Wei, YiAge 25


Source: chess-news.ru

Title
Grandmaster
Live Rating
2758.0
Live Rank
#7
FIDE Rating
2758
World Rank
#8
China Rank
#1
FIDE Peak Rating
2763 - Oct 2024 (Age 25)
FIDE Peak Rank
#7 (2760) - Mar 2025 (Age 25)
Rapid
2746 World #7, Peak 2782 (Sep 2024)
Blitz
2711 World #22, Peak 2755 (May 2024)
Born
2 Jun 1999
Yancheng, Jiangsu, China
FIDE ID 8603405
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Active Years:
2009 - 2025
Total Games:
1433
Wins:
583 (41%)
Losses:
214 (15%)
Draws:
636 (44%)
Total score:
63%
Performance :
Performance for the last active 12 months:
2736
White:
C54 Italian Game (36 games)
C42 Russian Game (31 games)
B90 Sicilian Defense (29 games)
Black:
D85 Grünfeld Defense (29 games)
C42 Russian Game (27 games)
D41 Queen's Gambit Declined (26 games)

In terms of talent and preparation, Wei Yi belongs to the rare group of players capable of becoming a world champion. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond his control, chess never became the main focus of his life, despite his bold declaration at 17 that he wanted to become a chess king.

Wei Yi was born on June 2, 1999 in Jiangsu Province. He learned to play chess at the age of 6 and by just three years later he won the World Championship for players under 11 with a score of 8.5/9. The Chinese prodigy consistently triumphed in all categories, often outpacing opponents much older than him, until at 13, he secured 11th place in the World Championship for players under 20. He earned his first Grandmaster norm at that tournament and by the age of 13 years, 8 months, and 23 days, he had achieved the Grandmaster title.

Wei Yi continued to break records regularly, claiming the title of "youngest" in various categories. In 2013, he reached the 3rd round of the World Cup, defeating Nepomniachtchi and Shirov and became the fastest in history to achieve a rating of 2600, surpassing Wesley So. In 2014 he became an Olympic champion as part of the Chinese team and the following year he won the national championship in a tournament featuring all the top players (he would win the Chinese championship two more times). But the main achievement of 2015 was breaking the 2700 barrier, surpassing Carlsen's previous record and advancing to the quarterfinals of the World Cup, where the 15-year-old lost to Peter Svidler, one of the finalists, in the rapid tiebreaker.

In 2016 Wei Yi reached the final tournament of the year in Bilbao, competing against five other top-10 players and finished in 3rd place. At that time the future world champion Ding Liren remarked: "I am merely a small stream or a small hill in his path, surpassing me and everyone else is just a matter of time for him!"

In the next two years, Wei Yi continued to win: in the Chinese championships, Danzhou Super GM (6.5/9) and Asian Championship (6.5/9). However in 2018, when all doors in chess seemed open to him, he became a student at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and immersed himself in his studies. His last major success for nearly five years was at the 2019 FIDE Grand Prix in Jerusalem, where he reached the final but lost to Nepomniachtchi.

Wei Yi chose to focus on his studies at a timely moment – starting in 2020, China was hit by an epidemic, leaving its chess players completely deprived of practice. Over three years he played only twice in national championships and in 2023 he became Ding Liren's second in the World Championship match.

His first tournament after the long break was Wijk aan Zee 2024 – an immediate triumph with a powerful finish (4.5/5) and victory in the tie-breaks. Soon afterwards, Wei Yi dominated the Grand Chess Tour in Warsaw in rapid & blitz with only a remarkable finishing surge by Carlsen preventing him from winning. But after that everyone understood: the story of Wei Yi is far from over. He is back and he ready to Getty victories!

