Yu Yangyi Explained

Yu Yangyi
Country:	China
Birth Date:	8 June 1994
Birth Place:	Huangshi, Hubei, China^[1]
Grandmaster (2009)^[2]
Peakrating:	2765 (September 2018)
Peakranking:	No. 10 (September 2019)
Fideid:	8603820

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T:	余泱漪
P:	Yú Yāngyī

Yu Yangyi (; born 8 June 1994)^[3] is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He qualified for the Grandmaster title at 14 years, 11 months and 23 days old in 2009. He is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion and the 2014 Asian Chess Champion.

He was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 41st Chess Olympiad in 2014 and at the World Team Chess Championship in 2015. In the 2014 Olympiad he also won the individual gold medal on board 3, thanks to his performance rating of 2912, the best of the entire event.

In December 2014, he won the first Qatar Masters Open tournament, beating among others Vladimir Kramnik and Anish Giri.

Tournaments

24 October–2 November 2003: World Youth Chess Championship (under-10) in Halkidiki, Greece. He scored 8½/11 coming equal second^[4]
3–14 November 2004: World Youth Chess Championship (Under-10) in Heraklio, Crete, Greece. He scored 9/11 coming equal first with Jules Moussard, Raymond Song and Hou Yifan (the current Women's World Champion).^[5] ^[6]
February 2007: Aeroflot Open Group C in Moscow. He scored 7.5/9 coming second
4–11 August 2007: Scandinavian Chess Tournament at Täby Park Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden. He scored 6½/9 coming 10th place^[7] ^[8]
February 2008: Aeroflot Open Group B in Moscow. He scored 7.0/9 coming third
February 2009: Aeroflot Open Group A2 (and Blitz Tournament) in Moscow.^[9] ^[10] He scored 5.5/9 coming 20th
12–24 May 2009: Asian Chess Championship in Subic, Philippines. He came 3rd place as he scored 6.0/9 with a performance rating of 2700. By doing so he qualified for his first 2009 World Cup in Khanty-Mansisk, Russia.^[11] ^[12] This was his first GM norm
25–31 May 2009: 2nd Subic International Open in Subic Bay Free Port. He scored 6.0/9 (+3=6-0) with a 2653 performance finishing in 9th place^[13] This was his second GM norm
4 September 2009: 6th Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Chess Championship in Kuala Lumpur. He scored 6½/9^[14] ^[15]
September 2009: Zhejiang Lishui Xingqiu Open, he came second behind Lê Quang Liêm with 6.5/9.^[16]
October 2009: World Junior Chess Championship in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. He scored 8.5/13 (+7=3-3) with a 2618 performance. He came 7th place on tiebreak^[17]
November 2009: Chess World Cup, Russia, reached the third round after achieving the biggest upset of the first round – winning 1,5:0,5 against 16th seed Sergei Movsesian,^[18] and also upsetting Mateusz Bartel in the second round.
February 2011: Aeroflot Open, Moscow, Russia. Tied for 4th–10th with Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Gata Kamsky, Rauf Mamedov, Ivan Cheparinov, Denis Khismatullin and Maxim Rodshtein.^[19]
May 2011: came first at Danzhou. He scored 7/9 (+5=4-0) with a performance rating of 2880.^[20]
September 2013: Overall winner of the 2013 World Junior Chess Championship.^[21] He came first with 11/13 (+9=4-0) with Alexander Ipatov close behind with 10.5/13 (+8=5-0). Due to winning the World Junior Championship, he automatically qualifies for the Chess World Cup 2015 which is a qualification path to the World Chess Championship 2016.
March 2014: He competed in the Chinese Chess Championship and finished first on tiebreaks with 7/11 (+3=8-0) over his fellow countryman Ding Liren 7/11 (+4=6-1). He scored impressive wins over fellow players Liu Qingnan, Wei Yi and Zeng Chonsheng.
April 2014: He competed in the Asian Chess Championship and finished overall first 7/9 (+5=4-0) over Ni Hua, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Adhiban B. With the win, he won $6,000 US.
December 2014: Yu won the Qatar Masters scoring 7.5/9 (+6=3-0), beating former world champion Vladimir Kramnik and top seed Anish Giri.
June 2015: Yu won the 50th Capablanca Memorial in Havana, Cuba scoring 7/10 (+5=4-1), beating the top seed Leinier Domínguez twice for a 2860 performance rating.
December 2015: Yu earned second place in the 2nd edition of the Qatar Masters Open, scoring 7/9 (+5-0=4), defeating Wesley So in the final round but losing to Magnus Carlsen in the tiebreak.
14 August 2019: Yu finished second place in the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz event with a score of 21.5/36. The second place was tied and shared with Ding Liren and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.^[22]
October 2019: Yu finished fourth in the Chess World Cup 2019
April 2021: Yu won the fourth edition of the Shenzhen Masters with 12 points, one ahead of Jan-Krzysztof Duda.^[23]
October–November 2021: Yu finished fourth in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021.
February–March 2022: Yu finished 20th in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 with three points.
June 2022: Yu won the Summer Chess Classic A tournament in St. Louis, US with a score of 6.5/9, 1.5 points ahead of Grigoriy Oparin and Abhimanyu Mishra.^[24]
November 2022: Yu won the Fall Chess Classic A tournament in St. Louis, US with a score of 6.5/9, half a point ahead of Vidit Gujrathi.^[25]
December 2023: Yu won the Alef Super Stars 2023 tournament in Sharjah. In the same month, he came third place in the World Rapid Chess Championship 2023 with a score of 9/13, behind Carlsen and Vladimir Fedoseev.^[26] ^[27]

