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Shilan Liu
S Liu 
 

Number of games in database: 87
Years covered: 1980 to 2017
Last FIDE rating: 2109
Highest rating achieved in database: 2255
Overall record: +27 -28 =32 (49.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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E11 Bogo-Indian Defense (3 games)
B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation (3 games)
B65 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...Be7 Defense, 9...Nxd4 (2 games)
E00 Queen's Pawn Game (2 games)
B83 Sicilian (2 games)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Chinese Chess League
   S Liu vs Lagno (Aug-21-17) 0-1
   L Zhang vs S Liu (Aug-20-17) 1-0
   S Liu vs M Zhai (Aug-19-17) 0-1
   Q Guo vs S Liu (Aug-18-17) 1-0
   Z Tan vs S Liu (Jul-27-17) 1-0

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SHILAN LIU
(born Jan-24-1962, 63 years old) China

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Liu Shilan, born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province was the first Chinese player to gain (awarded 1982) the WGM title. She has played in five Olympiads and been Chinese Women's Chess Champion nine times.

Wikipedia article: Liu Shilan


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 page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 87  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. H Erenska-Barlo vs S Liu  0-1381980Valletta Olympiad (Women)C44 King's Pawn Game
2. Chiburdanidze vs S Liu  ½-½171980Valletta Olympiad (Women)C77 Ruy Lopez
3. E Akhmilovskaya vs S Liu  1-0811982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)E11 Bogo-Indian Defense
4. S Liu vs N Garcia Vicente  ½-½381982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)C50 Giuoco Piano
5. Z Nikolin vs S Liu  ½-½401982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack
6. S Liu vs Z Veroci  1-0251982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)B42 Sicilian, Kan
7. M Juncu vs S Liu  1-0451982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)D48 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran
8. S Liu vs G Fischdick  1-0521982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7
9. A Pihajlic vs S Liu  0-1371982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)A07 King's Indian Attack
10. S Liu vs I Guggenberger  1-0521982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
11. D Savereide vs S Liu  0-1361982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)B89 Sicilian
12. S Liu vs N Gurieli  ½-½231982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)B06 Robatsch
13. T Minogina vs S Liu  1-0331982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
14. S Liu vs I Levitina  ½-½371982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)C89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall
15. J Khadilkar vs S Liu  0-1361982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)C77 Ruy Lopez
16. S Liu vs N I Titorenko  1-0381982Tbilisi Interzonal (Women)B06 Robatsch
17. P Cramling vs S Liu  1-0271982Lucerne Olympiad (Women)B56 Sicilian
18. S Liu vs C Vreeken  1-0411982Lucerne Olympiad (Women)C78 Ruy Lopez
19. M Juncu vs S Liu  ½-½541982Lucerne Olympiad (Women)E11 Bogo-Indian Defense
20. N Ioseliani vs S Liu  ½-½401983Ioseliani - Liu Candidates qfC97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
21. S Liu vs N Ioseliani  0-1341983Ioseliani - Liu Candidates qfB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
22. N Ioseliani vs S Liu  0-1401983Ioseliani - Liu Candidates qfB65 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...Be7 Defense, 9...Nxd4
23. S Liu vs N Ioseliani  0-1491983Ioseliani - Liu Candidates qfB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
24. N Ioseliani vs S Liu  ½-½491983Ioseliani - Liu Candidates qfB65 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...Be7 Defense, 9...Nxd4
25. S Liu vs N Ioseliani  ½-½351983Ioseliani - Liu Candidates qfB95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-29-07  Karpova: Anthony Miles

<Of course it can lead to players growing to hate chess - I well remember one of the top Chinese players describing the country as a giant prison camp, which is probably not an entirely inaccurate assessment. However, some people actually enjoy playing chess and thrive on the lifestyle. My own first encounter with a Chinese player was at the Vidmar Memorial in then Yugoslavia in 1979. Chi Ching Hsuan (or Qi Jing Xuan , as he is now spelt, as the west makes further attempts to come to terms with the Chinese alphabet), then clearly the top Chinese player, made a promising debut on the international stage. A lesser known fact, though, is that his delegation included a 14-year-old girl called Liu Shi Lan. During the course of the tournament she asked my then wife, an experienced international with a rating of about 2200, if she would play a few games to gain experience. They did, at various time limits.

