Liu Shilan (; born January 24, 1962) is a Chinese

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player who holds the title

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, which she received in 1982 from

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. She has been the national women's champion of China seven times (1979–81, 1983-6).

Chess career

Liu learned to play chess at 12 years old in a chess school in

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

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. In 1982, Liu came third at the Women's

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tournament in

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with a final score of 9 points out of 14. Thanks to this result, she became the first player from Asia to qualify for the

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Candidates' matches and to achieve the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM). At the Candidates' stage, Liu lost her quarterfinal match, held in 1983 in Velden, to

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by 6–3 (+1, =4, -4). Later, she competed in two further Women's Interzonal tournaments (1985 Zeleznovodsk, finishing 14th with 4½/15; and 1987

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, finishing 10th with 8½/17.) Liu competed for the Chinese national team at the

Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

five times (1980–1988), with an overall record of 68 total games played (+25, =27, -16). She had the second best

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and won a bronze medal for first board at the

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Chess career

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