Svetlana Shikshina
Svetlana Valerievna Shikshina (Светлана Валерьевна Шикшина, born 7 March 1980) is a Russian female player.
Shikshina became a pro at the Hankuk Kiwon in 2002. Her family name is written in Korean Hangul as "스베타."
Svetlana Shikshina is the first and only European female professional player.
She started to play the game of Baduk (Go) at the age of 10. She learned from her father Valery Shikshin, 4d. From 1994 to 1996 she was the Russian Female champion and in September 1996 she won the 1st European Female Championship in Moscow. In 1997 Chun Poong Jho 8p from Korean Baduk Association invited her to Korea. She recieved lessons from one of the best Children's Baduk clubs in Seoul. Every day she studied for 10 hours, and 5 years later she became a professional player.
In 2002 she started to teach kids at the Children Baduk clubs in Korea and gave individual lessons to adults as a professional teacher. She has had experience teaching beginners and advanced players.
Also in 2000 she entered Meongji University, Department of Baduk studies and graduated in 2005. She teaches on the internet (KGS and Cyberoro) and has a personal website http://rusbaduk.nm.ru (Russian only).
Svetlana's recent best results at the following tournaments are:
2004 Winner of the European Ing Cup held in Czech Republic
2004 The European representative at the 17th World Professional Championship for the Fujitsu Cup held in Japan
2005 Launching of the Svetlana Shikshina Cup for the Children Baduk, in Russia
2005 European Team Championship, 2nd place, held in Russia
2005 The winner of the European Woman Championship, held in Germany
2006 Champion of the Russian Pair Go Championship
2006 Champion of the 50th European Go Congress 2006 in Frascati
2006 Champion of European Masters, held in Italy
2006 The European representative at the 1st World Woman Professional Championship for the Dali Cup held in China
2007 Has received a rank " the Deserved master of sports of Russia "
Her rank on KGS is 1p (1 dan professional), her nickname there is redrose.
In 2003 she played a very interesting game on KGS against tartrate. Tartrate played black and his first move (19x19 board) was on the tengen.
Her brother Ilja is amateur 6d and made the 3rd place in the European Go Congress 2005 in Prague.