Wang Yue
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Wang Yue is a Chinese
chess
Grandmaster. He is China's highest-ever rated player with a peak Elo rating of 2751. In 2004, he became China's 18th Grandmaster at the age of 17.
In October 2007, Wang became the first Chinese player and third Asian player to cross the 2700 Elo rating mark. In October 2008, he became the World No. 11, the highest ranking a Chinese player has ever achieved, surpassing the previous record of 17th by Ye Jiangchuan
set in 2000. He has since surpassed this with a current world ranking of 9 in the January 2010 FIDE rankings, becoming the first Chinese world top-ten player.
Wang is currently ranked 4th in Asia and 2nd in China. In the FIDE Grand Prix, he was a last round victory over Teimour Radjabov
away from joining Levon Aronian
as an automatic qualifier for the Candidates Tournament
of the World Chess Championship 2012 cycle; however, Radjabov secured a draw which allowed him to win the final qualifying position.
Wang Yue was to play on 1st Board at the World Team Chess Championship
in January 2010, until China dropped out of the event at the last minute.
, Shanxi Province, where he learned to play chess
at the age of four. He would during summer every day after dinner watch people play Xiangqi
in the streets. When he was 5, with the support of his parents he started to receive chess training at school and made rapid progress. When he was 9 he joined the National Junior Team and won the Li Chengzhi (李成智) National Children's Cup. At 12, he joined the National Team and at 15 he joined Tianjin City Club.
He is currently a Communication Studies
student at the College of Liberal Arts
of Nankai University
in Tianjin
. He also plays for his university club chess team.
Since 2004, he has been a member of China's Olympiad chess team, which also includes Ni Hua
, Bu Xiangzhi
, Wang Hao
and Li Chao
.
In 2005, he became the youngest National men's Champion
of China. Also, in 2005 he won both the National Youth Championship and the National Collegiate Championship.
Wang has participated in several national team summit matches
, including against the United States (2002), Russia (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), France (2006) and the UK (2007).
In February 2007 he won the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande open
above 93 Grandmasters and 80 International masters (608 players), achieving his goal of crossing 2700 Elo (China's first). He is currently ranked 15 on the FIDE September 2009 list, and has a Live ranking of 14.
From March to December 2008, Wang Yue went 85 consecutive games without a loss, one of the longest streaks on record. His unbeaten run began in the second round of the Reykjavík Open and ended during round 1 of the third FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009 tournament. (See List of tournaments and List of world records in chess.)
In 1999, Wang won the under-12 category of the World Youth Chess Championship
in Oropesa del Mar
, Spain.
In 2000, he came second in the U-14 category World Youth Ch, which was also held in Oropesa del Mar, to Alexander Areshchenko
. That year, in Artek, Ukraine, and again in 2002 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he competed for the China national chess team at the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiads. In 2000, the team came 9th, with Wang scoring 6.0/9 (+4 −1 =4) with a 2430 performance. The 2002 team won gold and he also achieved on first board an individual gold medal for his stunning result of 8.5/10 (+7 −0 =3) with a 2657 performance. He was supported by teammate Zhao Jun
who had an 80% score on board 2.
In July–August 2002, at the Second China–USA Match in Shanghai
, Wang scored 2.5/4 (+1 −0 =3) with a performance of 2526. He played Hikaru Nakamura
once in the last round which was a draw, and all the other first three games were against Vinay Bhat
. China won 20½–19½ overall.
In April 2004, Wang scored the highest with 9.0/11 at the Chinese Men's Team Championships in Jinan
, and in December 2005, he became the National Chess Champion
of China with a score of 12.5/18 in Beijing
. In August of that year, at the 2nd China–Russia Match in Moscow, Wang scored 3.0/6 (+1 −1 =4) with a 2670 performance. China won the match 37.5–34.5. Continuing, from October 14–31, when Wang became a FIDE master, he competed in his debut Olympiad
in Calvià
, Majorca scoring 8.0/12 (+5 −1 =6) on the first reserve board with a 2621 performance. The team finished in 24th place and Wang finished on 16th in the individual board standings. At this event he achieved his last GM norm and became China's then youngest grandmaster. December 18–23 saw him at the Tigran Petrosian
Memorial Internet Tournament, with games starting at 12:00 noon in Paris, 14:00 in St. Petersburg. 15:00 in Yerevan and 19:00 in Beijing. Each country faced each of the other three countries two times for a total of six rounds. Fischer time control will be used (1 hour 30 minutes plus 15 minutes added at move 40; 30 second increments are added after every move). The event took place on ICC
. China won the Tigran Petrosian Memorial Internet Tournament. Their final round match against Russia came down to the wire. The Russians led 2–1 but Wang Yue beat Vadim Zvjaginsev
to tie the match and win the event for the Chinese. Final Scores: China 14.0–France 13.0–Russia 13.0–Armenia 8.0. China players: (average rating: 2590) GM Bu Xiangzhi
2615 GM Ni Hua
2611 GM Zhang Zhong
2596 GM Wang Yue 2536
In February 2005, he scored 5.5/9 at the Aeroflot Open
. In April, he scored 6.0/9 at the Dubai Open. It was won by 16 year old Wang Hao
. In July, he came third on tiebreak with 6.5/11 (+3 −1 =7) at the 2nd Sanjin International Hotel GM Cup in his hometown Taiyuan
. Pendyala Harikrishna
won with 8.5/11 a point clear of Alexander Motylev
. In October, he also came third with 6.5/9 at the 5th Asian Individual Championship
in Hyderabad, India. In November, he came fifth with 8.5/13 at the World Junior Chess Championship
in Istanbul
, and reached the second round of the FIDE World Cup
having beaten and lost to Karen Asrian
and Ilia Smirin, respectively.
. In June at the 37th Chess Olympiad
in Turin
, the national team, seeded 12, came second winning silver. Wang, on board four, went undefeated scoring 10.0/12 points (8 wins and 4 draws) and received an individual gold medal for this board four result, as well as an individual silver medal for his rating performance of 2837 (the second highest of all players after Vladimir Kramnik
of Russia).
On July 10–22 at the Taiyuan
Scheveningen Event, the Chinese team won 36.5–35.5 against the foreign side with Wang scoring 6.5/12. From 28 July to 7 August, at the 4th Marx György Memorial (Category 15 av 2622 of July'06 ratings) in Paks
, Hungary, Wang scored 5.0/10 (+1 −1 =8) and came joint third with Zoltán Almási
. The tournament was won by Pendyala Harikrishna
. From 10–20 August, at the 3rd Russia–China match in Erguna, Wang scored 5½/10 (+3 −2 =5) with a 2711 performance. China won the match 51½–48½.
On September 4–9 at the Trophée MULTICOMS China–France Match, he scored 4.0/6 with a performance rating of 2712, the highest in the competition. On 7 September, at the 7th Lausanne
Young Masters, he came second after having lost to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
in the final rapidplay playoff. In October, he came sixth with 8.5/13 at the World Junior Championship in Yerevan
.
At the Asian Games
in Doha
in December, the national team won silver with Wang on board two scoring 6.0/9 points (+4 −1 =4) with a 2647 performance.
in Moscow. In March, he won both the Calvi Open (6.0/7) in France and the Cappelle la Grande tournament – which hosted 87 GMs, 81 IMs and 465 FIDE rated players – on tie-break, ahead of five other players with 7.0/9 points and a performance rating of 2784.
