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Throwback Thursday: 15-year-old Wei Yi leads China to World Teams gold

3/30/2023 – The 2015 World Team Championship saw China winning its first gold medal (out of three) in the tournament. The team was led by Ding Liren on top board, and had its top scorer in 15-year-old Wei Yi, who collected scoring 7/9 points on board 4. Ukraine and Armenia finished second and third, while the clear rating favourites from Russia only managed fourth place. The tournament took place in Tsaghkadzor, a small touristy town in Armenia also known as the ‘valley of flowers’. | Photos: Arman Karakhanyan
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Tata Steel Chess R9: Eventful round leaves four players tied for first

1/24/2024 – Five games ended decisively, all favouring the player who had the white pieces, in round 9 of the Tata Steel Masters. Praggnanandhaa R. and Nodirbek Abdusattorov scored victories and joined the 4-player leading pack, which also includes Gukesh D. and Anish Giri. Former co-leader Alireza Firouzja, on his part, was defeated by Alexander Donchenko. Firouzja is now one of three players standing a half point behind the leaders. In the Challengers, Marc’Andria Maurizzi remains atop the standings after beating Divya Deshmukh. | Photo: Tata Steel Chess Tournament / Jurriaan Hoefsmit
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Tata Steel Chess R1: Nepo, Wei, Giri and Firouzja score with black

1/14/2024 – The much-anticipated Tata Steel Masters kicked off on Saturday in Wijk aan Zee. A lively first round saw four players scoring full points, all with the black pieces — Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alireza Firouzja, Anish Giri and Wei Yi are sharing the lead after the first day of action. The Challengers also saw four players grabbing wins right off the bat. | Photo: Tata Steel Chess Tournament / Lennart Ootes
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Throwback Thursday: Rapport beats Wei in creativity-filled match

5/4/2023 – Chess is not only a sport. Richard Rapport and Wei Yi are two of the most creative players in the circuit, and about six years ago they were also the two highest-rated junior players in the world. In a 4-game match organized in December 2016, Rapport defeated Wei in the Armageddon decider. The games, which took place in Yancheng, were predictably entertaining.
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FTX Road to Miami: Wei knocks out Rapport

7/16/2022 – Wei Yi and Levon Aronian will play the 2-set final match of the FTX Road to Miami online tournament on Saturday and Sunday. Wei knocked out Richard Rapport, while Aronian got the better of Jan-Krzysztof Duda in semis. Both finalists have already secured a spot in the coming FTX Crypto Cup, which will be played in Miami next month.

FTX Road to Miami: Evaluation swings

7/15/2022 – Rating favourites prevailed in the quarterfinals of the FTX Road to Miami online tournament. Levon Aronian and Jan-Krzysztof Duda secured victory ‘in regulation’, after four rapid games, while Richard Rapport and Wei Yi only won in the blitz tiebreakers. In semis, Wei is paired up against Rapport, while Duda is set to face Aronian.
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Chessable Masters: Pragg beats Carlsen as Wei leads

5/21/2022 – Wei Yi continues to lead the standings in the preliminary stage of the Chessable Masters, as he collected two wins and two draws in Friday’s rounds. David Anton and Magnus Carlsen are sharing second place three points back. Carlsen kicked off the day with a loss — for a second time in the tour, the world champion was defeated by 16-year-old Indian prodigy Praggnanandhaa.
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Chessable Masters: Wei Yi leads

5/20/2022 – After four rounds at the preliminaries of the Chessable Masters, 22-year-old Wei Yi is leading the standings table on 10/12 points. Three of the favourites stand two points behind — Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and Anish Giri. The 16-player online tournament is played with a football scoring system. Half the players will move on to the knockout stage from the single round-robin set to run until Sunday. | Photo: Niki Riga
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Two Chinese brilliancies

4/8/2021 – In the last couple of decades, China has become a chess powerhouse, with Ding Liren fighting at the highest level, the national squads accumulating success after success in team events and the women players continuing to show their strength. A week and a half before the resumption of the Candidates — where two of the participants are Chinese — we revisit two brilliant games by players born in the world’s most populous country: Liu Wenzhe and Wei Yi. | Photo: Niki Riga

Daniel King’s Power Play Show: An exemplary endgame by Wei Yi

1/8/2021 – In this Power Play Show, GM Daniel King takes a look at an exemplary endgame by Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi. A game that should be added to the long list of textbook positional performances. | Power Play is on air most Fridays at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 13:00 ET). All the usual puzzles, games and instruction will be on offer.

The $1m Magnus Carlsen Tour: A new era for chess

5/14/2020 – In a press release World Champion Magnus Carlsen today revealed his $1 million vision for a new online chess tour designed to cement the game’s future in the public eye. Four super-tournaments culminating in a Grand Final in August will become the new "majors" for online chess, the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. It follows the breakout success of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational which shattered all records for online viewership and now serves as the first leg of the Tour. Carlsen believes carrying the momentum into an online Tour presents the opportunity to establish chess permanently as a mass media sport.

Nations Cup: China and Europe on a roll

5/8/2020 – China and Europe won both their Thursday games and are now in clear first and second places respectively at the FIDE chess.com Nations Cup. With four rounds to go, the United States and especially Russia need to rack up a streak of good results if they want to reach Sunday's final. India and Rest of the World are having a tough time in the online event. | Pictured: Ding Liren and Wei Yi. | Photos: FIDE / Amruta Mokal
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