Joanne Missingham

Joanne Missingham (Chinese: 黑嘉嘉; Wade–Giles: hei chia chia; born 26 May 1994) is an Australian-born Taiwanese professional Go player who has participated in international and domestic Go tournaments. She is the first Australian-born player to achieve a professional go ranking. In 2010 she came second in the Qionglongshan Bingsheng Cup and won the 1st Taiwan Wei-ch'i Association Women's Professionals Representative Right Ranking tournament. As of 2016 she has a Go ranking of 7 dan, and is the highest ranked female go player in Taiwan.[1]

Joanne Missingham
Chinese黑嘉嘉
Born (1994-05-26) May 26, 1994
Brisbane, Australia
TeacherZhou Keping
Lin Shengxian
Ruan Yunsheng
Wu Kai
Turned pro2008
Rank7 dan
AffiliationTaiwan Qiyuan
Joanne Missingham
Chinese黑嘉嘉

Life and career

Missingham was born in 1994 in Brisbane, Australia before moving to Taiwan at the age of four. Her father is Australian, and her mother Hei Nanping was Taiwanese. She died of leukemia in 2014.[2] Missingham studied under professional Go player Zhou Keping and later moved to San Diego in 2005 with her family. In 2010 she became a 1 dan member of the Taiwan Chi Yuan and in the same year was promoted again to 2 dan after coming second in the Bingsheng Cup.[3] Missingham plays professionally under her mother's maiden name and Chinese given name, Hei Jiajia.

Missingham gained media attention in 2011 when she, along with other female players boycotted the Qiandeng Cup after having learned that male players were being paid US$886 per game while female players were not paid at all. In a later tournament she held up a fan with the words in Chinese "protest gender discrimination".[4][5]

In 2016 she signed a record deal with Taiwanese record company Seed Music (種子音樂) to appear in adverts and television productions.[6]

She appeared in My Missing Valentine, an award-winning 2020 Taiwanese romantic comedy film, as a post officer.

Promotion record
Rank Year Notes
1 dan 2008 Promoted to professional dan rank for performance in the Chinese professional qualification tournament.
2 dan 2010 Attained 20 wins as a 1 dan.
3 dan 2010 Skipped due to the Taiwan Qiyuan promotion rules.
4 dan 2010 Skipped due to the Taiwan Qiyuan promotion rules.
5 dan 2010 Reached the final of the 1st Bingsheng Cup.
6 dan 2013 Attained 70 wins as a 5 dan.
7 dan 2015 Won the 1st Female Zuiqiang against Zhang Kaixin.

References
  1. "Pair Go World Cip 2016". Japan Pair Go Association. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. Meng-Hsuan Yang, Taiwanese Go Champion Joanne Missingham: I Only Finished Middle School, But I Am Who I Am, CommonWealth Magazine (Taiwan), vol. 685, 12 Nov 2019.
  3. "History of Topics 2010". Nihon Ki-in. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  4. "Joanne Missingham Stands up for Gender Equality in Go". American Go Association. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  5. Moskowitz, Marc. Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China. University of California Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0520276314.
  6. "黑嘉嘉" (in Chinese). Seed Music. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
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