In April, he won the Philippines International Open Chess Championship in Subic Bay Freeport Zone
with 7.0/9 points. In July 2007, he came second with 5.0/8 at the 4th Sanjin Hotel Cup in Taiyuan. In July at the 4th Taiyuan
Scheveningen Event, the Chinese team lost 17–15 against the foreign side; Vadim Zvjaginsev finished 5.5/8 to top the score in the event, Wang Yue made 5.0/8 to top the score for the Chinese team. In 18–31 August at the 4th China–Russia Match in Nizhniy Novgorod, Wang scored 5.5/10 (+2 −1 =7) with a 2714 performance. China won the match overall 52.5–47.5. In 3–9 September at the UK–China Match in Liverpool
, Wang scored 4.0/6 (+2 −0 =4) with a 2722 performance. China won the match 28–20.
At the FIDE World Cup
in Khanty-Mansiysk
, in November, Wang defeated Aleksei Pridorozhni (1.5–0.5), Sergei Tiviakov
(2.5–1.5) and his compatriot Bu Xiangzhi
(1.5–0.5), only to be eliminated by Ivan Cheparinov
(0.5–1.5) in the fourth round. In December, Wang came second on tiebreak at the Category 17 XVII Ciudad de Pamplona
(Magistral A) tournament in Spain having scored 4.0/7 (TPR 2695). It was won by Francisco Vallejo Pons
.
In January, at the 15th Asian Team Chess Championship in Visakhapatnam
, the national team won gold with Wang scoring on board one 4.5/7 points (+3 −1 =3) with a 2534 performance. In February, he scored 7.0/10 (+4 −0 =6) at the Gibraltar Chess Festival
Open finishing 20th with a 2653 performance. In March, Wang finished shared first at the Reykjavík
Open, together with compatriot Wang Hao
(who won on tiebreak) and Hannes Stefansson
.
In his super-tournament debut in April–May 2008 at the 1st FIDE Grand Prix in Baku
, he came joint first place with Vugar Gashimov
and Magnus Carlsen
, scoring 8.0/13 (+3 −0 =10) with a performance rating of 2806. Wang called it a "nightmare start" when his planned flight departure from Beijing on the 18th was delayed because of bad weather and did not arrive in Azerbaijan until the early morning of the 21st, thereby missing the opening ceremony as well as having to face the top seed (Magnus Carlsen
) with black later on the same day.
In July–August 2008, at the 2nd FIDE Grand Prix in Sochi
, he came joint third with Gata Kamsky
with 7.5/13 (+2 −0 =11; elo performance 2765) behind winner Levon Aronian
and second placed Teimour Radjabov
. He was featured on the cover of New in Chess
magazine's July 2008 issue. On August 20–30, 2008 in Amsterdam
, Wang won the NH Chess Tournament—"Rising Stars" (Wang, Cheparinov
, Caruana
, L'Ami
, Stellwagen
) vs. "Experience" (Agdestein
, Bareev
, Ljubojevic
, Korchnoi
, Jussupow
)—with 8.5/10 points (+7 −0 =3; rating performance 2892) remaining undefeated. As the Rising Star winner of the tournament he won an invitation to the March 2009 Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in Nice
, and immediately after having won all of his first six games, he was invited by Jeroen van den Berg to Group A of the January 2009 Corus Chess Tournament
.
In September 2008, he competed at the 5th Russia–China Match in Ningbo
where he scored 3.0/5 (+1 −0 =4) with a performance rating of 2767 for the men's team (with Li Chao
, Wang Hao
, Ni Hua
, Bu Xiangzhi
). China won the match 26–24.
He played at the 1st World Mind Sports Games
in Beijing
, China during October 3–8, 2008. Also that month, in Halkidiki, Greece, he played for Economist SGSEU-1 Saratov at the 24th European Club Cup and scored 3.0/5 (+1 −0 =4).
In November 2008, he played on board one for the Chinese Open team at the 38th Chess Olympiad
in Dresden
, Germany (6.5/10 (+3 −0 =7) and performance rating 2773). The team came 7th overall.
On December 13–29, 2008, at the 3rd FIDE Grand Prix in Elista
, Russia – moved from Dohar, Qatar
– he came joint fifth-ninth with 6.5/12 (+2 −2 =9).
cycle. Wang qualified by being one of the four FIDE president
nominees, along with Peter Svidler
, Ivan Cheparinov
, Étienne Bacrot
.
On 16 January – 1 February, Wang in his debut at the event, became the second Chinese player to compete at the Group A Corus
after Zhang Zhong
in 2004, in Wijk aan Zee
, Netherlands. He came joint 8th with 6.0/13 (+2 −3 =8) and a 2685 performance in the Category 19 (average 2716) event. All of his decisive games were with the white pieces; He lost to Ivanchuk, Adams and Radjabov, and had wins against Morozevich and Carlsen. In Round 2, he blundered early with 9.Na7?? in a what was to be a wild and scrappy game against Ivanchuk in an early deviation of the Queen's Gambit Declined
:
Yue–Ivanchuk 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Bg5 dxc4 5. Qa4+ Nbd7 6. Nc3 a6 7. g3 b5 8. Nxb5 Rb8 9. Na7?? A unexpected blunder. 9... Rb4 White must have missed this move. 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Qa5 Bb7 The knight on a7 is now trapped. 12. Bh3 Qb8 13. Qh5 Ke7?! 13...Rb6 was much safer. 14. d5 Qxa7 14...Bxd5! 15.Qxd5! exd5 16.Nc6+ Kd6 17.Nxb8 Rxb8 leaves Black with a better ending. 15. dxe6 fxe6 16. Bxe6! The black king's cover is broken, and Wang has almost reached equality. 16... Kxe6 17. Qe8+ Be7 18. Qxh8 Nf8 19. Qg8+ Kd7 20. 0-0-0+? This allows the black king to find safety, whereas 20.Qg4+ offered good chances of a perpetual check or 20.Qf7! Qc5 21.Rd1+ Kc6 22.0-0! would have allowed play to go on. 20... Ke8 21. Qg4 Qc5 22. a3 Rxb2! There are no more attacks for White, and Black finishes with a mating net. 23. Kxb2 Qxa3+ 24. Kb1 Qb3+ 25. Ka1 c3 0–1 White resigned.
At the 26th Linares chess tournament
(February 18 – March 8) Wang Yue made his debut at the eight-player event and became the first ever Chinese player to participate. Wang Yue finished with +1 −2 =11 in joint 5th to 7th place on 6½ points with Radjabov and Aronian, 5th on performance rating (2729), and sixth overall on tiebreak. He had his two losses to Grischuk and Anand, and a win over Carlsen.
In 2009, he also participated at the 18th Amber Blindfold & Rapid tournament in Nice
(March 14–26) in his debut event and as a second Chinese player (after Xie Jun
in 1996), 5th M-Tel Masters
in Sofia
(May 12–23) (Topalov, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Wang, Dominguez and Shirov) debut event and second Chinese player after Bu Xiangzhi
in 2008, 22nd León Rapid León
June 4–7, 4 player rapid with Ivanchuk, Morozevich
, Carlsen
; 20m+10s, the Russia v China match and the Maotai Prince Cup China National Chess King & Queen Championships.
In September he won the Chinese Chess King tournament with 5.0/7 points and a 2797 performance.
