Wang Yue

Infobox Chess player
playername = Wang Yue


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birthname = Wang Yue
country = CHN
datebirth = birth date and age|1987|3|31
placebirth = Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster (GM)
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2736
(No. 11 on the Oct 2008 FIDE ratings list)
peakrating = 2736 (Oct 2008)

Wang Yue (zh-cp|c=王玥|p=Wáng Yuè; born March 31, 1987 [ [http://www.chessinchina.net/html/CHNrating05.8.htm List of Chinese international chess players] ] in Taiyuan, Shanxi) is a Chinese Super Grandmaster-chess player.

In 2004, he became China's 17th Grandmaster at the age of 17.

On 1 October 2007, he became the first ever Chinese player to cross the 2700 elo rating mark.

On 1 October 2008, he became the World Number 11, the highest ever ranking a Chinese player has achieved, breaking the previous record by Ye Jiangchuan set in 2000.

Early life

He was born in Taiyuan, where at the age of six he learned how to play chess. Today, Wang Yue is a student at Nankai University in Tianjin. [ [http://www.nhchess.com/participants.html Players' portraits 2008 NH Tournament] ]

Chess career

Master titles

In 2000, when Wang was 13 he achieved the FIDE Master title. In 2003, he achieved the International Master title, and in 2004 the Grandmaster title.

Ranking

Wang entered the FIDE Top 20 Juniors list as no. 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 no. 3 during the July-October 2007 rating periods.

He entered the FIDE Top 100 Players list as no. 84 on July 2006 with a rating of 2626 and has been in the top 100 since. He reached a peak ranking of no. 22 with his highest rating to date 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 system in 1970. [ [http://www.benoni.de/schach/elo/his.html?id=8601429 Elo rating history - benoni.de/schach/elo] ]

As of Oct 2008, Wang's Elo rating is 2736, making him China's no. 1 and 11th on the FIDE world rating list. [http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men]

Junior chess

In 1999, Wang won the U-12 Category of the World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar, Spain.

In 2000, he came second in the U-14 Category, which was also held in Oropesa del Mar.

2004 to 2006

In April 2004, Wang scored the highest with 9.0/11 at the Chinese Men's Team Championships in Jinan, [ [http://ratings.fide.com/trarc.phtml?event16=393&codt=12 CHN Men Team Ch.2004 - CHN: 2004-04-16] ] and in December 2005, he became the National Chess Champion of China with a score of 12.5/18 in Beijing.

In June 2005, he came third with 6.5/11 at the 2nd Sanjin International Hotel GM Cup in Taiyuan, and in October 2005, he also came third with 6.5/9 at the 5th Asian Individual Championship in Hyderabad, India.

In November 2005, 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 September 2006 at the 7th Lausanne Young Masters, he came second after having lost to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final rapidplay playoff. [ [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/even2006.html The Week in Chess] ]

In October 2006, he came sixth with 8.5/13 at the World Junior Championship in Yerevan.

2007

In February 2007, he came joint second with 6.5/9 at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. [ [http://www.fide.com/ratings/trarc.phtml?event16=6271&codt=23 FIDE Online. Archive - Tournament report April 2007] ]

In March 2007, 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. [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3734 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Wang Yue from China wins Cappelle la Grande] ]

In April 2007, he won the Philippines International Open Chess Championship in Subic Bay Freeport Zone with 7.0/9 points. [ [http://www.fide.com/ratings/trarc.phtml?event16=8072&codt=24 FIDE Online. Archive - Tournament report July 2007] ] In July 2007, he came second with 5.0/8 at the 4th Sanjin Hotel Cup in Taiyuan.

World Cup 2007

At the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, November 2007, Wang Yue defeated Aleksei Pridorozhni, Sergei Tiviakov and his compatriot Bu Xiangzhi, only to be eliminated by Ivan Cheparinov in the fourth round.

Pamplona 2007

In December 2007, 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).

Reykjavík Open 2008

In March 2008, Wang Yue finished shared first at the Reykjavík Open, together with compatriot Wang Hao (who won on tiebreak) and Hannes Stefansson.