Of course with a seasoned international against a 14-year-old child the result was an unholy massacre. Such an unholy massacre that my wife threatened to divorce me if I ever divulged the details. However, since she did that some time ago anyway, I guess I am safe now! I do not recall the precise score, but my wife barely scored a point, and I received an advance warning of what was to come.>

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Sep-15-11  whiteshark: Liu Shilan (born January 24, 1962) is a Chinese female chess player who holds the WGM title, which she received in 1982.

She was the first Chinese woman who received this title from FIDE. She was nine-time China National Women's Champion.

In 1982, Liu came third at the World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in Tbilisi with a final score of 9/14. In 1983, she qualified for the Candidates Tournament in Velden, but lost in the quarterfinals to Nana Ioseliani.

Liu competed for China women's national chess team for five times at the Chess Olympiads (1980–1988) with an overall record of 68 total games played (+25, =27, -16). She had the second best Rating Performance and won a bronze medal at the first board at the 27th Chess Olympiad in Dubai, 1986.

She reached her highest FIDE rating of 2260 in July 1990.

http://shenzhen2011.fide.com/interv...

Mar-06-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Tony Miles was a canny one, only revealing his ex-wife's fate against that teenage girl after being shown the door.
Mar-06-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Strange. You'd think an experienced player rated about 2200 would be able to do better against a 14-year-old whose peak rating (some 11 years later) was only 2260.
Jan-24-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Shilan Liu!!
Jul-14-20  Eastfrisian: According to this: https://en.chessbase.com/post/hou-y... she is Dean of the Shenzhen University.
Oct-29-20  login:

Zeng Zilin and his two female disciples

'.. This 74-year-old grandfather from Chengdu is thin. These days he is not suffering from diabetes, he likes to meet three or five friends. He sits in the antique Heming Teahouse [鹤鸣茶社] in the People’s Park and orders a cup of tea. ..

He is Zeng Zilin. His time goes back to the 1970s and 1980s. He is the most famous chess coach in Chengdu, the "Chess City". If you are interested in chess, you may not know Zeng Zilin, but you must have heard of his two most famous female disciples - one is the pioneer of chess and the first female international grandmaster in Asia, Liu Shilan; the second even better at studying than playing chess is his daughter Zeng Bei, who once won the third place in the World Junior Girls Group, was known as the "Tsinghua Young Talent".

In the mid-1970s, the already respected coach Zeng Zilin began to be questioned. A chess school manager told him: "Some students reported that you often give female student Liu Shilan a small stove in class. In addition, it is said that when you often walk together, your 'back' [posture] looks like you are in love?!"

Zeng Zilin not shy replied like this: "First, any coach will prefer the best student in the class. Yes, Liu Shilan is the best one in my class. Secondly, I'm actually in love with her sister, is that okay?"

The storm subsided. Liu Shi Lan's sister, Liu Jixuan, became Zeng Zilin's wife after a long love affair, and Liu Shi Lan herself became Asia's first women's international grandmaster when she was runner-up in the 1982 World Women's Inter-Regional Chess Tournament in the former Soviet Union.

What made Liu Shi Lan, the best student of the year, so powerful? Zeng Zilin confessed: "She listened to her teacher the most, and when she participated in the competition back then, she basically deployed all the layouts I had and could execute them strictly. In addition, she is one of the most diligent students I've ever met. Lastly, Liu Shilan is best at holding up her own moves and will come up with her own when strictly executing the tactics deployed by her coach on the board, and will win the tournament as a result."

Yes, the "Two orchids of Shu" (Liu Shilan and Zhao Lan) are Zeng Zilin's lifelong pride.

..'

http://www.thecover.cn/news/1172628

from Th Cover, by Jia Zhiruo, 2018
(in Chinese)


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