He made his debut at the 2nd Pearl Spring chess tournament
(category 21) in Nanjing
. He came third out of six players with 4.5/10 (Elo perf=2735); the tournament was won by Magnus Carlsen
.
At the FIDE World Cup
in Khanty-Mansiysk
, in November, Wang was the tenth seed, and defeated Nikolai Kabanov (2–0) and Boris Savchenko (2.5–1.5) before falling to Étienne Bacrot
(1.5–3.5) in the third round playoff. His loss was notable in that both he and countryman Li Chao
were forfeited from their respective playoff games for tardiness, as they were smoking outside the tournament hall and consequently arrived two minutes late for each player's second playoff game, warranting an automatic forfeiture by the FIDE regulations.
, but failed to qualify for the Candidates Tournament
for the World Chess Championship 2012.
chess club
in the China Chess League
(CCL).
Rating (World Ranking) progress table
handle is yueyue, listed as one of the 30 best ever blitz
players on the system.
was quoted in an interview saying, "[Wang Yue] does not allow his opponents to develop counterplay and he exerts "strangulation" style very effectively." Wang has said his childhood idol was José Raúl Capablanca
, and once stated that Kramnik
has had an influence on his style of play, having been impressed as a 13 year old boy with Kramnik's victory over Kasparov
in the London 2000 WCC match
. Wang has been given the nickname "Panda" by chess columnist Mig Greengard
.
against d4.
2700+ opponent, the former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov
.
Wang Yue (2549) vs Ruslan Ponomariov (2700) [A40] Modern Defense
; Aeroflot Open
2005, Round 6; 2005-02-20, Moscow, Russia:
1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. e4 c5 4. d5 d6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Ne7 7. h3 0-0 8. Bd3 Nd7 9. Bg5 h6 10. Be3 exd5 11. exd5 f5 12. Qc2 Nf6 13. 0-0 g5 14. Rae1 Kh8 15. Bd2 Bd7 16. b3 Nh5 17. a4 Ng6 18. Nb5 Bc8 19. Bc3 a6 20. Bxg7+ Kxg7 21. Nc3 Nhf4 22. Ne2 Qf6 23. Nxf4 Nxf4 24. Re3 Bd7 25. Rfe1 Rf7 26. Bf1 g4 27. hxg4 fxg4 28. Nd2 Raf8 29. Ne4 Qg6 30. b4 Bf5 31. bxc5 Bxe4 32. Qxe4 dxc5 33. g3 Qxe4 34. Rxe4 Ng6 35. Rxg4 h5 36. Rg5 Rf5 37. Rxg6+ Kxg6 38. Bd3 Kg5 39. f4+ Kg4 40. Kg2 R5f7 (see diagram) 41. Rh1 1–0 (41.Re5 is stronger as it leads to 41...Rxf4 42.Be2+ Rf3 43.Bxf3+ Rxf3 44.Re4+ Kf5 45.Kxf3)
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chess
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Grandmaster. He is China's highest-ever rated player with a peak Elo rating of 2751. In 2004, he became China's 18th Grandmaster at the age of 17.
In October 2007, Wang became the first Chinese player and third Asian player to cross the 2700 Elo rating mark. In October 2008, he became the World No. 11, the highest ranking a Chinese player has ever achieved, surpassing the previous record of 17th by Ye Jiangchuan
Ye Jiangchuan
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set in 2000. He has since surpassed this with a current world ranking of 9 in the January 2010 FIDE rankings, becoming the first Chinese world top-ten player.
Wang is currently ranked 4th in Asia and 2nd in China. In the FIDE Grand Prix, he was a last round victory over Teimour Radjabov
Teimour Radjabov
Radjabov's knight sacrifice, 21. ... Ngxe5, was praised by several strong players for its bravery, including English grandmaster Nigel Short. Said Short of the move, "Radjabov plays very imaginatively... he just won't give up, he is extremely tenacious and will always find a way to muddy the...
away from joining Levon Aronian
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as an automatic qualifier for the Candidates Tournament
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of the World Chess Championship 2012 cycle; however, Radjabov secured a draw which allowed him to win the final qualifying position.
Wang Yue was to play on 1st Board at the World Team Chess Championship
World Team Chess Championship
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in January 2010, until China dropped out of the event at the last minute.
Career biography
Wang Yue was born in TaiyuanTaiyuan
Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi province in North China. At the 2010 census, it had a total population of 4,201,591 inhabitants on 6959 km² whom 3,212,500 are urban on 1,460 km². The name of the city literally means "Great Plains", referring to the location where the Fen River...
, Shanxi Province, where he learned to play chess
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at the age of four. He would during summer every day after dinner watch people play Xiangqi
Xiangqi
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in the streets. When he was 5, with the support of his parents he started to receive chess training at school and made rapid progress. When he was 9 he joined the National Junior Team and won the Li Chengzhi (李成智) National Children's Cup. At 12, he joined the National Team and at 15 he joined Tianjin City Club.
He is currently a Communication Studies
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student at the College of Liberal Arts
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of Nankai University
Nankai University
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in Tianjin
Tianjin
' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...
. He also plays for his university club chess team.
Since 2004, he has been a member of China's Olympiad chess team, which also includes Ni Hua
Ni Hua
Ni Hua is one of China's top chess grandmasters and is the national team captain. In 2003, he became China's 15th Grandmaster at the age of 19. On April 2008, Ni Hua and Bu Xiangzhi both became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue...
, Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi
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, Wang Hao
Wang Hao (chess player)
Wang Hao is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In November 2009, Wang Hao became the fourth ever Chinese player to cross the 2700 Elo rating mark. He is the reigning Chinese Chess Champion, with a ranking of No. 1 in China, No. 2 in Asia behind Viswanathan Anand and No. 19 in the world...
and Li Chao
Li Chao (chess player)
Li Chao is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2007, he became China's 23rd Grandmaster at the age of 18. As of April 2009, he is the sixth highest rated junior player and is China's fifth highest rated player...
.
In 2005, he became the youngest National men's Champion
Chinese Chess Championship
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of China. Also, in 2005 he won both the National Youth Championship and the National Collegiate Championship.
Wang has participated in several national team summit matches
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, including against the United States (2002), Russia (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), France (2006) and the UK (2007).
In February 2007 he won the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande open
Cappelle-la-Grande Open
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above 93 Grandmasters and 80 International masters (608 players), achieving his goal of crossing 2700 Elo (China's first). He is currently ranked 15 on the FIDE September 2009 list, and has a Live ranking of 14.
From March to December 2008, Wang Yue went 85 consecutive games without a loss, one of the longest streaks on record. His unbeaten run began in the second round of the Reykjavík Open and ended during round 1 of the third FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009 tournament. (See List of tournaments and List of world records in chess.)
1999–2006: Junior player
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in Oropesa del Mar
Oropesa del Mar
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, Spain.
In 2000, he came second in the U-14 category World Youth Ch, which was also held in Oropesa del Mar, to Alexander Areshchenko
Alexander Areshchenko
Alexander Areshchenko is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster and won the Ukrainian Champion in 2005. In 1999, he won the U-14 World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar, Spain ahead of future super-grandmaster Wang Yue. In 2007 he tied for 2nd-4th with Hikaru Nakamura and Emil Sutovsky in the 5th...
