Wei, Yi Age 25

Source: chess-news.ru

Title
Grandmaster
Live Rating
2766.1
Live Rank
#8
FIDE Rating
2762
World Rank
#8
China Rank
#1
FIDE Peak Rating
2762 - Aug 2024 (Age 25)
FIDE Peak Rank
#8 (2762) - Aug 2024 (Age 25)
Rapid
2782 World #2, Peak 2782 (Sep 2024)
Blitz
2719 World #18, Peak 2755 (May 2024)
Born
2 Jun 1999
Yancheng, Jiangsu, China
FIDE ID 8603405
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Active Years:
2009 - 2024
Total Games:
1349
Wins:
550 (41%)
Losses:
195 (14%)
Draws:
604 (45%)
Total score:
64%
Performance :
Performance for the last active 12 months:
2789
White:
C54 Italian Game (29 games)
C42 Russian Game (29 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 
51Giri, Anish2745Wei, Yi27550-165Warsaw11 May 2024
52Wei, Yi2755Carlsen, Magnus28301/2-1/265Warsaw11 May 2024
53Duda, Jan Krzysztof2734Wei, Yi27550-144Warsaw11 May 2024
54Wei, Yi2755Keymer, Vincent27261-030Warsaw11 May 2024
55Wei, Yi2755Gukesh, Dommaraju27640-150Warsaw11 May 2024
56Wei, Yi2755Praggnanandhaa, Rameshbabu27471/2-1/242Warsaw10 May 2024
57Gukesh, Dommaraju2764Wei, Yi27550-130Warsaw10 May 2024
58Wei, Yi2755Abdusattorov, Nodirbek27661-052Warsaw10 May 2024
59Shevchenko, Kirill2677Wei, Yi27550-175Warsaw9 May 2024
60Wei, Yi2755Duda, Jan Krzysztof27341-028Warsaw9 May 2024
61Giri, Anish2745Wei, Yi27550-144Warsaw9 May 2024
62Erigaisi, Arjun Kumar2762Wei, Yi27551/2-1/247Warsaw8 May 2024
63Wei, Yi2755Carlsen, Magnus28300-142Warsaw8 May 2024
64Keymer, Vincent2726Wei, Yi27551/2-1/2130Warsaw8 May 2024
65Wei, Yi2740Gukesh, Dommaraju27251-059Wijk aan Zee28 Jan 2024
66Gukesh, Dommaraju2725Wei, Yi27401/2-1/247Wijk aan Zee28 Jan 2024
67Wei, Yi2740Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi27421-038Wijk aan Zee28 Jan 2024
68Abdusattorov, Nodirbek2727Wei, Yi27400-144Wijk aan Zee28 Jan 2024
69Wei, Yi2740Abdusattorov, Nodirbek27271/2-1/259Wijk aan Zee28 Jan 2024
70Ju, Wenjun2549Wei, Yi27400-139Wijk aan Zee27 Jan 2024
71Wei, Yi2740Warmerdam, Max26251-027Wijk aan Zee26 Jan 2024
72Van Foreest, Jorden2682Wei, Yi27401/2-1/236Wijk aan Zee24 Jan 2024
73Wei, Yi2740Nepomniachtchi, Ian27691-041Wijk aan Zee23 Jan 2024
74Giri, Anish2749Wei, Yi27401/2-1/233Wijk aan Zee21 Jan 2024
75Wei, Yi2740Ding, Liren27801/2-1/232Wijk aan Zee20 Jan 2024
76Firouzja, Alireza2759Wei, Yi27401-046Wijk aan Zee19 Jan 2024
77Abdusattorov, Nodirbek2727Wei, Yi27401/2-1/263Wijk aan Zee18 Jan 2024
78Wei, Yi2740Maghsoodloo, Parham27401-069Wijk aan Zee16 Jan 2024
79Praggnanandhaa, Rameshbabu2743Wei, Yi27401/2-1/244Wijk aan Zee15 Jan 2024
80Wei, Yi2740Gukesh, Dommaraju27250-133Wijk aan Zee14 Jan 2024
81Donchenko, Alexander2643Wei, Yi27400-138Wijk aan Zee13 Jan 2024
82Ding, Liren2780Wei, Yi27400-148Chengdu7 Jan 2024
83Wei, Yi2740Ding, Liren27801-027Chengdu7 Jan 2024
84Ding, Liren2780Wei, Yi27401/2-1/223Chengdu7 Jan 2024
85Wei, Yi2740Ding, Liren27801/2-1/225Chengdu7 Jan 2024
86Yu, Yangyi2720Wei, Yi27401/2-1/221Chengdu7 Jan 2024
87Wei, Yi2740Yu, Yangyi27200-151Chengdu7 Jan 2024
88Wei, Yi2740Xue, Haowen24521-040Chengdu6 Jan 2024
89Xue, Haowen2452Wei, Yi27400-139Chengdu6 Jan 2024
90Wei, Yi2729Orozbaev, Eldiar23051-054Qingdao18 Dec 2023
91Wang, Tongsen2395Wei, Yi27290-141Qingdao18 Dec 2023
92Tulendinov, Dinmukhammed2303Wei, Yi27290-138Qingdao18 Dec 2023
93Wei, Yi2729Batchuluun, Tsegmed24581-045Qingdao18 Dec 2023
94Thapa, Krishna1944Wei, Yi27290-143Qingdao17 Dec 2023
95Wei, Yi2729Dubov, Daniil27101/2-1/237Qingdao17 Dec 2023
96Wei, Yi2729Mousavi, Seyed Khalil25011-022Qingdao17 Dec 2023
97Wei, Yi2729Gong, Sunle21751-039Qingdao17 Dec 2023
98Khusenkhojaev, Muhammad2366Wei, Yi27290-152Qingdao17 Dec 2023
99Peng, Xiongjian2525Wei, Yi27290-131Nanjing5 Dec 2023
100Wei, Yi2729Wan, Yunguo25081-029Nanjing4 Dec 2023
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