Wei Yi
China’s top-ranked player and a former prodigy. Wei became a grandmaster at 13 and reached 2700 at 15, a record for the youngest ever that stood until 2026.
He has won three Chinese titles, the 2018 Asian Championship and rapid gold at the 2022 Asian Games. In 2024 he won Tata Steel, beating Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Gukesh Dommaraju in the playoff.
His run to the 2025 World Cup final, where he lost to Javokhir Sindarov in tiebreaks, earned him a first Candidates. He finished fourth there in 2026 with 7/14, and in June won double gold at the World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships with team Dragon Chilling.
Career highlights
- Runner-up at the 2025 World Cup
- Fourth at the 2026 Candidates, his first
- Won Tata Steel 2024
- Three-time Chinese Champion
- Reached 2700 at 15, the youngest ever until 2026
Titles
From the winners lists on our event pages.
Wei Yi in The Chess Herald
- Novy Bor and SuperChess Meet in Round 6 With 10/10 Each
- Murzin's Swindle Keeps Bayegan Pendik Clear After a Top-Board Loss
- How a Player Earns a Shot at the World Chess Title
- Sindarov Within Two Points of Caruana After Samarkand
- Madaminov's Unbeaten 5.5/7 Seals Uzbekistan's Second Gold
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- Uzbekistan Crowned as Samarkand Olympiad Closes in Fireworks
- Uzbekistan Retakes the Lead as So Stuns Sindarov
- Germany Ends Uzbekistan's 7/7 Run in Samarkand
- Eight Teams Still Perfect After Four Rounds in Samarkand
- Liang's Shock Loss and Montenegro's Draw Rattle Samarkand
- GCL's Wild Day 3: Gambits Fall, Pipers Seize the Lead
- Carlsen Returns, But GCL Day One Belongs to Sindarov
- Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi Meet Again, but This Time Board Six Matters More Than They Do
- Faustino Oro and the Ever-Shrinking Youngest-GM Record
- Eastern Asia's Youngest Players Just Wrote Another Chapter in the Region's Chess Pipeline
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Profile last reviewed September 29, 2026. Ratings update monthly from FIDE.