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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
 It's nice to have one representative from booming China in the first Grand Prix Series. Chinese women have been world championship caliber for years, and now, on the men's side, an ascendant China also boats two players with ratings above 2700 (Bu Xiangzhi and Ni Hua). Wang Yue was the first Chinese chess player to pass the 2700 mark, in October 2007, and this rating got him into the Grand Prix.
Wang Yue was born March 31, 1987 in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. In 1999 he won the World Championship under-12. In 2000, he came second in the under-14 section.
In 2003 he achieved the International Master title and in 2004 the Grandmaster title. One year later, Wang became National Chess Champion of China. In September 2006 he finished second at the Lausanne Young Masters, after having lost to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final rapidplay playoff.
In May 2006, he scored 10/12 at the Chess Olympiad in Turin, helping China to second place and winning the fourth-board gold medal in the process.
In February 2007, Wang Yue came joint second at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. One month later he won the strong and huge Cappelle la Grande open tournament (which hosted 87 GMs, 81 IMs and 465 FIDE rated players) on tie-break, after finishing joint first with five other players, scoring 7/9 and a 2784 performance rating.
In May 2007 he won the Philippines International Open Chess Championship in Subic Bay Freeport Zone with 7/9. In Mach 2008, Wang Yue finished shared first at the Reykjavik Open, together with compatriot Wang Hao (who won on tiebreak) and Hannes Stefansson.
At the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, November-December 2007, Wang Yue defeated Pridorozhni, Tiviakov and his compatriot Bu Xiangzhi, only to be eliminated by Cheparinov.
Like many of his compatriots, Wang Yue has a nicely aggressive style of chess, and a great fighting spirit.
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