| Nie Weiping 聂卫平 | |
| Fullname: | Nie Weiping |
| Birth Date: | 17 August 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Shenzhou, Hebei, China |
| Residence: |  China |
| Teacher: | Hideyuki Fujisawa |
| Pupil: | Chang Hao Wang Lei Gu Li |
| Turnedpro: | 1982 |
| Rank: | 9 dan |
| Affiliation: | Chinese Weiqi Association |
| P: | Niè Wèipíng |
| S: | 聂卫平 |
| T: | 聶衛平 |
Nie Weiping (; born 17 August 1952) is a Chinese professional Go player.
Nie was born in Shenzhou. He was a childhood friend of future Chinese leader Xi Jinping.[1] His brother, Liu Weiping, became a general in the People's Liberation Army.[1]
Nie began learning Go at the age of nine and won the inaugural World Amateur Go Championship in 1979. Nie was given 9 dan rank in 1982.[2] [3] He became famous in the Go world after leading China to victory in the China-Japan Supermatches, beating several top Japanese players including his teacher, Fujisawa Hideyuki.[4] He earned the nickname "Steel Goalkeeper" for his ability to string together wins as the last Chinese player left.[5] Nie won the Tianyuan twice, in 1991 and 1992.[6] Nie authored the book Nie Weiping on Go: The Art of Positional Judgment in 1995.[7]
Ranks #3 in total number of titles in China.
| Domestic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Wins | Runners-up | |
| 1 (1981) | 1 (1982) | ||
| 6 (1975, 1977–1979, 1981, 1983) | 1 (1984) | ||
| 1 (1990) | 1 (1991) | ||
| 8 (1979–1983, 1988–1990) | 2 (1984, 1991) | ||
| 1 (1991) | |||
| 2 (1991, 1992) | 3 (1987, 1993, 1995) | ||
| 6 (1987-1989, 1991, 1993–1994) | 1 (1990) | ||
| 4 (1991-1992, 1994–1995) | |||
| 1 (1995) | |||
| 3 (1987, 1993, 1997) | 3 (1989, 1992, 1995) | ||
| 1 (1998) | |||
| 1 (2003) | |||
| 4 (2016, 2018–20) | 1 (2017) | ||
| Total | 37 | 14 | |
| Continental | |||
| Title | Wins | Runners-up | |
| 1 (1992) | |||
| 1 (2015) | |||
| 1 (2018) | |||
| 1 (2019) | |||
| Total | 1 | 3 | |
| International | |||
| Title | Wins | Runners-up | |
| 1 (1988) | |||
| 1 (1990) | |||
| 1 (1995) | |||
| Total | 0 | 3 | |
| Career Total | |||
| Total | 38 | 20 | |