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Wei Yi is a Chinese chess player, born in Yancheng on 2 June 1999. He competes in the sport of chess and holds the titles of Grandmaster, International Master and FIDE Master, representing China internationally. He has taken part in the 41st, 42nd and 43rd Chess Olympiads as part of the Chinese team, and carries an Elo rating of 2763.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Ballistic transport and luminescence in III-V semiconductor nanostructures
- Physics on Ultracold Quantum Gases
- Chuan Shan Su qu ge ming li shi ge yao
- Xin bian Zhong cao yao cai se tu pu
- Ni shi shi jie wei yi de guang =
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1987-10-25
Discography
- A Girl Like Me2020
- Incandescent2020
- Good Night2020
- Friend2022
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 6
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Wei+Yi">Read more on Last.fm</a>
via Last.fm · Wei Yi
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,248x
- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 36,997x
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,631x
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,868x
- Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources
· 2008 · cited 31,724x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1999-06-02 ) 2 June 1999 (age 27) , Yancheng , Jiangsu, China
- Education
- Tsinghua University
- Country
- China
- Title
- Grandmaster (2013)
- Fide rating
- 2753 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2763 (October 2024)
- Ranking
- No. 10 (June 2026)
- Peak ranking
- No. 7 (March 2025)
- Traditional chinese
- 韋奕
- Simplified chinese
- 韦奕
- Hanyu pinyin
- Wéi Yì
- Ipa
- [we ̌ ɪ i ̂ ]
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Wei
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Yancheng
- Occupation
- chess player
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Participant in
- 43rd Chess Olympiad
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- China
- Image
- Wei Yi in 2025 (cropped).jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1999-06-02
- Commons category
- Wei Yi
- title of chess person
- FIDE Master
- Elo rating
- 2753
- ranking
- 22
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Wei Yi (Chinese: 韦奕; born 2 June 1999) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. Wei became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days, the 11th youngest in history (fourth at the time). He was the youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700, accomplishing this feat at age 15 (Although this was surpassed by Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş in April 2026, who broke 2700 at 14 years and 10 months). Wei represents the Jiangsu club in the China Chess League and is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion, 2018 Asian Chess Champion and 2022 Asian Games Men's individual rapid champion. He won the Tata Steel Masters in 2024.
He was runner up in the 2025 Chess World Cup and qualified to the 2026 Candidates Tournament.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wei Yi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.