. That year, in Artek, Ukraine, and again in 2002 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he competed for the China national chess team at the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiads. In 2000, the team came 9th, with Wang scoring 6.0/9 (+4 −1 =4) with a 2430 performance. The 2002 team won gold and he also achieved on first board an individual gold medal for his stunning result of 8.5/10 (+7 −0 =3) with a 2657 performance. He was supported by teammate Zhao Jun
Zhao Jun
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who had an 80% score on board 2.
In July–August 2002, at the Second China–USA Match in Shanghai
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, Wang scored 2.5/4 (+1 −0 =3) with a performance of 2526. He played Hikaru Nakamura
Hikaru Nakamura
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once in the last round which was a draw, and all the other first three games were against Vinay Bhat
Vinay Bhat
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. China won 20½–19½ overall.
In April 2004, Wang scored the highest with 9.0/11 at the Chinese Men's Team Championships in Jinan
Jinan
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, and in December 2005, he became the National Chess Champion
Chinese Chess Championship
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of China with a score of 12.5/18 in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
. In August of that year, at the 2nd China–Russia Match in Moscow, Wang scored 3.0/6 (+1 −1 =4) with a 2670 performance. China won the match 37.5–34.5. Continuing, from October 14–31, when Wang became a FIDE master, he competed in his debut Olympiad
36th Chess Olympiad
The 36th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 14 and October 31, 2004, in Calvià on the Spanish island of Majorca.-Chess...
in Calvià
Calvià
Calvià is a municipality on the island of Majorca, part of the Spanish autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. It is located in the southwestern part of the island of Majorca, between the Serra de Tramuntana and the Serra de Na Burguesa. The municipal seat is the town of Vila Calvia.Calvià...
, Majorca scoring 8.0/12 (+5 −1 =6) on the first reserve board with a 2621 performance. The team finished in 24th place and Wang finished on 16th in the individual board standings. At this event he achieved his last GM norm and became China's then youngest grandmaster. December 18–23 saw him at the Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian was a Soviet-Armenian grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his playing style because of his almost impenetrable defence, which emphasised safety above all else...
Memorial Internet Tournament, with games starting at 12:00 noon in Paris, 14:00 in St. Petersburg. 15:00 in Yerevan and 19:00 in Beijing. Each country faced each of the other three countries two times for a total of six rounds. Fischer time control will be used (1 hour 30 minutes plus 15 minutes added at move 40; 30 second increments are added after every move). The event took place on ICC
Internet Chess Club
The Internet Chess Club is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ICC currently has over 30,000 subscribing members...
. China won the Tigran Petrosian Memorial Internet Tournament. Their final round match against Russia came down to the wire. The Russians led 2–1 but Wang Yue beat Vadim Zvjaginsev
Vadim Zvjaginsev
Cifuentes-Parada-Zvjaginsev, Wijk aan Zee Open 1995 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 b6 7.Be2 Bb7 8.O-O Be7 9.Rd1 O-O 10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Qc7 12.Nc3 c5 13.d5 exd5 14.cxd5 a6 15.Nh4 g6 16.Bh6 Rfe8 17.Qd2 Bd6 18.g3 b5 19.Bf3 b4 20.Ne2 Ne4 21.Qc2 Ndf6 22.Ng2 Qd7 23.Ne3 Rad8 24.Bg2? ...
to tie the match and win the event for the Chinese. Final Scores: China 14.0–France 13.0–Russia 13.0–Armenia 8.0. China players: (average rating: 2590) GM Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In 1999, he became China's 10th Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, 13 days, at the time the youngest in history. In April 2008, Bu and Ni Hua became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue...
2615 GM Ni Hua
Ni Hua
Ni Hua is one of China's top chess grandmasters and is the national team captain. In 2003, he became China's 15th Grandmaster at the age of 19. On April 2008, Ni Hua and Bu Xiangzhi both became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue...
2611 GM Zhang Zhong
Zhang Zhong
Zhang Zhong is a Chinese chess grandmaster who now plays for Singapore.In 1998, he became China's 9th Grandmaster.-Career:Among Zhang's more notable results are silver medals at the 1996 and 1998 World Junior Chess Championships, first in the 2001 Chinese Championship, 8.5/12 at the 2002 Chess...
2596 GM Wang Yue 2536
In February 2005, he scored 5.5/9 at the Aeroflot Open
Aeroflot Open
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...
. In April, he scored 6.0/9 at the Dubai Open. It was won by 16 year old Wang Hao
Wang Hao (chess player)
Wang Hao is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In November 2009, Wang Hao became the fourth ever Chinese player to cross the 2700 Elo rating mark. He is the reigning Chinese Chess Champion, with a ranking of No. 1 in China, No. 2 in Asia behind Viswanathan Anand and No. 19 in the world...
. In July, he came third on tiebreak with 6.5/11 (+3 −1 =7) at the 2nd Sanjin International Hotel GM Cup in his hometown Taiyuan
Taiyuan
Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi province in North China. At the 2010 census, it had a total population of 4,201,591 inhabitants on 6959 km² whom 3,212,500 are urban on 1,460 km². The name of the city literally means "Great Plains", referring to the location where the Fen River...
. Pendyala Harikrishna
Pendyala Harikrishna
Pentala Harikrishna is a chess player from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Harikrishna became the youngest grandmaster from India in 2001. He is No. 3 in India after Viswanathan Anand & Krishnan Sasikiran, No. 9 in Asia & ranked 71st in the world as per FIDE rating as on November 2011.In November...
won with 8.5/11 a point clear of Alexander Motylev
Alexander Motylev
Alexander Anatolyevich Motylev is an International Grandmaster of chess and a former champion of Russia.He learnt how to play at the age of four and a half years and at age six took part in group instruction sessions. This is not uncommon in Russia where chess is very much part of the school...
. In October, he also came third with 6.5/9 at the 5th Asian Individual Championship
Asian Chess Championship
The 2007 championship was a FIDE Zone 3 qualification event for the 2007 Chess World Cup, the next stage in the 2009 World Chess Championship. Ten players were qualified for the 2007 World Cup: Zhang Pengxiang , Wang Hao , Abhijit Kunte , Zhao Jun , Susanto Megaranto , Wen Yang , Darwin Laylo ,...
in Hyderabad, India. In November, he came fifth with 8.5/13 at the World Junior Chess Championship
World Junior Chess Championship
The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....
in Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, and reached the second round of the FIDE World Cup
Chess World Cup 2005
The Chess World Cup 2005 served as a qualification tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007. It was held as a 128-player tournament, between 27 November and 17 December 2005, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....
having beaten and lost to Karen Asrian
Karen Asrian
Karen Asrian was an Armenian chess Grandmaster.As of the October 2006 FIDE rating list, his Elo rating was 2634, tied for the fourth highest rank in Armenia....
and Ilia Smirin, respectively.
2006: Becomes a 2600 Elo player
In February, he scored 4.5/9 at the Aeroflot OpenAeroflot Open
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...
. In June at the 37th Chess Olympiad
37th Chess Olympiad
The 37th Chess Olympiad, comprising an open and women's tournament and the general assembly of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs , took place between 20 May and 6 June 2006, in Turin, Italy.-Open tournament:...
in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, the national team, seeded 12, came second winning silver. Wang, on board four, went undefeated scoring 10.0/12 points (8 wins and 4 draws) and received an individual gold medal for this board four result, as well as an individual silver medal for his rating performance of 2837 (the second highest of all players after Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...
of Russia).
