3/1/2013 – After seven rounds he was in the follow-up group with 5.5 points, and in round eight he faced former child prodigy Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, now 22 and rated 2715. The French GM played an attacking game, but faced an ice-cold defence and some nice tactics by the Chinese IM, who won and secured his final GM norm – at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days.
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Wei Yi has become the youngest GM in the world
The 13-year-old Chinese IM, with two GM norms already under his belt, had 5.5/7
points in the Reykjavik Open. In round eight he faced a formidable opponent,
Super-GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who back in 2005 had become one of the youngest
grandmasters in the world at an age of 14 years and four months. Maxime was
out for blood against his young and presumably inexperienced opponent. This
is how the game went:
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1.e4c52.Nf3Nc63.Bb5d64.0-0Bd75.Re1Nf66.c3a67.Bf1Bg48.d4cxd49.cxd4e510.d5Nd411.Be3Nxf3+12.gxf3Bd713.a4Nh5N14.Qb3g5?!15.Qxb7!It takes courage to play this against a 2715 Super-GM.Rg816.Nd2g417.fxg4The French GM, himself a former child prodigy, has sacrificed
two pawns for the attack. He is determined to roll over his 13-year-old opponent.Rb818.Qxa6Rxg4+19.Kh1f5Make or break play by Vachier-Lagrave.20.exf5Rxb221.Be2Nf622.Nc4Rxe2Looks like break. The two pawns were not enough,
Vachier now throws an exchange (for a pawn) into the basket.23.Rxe2Bxf524.f3Rg625.Rg1Kf726.Rxg6hxg627.Bg5Be728.Bxf6!Kxf629.Nxe5Level-headed
defence, trading down and some nice tactics have brought victory and the final
GM norm into grasp.Qb830.Ng4+Kg531.Rxe7Qb1+32.Kg2Bd333.Qa733.Qa7Qf1+34.Kg3and Black cannot defend against the threat of Qe3+ with mate
to follow.1–0
The Chinese IM has secured his final GM norm, even if he were to lose his round
nine game against GM Grzegorz Gajewski. And his FIDE rating of more than 2500
ensures that the title will be awarded immediately, making him the world's youngest
grandmaster, and at the age of at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days
the fourth youngest in history – after Sergey Karjakin, Parimarjan Negi
and Magnus Carlsen, as you can see in our table at the bottom of this page.
Here is the progress of Wei Yi so far:
We bring you a few pictures we have thus far published of this super-talented
young player:
11-year-old Wei Yi (2244) facing GM Liang Jinrong (2462) at the...
Chinese Chess League Division A in 2010 in Ningbo
12-year-old FM Wei YI in the Chinese League Division A in 2011
In China 12-year-old Chinese FM Wei Yi is known and respected, having won
the World Youth Under-12 in 2010, and in 2010 he was not only the youngest
player to ever play in the Chinese League Division A, but also beat GM Ni
Hua, a two-time Chinese champion who had peaked at 2724 Elo the year before.
Rated 2331, by round seven he had played four grandmasters, two international
masters and one FIDE master for a whopping 2570 performance. He was well on
his way to a full GM norm. Then the spell was broken in round eight when he
lost to 18-year-old Indian IM Babu Lalith (2484). This was not the end however
as he played 24-year-old Russian IM Sergey Pavlov (2477) and notched a final
win. His 2551 performance was good for an IM norm and then some, though there
can be little doubt he will be chasing the GM title very soon if he isn’t
already. 2012 may very well be his year.
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