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Games

#White PlayerRatingBlack PlayerRatingResultMovesSiteDate 
1
Le, Quang Liem
2739
Wei, Yi
27551/2-1/256Prague7 Mar 2025board
2
Wei, Yi
2755
Nguyen, Thai Dai Van
26681-076Prague6 Mar 2025board
3
Praggnanandhaa, Rameshbabu
2741
Wei, Yi
27551/2-1/261Prague5 Mar 2025board
4
Wei, Yi
2755
Gurel, Ediz
26241/2-1/256Prague4 Mar 2025board
5
Shankland, Samuel L
2670
Wei, Yi
27550-127Prague2 Mar 2025board
6
Wei, Yi
2755
Navara, David
26771-031Prague1 Mar 2025board
7
Aravindh, Chithambaram VR
2729
Wei, Yi
27551-044Prague28 Feb 2025board
8
Wei, Yi
2755
Giri, Anish
27281/2-1/245Prague27 Feb 2025board
9
Keymer, Vincent
2731
Wei, Yi
27551-055Prague26 Feb 2025board
10
Wei, Yi
2762
Dragnev, Valentin
25561-035Germany23 Feb 2025board
11
Dudin, Gleb
2545
Wei, Yi
27620-125Germany22 Feb 2025board
12
Fedoseev, Vladimir1
2717
Wei, Yi
27511/2-1/266Wijk aan Zee2 Feb 2025board
13
Wei, Yi
2751
Giri, Anish
27311/2-1/238Wijk aan Zee1 Feb 2025board
14
Gukesh, Dommaraju
2777
Wei, Yi
27511/2-1/230Wijk aan Zee31 Jan 2025board
15
Wei, Yi
2751
Van Foreest, Jorden
26801/2-1/223Wijk aan Zee29 Jan 2025board
16
Wei, Yi
2751
Erigaisi, Arjun Kumar
28011/2-1/232Wijk aan Zee28 Jan 2025board
17
Warmerdam, Max
2646
Wei, Yi
27510-163Wijk aan Zee26 Jan 2025board
18
Wei, Yi
2751
Mendonca, Leon Luke
26391/2-1/240Wijk aan Zee25 Jan 2025board
19
Praggnanandhaa R
2741
Wei, Yi
27511/2-1/258Wijk aan Zee24 Jan 2025board
20
Wei, Yi
2751
Harikrishna, Pentala
26951/2-1/222Wijk aan Zee22 Jan 2025board
21
Abdusattorov, Nodirbek
2768
Wei, Yi
27511/2-1/241Wijk aan Zee21 Jan 2025board
22
Wei, Yi
2751
Keymer, Vincent
27331/2-1/227Wijk aan Zee20 Jan 2025board
23
Sarana, Alexey
2677
Wei, Yi
27511/2-1/254Wijk aan Zee19 Jan 2025board
24
Wei, Yi
2751
Caruana, Fabiano
28031/2-1/231Wijk aan Zee18 Jan 2025board
25
Carlsen, Magnus
2832
Wei, Yi
27621/2-1/236Germany12 Jan 2025board
26
Wei, Yi
2762
Ivic, Velimir
25991-067Germany11 Jan 2025board
27
Oparin, Grigoriy
2653
Wei, Yi
27531-047New York30 Dec 2024board
28
Wei, Yi
2753
Bok, Benjamin
25930-142New York30 Dec 2024board
29
Firouzja, Alireza
2763
Wei, Yi
27531-041New York30 Dec 2024board
30
Wei, Yi
2753
Gelfand, Boris
26571-072New York30 Dec 2024board
31
Sindarov, Javokhir
2682
Wei, Yi
27530-153New York30 Dec 2024board
32
Wei, Yi
2753
Cheparinov, Ivan
26461-034New York30 Dec 2024board
33
Pranav, V.
2621
Wei, Yi
27531-048New York30 Dec 2024board
34
Wei, Yi
2753
Bortnyk, Mykola
24001/2-1/261New York30 Dec 2024board
35
Erigaisi, Arjun Kumar
2801
Wei, Yi
27531-041New York30 Dec 2024board
36
Wei, Yi
2753
Lodici, Lorenzo
25641-028New York30 Dec 2024board
37
Zemlyanskii, Ivan
2543
Wei, Yi
27530-134New York30 Dec 2024board
38
Wei, Yi
2753
Christiansen, Johan Sebastian
26611-033New York30 Dec 2024board
39
Svane, Frederik
2668
Wei, Yi
27530-137New York30 Dec 2024board
40
Wei, Yi
2760
Jacobson, Brandon
24591-049New York28 Dec 2024board
41
Bok, Benjamin
2596
Wei, Yi
27600-132New York28 Dec 2024board
42
Wei, Yi
2760
Grigoryan, Karen H
26220-176New York28 Dec 2024board
43
Deac, Bogdan Daniel
2635
Wei, Yi
27601/2-1/240New York28 Dec 2024board
44
Wei, Yi
2760
Paravyan, David
25621-056New York27 Dec 2024board
45
Le Tuan, Minh
2492
Wei, Yi
27600-132New York27 Dec 2024board
46
Wei, Yi
2760
Bologan, Viktor
25401-054New York27 Dec 2024board
47
Theodorou, Nikolas
2535
Wei, Yi
27601-059New York27 Dec 2024board
48
Wei, Yi
2760
Nesterov, Arseniy
25391/2-1/271New York26 Dec 2024board
49
Tari, Aryan
2559
Wei, Yi
27601/2-1/228New York26 Dec 2024board
50
Wei, Yi
2760
Fressinet, Laurent
25981/2-1/267New York26 Dec 2024board