On July 10–22 at the Taiyuan
Taiyuan
Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi province in North China. At the 2010 census, it had a total population of 4,201,591 inhabitants on 6959 km² whom 3,212,500 are urban on 1,460 km². The name of the city literally means "Great Plains", referring to the location where the Fen River...
Scheveningen Event, the Chinese team won 36.5–35.5 against the foreign side with Wang scoring 6.5/12. From 28 July to 7 August, at the 4th Marx György Memorial (Category 15 av 2622 of July'06 ratings) in Paks
Paks
Paks is a town in Tolna county, central Hungary, on the banks of the Danube River. Paks is the home of the only Hungarian nuclear power plant, which provides about 40% the country's electricity....
, Hungary, Wang scored 5.0/10 (+1 −1 =8) and came joint third with Zoltán Almási
Zoltan Almasi
Zoltán Almási is a Grandmaster of chess from Hungary. He is a seven-time Hungarian Chess Champion, winning in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2008...
. The tournament was won by Pendyala Harikrishna
Pendyala Harikrishna
Pentala Harikrishna is a chess player from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Harikrishna became the youngest grandmaster from India in 2001. He is No. 3 in India after Viswanathan Anand & Krishnan Sasikiran, No. 9 in Asia & ranked 71st in the world as per FIDE rating as on November 2011.In November...
. From 10–20 August, at the 3rd Russia–China match in Erguna, Wang scored 5½/10 (+3 −2 =5) with a 2711 performance. China won the match 51½–48½.
On September 4–9 at the Trophée MULTICOMS China–France Match, he scored 4.0/6 with a performance rating of 2712, the highest in the competition. On 7 September, at the 7th Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
Young Masters, he came second after having lost to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a French chess Grandmaster and the 2009 World Junior Chess Champion.-Grandmaster norms:He completed his final grandmaster norm at age 14 years, 4 months, in 2005....
in the final rapidplay playoff. In October, he came sixth with 8.5/13 at the World Junior Championship in Yerevan
Yerevan
Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
.
At the Asian Games
2006 Asian Games
The 15th Asian Games, officially known as the XV Asiad, is Asia's Olympic-style sporting event that was held in Doha, Qatar from December 1 to December 15, 2006. Doha was the first city in its region and only the second in West Asia to host the games...
in Doha
Doha
Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...
in December, the national team won silver with Wang on board two scoring 6.0/9 points (+4 −1 =4) with a 2647 performance.
2007: Becomes a 2700 player
In February, he came in joint second with 6.5/9 at the Aeroflot OpenAeroflot Open
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...
in Moscow. In March, he won both the Calvi Open (6.0/7) in France and the Cappelle la Grande tournament – which hosted 87 GMs, 81 IMs and 465 FIDE rated players – on tie-break, ahead of five other players with 7.0/9 points and a performance rating of 2784.
In April, he won the Philippines International Open Chess Championship in Subic Bay Freeport Zone
Subic Bay Freeport Zone
Subic Bay Freeport Zone , which is known simply as Subic Bay, is the Philippines' first success case of a into a tax- and duty-free zone similar to Hong Kong and Singapore, operated and managed by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority or SBMA. It covers the fenced area of the former U.S...
with 7.0/9 points. In July 2007, he came second with 5.0/8 at the 4th Sanjin Hotel Cup in Taiyuan. In July at the 4th Taiyuan
Taiyuan
Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi province in North China. At the 2010 census, it had a total population of 4,201,591 inhabitants on 6959 km² whom 3,212,500 are urban on 1,460 km². The name of the city literally means "Great Plains", referring to the location where the Fen River...
Scheveningen Event, the Chinese team lost 17–15 against the foreign side; Vadim Zvjaginsev finished 5.5/8 to top the score in the event, Wang Yue made 5.0/8 to top the score for the Chinese team. In 18–31 August at the 4th China–Russia Match in Nizhniy Novgorod, Wang scored 5.5/10 (+2 −1 =7) with a 2714 performance. China won the match overall 52.5–47.5. In 3–9 September at the UK–China Match in Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, Wang scored 4.0/6 (+2 −0 =4) with a 2722 performance. China won the match 28–20.
At the FIDE World Cup
Chess World Cup 2007
The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2009. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....
in Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk experiences a subarctic climate . The climate is extreme, with temperatures as low as -49 C° and as high as 34.5 C°. On average, however, the region is very cold, with an average tempurature of -1.1 C°...
, in November, Wang defeated Aleksei Pridorozhni (1.5–0.5), Sergei Tiviakov
Sergei Tiviakov
Sergei Tiviakov is a naturalised Dutch chess Grandmaster.Tiviakov won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, in Plovdiv, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with 8.5/11....
(2.5–1.5) and his compatriot Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In 1999, he became China's 10th Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, 13 days, at the time the youngest in history. In April 2008, Bu and Ni Hua became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue...
(1.5–0.5), only to be eliminated by Ivan Cheparinov
Ivan Cheparinov
Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...
(0.5–1.5) in the fourth round. In December, Wang came second on tiebreak at the Category 17 XVII Ciudad de Pamplona
Pamplona
Pamplona is the historial capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former kingdom of Navarre.The city is famous worldwide for the San Fermín festival, from July 6 to 14, in which the running of the bulls is one of the main attractions...
(Magistral A) tournament in Spain having scored 4.0/7 (TPR 2695). It was won by Francisco Vallejo Pons
Francisco Vallejo Pons
Francisco Vallejo Pons is a chess Grandmaster from Spain. He was a chess prodigy, achieving the grandmaster title at the age of 16 years and 9 months, which makes him the 20th youngest player to ever become a grandmaster...
.
2008: Becomes a Top 20 player
Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnam is a major sea port on the south east coast of India. With a population of approximately 1.7 million, it is the second largest city in the state of Andhra Pradesh and the third largest city on the east coast of India after Kolkata and Chennai. According to the history, the city was...
, the national team won gold with Wang scoring on board one 4.5/7 points (+3 −1 =3) with a 2534 performance. In February, he scored 7.0/10 (+4 −0 =6) at the Gibraltar Chess Festival
Gibraltar Chess Festival
The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is a chess tournament played annually at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar since 2003.- List of Winners :Since 2007, the Masters has had a tie-break for first place.-References:* - Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Website....
Open finishing 20th with a 2653 performance. In March, Wang finished shared first at the Reykjavík
Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay...
Open, together with compatriot Wang Hao
Wang Hao (chess player)
Wang Hao is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In November 2009, Wang Hao became the fourth ever Chinese player to cross the 2700 Elo rating mark. He is the reigning Chinese Chess Champion, with a ranking of No. 1 in China, No. 2 in Asia behind Viswanathan Anand and No. 19 in the world...
(who won on tiebreak) and Hannes Stefansson
Hannes Stefansson
Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson is an Icelandic chess Grandmaster. Stefánsson has won the Icelandic Chess Championship every year since 1998 except for 2000 and 2009 when he didn't participate. His 11 titles make him the record holder for most Championships...
.
In his super-tournament debut in April–May 2008 at the 1st FIDE Grand Prix in Baku
Baku
Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...
, he came joint first place with Vugar Gashimov
Vugar Gashimov
Vugar Gashimov , born July 24, 1986 in Baku, is one of the leading chess players from Azerbaijan. He is a noted player of Bullet chess and three times Azerbaijani national chess champion .He won at Athens 2005 ....
and Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...
