Master profile
Tang Dan
唐丹
- Games
- 189
- Years of the dated games
- 2005–2008
- Archive record
- 88W · 58D · 43L
National titles: Women's national individual champion: 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2025
The player
唐丹 (Tang Dan) was born in Chaohu, Anhui, on 27 January 1990 and grew up in Beijing. She started playing at ten and joined the Beijing team at fourteen. In 2007 she won her first women's national individual championship, and the women's grandmaster title came with it. She has won the title ten times, more than any other woman: in 2007, 2010 to 2013, 2016, 2018 to 2020 and 2025. She also won the women's team gold at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games and the women's individual gold at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.
The archive holds 189 of her games, and most of them carry no date. The dated ones run from 2005 to 2008, at the very start of her career. She scored 64.9% as Red, and her most frequent opponent in the archive is Wang Linna, with 14 games.
The game below comes from the start of her career, and in it she already controls a long game against an experienced opponent.
In the archive
| As Red / as Black | 97 games as Red, 92 as Black |
|---|---|
| Score | 64.9% as Red, 58.7% as Black |
| Most played systems | Central Cannon as Red (77 games) · Screen Horses as Black (46 games) |
| Best-scoring system | Screen Horses as Black: 63% over 46 games |
| Most frequent opponent | Wang Linna (14 games) |
| Longest game | 246 plies against Dong Xubin |
Tang Dan - Zhang Guofeng, 2007
2007 Yitai Cup National Women’s Championship · 2007 · Tang Dan (red) vs Zhang Guofeng (black)
Tang Dan has Red against Zhang Guofeng, a former national women's champion, and both sides play the same-direction cannons. Tang went on to win more national titles than any other woman, and this game comes from 2007, the year of her first.
The first four moves are standard, and the first capture comes on move ten, when Red's cannon takes a soldier. A long, slow fight follows, and the heaviest exchanges come late, around move thirty-four. Tang comes out of them with both chariots and the initiative, and she goes on to win.
Red won · 47 moves
The starting position.
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