Number of games in database:
195
Years covered:
2009 to 2015
Last FIDE rating:
2649(2600 rapid, 2575 blitz)
Overall record:
+80 -35 =78 (61.7%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
2 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.
韦奕 WEI YI
(born Jun-02-1999, 15 years old) China
FM (2010); IM (2012); GM (2013); Asian U12 Champion (2010); World U12 Champion (2010).
Background
Born in
Jiangsu province, Wei Yi is the world's youngest GM, displacing
Suri Vaibhav who was the youngest until Wei Yi won his title. At 13 years 8 months and 23 days
(1), he became the fourth youngest GM ever after
Sergey Karjakin,
Parimarjan Negi and
Magnus Carlsen, the latter of whom is his favorite player "because he is so strong!"
(2). He is also the only GM born after 1998 and one of only four born after 1997 (the others being
Jan-Krzysztof Duda,
Vladislav Artemiev and
Kayden W Troff). Furthermore, he is the only GM in the world who is under 16 years old and the youngest to reach 2600.
Wei gained his FM title by winning the World U12 Championship in 2010. He won his IM norms at the Aeroflot Open 2012 B, and at the
Asian Continental Chess Championship (2012) (a 20-game norm), becoming an IM a few weeks before his 13th birthday. His GM norms came at the
World Junior Championship (2012), the
2nd Indonesia Open Chess Championship (2012) and at the
Reykjavik Open (2013).
More:
The chess games of Wei Yi