, scoring 8.0/13 (+3 −0 =10) with a performance rating of 2806. Wang called it a "nightmare start" when his planned flight departure from Beijing on the 18th was delayed because of bad weather and did not arrive in Azerbaijan until the early morning of the 21st, thereby missing the opening ceremony as well as having to face the top seed (Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...
) with black later on the same day.
In July–August 2008, at the 2nd FIDE Grand Prix in Sochi
Sochi
Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia's border with the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains...
, he came joint third with Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. He is also the current United States Chess Champion. As of September 2011, he is rated No. 1 in the United States and No...
with 7.5/13 (+2 −0 =11; elo performance 2765) behind winner Levon Aronian
Levon Aronian
Levon Grigor Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion. On the September 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2807, making him number three in the world and Armenia's number one...
and second placed Teimour Radjabov
Teimour Radjabov
Radjabov's knight sacrifice, 21. ... Ngxe5, was praised by several strong players for its bravery, including English grandmaster Nigel Short. Said Short of the move, "Radjabov plays very imaginatively... he just won't give up, he is extremely tenacious and will always find a way to muddy the...
. He was featured on the cover of New in Chess
New In Chess
New In Chess is a chess magazine that appears eight times a year with chief editors International Grandmaster Jan Timman and Dirk Jan Ten Geuzendam. It contains notes by top players and chess prodigies on their own games...
magazine's July 2008 issue. On August 20–30, 2008 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, Wang won the NH Chess Tournament—"Rising Stars" (Wang, Cheparinov
Ivan Cheparinov
Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...
, Caruana
Fabiano Caruana
Fabiano Luigi Caruana is Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States.On 15 July 2007 Caruana became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days – the youngest Grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States.In the November 2011...
, L'Ami
Erwin l'Ami
Erwin l'Ami is a chess Grandmaster. He has emerged, along with Jan Smeets, Daniel Stellwagen and Jan Werle, as one of a new generation of talented young players from the Netherlands.-Early years:...
, Stellwagen
Daniël Stellwagen
Daniël Stellwagen is a Dutch chess Grandmaster.In 1999 he won the Dutch Junior Championship and won silver both at the World Junior Championship and the European Junior Championship . In 2003 he won the endgame study solving contest at the De Feijter Festival in Deventer with an unprecedented 100%...
) vs. "Experience" (Agdestein
Simen Agdestein
Simen Agdestein is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and ex-football star. He has won seven Norwegian chess championships, including the 2005 title....
, Bareev
Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Bareev is a Russian chess Grandmaster and chess coach. In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an Elo rating of 2739....
, Ljubojevic
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Ljubomir Ljubojević is a Grandmaster of chess. He was born on November 2, 1950, in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia . Ljubojević was awarded the International Master title in 1970 and the GM title in 1971. He was Yugoslav champion in 1977 and 1982. He won the 1974 Canadian Open Chess Championship...
, Korchnoi
Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi ; pronounced in the original Russian as "karch NOY"; Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, born March 23, 1931 is a professional chess player, author and currently the oldest active grandmaster on the tournament circuit...
, Jussupow
Artur Yusupov
Artur Mayakovich Yusupov is a German International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer.-Chess career:...
)—with 8.5/10 points (+7 −0 =3; rating performance 2892) remaining undefeated. As the Rising Star winner of the tournament he won an invitation to the March 2009 Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
, and immediately after having won all of his first six games, he was invited by Jeroen van den Berg to Group A of the January 2009 Corus Chess Tournament
Corus chess tournament
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...
.
In September 2008, he competed at the 5th Russia–China Match in Ningbo
Ningbo
Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...
where he scored 3.0/5 (+1 −0 =4) with a performance rating of 2767 for the men's team (with Li Chao
Li Chao (chess player)
Li Chao is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2007, he became China's 23rd Grandmaster at the age of 18. As of April 2009, he is the sixth highest rated junior player and is China's fifth highest rated player...
, Wang Hao
Wang Hao (chess player)
Wang Hao is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In November 2009, Wang Hao became the fourth ever Chinese player to cross the 2700 Elo rating mark. He is the reigning Chinese Chess Champion, with a ranking of No. 1 in China, No. 2 in Asia behind Viswanathan Anand and No. 19 in the world...
, Ni Hua
Ni Hua
Ni Hua is one of China's top chess grandmasters and is the national team captain. In 2003, he became China's 15th Grandmaster at the age of 19. On April 2008, Ni Hua and Bu Xiangzhi both became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue...
, Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In 1999, he became China's 10th Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, 13 days, at the time the youngest in history. In April 2008, Bu and Ni Hua became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue...
). China won the match 26–24.
He played at the 1st World Mind Sports Games
World Mind Sports Games
The first World Mind Sports Games were held in Beijing, China from October 3 to 18, 2008, about two months after the Olympic Games. They were sponsored and organised by the International Mind Sports Association with the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of...
in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, China during October 3–8, 2008. Also that month, in Halkidiki, Greece, he played for Economist SGSEU-1 Saratov at the 24th European Club Cup and scored 3.0/5 (+1 −0 =4).
In November 2008, he played on board one for the Chinese Open team at the 38th Chess Olympiad
38th Chess Olympiad
The 38th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between 12–25 November 2008, in Dresden, Germany and was won by Armenia.The 2010 Olympiad is...
in Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
, Germany (6.5/10 (+3 −0 =7) and performance rating 2773). The team came 7th overall.
On December 13–29, 2008, at the 3rd FIDE Grand Prix in Elista
Elista
-Twin towns/sister cities:Elista is twinned with the following sister cities. Howell, New Jersey, United States Lhasa, Tibet, China. Ulan-Ude, Buryat Republic, Russia-See also:*Geden Sheddup Choikorling Monastery*Burkhan Bakshin Altan Sume-External links:...
, Russia – moved from Dohar, Qatar
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...
– he came joint fifth-ninth with 6.5/12 (+2 −2 =9).
2009
As of April 2009, he is still competing in the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009, which is part of the current World Chess ChampionshipWorld Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest this title....
cycle. Wang qualified by being one of the four FIDE president
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov is a Kalmyk multi-millionaire businessman and politician. He was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and he has been the President of FIDE , the world's pre-eminent international chess organization, since 1995...
nominees, along with Peter Svidler
Peter Svidler
Peter Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster.He is six-time Russian champion ....
, Ivan Cheparinov
Ivan Cheparinov
Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...
, Étienne Bacrot
Étienne Bacrot
Étienne Bacrot is a French chess grandmaster and currently ranked number one in France.He started playing at 4; by 10 young Bacrot was already winning junior competitions and in 1996, at 13 years of age, he won against Vasily Smyslov...
.
On 16 January – 1 February, Wang in his debut at the event, became the second Chinese player to compete at the Group A Corus
Corus chess tournament
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...
after Zhang Zhong
Zhang Zhong
Zhang Zhong is a Chinese chess grandmaster who now plays for Singapore.In 1998, he became China's 9th Grandmaster.-Career:Among Zhang's more notable results are silver medals at the 1996 and 1998 World Junior Chess Championships, first in the 2001 Chinese Championship, 8.5/12 at the 2002 Chess...
in 2004, in Wijk aan Zee
Wijk aan Zee
Wijk aan Zee is a small town on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk in the province of North Holland of the Netherlands. The prestigious Tata Steel chess tournament formerly Corus chess tournament and before that called Hoogovens tournament takes place there every year.Due...
