劉禹欣

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Lau Yu Yan (recorded as Liu Yuxin in the official Asian Games entry lists) is a Hong Kong women's Go player holding the professional 2-dan rank, one of the few women in the city to have reached professional status; she is listed among Hong Kong's professional players alongside Kan Ying, who is also a 2-dan. Born on 15 June 1978 and standing about 1.55 metres, she was selected for the Hong Kong, China women's team at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in 2023 and played on board two, behind Kan Ying and ahead of the 5-dan players Li Lok Yee and Yeung Sin-kei (the substitute). The women's team event was held at the Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall and began with a five-round round-robin preliminary in which Hong Kong faced China, South Korea, Japan, Chinese Taipei and Thailand; Hong Kong reached the knockout stage, where they met Japan, and finished fourth, just outside the medals. Go first became an official Asian Games sport at Guangzhou in 2010, and at Hangzhou in 2023 the programme again featured individual, men's team and women's team events; besides the women's team, Hong Kong also fielded a men's team, which placed fifth in the preliminaries. As a professional player, Lau has long taken part in Hong Kong and regional Go competitions and has represented Hong Kong internationally on a number of occasions, though verifiable public information on her background and full record remains limited.