(1999-06-02) 2 June 1999 (age 24) Yancheng, Jiangsu, China[1]
Title
Grandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating
2755 (April 2024)
Peak rating
2755 (February 2024)
Ranking
No. 10 (April 2024)
Peak ranking
No. 9 (February 2024)
Medal record
Men's chess
Representing China
Asian Games
2022 Hangzhou
Men's individual
Wei Yi
Traditional Chinese
韋奕
Simplified Chinese
韦奕
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wéi Yì
IPA
[wéɪ ì]
Wei Yi (born 2 June 1999) is a Chinese chess grandmaster.
Wei became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days, the 9th youngest in history.[2][3] He is the youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700, accomplishing this feat at age 15.[4][5] Wei represents the Jiangsu club in the China Chess League and is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion as well as the 2018 Asian Chess Champion.[6] He won the Tata Steel Masters in 2024.[7]
^"Yancheng player wins championship at Corus Chess Tournament". Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
^"Wei Yi has become the youngest GM in the world". ChessBase. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
^"Certificate of Title Result (Reykjavik 2013)" (PDF). FIDE. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
^"March 2015 ratings: After 26 years, Yifan no.1". ChessBase. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
^"Wei Yi Wins in Danzhou, Climbs to World #14". 18 July 2017.
^Chinese Chess League: Wei Yi OlimpBase
^"Wei Yi wins 2024 Tata Steel Masters". FIDE. 28 January 2024. Archived from the original on 29 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
WeiYi (born 2 June 1999) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. Wei became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days, the 9th youngest in history...
competition's "Chess on Tour" event. The Masters section was won by China's WeiYi, who defeated India's Gukesh D by a score of 1.5–0.5 in the finals of a...
Sima Yi became the primary authority in Wei, although in 251 he faced some opposition from Wang Ling's rebellion, with which he swiftly dealt. Sima Yi died...
rating of 2726. This made him the third youngest player to pass 2700, after WeiYi and Alireza Firouzja. In October 2022, Gukesh became the youngest player...
regents for the third Cao Wei emperor, Cao Fang, with state authority gradually falling into the hands of Sima Yi, another Cao Wei regent, and his family...
MGourty, Colin (2015-12-01). "WeiYi is King of China". chess24. Retrieved 7 April 2016. Fischer, Johannes (2015-12-01). "WeiYi wins brilliancy". ChessBase...
Dronacharya Award on grandmaster and coach RB Ramesh. Jan 28 – Grandmaster WeiYi wins the 2024 Tata Steel Masters after beating grandmaster Gukesh D in the...
Achievers - Abhimanyu Mishra". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2023-07-02. WeiYi has become the youngest GM in the world Archived 28 February 2013 at the...
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which he scored 5½/7 on board 4 and a notable draw against grandmaster WeiYi, who was at that time the youngest supergrandmaster in the world. Firouzja...
in the late Eastern Han dynasty, Wei Yan rose through the ranks and became a general when Liu Bei seized control of Yi Province (covering present-day Sichuan...
supervision. Ma Su as Wei Yan Lady Wei of Wei (魏士) → Madame Wei of Qin(魏夫人) A Lady from the State of Wei, sister of Wei Zhang and aunt of WeiYi. Ambitious, sinister...
script), and the later Yi syllabary. The script is historically known in Chinese as Cuan Wen (Chinese: 爨文; pinyin: Cuàn wén) or Wei Shu (simplified Chinese:...
"(WGM) TITLE APPLICATION" (PDF). FIDE. 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2018-11-30. "WeiYi and Lei Tingjie are 2017 Chinese Chess Champions". Chessdom. 2017-05-04...
record previously held by Carlsen. This record has since been broken by WeiYi and John M. Burke. In early 2013, So passed 2700 and in January 2017 he...
from a fellow Shu general Zhang Yi, Jiang Wei went ahead with another campaign against Wei and even brought along Zhang Yi as his deputy. As the massive...
conflict between the Shu general Wei Yan and Zhuge Liang's chief clerk Yang Yi. After Zhuge Liang's death in 234, Fei Yi served as a deputy to the new regent...
Nepomniachtchi participated in the Chess World Cup 2013. He was defeated by WeiYi in the first round. In October 2013, he tied for first with Peter Svidler...
in 2019. He played in the chess World Cup 2019, where he was defeated by WeiYi in the first round. Ang, Bobby (January 20, 2020). "Chess Piece". Business...
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