, Netherlands. He came joint 8th with 6.0/13 (+2 −3 =8) and a 2685 performance in the Category 19 (average 2716) event. All of his decisive games were with the white pieces; He lost to Ivanchuk, Adams and Radjabov, and had wins against Morozevich and Carlsen. In Round 2, he blundered early with 9.Na7?? in a what was to be a wild and scrappy game against Ivanchuk in an early deviation of the Queen's Gambit Declined
Queen's Gambit Declined
The Queen's Gambit Declined is a chess opening in which Black declines a pawn offered by White in the Queen's Gambit:This is known as the Orthodox Line of the Queen's Gambit Declined...
:
Yue–Ivanchuk 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Bg5 dxc4 5. Qa4+ Nbd7 6. Nc3 a6 7. g3 b5 8. Nxb5 Rb8 9. Na7?? A unexpected blunder. 9... Rb4 White must have missed this move. 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Qa5 Bb7 The knight on a7 is now trapped. 12. Bh3 Qb8 13. Qh5 Ke7?! 13...Rb6 was much safer. 14. d5 Qxa7 14...Bxd5! 15.Qxd5! exd5 16.Nc6+ Kd6 17.Nxb8 Rxb8 leaves Black with a better ending. 15. dxe6 fxe6 16. Bxe6! The black king's cover is broken, and Wang has almost reached equality. 16... Kxe6 17. Qe8+ Be7 18. Qxh8 Nf8 19. Qg8+ Kd7 20. 0-0-0+? This allows the black king to find safety, whereas 20.Qg4+ offered good chances of a perpetual check or 20.Qf7! Qc5 21.Rd1+ Kc6 22.0-0! would have allowed play to go on. 20... Ke8 21. Qg4 Qc5 22. a3 Rxb2! There are no more attacks for White, and Black finishes with a mating net. 23. Kxb2 Qxa3+ 24. Kb1 Qb3+ 25. Ka1 c3 0–1 White resigned.
At the 26th Linares chess tournament
Linares chess tournament
The Linares International Chess Tournament , is an annual chess tournament, usually played around the end of February, takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain, in which it is held...
(February 18 – March 8) Wang Yue made his debut at the eight-player event and became the first ever Chinese player to participate. Wang Yue finished with +1 −2 =11 in joint 5th to 7th place on 6½ points with Radjabov and Aronian, 5th on performance rating (2729), and sixth overall on tiebreak. He had his two losses to Grischuk and Anand, and a win over Carlsen.
In 2009, he also participated at the 18th Amber Blindfold & Rapid tournament in Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
(March 14–26) in his debut event and as a second Chinese player (after Xie Jun
Xie Jun
Xie Jun is a chess grandmaster from China. She had two reigns as Women's World Chess Champion, from 1991 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2001. Xie is only the second woman to have two reigns, the other being Elisabeth Bykova....
in 1996), 5th M-Tel Masters
M-tel Masters
M-Tel Masters is an annual super-GM chess tournament held since 2005 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, sponsored and organized by the leading Bulgarian mobile network operator, M-Tel. According to the regulations, each of the six participants plays two games against every other, thus making it a...
in Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
(May 12–23) (Topalov, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Wang, Dominguez and Shirov) debut event and second Chinese player after Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi
Bu Xiangzhi is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In 1999, he became China's 10th Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, 13 days, at the time the youngest in history. In April 2008, Bu and Ni Hua became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue...
in 2008, 22nd León Rapid León
León, Spain
León is the capital of the province of León in the autonomous community of Castile and León, situated in the northwest of Spain. Its city population of 136,985 makes it the largest municipality in the province, accounting for more than one quarter of the province's population...
June 4–7, 4 player rapid with Ivanchuk, Morozevich
Alexander Morozevich
Alexander Morozevich is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In the November 2011 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2762, making him the 9th-highest rated player in the world, although he has previously ranked as high as second, in the July 2008 list....
, Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...
; 20m+10s, the Russia v China match and the Maotai Prince Cup China National Chess King & Queen Championships.
In September he won the Chinese Chess King tournament with 5.0/7 points and a 2797 performance.
He made his debut at the 2nd Pearl Spring chess tournament
Pearl Spring chess tournament
The Pearl Spring Chess Tournament is a double round robin chess tournament event featuring six super-GM players that takes place in Nanjing, China. The first edition in December 2008 was won by Veselin Topalov...
(category 21) in Nanjing
Nanjing
' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...
. He came third out of six players with 4.5/10 (Elo perf=2735); the tournament was won by Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...
.
At the FIDE World Cup
Chess World Cup 2009
The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The Cup winner qualified for the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship 2011. Boris Gelfand defeated Ruslan Ponomariov in the...
in Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk experiences a subarctic climate . The climate is extreme, with temperatures as low as -49 C° and as high as 34.5 C°. On average, however, the region is very cold, with an average tempurature of -1.1 C°...
, in November, Wang was the tenth seed, and defeated Nikolai Kabanov (2–0) and Boris Savchenko (2.5–1.5) before falling to Étienne Bacrot
Étienne Bacrot
Étienne Bacrot is a French chess grandmaster and currently ranked number one in France.He started playing at 4; by 10 young Bacrot was already winning junior competitions and in 1996, at 13 years of age, he won against Vasily Smyslov...
(1.5–3.5) in the third round playoff. His loss was notable in that both he and countryman Li Chao
Li Chao (chess player)
Li Chao is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2007, he became China's 23rd Grandmaster at the age of 18. As of April 2009, he is the sixth highest rated junior player and is China's fifth highest rated player...
were forfeited from their respective playoff games for tardiness, as they were smoking outside the tournament hall and consequently arrived two minutes late for each player's second playoff game, warranting an automatic forfeiture by the FIDE regulations.
2010: Becomes a Top 10 player
In January 2010, he became China's first ever top 10 player on the FIDE rankings. From May 9–25, 2010, he participated in the final FIDE Grand Prix in AstrakhanAstrakhan
Astrakhan is a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. The city lies on the left bank of the Volga River, close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea at an altitude of below the sea level. Population:...
, but failed to qualify for the Candidates Tournament
Candidates Tournament
The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship...
for the World Chess Championship 2012.
China Chess League
Wang Yue plays for TianjinTianjin
' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...
chess club
Chess club
A chess club is a club formed for the purpose of playing the board game of chess. Chess clubs provide for both informal games and timed games, often as part of an internal competition or in a league.-Organisation:...
in the China Chess League
China Chess League
The China Chess League is a Chinese professional league for chess clubs. The league is organized by the Chinese Chess Association. It is sponsored by Youngor Group and was sponsored by the Shandong and it has been able to determine the league's sponsorship name. Seasons usually run from April...
(CCL).
Future events
Events for 2010 include:- Final FIDE Grand Prix in AstrakhanAstrakhanAstrakhan is a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. The city lies on the left bank of the Volga River, close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea at an altitude of below the sea level. Population:...
from May 9–25, 2010.
Rating
- Wang entered the FIDE Top 20 Juniors list as #19 on April 2005 with a rating of 2576. He was in the top 10 from July 2006, and the top 5 from January 2007. He reached a peak ranking of #3 during the July–October 2007 rating periods.
- He entered the FIDE Top 100 Players list as #84 on July 2006 with a rating of 2626 and has been in the top 100 since.
