Xie Yimin

**Xie Yimin** (謝依旻) (born 16 November 1989) is a Taiwanese female professional Go player at Nihon Ki-in, Japan. She has obtained more than 25 female titles in her career. She is also qualified for the Honorary female board master (名誉女流棋聖), honorary female grand master (名誉女流名人), and the honorary female Honinbo (名誉女流本因坊).

## Achievements

The following tables are the summary of her achievements in career.

|rowspan="2"||Female board master (女流棋聖)|Female grand master (女流名人)|Female Tachiaoi Cup (女流立葵杯)|Senou Cup (扇興杯)|Female Honinbo (女流本因坊)|Other tournaments|Prizes (棋道賞)|Prize money ranking|Notes|||||
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|style="width:6em"|Held in January to February|style="width:6em"|Held in March|style="width:6em"|Held in June to July|style="width:6em"|Held in July|style="width:6em"|Held in October to November|style="width:3em"|||||
|2004|||||||||||||||
|2005|||||||||||||||
|||||Promoted to 2 dan due to the prize money ranking|||||||||||
|2006|||||||||||||||
||Female Champion|Female MVP||Finalist at the U20 tournament|||||||||||
|2007|||||||||||||||
|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Kumiko Yashiro 3-0||Female MVP|style="background-color:#dbffb7"|14th||||||||||
|2008||style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Keiko Kato 2-0||||||||||||
|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Ayumi Suzuki 3-1|Daiwa Securities Cup|Female MVP|style="background-color:#dbffb7"|10th (She became the first female player to be ranked higher than 10th)|Promoted to 4 dan due to the prize money ranking|||||||||
|2009||style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Kaori Chinen 2-1||||||||||||
|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Kikuyo Aoki 3-1||Female MVP|style="background-color:#dbffb7"|9th||||||||||
|2010|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Yukari Umezawa 2-0|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Chiaki Mukai 2-0|||||||||||
|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Chiaki Mukai 3-0||Female MVP|style="background-color:#dbffb7"|8th|Obtained three female titles in the same year (女流三冠) Attended to the Asian Games from team Taiwan|||||||||
|2011|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Yukari Umezawa 2-0|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Chiaki Mukai 2-1|||||||||||
|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Chiaki Mukai 3-1|Pair Go Tournament|MVP (She became the first female player to receive the general MVP) Female MVP|style="background-color:#dbffb7"|6th (She became the first female player to gain more than 20 million yen in a year)|Obtained three female titles in the same year (女流三冠)|||||||||
|2012|style="background-color:#c1ffff|Kikuyo Aoki 1-2|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Chiaki Mukai 2-0|||||||||||
|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Aya Okuda 3-0|Pair Go Tournament|Female MVP|style="background-color:#dbffb7"|7th|Promoted to 6 dan due to the prize money ranking|||||||||
|2013|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Kikuyo Aoki 2-0|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Aya Okuda 2-0|||||||||||
|style="background-color:#c1ffff|Chiaki Mukai 2-3|Pair Go Tournament||style="background-color:#dbffb7"|6th||||||||||
|2014|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Kikuyo Aoki 2-0|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Keiko Kato 2-1|||||||||||
||||9th||||||||||||
|2015|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Kazuko Konishi 2-0|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Ayumi Suzuki 2-0|style="background-color:#c1ffff|王景怡 0-1|||||||||
|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Rina Fujisawa 3-2||Female MVP|style="background-color:#dbffb7"|5th|Obtained three female titles in the same year (女流三冠)|||||||||
|2016|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Yukari Yoshihara 2-0|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Kikuyo Aoki 2-1|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Kikuyo Aoki 1-0|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Chiaki Mukai 〇|style="background-color:#c1ffff|Rina Fujisawa 1-3||Female MVP||Obtained five female titles in the same year (女流五冠) She became the fastest female player to obtain 300 wins in career|
|2017|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Eiko Nyu 2-1|style="background-color:#c1ffff|Rina Fujisawa 0-2|style="background-color:#c1ffff|Rina Fujisawa 1-2|style="background-color:#c1ffff|Rina Fujisawa ●|style="background-color:#ffcccc"|Rina Fujisawa 3-2|||||
|2018|style="background-color:#c1ffff|Asami Ueno 0-2||style="background-color:#c1ffff|Rina Fujisawa 1-2||style="background-color:#c1ffff|Rina Fujisawa 1-3|||||||
|2019||style="background-color:#c1ffff|Rina Fujisawa 1-2||style="background-color:#c1ffff|Rina Fujisawa ●|||||||||
|Name of title|Season|Obtained year|Finalist|Obtained|Consecutive victory|Honorary title||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style=""|**Female Honinbo (女流本因坊)**|Held in October to November|2007-12,15,17|11 times|**8** (Japan record）|**6** (Japan record）|Honorary female Honinbo (名誉女流本因坊)|
|style=""|**Female grand master (女流名人)**|Held in March|2008-16|10 times|**9** (Japan record）|**9** (Japan record）|Honorary female grand master(名誉女流名人)|
|**Female board master (女流棋聖)**|Held in January to February|2010-11,13-17|9 times|**7** (Japan record)|**5** (Japan record)|Honorary female board master (名誉女流棋聖)||
|style=""|**Senou Cup (扇興杯)**|Held in July|2016|3 times|1|||
|style=""|**female Tachiaoi Cup (女流立葵杯)**|Held in June to July|2016|4 times|1|||
|colspan="7" align="center"|The total number of her obtained titles is a female player record in Japan|||||||

## Other websites

- Official profile