Personal life

Yu Yangyi plays for Beijing chess club in the China Chess League (CCL).^[28]

Outside the chess world, Yu studied Sports Economics at Beijing Sports University.^[29]

Notes and References

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Web site: The Week in Chess 469 . Chess.co.uk . 22 January 2012.
Web site: World Youth Chess Championships 2004 :: Heraklio, Crete GREECE . Greekchess.com . 14 November 2004 . 22 January 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120109154522/http://www.greekchess.com/wycc2004/ . 9 January 2012 .
Web site: The Week in Chess 522 . Chess.co.uk . 22 January 2012.
Web site: Scandinavian Chess Tournament (2007) . Chessgames.com . 22 January 2012.
Web site: The Week in Chess 666 . Chess.co.uk . 22 January 2012.
Web site: Chess News – Sergey Karjakin wins Aeroflot Blitz Qualifier . ChessBase.com . 27 February 2009 . 22 January 2012.
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Web site: Chess News – Ganguly, Zhang win Asian Championships . ChessBase.com . 31 May 2009 . 22 January 2012.
Web site: Chessdom – GM Ganguly wins the Asian Continental Chess Championship . Reports.chessdom.com . 26 November 2008 . 22 January 2012 . 3 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191931/http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2009/ganguly-asian-continental . dead .
Web site: The Week in Chess 760 . Chess.co.uk . 22 January 2012.
Web site: The Week in Chess 774 . Chess.co.uk . 22 January 2012.
Web site: Malaysian Chess Festival 2011 - Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open & Malaysian Chess Fesstival . Datmo.net . 7 September 2011 . 22 January 2012.
Web site: Tournament-Database . Chess-Results Server . 13 October 2009 . 22 January 2012.
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Web site: Aeroflot open 2011 A March 2011 Russia. FIDE. 22 January 2012.
Web site: 2nd Dangzhou GM 16-year-old Yu Yangyi wins with 2880 performance. Gu Xiaobing. 24 May 2011. ChessBase.com. 25 May 2011.
Web site: Yu Yangyi: "It's 90% effort and 10% talent". chess24.com . 27 May 2020 . 17 June 2020.
Web site: St. Louis Rapid & Blitz Winners & Losers. chess24. 15 August 2019.
Web site: Doggers (PeterDoggers) . Peter . 13 May 2021 . Yu Yangyi Wins 4th Shenzhen Masters . 26 May 2023 . Chess.com . en-US.
Web site: nikita . 11 June 2022 . Yu Yangyi convincing at the 2022 Summer Chess Classic – Chessdom . 26 May 2023 . www.chessdom.com . en-US.
Web site: 11 November 2022 . Fall Chess Classic: Yu Yangyi wins the last round and the tournament . 1 May 2023 . Chess News . en.
Web site: 9 December 2023 . Yu Yangyi wins Alef Super Stars tournament in Sharjah . 29 December 2023 . Chess News . en.
Web site: Rodgers (JackRodgers) . Jack . 29 December 2023 . Carlsen Wins 5th Rapid World Championship; Bodnaruk Wins 1st . 29 December 2023 . Chess.com . en-US.
Web site: 雅戈尔杯中国国际象棋甲级联赛官方网站. Ccl.sports.cn. 22 January 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111028194605/http://ccl.sports.cn/. 28 October 2011.
Web site: Yu Yangyi and the Curse of Caruana .