FIDE Grand Prix 2008-09

He is competing in the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2009, which is part of the current World Chess Championship cycle. [ [http://www.chessdom.com/news/chess-grand-prix Chessdom - Chess Grand Prix 2008-2009] ]

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,=10,-0) with a performance rating of 2806. [ [http://baku2008.fide.com/ Grand Prix - BAKU] ] In July-August 2008, at the 2nd FIDE Grand Prix in Sochi, he came joint third with Gata Kamsky with 7.5/13 (+2, =11, -0; elo performance 2765) behind winner Levon Aronian and second placed Teimour Radjabov. [ [http://sochi2008.fide.com/ Grand Prix - SOCHI] ]

NH Tournament 2008

On August 20-30, 2008 in Amsterdam, Wang Yue won the [http://www.nhchess.com/ NH Chess Tournament] —"Rising Stars" (Wang, Cheparinov, Caruana, L'Ami, Stellwagen) vs. "Experience" (Agdestein, Bareev, Ljubojevic, Korchnoi, Jussupow)—with 8.5/10 points (+7, =3, -0; rating performance 2892) remaining undefeated. [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4841 Rising Stars: Carlsen, Karjakin, ... who’s next?] 17.08.2008, ChessBase] As the Rising Star winner of the tournament he won an invitation to the March 2009 Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in Nice, and 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. [ [http://www.nhchess.com/RoundReport6.html Wang Yue hits them for six] ] As of 30 August 2008, he has been undefeated for an incredible 55 games in a row (his last [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1487279 loss] was against Björn Thorfinnsson at the Reykjavik Open on March 3 same year). [ [http://www.chessvibes.com/coverstory/wang-yue-qualifies-for-amber-2009 Wang Yue qualifies for Amber 2009] ]

Tournament schedule

;2008

*World Mind Sports Games - Beijing, China October 3-8th 2008
*European Club Cup, Kallithea, Greece, Oct.16 - Oct.24 2008 [ [http://ecc2008.chessdom.com/participants/ Participants] European Club Cup 2008]
*38th Chess Olympiad, Dresden, Germany Nov.12 - Nov.25 2008
*FIDE Grand Prix, Doha, Qatar Dec.13 - Dec.29 2008 [ [http://grandprix.fide.com/ FIDE Grand Prix 2008-09] ]

;2009
*Corus chess tournament A Group, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands January [http://www.nhchess.com/RoundReport10.html Rising Stars beat Experience 33½-16½] ]
*Amber Blindfold & Rapid tournament, Nice, France March
*MTel Masters, Sofia, Bulgaria May
*FIDE Grand Prix, Elista, Kalmykia, Russia August 1–17 [ [http://grandprix.fide.com/ FIDE Grand Prix 2008-09] ]

National team

In 2000 and 2002 he competed with the Chinese national team at the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiads. In 2000, the team came 9th, but in 2002 in Kuala Lumpur, the team won gold and he achieved on first board an individual gold medal for his result of 8.5/10. [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/playersch/g8e4oiy8.html OlimpBase :: World Youth U16 Chess Olympiads :: Wang Yue] ]

In 2004, when Wang was a FIDE master, he competed in his first Olympiad in Calvià scoring 8.0/12 points on the first reserve board. The team finished in 24th place.

In June 2006 at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin, the national team, seeded 12, came second winning silver. Wang Yue, 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). [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/g8e4oiy8.html OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Wang Yue] ]

At the December 2006 Asian Games in Doha, the national team won silver with Wang on board two scoring 6.0/9 points (+4, =4, -1). [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/playersag/g8e4oiy8.html OlimpBase :: Asian Chess Games :: Wang Yue] ]

In January 2008, 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, =3, -1). [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/playersa/g8e4oiy8.html OlimpBase :: Men's Asian Team Chess Championship :: Wang Yue] ]

Wang has participated in several national team summit matches, including against the USA (2002), Russia (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008), France (2006) and the UK (2007).

In September 2008, he competed at the 5th Russia v China Match in Ningbo where he scored 3.0/5 with a performance rating of 2767 for the men's team (with Li Chao, Wang Hao, Ni Hua, Bu Xiangzhi). [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4921 Fifth China vs Russia Match in Ningpo] ]

ee also

*Chess in China

References

External links

*fide|id=8601429|name=Wang Yue
*chessgames player|id=52672
* [http://sports.sina.com.cn/star/wangyue/ Wang Yue] at Sina Sports News (in Chinese)
* [http://www.chess-players.org/eng/tour/tour_2007/tournaments2.html?idt=490&tour=2007 Wang, Yue] - ACP (Association of Chess Professionals) Tour
* [http://baku2008.fide.com/interview-with-gm-wang-yue.html Interview with GM Wang Yue] Baku Grand Prix (May 2008)
* [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4633 Wang Yue's Blog Report on Baku Grand Prix] (2008-May-13)
* [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4878 Photo report of 2008 NH Chess Tournament won by Wang Yue]
* [http://grandprix.fide.com/wang-yue.html FIDE Grand Prix profile]
* [http://www.benoni.de/schach/elo/his.html?id=8601429 Elo rating table]