- He broke into the Top 25 as #22 with a then highest rating of 2703 on October 2007, which was the first time a Chinese chess player had passed the 2700 mark since the introduction of the FIDE ratings systemElo rating systemThe Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor....
in 1970. - As of January 2009, Wang's Elo rating is 2739, making him China's #1 and #13 on the FIDE world rating list.
- For 2005, he played 53 classical games (+15 −4 =34, 2562 average opponent) with a 2636 performance placing 79th in the world.
- For 2006, he played 95 classical games (+28 −11 =56, 2593 av op) with a 2656 performance placing 50th.
- For 2007, he played 68 classical games (+24 −4 =40, 2608 av op) with a 2713 performance placing 20th.
- For 2008, he played 101 classical games (+32 −3 =66, 2645 av op) having a 2748 performance placing 8th.
Rating (World Ranking) progress table
| Year | Jan | Apr | Jul | Sep | Oct | Nov |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | n/a | n/a | 2344 (3969) | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2000 | 2437 (1229) | n/a | 2440 (1173) | n/a | 2440 (1194) | n/a |
| 2001 | 2439 (1240) | 2439 (1250) | 2466 (870) | n/a | 2466 (894) | n/a |
| 2002 | 2454 (1059) | 2454 (1078) | 2455 (901) | n/a | 2495 (642) | n/a |
| 2003 | 2492 (690) | 2498 (648) | 2509 (540) | n/a | 2509 | n/a |
| 2004 | 2493 | 2499 (646) | 2525 (367) | n/a | 2536 (378) | n/a |
| 2005 | 2549 (306) | 2576 (207) | 2576 (216) | n/a | 2585 (179) | n/a |
| 2006 | 2599 (148) | 2598 (147) | 2626 (84) | n/a | 2644 (62) | n/a |
| 2007 | 2644 (61) | 2656 (50) | 2696 (22) | n/a | 2703 (22) | n/a |
| 2008 | 2698 (25) | 2689 (31) | 2704 (29) | n/a | 2736 (11) | n/a |
| 2009 | 2739 (13) | 2738 (14) | 2736 (13) | 2736 (15) | n/a | 2734 (15) |
| 2010 | 2749 (9) | - | - | - | - | - |
Online chess
His Internet Chess ClubInternet Chess Club
The Internet Chess Club is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ICC currently has over 30,000 subscribing members...
handle is yueyue, listed as one of the 30 best ever blitz
Blitz chess
Fast chess, also known as blitz chess, lightning chess, sudden death, speed chess, bullet chess and rapid chess, is a type of chess game in which each side is given less time to make their moves than under the normal tournament time controls of 60 to 180 minutes per player.-Overview:The different...
players on the system.
Playing style
Described as a highly technical, consistent and solid player he has a preference for the endgame where he seeks to slowly grind down his opponents with a slight advantage. In February 2009 after Corus finished, Teimour RadjabovTeimour Radjabov
Radjabov's knight sacrifice, 21. ... Ngxe5, was praised by several strong players for its bravery, including English grandmaster Nigel Short. Said Short of the move, "Radjabov plays very imaginatively... he just won't give up, he is extremely tenacious and will always find a way to muddy the...
was quoted in an interview saying, "[Wang Yue] does not allow his opponents to develop counterplay and he exerts "strangulation" style very effectively." Wang has said his childhood idol was José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play...
, and once stated that Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...
has had an influence on his style of play, having been impressed as a 13 year old boy with Kramnik's victory over Kasparov
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....
in the London 2000 WCC match
Classical World Chess Championship 2000
The Classical World Chess Championship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships, was held from October 8, 2000 – November 4, 2000 in London, United Kingdom. Garry Kasparov, the defending champion, played Vladimir Kramnik...
. Wang has been given the nickname "Panda" by chess columnist Mig Greengard
Mig Greengard
Michael "Mig" Greengard, is an American chess author and journalist who currently lives in New York City. Greengard also maintains the official English website of the Russian pro-democracy coalition, The Other Russia.-Journalism:Greengard's online column "Mig on Chess" appeared from 1997 to 1999...
.
Openings
Wang usually plays 1.d4 as White, and for Black, plays the Sicilian, Berlin or Petroff against e4, and SlavSlav Defense
The Slav Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves:The Slav is one of the primary defenses to the Queen's Gambit. Although it was analyzed as early as 1590, it was not until the 1920s that it started to be explored extensively...
against d4.
Sample game
In 2005, the 17-year-old Wang Yue manages to defeat his first EloElo rating system
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor....
2700+ opponent, the former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE World Champion.-Early career:Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just...
.
Wang Yue (2549) vs Ruslan Ponomariov (2700) [A40] Modern Defense
Modern Defense
The Modern Defense is a hypermodern chess opening in which Black allows White to occupy the center with pawns on d4 and e4, then proceeds to attack and undermine this "ideal" center without attempting to occupy it himself...
; Aeroflot Open
Aeroflot Open
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...
2005, Round 6; 2005-02-20, Moscow, Russia:
1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. e4 c5 4. d5 d6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Ne7 7. h3 0-0 8. Bd3 Nd7 9. Bg5 h6 10. Be3 exd5 11. exd5 f5 12. Qc2 Nf6 13. 0-0 g5 14. Rae1 Kh8 15. Bd2 Bd7 16. b3 Nh5 17. a4 Ng6 18. Nb5 Bc8 19. Bc3 a6 20. Bxg7+ Kxg7 21. Nc3 Nhf4 22. Ne2 Qf6 23. Nxf4 Nxf4 24. Re3 Bd7 25. Rfe1 Rf7 26. Bf1 g4 27. hxg4 fxg4 28. Nd2 Raf8 29. Ne4 Qg6 30. b4 Bf5 31. bxc5 Bxe4 32. Qxe4 dxc5 33. g3 Qxe4 34. Rxe4 Ng6 35. Rxg4 h5 36. Rg5 Rf5 37. Rxg6+ Kxg6 38. Bd3 Kg5 39. f4+ Kg4 40. Kg2 R5f7 (see diagram) 41. Rh1 1–0 (41.Re5 is stronger as it leads to 41...Rxf4 42.Be2+ Rf3 43.Bxf3+ Rxf3 44.Re4+ Kf5 45.Kxf3)
External links
- Wang Yue at Sina Sports NewsSina.comSINA is an online media company for China and Chinese communities around the world. SINA operates four major business lines: Sina Weibo, SINA Mobile, SINA Online, and SINA.net. SINA has over 100 million registered users worldwide...
(in Chinese) - Wang Yue at the China Chess LeagueChina Chess LeagueThe China Chess League is a Chinese professional league for chess clubs. The league is organized by the Chinese Chess Association. It is sponsored by Youngor Group and was sponsored by the Shandong and it has been able to determine the league's sponsorship name. Seasons usually run from April...
- Wang, Yue at the ACP TourAssociation of Chess ProfessionalsThe Association of Chess Professionals is a not-for-profit organisation, the closest thing in existence to a trade union for professional chess players. According to Article 2 of its terms:-History:...
- FIDE Grand Prix Profile
- Elo Rating Table
- OlimpBase
- Rating Data
- Baku Grand Prix (May 2008) Interview with GM Wang Yue
- Wang Yue's May 2008 Blog Report on Baku Grand Prix
- Photo report of 2008 NH Chess Tournament won by Wang Yue