Svetlana Valeryevna Shikshina (, born March 7, 1980) is a professional Go

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from

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, one of only four

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women to date to reach

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status. She achieved this in 2002, affiliated to the

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(the Korean Baduk Association).

Biography

Svetlana Shikshina started playing go at the age of 10. She was trained by her father Valery Shikshin, who also tutored some of the best Russian players –

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, Andrei Kulkov and Ilya Shikshin (who is Svetlana's brother and a 3-dan professional.) She was Russian Female Champion from 1994 till 1996; in 1996 she won the European Female Championship. In 2006 she won the overall European championship (her compatriot Alexandre Dinerchtein placed second). In 1997, Svetlana moved to

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to study go professionally. In 2002 she was promoted to professional status and received 1-

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professional status. In 2008 she was promoted to 3-dan professional level. In 2005, she started an annual Children's Go Tournament, the ''Svetlana Shikshina Cup''.

Achievements

* One of the very few non-Asian players to reach professional playing strength. * European Female Champion in 1996 and 2005. * European Champion in 2006. * 1997 — 3rd place at the World female Championship. * 2001, 2011 — 1st place at the European Team Championship. * 2004 — winner of the European

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and a representative from Europe at the 17th

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. * 2006 — 1st place at the European Masters Tournament. * 2007— European representative at the 21st

. * 2012–2016 — 1st place at the

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References

External links

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European Go Database
Svetlana Shikshina's official rating entry at the

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Svetlana Shikshina's page at Sensei's Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shikshina, Svetlana 1980 births Living people Russian Go players Female Go players 20th-century Go players Sportspeople from Kazan