in Japan for the eighth time. She beat Japanese opponent Ayumi Suzuki at the Women’s Meijin tournament in Tokyo on Wednesday in two matches in a best-of-three series.
Go is the Japanese name of a popular East Asian board game played with white and black stones.
Shei also broke her own previous record as the female Go player with the most title wins to date. She has now garnered a total of 20 titles.
The 25-year-old Shei has won the annual Women's Meijin tournament every year since 2008. The latest win came after Shei retained her title at the Women's Kisei tournament in late January. She has also dominated that tournament for the past three years.
Together with the Women's Honinbo, the Women's Meijin and the Women's Kisei make up the three major Japanese female Go professional titles.
Shei won the Honinbo title six times after becoming both the youngest and the first non-Japanese champion ever in 2007.